Sunday Comics: Wanna Play Overwatch Tonight?
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Head Back To School With a Ton of Amazon Device Discounts, Including the Echo For $100
While not nearly as enticing as their Prime Day discounts, Amazon’s back-to-school price drops on their Kindle, Fire, and Echo devices are solid deals if you’re in the market.
A Quick Look Back At The Super Mario Bros. Episode Of Halt And Catch Fire
AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire returns tonight for its fourth and final season. It’s become one of the best prestige television shows still left standing, and while there’s a lot of stuff it gets right and does well, few things show off the series’ charm like the episode it dedicated to Super Mario Bros.
BioWare Confirms No DLC For Mass Effect Andromeda
An update today from BioWare confirmed that Mass Effect: Andromeda will indeed not be getting any new content.
Saturday's Best Deals: Lawn Games, Bookshelf Speakers, Anker RoboVac, and More
Klipsch bookshelf speakers, an Amazon lawn game sale, and your last chance to save on the Eufy RoboVac lead off Saturday’s best deals.
Artist Gives PS1 Jewel Case Art A Modern Makeover
Ben Nicholas worked for various companies, including Ubisoft and 343 Studios, and you’ve probably see us feature his work before.
Players Have Learned To Fear Raichu At This Year's Pokémon Championships
Day one of the Pokémon World Championships was a bloodbath where more than 100 of the world’s best players duked it out for a chance to compete with the season’s best competitors in the second phase of the tournament. And even though the Video Game Championship series is solo affair, one tightknit group of players…
We Respect This Splatoon 2 Player's Dedication To Inking Their Spawn
We have often espoused the virtues of inking your spawn in Splatoon 2's Turf War mode, but rarely do you see dedication like player “Giokiller” exhibited in one match.
If Counter-Strike Had An Anime Opening It Might Look Something Like This
The anime Counter-Strike: Global Offensive opening you never knew you wanted.
Here Are a Few More Board Games On Sale, If You Didn't Get Enough Yesterday
If you missed out on yesterday’s big board game sale, a few favorites are still down to some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen.
Riot Creates League of Legends Platformer Based On Community Suggestions
As part of their annual “hackathon,” several Riot Games employees created a 2D platformer based on community suggestions. The game, called Ziggs Arcade Blast, is now available to play.
The Weekend In Esports: Overwatch Contenders Starts For Real
It’s a quieter weekend in the world of pro gaming compared to earlier in the month, but there’s still plenty going on, especially if you’re an Overwatch fan.
New Star Wars Battlefront 2 Trailer Shows Off Dazzling Space Battles
The first look at the game’s Starfighter Assault mode has the Millennium Falcon, bright lens flares, and yes, Yoda manning a laser turret.
England Wins FIFA Interactive World Cup For First Time In 12 Years
Over the course of this week’s FIFA Interactive World Cup, Spencer “Gorilla” Ealing scored 46 goals across three days on his way to the grand final. In a 7-3 aggregate, Ealing not only took home $200,000 in prizes, but the first FIWC win for England since 2005.
The Division’s Latest Updates Hints At How Interesting The Sequel Might Be
“More is more” must be the mantra of the makers of The Division, Ubisoft’s fun but flawed post-disaster shooter that has somehow not collapsed beneath the weight of the latest mound of content added to it.
Children of Morta is coming next year and has a new trailer. Revealed back in 2015, the lush pixel art roguelike is a procedural game focusing on single family. Think FTL meets Bloodlines. We might be awash in these types of indie games at the moment, but I just can’t resist some damn good pixel animations.
This Week In The Business: Splatoon 2 Hits Number One Without A Single Bullet
STAT | #1 - Splatoon 2's rank on the NPD Group’s list of July’s best-selling games in the US. The accomplishment is more impressive when you consider that Nintendo is one of the few major publishers that doesn’t share digital sales figures with NPD, so its ranking only reflects physical retail sales.
Overwatch's Best Korean Team Loses To Underdogs' Daring Doomfist Gambit
So far, there have been three Overwatch APEX tournaments in South Korea. Lunatic Hai has won two of them. Widely regarded as one of the best Overwatch teams in the world—if not the best—they were expected to dismantle relatively unheralded team MVP Space without breaking much of a sweat. Instead, they lost.
This Sound Bar's Simulated Surround Sound Is Almost As Good as the Real Thing
Sound bar-based surround sound systems have existed for awhile, but not every room is laid out to accommodate satellite speakers, and not everyone wants to see them all the time. But Yamaha’s new YAS-207 sound bar does a pretty convincing imitation of surround sound without any extraneous gear.
