Our newest F2P addiction? [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’re able to be as much a part of the show as anything else.] Join us tonight onMash Tacticsas check out a bit of the free-to-play racing gameNeed for Speed World. I had heard about this title for a while, and was very intrigued, but sadly, I never actually took the time to play it....

Happy holidays to you too! Even though it wasn’t announced when the holiday event kicked off recently, Blizzard is giving people an extra incentive to playOverwatchon Christmas (my wife and I have been playing a bit!). Just yesterday the playerbase was met with a special Christmas message after logging in noting how great of a year it was thanks to fan support, alongside of five holiday loot boxes. There doesn’t seem to be an expiration date for this beyond the Winter Wonderland event expiration on January 2, so you may as well log in and collect your stuff....

In what may be the greatest discovery in modern gaming, a deeply hidden Easter egg has been found within the GameCube version ofWave Race: Blue Storm. Yes, the game that was released in 2001. The code (which you can find after the jump) changes the announcer’s voice to a guy who basically talks s**t at you the whole time, along with changing the turbo sound to a little girl who says “meow, meow....

Basically the same as 8 We haven’t seen or heard many details aboutMario Kart 8 Deluxeoutside of some basic facts, but given that we’re nearly one month away from the launch of the Switch, Nintendo is starting to roll that stuff out. Some of it comes second-hand, inferred by press materials, but I’ll take it. In this case, we have information on what the amiibo details will entail, and it employs a system that’s identical to the original game....

That sounds more like it [Update:Microsoft has reached out to the press todeny this report, stating that the original source misinterpreted Mehdi’s presentation. According to Microsoft, Mehdi’s quote about “bridging worlds and offering that to advertisers” was with regard to platforms such as SmartGlass. It also reiterated that they “have a long-standing commitment to your privacy and will not target ads to you based on any data Kinect collects unless you choose to allow us to do so....

Today’s Miniboss Monday is one of my personal favorites and is an extremely memorable fight for many who completedSuper Metroidback in the day.Crocomireis by no means a difficult or exciting opponent to fight, but what makes him so great and memorable? There’s a simple answer to that one — his inevitable death. Ol’ Croco is a fairly straight-forward opponent. All you need to do is shoot missles down his throat when he opens his yapper and he’ll move back a few steps....

Aw. Every time I visit Japan, it refuels my hope that the U.S. will someday have a mobile games market that supports the release of the solid, quality titles that Japan sees. It finally seems like we’re getting devices with enough power to run these Japanese-quality mobile titles, but sales aren’t reflecting that. Juniper research says that mobile game sales have “flatlined across North America and Western Europe”. GamesIndustry.bizsays that the market is expected to rise from $5....

Before hardware iterations get in the way With thePlayStation 4 Proout in November and theSlimout next week, what will become of the old PlayStation 4 bundles? It’s retail sell-off time and the deals have started already. First we should note that most retailers have already dropped the old PlayStation 4 +Call of Duty Black Ops IIIand similar bundles to a $299.99 list price (the same price the PlayStation 4 Slim will be when it releases next week)....

Out on April 20 I’m a little more intoGod of Warnow than I was when it was announced. The wholeLast of Usthing really spawned a Dad subgenre, some of which are more effective than others, but recent footage of Kratos’ son Atreus drop-kicking enemies sold me. This new clip from Sony showcases several other elements of the upcoming action romp, including some lore bits and a quick rundown of loot. Some of the latter will be tied to quasi-puzzles, like the age old “collect the keys to unlock the chest” concept....

There’s likely a range of reasons for this So,Cyberpunk 2077! I hear crickets and groans. Sorry folks. A lot of people are still digging it (particularly on the less-glitch-ridden PC), but a lot of folks are exasperated by it. It turns out that feeling is spilling over on Steam, and is quantifiable,according to the folks over at GitHyp. Based on new data scraped from Steam, GitHyp suggests that the “one million concurrent Steam player” number has dropped significantly....

But will the ESRB come under fire? Night Trapis notorious for being one of the few games that brought about the creation of the ESRB. While its content is pretty damn vanilla and very PG rated, apparently its depiction of violence against women was so realistic and encompassing that it was corrupting our youth into repeating it. Clearly that never happened, but history is funny like that. Regardless of the past, Screaming Villains is actually publishing a re-release of the cult classic by way of a remaster for PS4 and Xbox One....

As video games have been getting bigger and bigger, the overall cost of their development has also been increasing as well. This is something that has been affecting almost every big gaming company, and Nintendo is obviously no exception. Ina recent Investors Q&A, several key figures at the company discussed different topics regarding the current state of the gaming industry and the future of the company. The second question was all about the rising costs of game development, which Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the most important developers and designers in video game history, answered....

Paper Mario, Pikmin 3, and even some Nintendo DLC passes are in this eShop sale E3 is a time to get pumped about future games, but what about the here and now? Nintendo would like a word. There’s a big Nintendo Switch eShoprunning right nowthrough June 21 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific with up to half off games, DLC, and passes. I know you know the drill by now — Nintendo games are rarely if ever “cheap,” even when they’re discounted — but go ahead and take a look at the deals anyway....