The musically talented dog from the Animal Crossing franchise, K. K. Slider, made an appearance at a Splatoon concert over the weekend. He opened the show before the Squid Sisters and Off the Hook performed their sets. performed his own acoustic version of what seems to be the Animal Crossing: New Horizons theme song, complete with his own whistling and howl. He then went on to cover a bit of the original Splatoon theme song. We can only hope once Animal Crossing: New Horizons releases, we’ll ha

Any players who leave too many Gears 5 multiplayer matches will be hit with a new punishment: a ban leading up to two years. An official tweet went out from The Coalition Twitter account announced that players quitting matches were going to start getting suspended. Any player who got a suspension before that announcement will be unsuspended, but if they leave any more games, their punishment will be reinstated. Sissons then clarified that the players who were banned left a majority of their matc

In late September, Fortnite developer Epic Games settled a lawsuit against a minor accused of cheating (and teaching people to cheat) in Fortnite. Last week, Epic filed court documents urging the judge to appoint the boy’s mother as a legal guardian for the case, a step necessary in moving the process along. “Defendant has ignored the appropriate orders of this Court,” Epic alleged in the documents, as spotted by Torrent Freak. (Cheating isn’t necessarily the problem in this case, though Epic su

Based on the download cards for Pokémon Sword and Shield that have started to appear in stores, the game will need 10.3 GB of free space to download onto your Nintendo Switch. For context, here’s a list of some of the file sizes of Nintendo Switch games:The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — 13.4 GBPokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!/Let’s Go, Eevee! We already know the game features an open world section called the Wild Area, as well as new Pokémon and new Galarian forms of older Pokémon. Even witho

On Monday, Microsoft announced a new way to filter chat messages on Xbox Live. The new chat filter is available for Xbox Insider players right now, and Xbox will launch the feature for all soon. It all stems from the four new levels of filters Xbox offers: Friendly, Medium, Mature, and Unfiltered. Friendly seems to filter out most swears and words that players or parents would consider vulgar. As of this writing, Xbox hasn’t announced a release date for the full roll-out of Xbox message filters.

PC gamers are reporting problems with the Epic Games Store, saying that they can’t log in to the service to play titles through Epic’s launcher. ET, during which a black hole absorbed the entire Fortnite Battle Royale island map, leaving nothing behind. On Twitter, Epic Games acknowledged the outage. pic.twitter.com/Ql1MgnWtmE — Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) October 13, 2019The outage on the Epic Games Store is likely due to a crush of traffic for Fortnite, as players dive in to check out the en

Fortnite’s Twitter account, Instagram account, and seemingly every social media channel has either been wiped or been blacked out. It was a risky move, especially considering how huge Swift is on social media, but the gambit worked. There’s no explanation on Fortnite’s social media channels, or Fortnite’s blog. The only thing we have is what Epic Games warned us of before the event started:I’m guessing Epic Games won’t be saying anything for a while. Instead, Fortnite’s social media channels hav

You can’t really do anything if you log into Fortnite right now — there’s just a black hole. For a brief period of time, however, that black hole had a series of numbers appear above the event horizon: 11, 146, 15, and 62. Epic Games has also hidden a little Easter egg that may help bored players pass the time until the new season comes into effect. As of this writing, there’s no telling when the battle royale portion of Fortnite will come back. Instead, Epic Games has issued a total blackout, b

Nvidia is “kicking off an exciting new game remastering program” with the intention of updating classic PC games to enable ray tracing and support the company’s GeForce RTX graphics cards, in the vein of Quake 2 RTX. Lightspeed Studios previously worked on Android versions of Half-Life 2, Doom 3, and Portal, which could be an indication of the type of PC games it plans to retrofit with ray-tracing support. (The studio also worked on Android versions of Wii games like Super Mario Galaxy and The L

Developer Granzella is making R-Type Final 2, the follow-up to 2003’s incorrectly named R-Type Final for PlayStation 2, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign in June. R-9uso800 APRIL FOOLS is equipped with the Ending Wave Cannon that shows the staff credit upon firing after 7 Loop charges. It’s a nod to Granzella’s announcement of R-Type Final 2 on April Fools’ Day and the Ending Wave Cannon sounds hilarious. R-Type Final 2 is in development for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC,

