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Day five of Gladiator Week on Mash Tactics [Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p.m. Pacific onDtoid.TV. Watch King Foom play a variety of games, each day with its own theme. With a heavy focus on community and viewer interaction, you can be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Join us tonight as we finish off a great week of gladiator themed action onMash Tactics. We’ll be closing things out this evening by getting together for a few rounds of multiplayer inRome: Total War....

Magic: Arenais introducing the Alchemy mode to the game, and in trueMagic: Arenafashion, they’ve muddled the message. Here’s a breakdown of what’s been happeningsince the revealthis past weekend. In a shock announcement, Wizards of the Coast unveiled “Alchemy,” a digital-only mode that only works inArena, coming this month. The gist is that there will be rebalanced cards, as well as 60 “totally new cards” that “could only work in digitalMagic.” ThinkHearthstonemechanics, stuff that wouldn’t translate very well to paperMagic....

And boy howdy, are they quippin’ For those of you eager to start mashing monsters in that unmistakableLeft 4 Dead-style once again, the Turtle Rock Studios incomingBack 4 Bloodwill definitely scratch that gross, oozing itch. Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has released a new trailer, spotlighting the eight heroes getting set to take lead to head come October. Narrated by Spunky & Sarcastic ™ gal Holly, the trailer introduces us to Back 4 Blood’s rag-tag gang of zombie slayers — or “Cleaners” — getting set to wade their way through armies of the undead....

As far as I’m concerned, it’s hard to go wrong with aGolden Axeremake. Just give me a dwarf and a shedload of skeletons to fight and I’m happy. Of course, this is the games industry, and nobody ever does the right thing when it comes to remakes. This “re-imagining” looks like it wants to beLair, if thefirst detailsare anything to go by. No game needs to be that. First off, you only get to play as some Amazonian bint....

120 hz! Gsync! 4K! HDR! 65 inch! PC monitors have a lot of benefits over regular television sets in that they have incredibly low latency for basic inputs. What this means is that games tend to feel a lot smoother since the take it takes to register a button press is dramatically shorter than on a traditional TV. The only real downside is that PC monitors tend to cap off around 34 inches, so they have never been that large…until now!...

At today’s Wii U preview event in New York City,Nintendo of America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime finally announced the pricing of the Nintendo Wii U for USA. As expected, separate bundles have been announced. November 18th, folks. Right before the holiday season. Before Japan! Two configurations will be sold: The Basic Set (white, 8GB memory) will cost $299.99, and the Deluxe set, which includes more memory (32GB), stands for your system and controller, and a copy ofNintendoLand, will cost $349....

‘New Frontier Pass’ Civilization VIhas been slowly trucking along since its late 2016 release on PC, adding platforms and updates here and there. In 2017 it hit mobile devices, in 2018 it arrived on Switch and in 2019, it hit PS4/Xbox One. That’s not normally the order of operations, but Firaxis and 2K are trying some different approaches here. That includes this brand new, outta nowhere season pass, called the “New Frontier Pass....

If you’re looking for a new Cammy statue for your collection, Prime 1 Studios has you covered with its latest tease. Prime 1 Studios is known for its truly breathtaking, almost terrifyingly realistic statues (seriously,this T-1000 would terrify meif it was in the corner of my apartment). Prime 1 also makes a fair number of premium gaming statues, including simply gorgeous lines based onBloodborneandDevil May Cry. It’s also working hard on Street Fighter statues, including an upcoming Cammy statue, which the studio revealed a first look at on Twitter....

‘Escape’ short film expanded Do you remember thesad/amazing Zelda-themed short filmwe shared with you a few years back? It was called “Escape,” and it told the story of a girl named Danni. Her rough home life takes her down, but popping in Zelda saves the day in a big way. “Escape” has been turned into a feature film, now called “Princess in Another Castle.” CreatorKennedy Baruch has aimed for a full expansion of his original idea, going for a more accurate depiction of childhood, and a more passionate love letter to gaming’s past....

If you would have told me back in my Sega Genesis days that I’d be playing one of my favorite carts on a tiny phone touch screen, I would have called you a dumbass. I’m the dumbass, as I’ve been playing Sega’s port of the classic strategy role-playing game on my phone for awhile now. And it’s every bit as good as I remember. Some old games don’t hold up as well, bet Sega’s classics have a way of shining (see what I did there?...

Force feedback in a mouse As someone who has played first-person shooters on consoles the majority of my life, I’ve only recently attempted to make the switch to mouse and keyboard. This is largely thanks to many PC versions of games being generally better than their console counterparts, but after playing a 16-hourOverwatchsession, I realized one feature I missed from using a traditional controller: rumble. Haptic feedback is something I had grown accustomed to in the console space and relied on heavily, especially since many games are bad at giving you visual cues these days....

The more the merrier Bithell Games is bringing its robot detective text adventureSubsurface Circularto Nintendo Switch with a digital release planned for May 29, 2025. Ant Workshop is handling the port, and it’ll cost $6. “Nintendo has displayed a commitment to the success of independent gaming on Nintendo Switch, and we’re thrilled to join their expanding library of games,” says founder Mike Bithell. I can’t say I was expectingSubsurface Circularto make it onto Switch, but in retrospect, it makes a whole lot of sense....

Honestly, I don’t know much about Genius Products upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gameScratch. I do know that the game will be played with an turntable-style controller, and will feature over 60 licensed and original hip-hop songs. I also know that Quincy Jones Jr. (the son of mega-producer Quincy Jones) is involved in the game’s production. That’s about it, really. Today, we received some new screenshots and information on two characters that will appear in the game, DJ Travis and DJ Sakura....