This week, YouTuber Rosanna Pansino found moldy cheese in Lunchlys, the Lunchables competitor that counts MrBeast and Logan Paul among its creators. Even developer Fntastic, who made waves last year when its game The Day Beforeonce one of the most wish-listed games on Steam, released and turned out to be nothing like it had appeared in trailers, is drawing ire and ridicule again after brazenly announcing that it has a new game in the works.

In other news, Space Marine 2 rolled back changes that made the game harder in a way that most players found unpleasant, and its director gave insight into why they made those changes in the first place. And as the launch of the PS5 Pro approaches, more games are revealing details about what we can expect from their visuals and performance on the more powerful console. All these stories and more in the coming pages.

Twitch bans several Arab streamers following “Habibi” ratings panel at TwitchCon

Streaming platform Twitch has banned several high-profile Arab streamers for a panel that took place at TwitchCon last month. The banned streamers include CapriSunnPapi, Question, Raffoul ticket, DenimsTVand Vio (who is not Arab), all of whom participated in a live-streamed panel during day two of TwitchCon San Diego where they ranked popular Twitch personalities on a tier list of who could or could not say “habibi,” the Arabic word for “friend.” or “beloved”. – Alyssa Mercante Read more

The director of Smash Bros. ends his YouTuber career with a shocking revelation

It’s been two and a half years since Masahiro Sakurai, best known for directing Smash Bros. Ultimate, and the other entries in Nintendo’s platform hit series, took a hiatus from development to create a YouTube channel dedicated to educating fans and players about how games are made. The channel’s final video went up today, and Sakurai ended it with two surprising messages. – Ethan Gach Read more

YouTuber finds moldy cheese in Mr Beast’s Lunchables Knockoff

Lunchly is YouTuber-branded Lunchables. Created by Jimmy “Mr Beast” Donaldson, Olajide Olayinka “KSI” Olatunji and Logan Paul, they’re meant to be a healthier (and more expensive) alternative to the space-age Oscar Meyer snack packs. But some of the Lunchlys apparently also have mold in them. Yuck! – Ethan Gach Read more

Nintendo’s Mysterious Switch Playtest Details Revealed, And…It’s Not What You Were Hoping For (Update)

When Nintendo announced a secret playtest of 10,000 people for an NDA-shrouded project, speculation naturally ran wild. While something to do with the upcoming reveal and release of the Switch’s successor seemed to be the most popular idea, others wondered if it could be some kind of expansion of the Switch Online subscription. Locations refilled within secondswith participants sworn to secrecy, so of course it was only a matter of time before details leaked out. – John Walker Read more

Space Marine 2 director explains why they’re rolling back their most controversial changes

Last week, Space Marine 2’s 4.0 update has arrived and many players were not happy about it. While the free patch added a new mission, it also made the co-op third-person shooter much, much harder in some annoying ways. Now developer Saber is rolling back some of those changes and promising to add public test servers as well. – Zack Zwiezen Read more

Ambitious Fallout remake canceled over ‘Burnout’ creator

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Fallout: Vault 13 is a long-ago mod developed to recreate the original post-apocalyptic RPG using Fallout 4. An expansive demo was released just a few months ago, but fans behind the ambitious project say it has now been shelved due to life changes among its volunteer team as well as general “burnout”. – Ethan Gach Read more

GTA Online update broke a small fan-favorite detail in GTA V

Some traffic pylons in Grand Theft Auto V might not seem like something people would care about. But a recent one GTA online the update has changed how these fan favorite pylons react when hit. This has angered many and led to people asking Rockstar to fix the pylons and stop changing GTA V. – Zack Zwiezen Read more

The Last Of Us, Stellar Blade and more reveal their PS5 Pro modes

The PS5 Pro will be released in just a few weeks promising “improvements” for over 50 games to boot. One of them is The Last of Us Part Iwhich was showcased in the first tech demo to make the hardware run smoother with higher quality than the current PS5-only version. The Naughty Dog hit and other blockbusters are now starting to reveal exactly which modes will be available to players who decide to spend $700 on Sony’s newest console. – Ethan Gach Read more

The developers behind 2023’s most infamous game just can’t stop themselves

You know what’s always fun? Watch the grifter flap. Aside from that, there’s news about the clown car developers of The Day Before, that hilariously awful bait-n-switch 2023 game that went from Steam’s Most Wanted to Most Hatedover the course of an increasingly ridiculous series of delays, and the eventual release of a game that barely resembled what had been promised. Then, like a sorrowful phoenix, creeping and hissing from the ashes, this year developers Fntastic returned with news of a new gameand with a lot of brass, a new Kickstarter to fund it. Guess what?! Forget that game too, they’ve got a new one! – John Walker Read more

The Pokemon leak has revealed a scrapped form of one of its most controversial monsters

Earlier this month, Pokemon developer Game Freak affected by an extensive data breach and ever since, details of and assets for new and old projects have trickled out onto the internet. These have ranged from unused Pokemon that never saw the light of dayto information about upcoming games like next year’s Pokemon Legends: ZA. In the middle of it all is a detail that has surfaced concept art for an unused form of one of the more controversial Pokémon in the original 151. It turns out that Jynx almost had a more powerful mega evolution form in Pokémon X and Y. – Kenneth Shepard Read more

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