Jungle Cruise is Disney’s latest movie-based-on-a-theme-park attraction. This one comes from Adventureland staple the Jungle Cruise. Meanwhile Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is Frank, the charismatic, if down on his luck, tour guide who owns a failing jungle cruise. Jungle Cruise joins Country Bears, The Haunted Mansion, Tomorrowland, and the entire Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in the pantheon of Disney live-action movies based on rides. If you simply can’t wait to see The Rock in a jungle sett

Once upon a time, Salamis Island was flush with Pokémon. In the last seven months, Salamis Island has become a ghost town. But unless you purchase a lure item, there are no natural Pokémon spawns anywhere anymore. Players have continued to report the issue as the months have gone by, but for the most part, Niantic has mostly remained mum. According to Salamis resident Lemery69, some Pokémon Go players in the region do indeed travel to keep their games alive.

Fortnite season 10 has almost come to an end and fans are becoming increasingly convinced that a new map is on the horizon for the game. The latest clue was a video that appears to have leaked on the Italian iOS App Store on Friday morning. The video starts with a still imagine and art for Fortnite “Capitolo 2” (or Chapter 2 in English). This image on the App Store apparently also included a short video, which was posted by Reddit user Giacozzo, but it’s difficult to see much of what’s going on.

Nintendo’s new Brain Age game for Nintendo Switch is headed to the West, at least in Europe, early next year. Nintendo U.K. confirmed a European release for the game, known as Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch in the region, on Friday. In September, Nintendo of Japan announced Brain Age: Nintendo Switch Training for a December 2019 release. The Brain Age series kicked off in 2005 with Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training, as it was known in Japan. The Nintendo DS game came to North Am

Now he’s working on a new kind of game: an interactive musical called Chorus. Gaider’s new company Summerfall Studios launched a crowdfunding campaign today for Chorus, via Fig. In the lushly painted trailer for Chorus, a young woman called Grace is given the gift of song by a dying friend. Grace is voiced by Laura Bailey, who has appeared in multiple games including Gears 5, Persona 4 and World of Warcraft. “During important parts of the game, Grace had the power to draw people into song,” says

On Grand Theft Auto 5’s private No Pixel role-playing server, streamer Vincent Cyr, known best for his Uchiha Jones character, sometimes plays an environmentalist, vegan tow truck driver named Rick Rhymes. That’s because Rick Rhymes is based off The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes — but instead of fighting the dead, Rhymes is hunting “gas walkers.” Cars. Regardless, Riggs had a harder time staying in character when interacting with Cyr’s Rhymes — clearly amused at Cyr’s Rhymes impression. When he fin

The studio has has tuned up a few vault hunter abilities in the latest patch, and adjusted the effects of some of the game’s guns. This patch’s biggest changes came to Moze, whose Bloodletter class mod was a little too powerful in certain cases, so Gearbox increased its recharge delay and reduced its recharge rate. Amara also got a few changes with the new patch including an upgrade to her Alacrity skill, which Gearbox says players were finding a little underwhelming. For a look at all the chang

Riot Games says that pro players and casters participating in the 2019 League of Legends World Championships are not allowed to discuss “personal views on sensitive issues” during broadcasts, according to the company’s global head of esports. The global head of League of Legends esports, John Needham, said that casters and players have been told not to share “sensitive topics,” such as politics or religion, in a message posted to the LoL Esports Twitter account. “Our decision also reflects that

Netflix show Stranger Things is coming to Rocket League for Halloween, according to the game’s developer Psyonix. The game’s Farmstead Arena will be dressed up as Stranger Things’ scary alternative universe, the Upside Down. In Rocket League, players take control of powerful automobiles that try to knock giant balls into opponents’ goals. Credits can also be spent on non-Stranger Things Halloween stuff. Although Rocket League ran generic Halloween promotions for the last two years, this is the f

A shooting outside a synagogue in Halle, Germany was live-streamed on Twitch — marking another use of online streaming sites to broadcast terror attacks. Twitch confirmed to CNBC and The Verge that the attacker had posted the video to the platform. In today’s roughly 35-minute video, a man is seen shooting two people and attempting unsuccessfully to break into the synagogue. Two people have been confirmed dead in today’s attack, and German law enforcement has raised the possibility that multiple