Birdo is one of the primary unlockable characters in Mario Kart World. Being a relative mainstay in the Super Mario spinoffs since the Gamecube era, it’s a little surprising that she doesn’t show up in the game’s roster from the start. With icons like Donkey Kong and Daisy being unlocks too, though, I suppose it … Read more
One of the greatest racers in the Galaxy, Rosalina, has made her triumphant return to Mario Kart in Mario Kart World. However, she actually isn’t available to choose at the start. You’ll have to do a little bit of searching to find her. Luckily, it won’t take much. Here’s what you need to do to … Read more
Fresh off the release of his horrifically received sci-fi movie War of the Worlds, Ice Cube is now helping Minecraft players in a new social media campaign that is at least a lot shorter than his recent film. Weirdly, he’s once again sitting in an office chair looking at a computer in this new ad. … Read more
Over the last month, players from various countries have been reporting issues with trying to use PayPal on Steam. The popular online wallet for PC gaming’s most popular storefront seemed to go into permanent maintenance mode. Now, Valve has confirmed exactly what happened: a recent censorship crackdown led to the loss of global PayPal payment … Read more
Folks have been modding lightsabers and Star Wars characters into Bethesda’s various open-world games for as long as modders have been poking around in the code of the developer’s Creation Engine. But it wasn’t until Starfield came along that we had a Bethesda game whose setting was naturally conducive to an ultimate Star Wars fantasy. … Read more
I’ll be honest, this last week I spent most of it sitting around and feeling down because all I wanted to do was play more Battlefield 6. And now, it’s back for one more open beta weekend, and this time around, there’s some new content, too. That will likely help its player count numbers grow … Read more
Elden Ring Nightreign‘s rotating summer boss fight extravaganza just reached peak chaos. Libra Creature of Night, AKA Equilibrious Beast, is the game’s latest Everdark Sovereign, turning what was already arguably the hardest boss fight in the game into something even more punishing. But not in the way players expected. Instead of simply multiplying the difficulty … Read more
Stephen King adaptations have been hot TV property for much of the last decade. From Castle Rock to 11.22.63, from Mr. Mercedes to this October’s It: Welcome to Derry, where King’s novels and short stories once made for notoriously terrible television, they’re now very often essential viewing. OK, there’s still a The Institute here and there, but with … Read more
In a wide-ranging discussion over the state of the games industry, GI.biz spoke to former Sony Worldwide Studios chairman Shawn Layden, during which his pet hate-topic of Game Pass came up. Layden, who loves nothing more than to profess doom for video games, implied that Game Pass profits could be the result of “financial jiggery-pokery,” then … Read more
Jason Voorhees, also known as the character who kills teens while wearing a hockey mask in various slasher movies, is back, and we can all say thanks to a beer company for his return. Really. Despite being one of the most iconic and famous slashers in horror movie history, it’s been nearly two decades since … Read more