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It is 2018 and Atari is back in the console game. Didn't think I'd be typing that one even after they announced the Ataribox last summer. Now, the re-branded Atari VCS was supposed to launch back in December 2017, but was delayed for a "number of factors" that impeded launch.

Video games, movies, and music have all been blamed for causing violence, often times as a reactionary form of censorship. Since the dawn of modern psychology, science has been trying to prove a link between violent media and violent action, often to mixed results.

Bethesda has announced the latest expansion for The Elder Scrolls Online, and this time players of the Elder Scrolls MMO are headed to the Summerset Isles.

In a staggering moment in "what the hell" territory, the producers behind the Atari movie have released a new cryptocurrency, named after Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. You know, the guy who lost his GDC Pioneer Award this year because of renewed interest in his shady behavior during the heyday of Atari.

Okay, we get it. Everyone loved The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Hell, we even considered it for Game of the Year 2017 ourselves. However, at this point in the award show season, giving a ton of awards to Breath of the Wild is pretty much just rubber stamping.

Word has been going around about a trilogy of remastered Spyro the Dragon games, because remasters are so hot right now. However, this is a casual reminder that Activision was considering a Spyro MMO a few years back.

The Xbox Kinect was an interesting experiment by Microsoft. And while the motion-sensing camera was pretty much universally hated by most gamers, that doesn't mean it wasn't absolutely fascinating for its time.

7Levels' classic RPG Castle of Heart has launched exclusively on the Nintendo Switch in the Americas, Europe, and Austrailia. You can find it on the Nintendo eShop for digital download.

A Way Out is yet another EA Originals "indie" title, but this one is a co-op prison break game. You can't play it single-player, you either need to have a friend play with you locally or online.

Fortnite is a great game, and it being on mobile is fantastic. Except that the primary target of mobile games is teenagers. Which is great for Epic Games, but not so great for schools.

Sega had always intended for their hedgehog mascot to appeal to Americans, but until today, we didn't know just what inspired the company to create the blue, mammalian speed-enthusiast. It turns out, our favorite hedehog has a pretty interesting secret origin that traces back to WWII.

One of the things Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has been wanting to do for the last few months is break down the artificial barrier between PlayStation and Xbox cross-platform multiplayer.

To continue with the trend of focusing on live service games, Ubisoft is opening two new studios in Mumbai, India and Odesa, Ukraine. This falls well in line with plenty of Ubisoft's other recent moves so comes as no surprise.

Dauntless may be in closed beta, but one of its major difficulties was the faulty almost piece-meal UI. However, as Phoenix Labs brings the game closer and closer to its Open Beta state, the UI is getting a necessary overhaul.

Milestone S.r.l. is rolling out the first major DLC expansion for their arcade-style racer Gravel on March 28, 2018. Alongside the announcement of Ice & Fire's release date, Milestone also revealed their post-launch roadmap.

One of the greatest things about a solid state drive is its increased speed over the mechnical hard disk drive. And ADATA Technology has revealed their fastest consumer model SSD to date.

One of the new changes coming to Hearthstone in the Witchwood expansion is the Echo. The new keyword has some spooky applications, allowing you to continue to re-use cards as long as you have enough mana.

CocoBear's social gay RPG Gaydorado fills a very odd niche for gaming. It's a social RPG, which makes it the sort of game normally targeted toward women, but the target audience here is gay men.

David LaRocca's Elder Dice are a nice treat for tabletop enthusiasts who just really want to bring a touch of eldritch horror to every game they play.

The question of just how inspired Bungie was by Larry Niven's Ringworld series has been quietly boiling in the background and bubbles up every time a new Halo comes around.

Magic Notion's follow up to the original Kitty Powers Matchmaker, Kitty Powers' Love Life puts you in control of a city of couples. It's like The Sims but where the only point is to embrace your inner Yenta and fill your city with as many happy couples as possible.

Review: Void Dimensions and Oasis Games' Light Tracer is a pretty adorable VR game puzzle solver. At its core, Light Tracer is nothing more than a 3D puzzle game in VR.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XV has been out on consoles since November of 2016, and despite the year and half since the game's initial release, it still manages to be an exciting, enjoyable journey into inevitable heartbreak and depression thanks to the newly released Royal Edition.

Brothers Jake and Logan Paul started up a Twitch channel and attempted to get in on the fun of Epic Games' Fortnite. As anyone with a brain could have predicted, it did not go well.

Konami Digital has announced the finalists who will be competing in the PES League World Tour Americas Round. The Americas Round is part of the second season of Konami's eSports tournament for Pro Evolution Soccer 2018.

A Minecraft server rivalry has led to a rash of over 400 bomb threats being leveled against many schools in the UK. While the threats were labeled a hoax, local law enforcement did look into the threats as well as the emails, which originated from the United States.

Jackbox Games is bringing their extensive line of multiplayer party games to Comcast customers. Comcast customers can nab the packs directly through their TVs thanks to the Xfinity X1 service. So now even Comcast customers can experience the joy of Jackbox Games.

If you were pretty spellbound by the cinematic teaser for Starbreeze Studios, Skybound Entertainment, and 505 Games' Overkill's the Walking Dead, VFX house Goodbye Kansas Studios has released a behind the scenes look at the teaser trailer.

At GDC today, Amazon announced GameOn- a cloud based, cross-platform, competitive gaming service for developers to easily integrate competitions natively into their games on mobile, PC, and console.

CD Prjoekt Red held another of their Open tournaments to find another contestant for the Gwent Challenger this weekend. The March Open hosted the highest ranked Gwent players as they fought it out over the card tables for a share of the $25,000 USD prize pool and Gwent Masters Crown Points.