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Wednesday18th Aug 2021
News Among Us Devs Speak Out About Fortnite's Suspiciously Familiar 'Impostors' Mode
Understandably, they're not best pleased
Yesterday, Epic Games unveiled Fortnite's brand new 'Impostors' mode – a new way to play which, let's face it, is identical to Among Us. Epic's world-dominating battle royale game has never been shy of taking other people's ideas for its own, but yesterday's announceme
Wednesday11th Aug 2021
Random Among Us Summer Merch Includes Previously Korea-Exclusive Water Bottle
Hydrate or die-drate
Summer is rapidly approaching its end, but while the final glorious days of sunshine are still here, Innersloth has released their new Among Us summer merch line. The merch includes: 3 summer themed shirts, hoodies & tanks 2 satin headscarves Transparent holo tote bag Water bottles (made in collaboration with Dunkin'...
Monday2nd Aug 2021
News Sneak Peek At New Among Us Content Shows Big Yellow Rock
Or maybe it's a chicken nugget
Among Us is getting another content update, and this next one is big. Well, it looks big. Or maybe it's just close to the camera. It's not clear what it is. Or what it's doing. All we know is what's in the image: A lil Among Us crewmate (Cyan, for reference) reacting with fear/surprise/excitement to the presence of...
Tuesday27th Jul 2021
Random Nobody Likes The Among Us Tan Crewmate
:(
The Among Us Twitter account is full of neat little insights into the popular betrayal game, and the latest is no exception: the team has been monitoring people's crewmate colour choices since the 15-player update, and now they have the results. In first place, to no one's surprise, is Red, the iconic spacebean, who reigns supreme as the avatar...
Monday19th Jul 2021
News Among Us Is Free On Nintendo Switch Online This Week
It's also on sale!
There's a message coming through the comms — KKKRRRZZT — hang on, we just need to fix the electrical wiring, and — KKZZZZT — swipe the card a few times, and — ZZZZTTT — there we go! The message should come through loud and clear now: Among Us is free for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers this week, from Wednesday the...
Wednesday7th Jul 2021
News Among Us Has Been Localised Into Irish
Immaculate craic
Among Us' success continues to grow, and one of the measures of success is just how many official translations something has — including minority languages and languages that aren't even spoken any more, like Harry Potter's Latin, Ancient Greek, and Scots translations. According to its Steam page, Among Us supports 12 languages...
News Physical And Collector's Editions Of Among Us Are Here
Call an emergency meeting
Among Us is finally getting a physical version, and not only that — it's getting THREE Collector's Editions to boot. The Crewmate Edition, priced at $29.99, includes: Among Us base game and all of the DLC items: Airship, Polus and MIRA HQ Skins, along with the Hamster Pet, Bedcrab Pet, Brainslug Pet, Stickmin Pet and...
Thursday10th Jun 2021
News Among Us To Add New Mode, Roles, Map And More
Lots of cool stuff on the way
Among Us was a breakout hit last year and is continuing to enjoy success, no doubt helped even further by its release on the Switch eShop to expand its loyal player-base. Developer Innersloth has now had a brief reveal as part of Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live, in which it confirmed a range of new content and features...
Friday4th Jun 2021
Random So, Someone Just Bought An "Among Us Shaped" Chicken Nugget For Almost $100,000
After an impressive 184 bids
We like video games. We like chicken. In fact, a combo of the two can make for a truly cracking night in. This doesn't mean that we'd ever spend $100,000 on a game-themed chicken nugget, though, and not just because we'll never be able to afford such a thing in our lifetime. Amazingly, someone has just purchased an...
Tuesday4th May 2021
News A Record 57 LEGO Ideas Sets Are Being Reviewed, And Yes, That Includes Zelda LEGO
Child Link, Toon Link... Brick Link?
If you're a LEGO fan and a Nintendo fan, you probably have LEGO Ideas on your radar. It's an official project, run by LEGO themselves, which lets fans submit their ideas for new LEGO kits. If you get above a certain number of votes, then your build will go through to a review round, where a bunch of people at the...
Thursday8th Apr 2021
Random Someone Made The Among Us Skeld Map In Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Amongimal CrUssing
Of all the maps in Among Us, including the newly-released Airship, the most beloved (or infamous) is Skeld. We've seen Skeld remade in Minecraft already, and tiny model builder Simon of ClayClaim has even created a version made of clay and cardboard.
Wednesday31st Mar 2021
News Among Us Now Has Official Plushies
Disclaimer: 10% of the plushies are murderous impostors
We all love things that are cuddly and want to kill us, or else cats wouldn't exist. Innersloth, the developers of massive indie hit Among Us, have managed to create something to rival cats for the cute/murderous throne, with their official line of Among Us plushies. The cuddly impostors come...
News Among Us' Airship Level Is Here
Join the mile-high murder club
Can someone give the Among Us Twitter account an ice cream and a hug? It can't be easy to monitor the account that hit one million followers in a matter of days, and when that Twitter account is the main hub for a 2018 game that achieved unprecedented, unexpected success during the pandemic, we can only imagine the...
Thursday18th Mar 2021
News Among Us Airship Map Finally Gets A Release Date
📣📣📣📣
March 31st is starting to redeem itself as maybe not a terrible day for gamers after all: it may be the day Mario finally dies forever, but it's also the date that Among Us' new Airship map will finally be added to the game. As announced by the official Among Us Twitter account, and detailed further in the Innersloth
Monday15th Mar 2021
News Fall Guys Season 4 Adds Among Us Crossover
Costumes will have "something unique" about them
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout developer Mediatonic has released a brand new trailer for the game's upcoming fourth season, teasing the arrival of an Among Us crossover. As seen at the very end of the PlayStation trailer above (remember, Fall Guys doesn't arrive on Switch until this summer), a quick...
