The new Mario Kart is the most fun I’ve ever had torturing my cats. The game, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, is an attempt to mash together the classic racer with remote controlled cars for a Pokémon Go-esque experience that blends the real and the virtual on the Nintendo Switch. For the most part, it works: when everything clicks, your living room becomes a playground, with tiny karts zipping…
Sony is giving the PlayStation 4 one more big update before the PS5 arrives, and it’s particularly good news for parents. A version 8.00 update releasing today makes multiple additions, including simpler and more adaptable parental controls. Limits on communication and…
The list of PS4 games that don’t work on PS5 just got shorter
October 14, 2020
A few days ago, Sony revealed that 99 percent of PS4 games will be compatible with the PS5 and that there are very few titles you can’t play on the upcoming console. Now, the list of 10 just got shorter. NACON and KT Racing told Push Square that they’re developing a…
Milla Jovovich trades zombies for giant monsters in first full Monster Hunter trailer
October 14, 2020
After several years of trying to take down zombies in Resident Evil, Milla Jovovich is teaming up with an army of soldiers to take on a mega monster invasion in Monster Hunter.
Based on Capcom’s popular game franchise, Monster Hunter follows Jovovich’s Captain Artemis and her team as they’re transported to an alternate universe where monsters reign supreme. Without any knowledge of how to…
My impressions of the Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War beta
October 14, 2020
Activision’s Treyarch studio and Raven Software showed off the multiplayer beta gameplay for Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War this weekend on Sony’s PlayStation 4, and I played for a few hours, climbing to level 23 in the ladder. I’m still quite impressed with the…
When the Xbox Series X and Series S come out on November 10th, all Xbox 360 owners will have the option of taking advantage of Xbox Live’s cloud save functionality to transfer their save files to Microsoft next-generation consoles for free. With all the additional…
Save $20 on Nintendo's Switch Online and 128GB SD bundle
October 13, 2020
If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on Nintendo’s Switch Online service and on a new memory card for your console, you may want to jump on this opportunity. An Amazon bundle that comes with a 12-month Switch Online subscription and SanDisk’s Nintendo-licensed 128GB Ultra microSDXC card is now on sale for $40 as part of the e-commerce giant’s annual Prime Day event. That’s the lowest…
Here’s Doom running on a Samsung fridge thanks to xCloud
October 13, 2020
I’m fairly sure cars were supposed to be flying by now, but instead we’ve managed something else that would have felt like science fiction a decade ago: playing Xbox games on your fridge. That’s right, someone has managed to get Microsoft’s xCloud service running on…
Yakuza: Like A Dragon on Xbox Series X feels like a launch game
October 13, 2020
Yakuza: Like A Dragon is exactly the kind of game that I expect to find at a console launch. That is to say that it’s the same as the current-gen version with no obvious improvements. A part of this is that I’m already taking some of the benefits of the Xbox Series X for…
Twitch Studio adds chat overlay and countdown timer tools
October 13, 2020
Twitch has updated its livestreaming software with more features, which will give streamers more ways to make their broadcasts pop. With Twitch Studio, you can now copy and paste or duplicate layers or scenes so that you can make your stream&aposs visual style more consistent.
Let’s say you usually place your webcam feed in the corner of the screen during your stream. If you want to…
