Video Games Reporter
Ash is a Video Games Reporter for The Verge with a focus on covering marginalized gamers and their communities, writing about the intersection of video games and sex, and finding a way to make the general video gaming public care about the Overwatch League.
Before Games Done Quick became the premier video game speedrunning event, there was the Nintendo World Championship. On July 18th, Nintendo is bringing that countrywide contest to the comfort of our living rooms with the Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. Players will be able to compete in over 150 brand new speed contests across a ton of Nintendo classics both online and locally.
Nintendo has just released an extremely creepy 15-second trailer for a game called Emio. The trailer features grainy footage of a person in a trenchcoat wearing a paper bag decorated with an unsettling rictus grin. There’s no other information other than the cryptic hashtag #whoisemio. Whoever he is, the creepypasta loving 12-year-olds in your life are gonna love this.
On July 9th, basketball will arrive in Nintendo Switch Sports. The free update will include online and local 2v2 play with motion controls. And for local play, you’ll get a 3-point shoot out mode and a five streak battle game that has you and your friends shoot it out to see who can score five baskets first.
I knew this was coming, I just didn’t expect it so soon. FromSoftware has released a patch for Shadow of the Erdtree. Among the casualties...I mean “bug fixes” is a nerf to super busted but super satisfying perfume bottle build that basically turned anyone who used it into a walking nuke. How dare you FromSoftware, over a long holiday weekend no less?!
How a musical indie game went against the grain to explore the Deaf experience
Harmonium: The Musical took a lot of time and resources, but according to its developers, it was worth it.
With new Lovestruck expansion pack, coming to The Sims 4 on July 25th, your Sims too can experience the horrors of modern dating.
Create dating profiles for your Sims, define their attractions, plan and execute dates, and even get your Sim’s heart broken. The expansion adds new romance-themed traits, aspirations, and fears, and adds a new location, Ciudad Enamorada, where Sims can enjoy their new romantic interludes.