One of the hallmarks of games out in the 2010s (especially third-person shooters) is the ability to take cover, andGrand Theft Auto Vis no exception. When gunfire is coming in your direction, it’s important to keep your head down, and this is how you do it. In order to take cover, you need to have a wall or obstacle that’s solid and of meaningful size. So, you can take cover behind a car or a crate, but not, say, a cardboard box that is barely taller than your ankle....

D4 Enterprise is continuing the pace of PC-88 games releasing on Switch under their EggConsole label with 1987’sHydlide3: The Space Memories. Like many of their recent releases, it has the caveatof being untranslated. A couple months ago, we got the first Hydlide. Not having a translation was fine there since it didn’t have much text to begin with, butHydlide3has menus, stat windows, and dialogue that relies on knowledge of Japanese. It’s probably still doable without knowledge of the language, but it could be more comfortable....

Since the very first Indie Nation, I’ve received several requests to highlight two different games:Toribash, a turn-based ragdoll fighter, andDwarf Fortress, a dungeon keeper/crawler. Several times over the course of the last year, I have attempted to play both of these games. I have attempted to pierce their confusing interfaces, to work out their complex rules, and to conquer their ridiculous learning curves. I have failed. Over and over again, I have failed to play these games they way they are meant to be played, whether due to my own idiocy or their ridiculously impenetrable interfaces....

For Xbox One Developer Playdead has one released game to its name —Limbo. But that one title has gone on to take the indie world by storm, and has since been released on nearly every platform known to man. For the past five years the studio has been working on a follow-up calledInsidefor Xbox One, and sadly, it will be delayed. According to Playdead, “getting it right has taken a little more time than [they] anticipated,” and no release window was given....

Sir Isaac Mewton Talk about going out of your way to make something cool to promote your game. SIE Japan released a four minute live action trailer about two Japanese sisters and their pet cat. We view an everyday apartment from the first-person perspective of one of the girls who is writing a report about Newton’s Law of Gravity. You know, that one law. Slowly, gravity starts to bend. Obviously referencing the main character of the game, Kat, the trailer dubbed “Gravity Cat” uses the cat to first demonstrate that something is amiss with the gravity....

It’s going to be a ‘WTF Wednesday’ of ridiculous proportions today onMash Tactics. King Foom is flinging himself face-first into Treasure’s oddball PlayStation 2 titleStretch Panic. I could go into a full description of the game, but all you need to know is that the player pinches, stretches, and pops comically over-sized breasts with a magic scarf. Tune in and lay your gaze upon this triumph in ‘WTF?’ gaming. Mash Tacticsairs Monday through Friday at 4p....

Firstly, let me just say that I honestly don’t get the great hardship in changing DVDs. People talk as if having something contained on more than one disc will require an infinite and gruelling journey to the console to switch them over halfway through the game. The amount of times that the Sony obsessives have said “lolz enjoy changing discs” as if it’s going to cause somebody cancer is, in a word, laughable....

Mario, Luigi and others appear in the newest Taiko title from Namco Bandai,Taiko Drum Master Wii 3. Coming right alongside tracks from New Super Mario Bros. Wii are the brothers themselves, Mario and Luigi. In the screens you can also see Koopa and the kids and some Toad. There are over 70 songs in this new title, with tracks pulled from games likeAce Combat X2, Ridge Racer 4, God EaterandPokemon Diamond/Pearl....

Metal Gear Shorted We are getting a taste ofMetal Gear Solidin 2014 — next month, in fact — in the form ofGround Zeroes. which will serve as a prologue toMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Game Informer hasa hugeMGSVcover storyand in it we learned the “core story mission” can be completed in “less than two hours.“ This doesn’t include sidequests, console-exclusive missions, or any other replayability scenarios — apparently Game Informer played for four hours in total — but it could be seen as a bit short for the money it costs....

Grab the Palamute update now Monster Hunter Stories 2, like mainlineMonster Huntergames, seems to be getting a ton of free post-launch DLC. One of the first big ones just dropped this week shortly after the game arrived, and it involves those trusty Palamute DLC companions! This time around they’re “Monsties,” though, the game’s term for creatures you can ride and follow you into combat.Stories 2now sports five star Palamute DLC Dens, as well as eight star Palamute Homes, and Capcom threw in an extra sidequest called Throw Me a Bone (eight star) for good measure....

Um…oh SH*T! Portaljust got another update, and rather than a bunch of cryptic Morse code and SSTV message, this patch has introduced an extension to the ending of the game. Remember how in the original ending you wake up in the parking lot and the game fades to black? It doesn’t fade to black anymore. It’s a short video, and I don’t want to spoil it for you, so go ahead and watch it above, and then freak out appropriately in the comments below....

Also, Neon Chrome It’s not a huge period for the eShop right now, but nonetheless there’s a ton of Switch games that are arriving this week. That list includesThe Flame in the Flood, Yono and the Celestial Elephants, Unbox: Newbie’s Adventure, 88 Heroes – 98 Heroes Edition, Don’t Knock Twice, Squareboy vs. Bullies: Arena Edition, Rogue Trooper Redux, Neon Chrome, Wulverblade,andACA NeoGeo: The King of Fighters ’95. Neon Chrome was a relatively unknown shooter that dropped mid-2016 that might see a new lease on life on Switch, andFlame in the Floodis an early 2016 survival joint....

Duh, but the confidence is interesting Nintendo is at it again, riding high on the Switch. Following their conquest of the Wii U’s lifetime sales in a fraction of the time, a recent investor Q&A once again cemented their idea of pushing the Switch as often and as long as possible. Speaking on the Switch, Shigeru Miyamoto noted, “When you think about what can be done with the Nintendo Switch as a device that can be taken on the go and that every person has in their hands to play, you realize it has many features not available on any other hardware to date,” Miyamoto said....