Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase roundup (28th October 2020)

Valve’s latest Counter-Strike 2 update flashbangs entire skins market, headshots speculators, and clutch defuses inflationary market prices

CS2’s latest update has certainly put the cat among the pigeons, and feathers are flying. The innocuous-sounding patch “extended functionality of the ‘Trade Up Contract’ to allow exchanging five items of Covert quality as follows: five StatTrak Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak Knife from a collection of one of the items provided,…

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Kratos voice actor Christopher Judge says he hopes the next God of War is set in Egypt while making a hypothetical sequel sound pretty unhypothetical: ‘I have no doubt that no matter what pantheon it is, it will be great’

During this weekend’s MCM London Comic Con, Kratos voice actor and videogames’ foremost barker of the word “boy” Christopher Judge shared his hopes for where God of War might be heading next. And in the process, he may have inadvertently hinted things are already in motion towards another entry in the series—even if Sony isn’t…

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A Short Hike dev ‘sort of’ cancels Paper Mario-inspired game, but decides to let everyone play a demo of it anyway: ‘I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing’

It’s rare to get a peek at unfinished games, especially ones that aren’t going to be released any time soon. The indie developer behind A Short Hike decided it might be interesting to give people an idea of what that looks like through a demo of a Paper Mario-inspired game they consider to be on…

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