Saturday6th Mar 2021
News Among Us Update Adds New Quick Chat Tool - Makes Games "Easier" And "Faster" To Play
There's nothing sus about this
Innersloth - the team behind the insanely popular game Among Us, has just rolled out a brand new update for the Nintendo Switch version. This bumps the game up to Version 2021.2.21. Although this patch is only small, it adds a helpful quick chat tool - allowing players to communicate much faster. "hey Crewmates,...
Thursday4th Mar 2021
Random 'Amogus' Is A Playable Among Us Pokémon Hack
Things are getting weird in the Among Us community
We know you're all thinking it, so let's just get it out of our system real quick: "Nintendo takedown coming in 3...2...1..." And yes, it's probably true, because it always is. But with that covered, let's instead talk about just what the heck is going on in the Among Us community. SusieQ on...
Thursday11th Feb 2021
News Among Us Quickens Masahiro Sakurai's Pulse, But He's Not Sure How Long It Will Remain Popular
"It isn't a game that allows you to come up with a clear strategy when playing"
You've likely seen that outside of directing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Masahiro Sakurai writes a regular column for Famitsu. Having previously shared his PlayStation 5 thoughts and calling Cyberpunk 2077 a "
Wednesday10th Feb 2021
Random Fan-Made Mod Brings Among Us To Super Smash Bros.
Complete with mock reveal trailer
With several DLC fighters still to be confirmed, plenty of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans will still be hopeful that their favourite characters are about to make the cut. With internet sensation Among Us selling so well on Switch, could one of the game's crewmates be a genuine contender? YouTube user
Monday1st Feb 2021
Anne Helen Petersen interviews children from 5 to 15 about their gaming habits
Journalist Anne Helen Petersen is tired of the "alarmist rhetoric" around video games. She's not the only one. In her newsletter, Culture Study, Petersen has already spoken to psychologist Rachel Kowert about the fearmongering, satanic-panic-adjacent stigma around gaming,...
Sunday24th Jan 2021
News Among Us Estimated To Have Sold 3.2 Million Copies On Switch In Launch Month
That's a lot of imposters
Smash hit multiplayer game Among Us got a surprise release on the Nintendo Switch last December following an indie showcase and ever since it's been at the top of the eShop charts. It's only £3.89/$5.00 if you haven't already picked it up. According to SuperData, the game is estimated to have already sold a whopping 3.2...
Wednesday20th Jan 2021
News Innersloth Provides Update On Among Us Airship Map And Switch Bug Fixes
Account system also discussed
No matter how you spin it, 2020 was an incredible year for Innersloth and you'd have been hard-pressed to escape its hit game Among Us. Despite releasing back in 2018, it slowly became one of 2020's most successful games and, after a surprise drop following the last Indie Showcase in December, we can finally be sus on...
Wednesday13th Jan 2021
Random Play Among Us In Minecraft With This Blocky Skeld Map
We're pretty sure we saw Creeper vent
You know, Minecraft is pretty cool, but there's not nearly enough murder and betrayal. Or maybe we're playing it wrong. Either way, now you can get a healthy dose of learning not to trust anyone with this nifty recreation of the Among Us Skeld map, courtesy of builder Salestro. Here are the two maps...
Monday11th Jan 2021
News There Were Over 2 Billion Tweets About Gaming In 2020, Most Of It For Animal Crossing
We're also talking about Corpse_Husband a bit too much
We're not saying it's because we had nothing better to do, but apparently in 2020 we all collectively tweeted 75% more about video games than we did in 2019. Huh! Weird! With that big ol' chunk of tweets comes some interesting insight into what we're actually saying with those missives: it...
Wednesday23rd Dec 2020
Random Among Us On Wii? Sounds Kinda Sus
Impostor-ble!
Dust off your nunchucks and grab your wrist straps, because it's time to get suspicious old-school style: Among Us is on the Wii! Well, sort of. "I got Among Us working on the Nintendo Wii," declares Reddit user BurritoSOFTWARE on the unofficial Among Us subreddit, along with a video proving his claim: he is, indeed, playing A
Tuesday22nd Dec 2020
News Switch Owners "Most Likely" To Own A Rival Console, 2020 Study Shows
Console also scores highly in 'bestselling' and 'worst game' categories
Our friends over at GamesIndustry.biz love crunching the numbers and turning them into lovely charts, and we love reading them. Their "Year In Numbers" for 2020 shows a pandemic-fuelled frenzy of video game spending, with a 21% increase in the value of the console market,...
Thursday17th Dec 2020
News Oops! Among Us' 2021 Airship Level Is Playable Now On Switch Thanks To A Glitch
Update: And it's patched out...
Update: It's been patched. Oh well. Among Us might have come out on PC first, but Switch players can play the upcoming airship level before release - and before anyone else - as long as they don't mind exploiting a glitch in the system. As shown in the GameXplain video above, impostors and innocents alike are...
Nintendo Download 17th December (Europe)
Among Us! Shakes On A Plane! Festive Offers!
The latest Nintendo Download update for Europe has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop - New Releases: 60 Seconds! Reatomized (£8.5 /...
Nintendo Download 17th December (North America)
Super Meat Boy Forever, Collection of SaGa and Turrican Flashback!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it's bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop - Highlights: Super...
Wednesday16th Dec 2020
Poll Among Us Is Out Now On The Nintendo Switch, Are You Getting It?
Let us know
Nintendo's latest Indie Showcase went out with a bang today, with the announcement that the insanely popular multiplayer game Among Us would be landing on the Switch. It comes with cross-play and can obviously be played on the go, thanks to the system's portable nation. Of course, being such a big indie release, we're curious to know if...
