SNK Playmore is abandoning pachinko machines entirely

Popularity of the machines is waning Pachinko. The word brings terror to any person’s heart after Konami did well…Konami things… and made it seem like it was the best thing to happen to any Japanese publisher since video games. Don’t worry though, as SNK Playmore has given us reason to believe they might not be as popular as Konami thinks. In a recentpress statement,King of Fighters’SNK Playmore announced it would be refocusingawayfrom pachinko machines and back onto video games....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 199 words · Eric Mendoza

Starfield DLSS update goes live in Steam beta

At long last,Starfieldhas DLSS… so long as you opt intothe Steam betafor the update, which is live today. Bethesda is allowingStarfield‘s most interested and impatient players to get a taste of things to come with the beta. It brings Nvidia’s DLSS technology along with a few choice fixes and changes. And yes, that includes the ability to eat those iconicStarfieldsandwiches right off the floor. Like a filthy Spacer. How to join theStarfieldDLSS update Steam beta The DLSS update will not install automatically forStarfieldthe moment you check your Steam library....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Ashley James

Steal a Brainrot codes (June 2025)

Updated: June 06, 2025 We searched for codes! InSteal a Brainrot, you can finally run off with Tralalero Tralala and launch him into the sun, so we can collectively return to the high-quality entertainment of yesteryear, such asSkibidi Toilet. Just be careful—other people will also try to get your Tralalero that you have rightfully stolen. If you hoped for someSteal a Brainrotcodes to help you survive this eat-or-be-eaten world, I’d have to disappoint you....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 384 words · Benjamin Shaw

Stone Cold Steve Austin thinks Breath of the Wild is the best Zelda game

Steve Austin settles theLegend of Zeldadebate I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time imagining professional wrestlers in any other context than, you know, wrestling. I’m not sure why the idea of these big, muscly men sitting down to play on a Nintendo Switch is so funny to me, but they’re normal people who like video games, just like anyone else. We now know that Stone Cold Steve Austin and Cody Rhodes in particular are men of culture, because they both loveThe Legend of Zeldaseries....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Allison Norton

Studio behind The Order: 1886 is ‘interested’ in working on Switch projects

Deformers would have worked well Ready at Dawn is a really strange case where you know what they’re capable of, but they haven’t knocked it out of the park yet. Mainly responsible for ports or portable spinoffs, the studio moved out of the shadow of existing Sony or Cacpom IPs and into new territory withThe Order: 1886, which came up short in many respects despite its promise. Two years later they kind of veered off into an even stranger path with the lacklusterDeformers, as well as a VR project inLone Echo....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 240 words · Cindy Robinson

Tekken 7 smashes mighty nine million sales milestone

Ever ready for the next battle Bandai Namco’s foremost fighting title,Tekken 7, has smashed its way to an amazing nine million sales. The impressive numberwas revealed byTekkenproducerKatsuhiro Harada on Twitter this morning — the eve of the fifth anniversary of the face smasher’s home release. Originally launching in Japanese arcades way back in 2015, it took two long years for the latest King of Iron Fist Tournament to make its way to PC and console platforms — by which point it had already seen a revamp in the form of 2016’sTekken 7: Fated Retribution....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 280 words · James Lopez

The co-founder of Nintendo of America, Alan Stone, passed away last Friday

RIP good sir There are plenty of people who have helped create something far bigger than themselves and never received proper credit. Most of us associate Nintendo of America with Reggie Fils-Aimé, but there was an even bigger man behind Nintendo’s expansion into the West: Alan Stone. He was the co-founder of Nintendo of America and made great strides in distributing its arcade cabinets into the United States. Stone helped popularize such titles asDonkey KongandMario Bros....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 166 words · Christian Jones

The Quiet Man’s new game plus will feature sound

The Loud Man The gimmick with Square Enix’s upcomingThe Quiet Manis that you’ll play as a deaf and silent protagonist that has to fight on instinct alone. Due to this, the game only features sound effects for special attacks and moments, lacking any dialogue or ambient noise during regular play. With a free update coming out one week after launch, that is set to change. ForThe Quiet Man’snew game plus mode, players will be able to experience the game with the audio restored....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 164 words · Paul Ritter

The Wii U’s Miiverse got a few minor upgrades today

Post character limit doubled, filtering enhanced It looks like a small update has been pushed out across the Miiverse today, according toan official post on the Miiverse itself. “By popular demand,” the limit for the amount of characters in each post has been increased to 200 from the previous limit of 100. Additionally, filters have also been enhanced, including the ability to search for older popular Miiverse posts (rather than the limitation of newer posts prior to the update)....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 127 words · Christine Adams

This competitive season of Overwatch makes it harder to climb, and people aren’t happy

Not a fan of grinding when rankings were already accurate People aren’t thrilled with the way the competitive portion ofOverwatchis playing out this season. To recap, Blizzard purposefully made it so you need to “climb” (read: play more games) harder than you had to previously, as you’ll now rank lower than you “should be.” How much lower? well,according to principal designer Scott Mercer, around 50 games from last season — if you’re a light competitive player, you’re probably going “screw that....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 337 words · Bailey Meyer

Todd McFarlane to direct new R-rated, lower budget Spawn movie

S to the p to the a to the awn 20 years ago Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo put on some crazy outfits and delivered an even crazier film withSpawn. While Todd MacFarlane’sSpawnwill never be as popular as it was in 1997, a film version now makes sense more than ever given our current waning superhero boom as it evolves into a call for weightier, R-rated stories. Todd MacFarlane has noticed it himself, and took to Facebook to announce that he is working with Blumhouse Productions (the biggest horror production company right now) on a new “badass”Spawnfilm:...

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 230 words · Angela Kelley

Ubisoft to auction Assassin’s Creed art for charity

All proceeds will benefit Rock The Vote Remember when those “Art of the Assassin” exhibits happened in Los Angeles (which Chad was lucky enough to attend),New York City, and a couple other places for the past couple months? Basically, it was a tour of the US where Ubisoft brought along pieces done by renowned artists inspired byAssassin’s Creed III. Well, now that the tour is over (and with the game almost out) the art pieces will be auctioned off....

July 4, 2025 · 1 min · 119 words · Benjamin Chandler

Version 1.12 brings updates to all modes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

New modes, events, bug fixes and more Treyarch Studios have released a major update for Activision’s military shooterCall of Duty: Black Ops 4.The hefty Version 1.12 update weighs in at 7GB and brings tweaks to the FPS title’s Multiplayer, Blackout and Zombies modes. The classic Multiplayer mode has received a series of playlist additions. These include Blackjack’s Gun Game, Safeguard, and three variants to the Moshpit mode: Hardcore, Endurance Chaos and Mercenary Capture....

July 4, 2025 · 2 min · 242 words · Alexis Gregory