You can get Slack, the ubiquitous office-chat program, to work on pretty much anything. Though I already have Slack running on two laptops, a desktop, and a mobile phone, I can now realize the life-long dream of running Slack on an old Super Nintendo system. Bertrand Fan, a platform engineer at Slack, used an obscure game on an obscure branch of a Japanese version of the SNES to make it work. Here's how it looks: The Japanese SNES had a small modem peripheral called a Satellaview, which a few

Grand Theft Auto: Online, like more or less all multiplayer games, fights to stop cheaters who ruin the experience for other players. Unlike a lot of other multiplayer games, GTA: Online consistently loses that battle. Despite shutting down modders, taking cheat makers to court, and even securing court orders to search cheat makers' homes, GTA: Online remains a "cheater's paradise."

Google announced Project Stream earlier this month, a "technical test" for a new service that will let players stream games. The idea is simple: instead of owning games or machines that run them, we'll pay a subscription service that does the heavy pixel-crunching remotely and streams great-looking graphics to us with minimal latency. The idea is often called "Netflix for gaming," and would theoretically allow us to play the latest games at the highest graphical settings.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey asks you to collect a lot of stuff. Money, friends, and sailors are just the start of it: There's also wood, leather, iron, glass, and a few other essentials needed to upgrade your gear and your ship. Then there's Orichalcum, a special glowing ore that one, and only one, merchant accepts for payment. The good news is, this one merchant has a store full of seriously awesome stuff.

Killing Floor 2 has long been one of our favorite shooters. It regularly shows up in the fabled halls of out top 100, and we've pointed to it as an example of great grenade design and mesmerizing gun animations. Heck, it's even one of a few games we pointed to last year when we declared a new FPS golden age. OK, so the game is good. Fine. But one of the reasons it stays good and we stay so enamored with it is its near constant stream of big content updates. There's a truly staggering amount of new stuff live now as part of the second annual Halloween update, Halloween Horrors: Monster Masquerade.

Assassin's Creed has always flirted with the boundary between history, fantasy, and sci-fi. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the blurred lines between genres is most apparent in the Daughters of Artemis questline. In central Phokis, a priestess at the Temple of Artemis tells you about eight animals that wander the world even though they'd fit in better in the realm of myth and legend.

What would a romp through ancient Greece be without bumping into every chapter in your old college Greek Mythology textbook? The Gates of Atlantis quest line in Assassin's Creed Odyssey starts out as a hunt for four ancient relics. As you track them down, you realize that all four relics are personally guarded by a different mythological legend: the Sphinx, the Cyclops, the Minotaur, and Medusa.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is full of places to go and people who want to kill you. Luckily, it has a pretty in-depth and flexible armor system that gives you lots of ways to mix-and-match your way to some pretty cool old-world fashion. There are a lot of options, though, and that's where our Assassin's Creed Odyssey armor guide comes in.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a big world full of splendor—and more importantly, lots of stuff to kill. As you chew your way through lions, Spartans, and cultists, you'll find a huge variety of ancient weapons to wield in battle. Knowing which weapon to use, though, is half of the battle. That's where our Assassin's Creed Odyssey weapon guide comes in.

Despite being another entry in Ubisoft's nearly annual series, Assassin's Creed Odyssey has enough new systems and stuff to confuse new and veteran players. The big open world is open enough that I accidentally wandered into a few situations before the game had explained how to handle them. To help you avoid the same issue, here's eight general Assassin's Creed Odyssey tips that I wish I'd known from the beginning of my Odyssey.

Balancing time between work and video games is a struggle, no matter who does it—even, apparently, for professional hockey players in the NHL. According to Bo Horvat, a 23-year-old center playing with the Vancouver Canucks, players have decided amongst themselves to ban video games for the upcoming 2019 NHL season, which starts tonight. "I know he likes Fortnite, so we're going to have to get him off that," Horvat said jokingly of 19-year-old Elias Pettersson.

"Rark! Halt your garbage vessel!" The captain of the hailing ship is an alien called a Drenkend who looks like one of those who has steroids for breakfast that has been surgically grafted on top of a Roomba. He's aggressive and aggressively stupid, and his species has been ordered to kill all humans on sight.

Modern game and graphics engines are powerful, but they're nowhere near as powerful as fans' neverending need to remake and remaster scenes from classic games. We already knew this was true thanks to fan recreations of World of Warcraft and Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but this shot-for-shot remake of the Metal Gear Solid introduction is something else. When I say shot-for-shot, I mean shot-for-shot: I used YouTube Doubler to play both intros next to each other, and everything is identical down to t

The new Spider-Man game is enjoying a bit of a moment right now. Not only is it the fastest selling game of 2018 according to UK sales charts, but the PlayStation 4 exclusive is also the biggest subject of discussion on social sites like reddit and Twitter. The game is even generating its own mythology: specifically, the appearance of a marriage proposal for a now-defunct relationship.

Deep in the bowels of a sacred temple, my buddy has been stabbed to death. An angry mummy—who is rightfully pissed off that a bunch of dicks have come swinging in to steal his gold and artwork—is chewing on his face. His corpse disappears, and he reappears in a sarcophagus right next to me. I open the door, and out he pops, good as new, back into the fight.

THQ Nordic announced Thursday that it has purchased all of the intellectual property produced by developer 38 Studios—including everything related to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. If you don't quite remember Kingdoms of Amalur, that's understandable: Amalur was a pretty good role-playing game from 2012 that doomed a studio, cost Rhode Island taxpayers around $28 million, and launched a fleet of investigations from the SEC and FBI.

I punched a tree in my doctor's waiting room yesterday. I was hanging out for an appointment, and I had 's mobile edition running on my phone. My headphones were in, piping the sound of jungle and beach to my brain. Punching trees, picking up rocks, running from dinosaurs—the whole bit. Then I felt a nurse tap my shoulder, so I unplugged my headphones, stood up, and started to close the application. That's when my character defecated.

It's a fact that all dogs are good dogs, but communication between humans and canines isn't always smooth. Dogs bite sometimes—especially when they're scared, hurt, or anxious. In almost all cases, dogs take great pains to warn humans when they're feeling unsafe, but the trouble is that most humans simply don't speak Dog. When misunderstandings happen, it's the human who ends up bitten and, depending on local animal control laws, the dog who ends up dead. Faced with reports of 6,740 patients ad

A new video from speedrunner and youtuber Summoning Salt goes deep, deep into the history of Mario Kart "ultra shortcuts." Ultra shortcuts are not little corners you cut against friends in good-natured competitions. No, ultra shortcuts are the type of glitchy, map-destroying, race-breaking shortcuts used by speedrunners to finish entire races in mere seconds.

I thought I knew the kinds of stories that would come out of Kerbal Space Program’s newest expansion, Making History. Now that KSP’s legendary modding community has access to all the scripting and planning tools it could ever need, I was sure we’d see recreations of the doomed Apollo 13 mission, recreations of Apollo 11’s historic moon landing, and probably even an interplanetary trading run inspired by the sci-fi TV show, The Expanse. It seems foolish that I never saw The Martian coming.