Overwatch Pro-Gamers In Trouble For Relationships With Women Fans
This week, reports out of South Korean have two players on esports team Lunatic Hai at the center of a scandal.
Sad Characters Made Happy With FaceApp
C’mon, chin up. Turn that frown upside down!
Nintendo has said it plans to release two or three mobile games on an annual basis, Reuters reports. Good news if you like mobile games, I guess!
Without A Doubt, The Best Yakuza 6 Glitches
Not only is Yakuza a good time, but it’s glitches and bugs can be, too. And here are the best ones of all.
Splatoon 2 will have voice chat. According to Nintendo, it will use “smart-devices and the ability to bring eight Nintendo Switch systems together for eight-person local multiplayer.”
Mega Man Remade In 2.5D
I don’t imagine that actually being trapped between dimensions would be super fun if it, you know, happened to you, but it sure looks cool. Case in point: Mega Man 2.5D.
Look At This God Damn Final Fantasy Fork
This is being given away as part of a promo for Final Fantasy x Cup Noodles in Japan, meaning you’ll (probably) never get one, so for now just gaze upon the possibility of eating a cup of noodles with a God damn Final Fantasy sword.
Full Metroid Prequel Created By Fans
If Nintendo isn’t going to make more Metroid games then it’s up to fans to keep the series going with games like Metroid: Rogue Dawn, an unofficial prequel to the original NES Metroid that’s been over two years in the making and which is now finished.
What Are Your Character Creation Bad Habits?
I am a creature of habit. I order the same things at restaurants, I drink the same beer. I have television shows that I watch over and over, like comfort food. This becomes a problem in my game of The Sims 4, where all my new sims are using the exact same hair.
A Star Wars Cosplay Hustle From 1977
In 1977, as Star Wars was first blowing up, Lucasfilm were famously ill-equipped to get enough merch out to satisfy fans. While some people waited patiently into 1978 for stuff like action figures, one kid went out and started making his own Darth Vader masks. And made a ton of cash in the process.
The Vote Over Evo 2017's Ninth Fighting Game Is Reopening Old Wounds
This year, the Evolution Championship Series is giving nine fighting games the chance of a lifetime. The game that raises the most money for Make-a-Wish International (a non-profit organization dedicated to making the dreams of children with life-threatening conditions reality) will earn a spot during the prestigious…
12 Ways to Build Your Own Retro Game Machine
With some 30 years of video gaming history now behind us, there’s never been a greater choice of retro games to dig back into, whether it’s on your smartphone or a classic console rebooted for modern times. For the more serious seekers of gaming nostalgia, there are plenty of hands-on projects you can attempt…
The Latest Call Of Duty Zombies Had Me At The Crystal Method
The second installment of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Zombies mode arrives today on PlayStation 4, trading the colorful ‘80s fun park of Zombies in Spaceland with the ‘90s vibe of Rave in the Redwoods. The Crystal Method makes some excellent undead-slaying music. I guess I didn’t know.
Forget pro skaters and their grassroots campaigns. Forget EA’s own community reps tweeting #skate4 and getting people’s hopes up. The publisher just said on an earnings call that it is “not presently making Skate 4".
Today's Best Deals: KitchenAid Mixers, IZOD, Vinyl Printer, Mechanical Keyboard, and More
A discounted KitchenAid stand mixer, IZOD clothes for the guys, Madden NFL 17 Super Bowl edition for Xbox One, and more lead Tuesday’s best deals.
BioWare’s new IP sure sounds like a Destiny competitor, based on EA’s financial call this afternoon. The game, which EA says will be out in FY18 (aka: by March 2018), is set in a brand new world but will fuse “the great RPG character development and story progression that BioWare is known for” with a new…
An Appreciation Of Pixel Art, Gaming's Most Beautiful Style
Pixel art can often feel nostalgic, hearkening back to those bygone days of cathode ray tube monitors and floppy disks. It’s easy to think of modern pixel art as stuck in the past, a mere retro inspired throwback. But that’s giving the form a disservice. There’s more to pixel art than pure nostalgia, as I argue in…
Conan Exiles Is Still Very Early
As the sun rises and the ocean churns, preparing to consume all with the aid of global warming, so too do new early access survival games invariably top the charts on Steam. Conan Exiles is the latest, and well, it’s certainly early.
