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Dragon Ball FighterZ Producer Talks About The Challenges And Thrills of Creating The Game’s Stages

Fists aren’t the only striking thing in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Its stages, inspired by the landmark anime, are gorgeous. Excited about the game’s great stages, we reached out to Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki about what developing them was like. Rendered with immense detail, but also with big, anime-style lines, Dragon Ball FighterZ stages…

‘Titty Streamer’ Kaceytron Is Nourished By Bitter Gamer Tears

It had been two months since self-described “titty streamer” Kaceytron finally covered up. Chunky sweaters and strings of pearls replaced her daily streaming uniform of tank tops and push-up bras. Her nearly 500,000 Twitch followers were at a loss: Some wondered whether Kaceytron had contracted a brain injury, forever altering her personality. Others recognized a…

Russian News Accidentally Airs Video Game Clip During Segment On Syrian War

Russian state news network Pervi Kanal accidentally aired footage from military shooter Arma 3 during a segment about the Syrian War on Sunday. After the fact, Arma 3’s developers told Kotaku that although they’re happy that their “efforts to make authentic simulation gameplay [appear] pretty successful. . . this is definitely not a method we…

Students Win Bet, Get Teacher To Make Final Exam About Fortnite

High school teacher Mike McCray knows a lot about chemistry and absolutely nothing about Fortnite. It’s the opposite for some of his students. And after winning a bet, those students might have a better chance at passing McCray’s class. McCray teaches chemistry at Tippecanoe High School in Ohio. According to him, McCray came to an…

Fortnite Random Squads Matches Are Anarchy

Four recently-beheaded chickens, coming from four cardinal directions, all head toward a crowded chicken processing plant at the same speed. Where do they intersect? This isn’t the beginning of a riddle. It’s a question I ask myself every time I queue up for random squads matches in Fortnite Battle Royale. I queue for random squads…

In a surprising, but totally deserved twist, anime Made In Abyss beat out the second season of My Hero Academia at 2017’s Anime Awards this weekend. If you haven’t peeped into the fantasy anime’s dark, dark depths, now’s a great time to check it out.

Blizzard Let Zenyatta Walk And It Was A Mistake

Oh, unholy day. Overwatch’s floating monk Zenyatta has found his feet and it is entirely unsettling to watch. So far, we’ve only seen Zenyatta hover cross-legged a few feet above the ground. Yesterday, Blizzard’s Twitter account noticed an Overwatch League sign demanding “Let Zen Walk.” Well, be careful what you ask for. Blizzard came back…

We Discuss The Best And Worst Overwatch Maps

Overwatch maps are like candy grab-bags. Sometimes, you get an M&M. Other times, you get a black licorice chew. Recently, Blizzard posted a pollasking players to vote on their favorite maps. Seventeen thousand players responded, a small sample size for a game that’s played by tens of millions. But everyone’s favorite map won by a…

The LAN Cafe Is Making A Comeback

At a modern LAN cafe in downtown Manhattan, a teenager with floppy brown hair zones out to a Kingdom Come: Deliverance Twitch stream. He’s lounging with a Mountain Dew and an empty cup of coffee. Behind him, 30 PCs glow with light from rounds of League of Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Waypoint Cafe, which opened…

Fortnite Battle Royale’s big Season 3 update is here, along with more and better rewards for Battle Pass (skydiving trails! back bling!), a hand cannon and some helpful user interface adjustments.

Punk Heist Game Flips Off The Gender Pay Gap

Lost Wage Rampage is a new riot grrl driving game about stealing what you’re owed and destroying everything else. Out today, Lost Wage Rampage is as punk as games get. It’s about two angry mall clerks who plunder their local mall after discovering their male colleagues’ paychecks are larger than theirs. They roll their orange…

Skin-Gambling Streamer Sues Twitch For Banning Him Two Years Ago

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skin gambling streamer James “Phantoml0rd” Varga has filed a lawsuit against streaming platform Twitch for banning him two years ago, saying Twitch breached its contract by improperly suspending him. Varga had amassed over a million followers on Twitch before the goliath streaming company kicked him off in July, 2016. He was one…

U.S. Senator Asks ESRB To Re-Examine Loot Boxes

Yesterday, Senator Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat, sent an open letter to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) urging it “to review the completeness of the board’s ratings process and policies as they relate to loot boxes, and to take into account the potential harm these types of micro-transactions may have on children.” This…

This Valentine’s Day, Spare A Thought For Yakuza 0‘s Horny Underpants Guy

If you’re single, Valentine’s Day is a great reminder that you’re alone. If you’re single and prone to bouts of self-hatred, Valentine’s Day is a great reminder that you’re alone and it’s because you’re weird. Reader, we don’t think that about you, but probably, that doesn’t help. What might help is sparing a thought for…

Five Of The Best Romance Anime

Ah, romance anime: a saccharine world of blush lines, reluctant crushes and 15th episode first kisses. It’s not the classiest genre, but on days when you’re feeling lonely or need a pick-me-up, it can certainly feel like home. Here are my top five romance anime picks: Clannad/Clannad After Story Clannad is equal parts hilarious and…

How To Get Your Significant Other Into Gaming

You play games, but your significant other does not. It’s a common scenario that can be a point of contention in an otherwise healthy relationship. To relax after work, you load up Overwatch on the living room Xbox. Your beau, on the other hand, wants to cook dinner with you. An hour watching you gun…

Fortnite‘s Tilted Towers Are Evil

Last month, when Fortnite Battle Royale dropped its fantastic new map, it was marred by one tall, gray blemish: The Tilted Towers. Yes, I am tilted over the Tilted Towers. Laugh it up. A cluster of several-story buildings now sits squarely in the center of Fortnite Battle Royale’s map, where once, there was a lovely…

Fox is pushing back Alita: Battle Angel’s premiere date from July 20th, 2018 to December 21st, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Hopefully, that will give them enough time to fix those freaky eyes

New Anime Season Is Killing It With Shows About Ordinary Girls

Sex and the City is a guilty pleasure for a reason, but it might not be the reason you think. The pleasure half comes from its voyeuristic look into how four hot women navigate careers, sex and, like totally, more sex. The guilty half is because these four women are fake as hell and we…

Sex, Pong, And Pioneers: What Atari Was Really Like, According To Women Who Were There

Back in 1973, Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker” was blaring from the PA in a California warehouse as two dozen women in flared jeans assembled Pong circuit boards. The smell of corned beef and marijuana wafted down the manufacturing line. Orders for Atari’s landmark table tennis video game were still pouring in on the crisp…