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A massive new update is coming to Call of Duty, and it adds Gunsmith Customs to Modern Warfare (opens in new tab)’s weapon customization options. For the uninitiated, Modern Warfare’s Gunsmith system (opens in new tab) lets you use blueprints to customize your weapons with an extensive range of attachments …

You can now donate the Rewards points you earn by playing Xbox to your choice of three COVID-19 related charities. Microsoft started giving players the option to donate their Microsoft Rewards points to the CDC Foundation earlier this month, and the company says that players have contributed “hundreds of thousands …

Reports surfaced today that the anime RPG Digimon Survive had been delayed indefinitely, but Bandai Namco has issued a statement to the contrary. The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu changed the release date for Digimon Survive from “2020” in previous issues to “TBA,” causing publications to erroneously report that the …

Forget terraforming your Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab) island, try building one entirely on an empty toilet paper roll. YouTube (opens in new tab) artist ClayClaim (aka Simon) did just that, building a 360° model out of polymer clay on one of many cardboard rolls. Check out …

Valve’s Dota-inspired card game Artifact is getting a full-fat story campaign for its upcoming re-release (opens in new tab), appropriately titled Artifact 2.0. “A lot of you recognized the potential for telling stories about the DOTA world through Artifact and loved what we’d already done through comics and flavor text,” …

With the Nintendo Switch selling out everywhere, Nintendo is planning to increase console production in an effort to meet high demand amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  As Nikkei (opens in new tab) reports, this increase would see more units produced between now and the end of July. For 2020 overall, …

The latest and final major update to Super Mario Maker 2 (opens in new tab) lets you make an entire Mario game full of custom levels and distinct worlds. So far, you’ve only been able to create and play individual levels, but now you can string together levels into themed …

Two developers are working to secure the rights to make a Seinfeld game in the most Seinfeld way possible: with a formal pitch for a game “about nothing.” The plan is for point-and-click gameplay, puzzle-solving, item collecting, and of course, senseless conflict stemming from miscommunication or meaningless objects like so …

Pokemon Rumble Rush is shutting down just 14 months after the mobile action game first went online (opens in new tab). The official Pokemon website confirmed the news, putting the app’s end-of-service date on July 21, 2020 at 6:59pm PDT. Rumble Rush has preemptively shut down purchases of Poke Diamonds, …

Block by Blockwest, or BXBW (opens in new tab), is a Minecraft music festival hosted by Courier Club, which is raising money for coronavirus relief efforts led by the CDC Foundation (opens in new tab).  BXBW is scheduled for Saturday, April 25, and like the many other Minecraft-based coronavirus efforts, …