Pokémon Go’s Easter event, “Eggstravaganza,” begins this afternoon and lasts through April 20th. 2 km eggs will hatch more types of Pokémon. Each hatched egg will also earn players more candy.
Unique to the digital age is the video content creation industry, one where employees are “users” and employers are “platforms.” In it, workers aren’t owed squat. When there are tech issues, they can visit the support page. When there are platform updates, a lot of the time, the press knows first. Full-time YouTubers and Twitch…
From now until May 1st, in the first-person shooter/dating simulator Overwatch, you can defend the Londonesque King’s Row map from waves of rogue robots as part of the game’s “Uprising” event. It’s the second co-op brawl mode the Overwatch team has tried out, and it is killer. After Overwatch’s co-op Halloween event, I had low…
Crawl is a spooky, nasty multiplayer brawler that creates good-natured rivalry in a gruesome, 8-bit world. Tomorrow it comes out of early access on Steam and releases for PS4 and Xbox One. In Crawl, up to three players possess a dungeon’s monsters, while a solo player takes the role of a human. Enemies can include…
This spring, Minecraft will add a marketplace where approved creators can sell user-made content. There, players will buy texture packs, maps and skins with a new currency called Minecraft Coins, purchasable with cash. Previously, creators sold third-party add-ons through their own websites. Minecraft’s store only sold items designed by the Minecraft dev team. In the…
In 2017, even malware is anime. Anyone affected by the new malware Rensenware, named after the anime-style game Touhou Seirensen (Undefined Fantastic Object), has to score over 200 million points on the game’s “lunatic” level or they won’t be able to access their computer files. Ransomeware is a malicious brand of malware that holds files…
A California court ruled that German cheat maker Bossland, who makes hacks for Overwatch and World of Warcraft, must pay $8.5 million to Blizzard, VICE Motherboard reports And yet, Bossland didn’t even show up to the case. You can read the full articleon it over at VICE.
Aethera is a new sci-fi campaign setting for the tabletop role-playing game Pathfinder that lets you dungeon-crawl on asteroids. It was released last week and looks amazing. Its 500-page book spreads “cult mysticism, space opera and diesel punk” across six worlds. Io9 interviewed its developer over at Encounter Table in 2015. Here are some of…
Your Name, already the world’s highest-grossing anime movie ever at the box office, is rolling out in U.S. theaters on April 7. It’s an instant classic that deserves a place next to Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke in the roster of anime masterpieces with mainstream appeal. Not many anime films have challenged Studio Ghibli’s western…
Yesterday, Ubisoft released a big patch for For Honor, which players last week threatened to boycott unless Ubisoft acknowledged their complaints. And Ubisoft did: For Honor’s over-powered Peacekeeper was nerfed and Ubisoft added back in a popular map that they had removed. Ubisoft confirmed that some of these changes were planned from before the boycotting talks…
In 1982, a technology straight out of contemporary science fiction was on track to be the world’s first Twitter. Living and dying in the ‘80s and ‘90s, the cable service teletext brought 24/7, on-demand news directly to a television. Much like Twitter, teletext offered a stream of live, bite-sized information, but in a blocky, neon…
Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan is full of surprises. For example, it turns out that he’s a Hanzo apologist. And, at one point, he considered a cat in a jetpack as an original Overwatch hero. There’s still time, my man. We want that cat hero. Yesterday, in an interview with GameSpot, Kaplan revealed a few…
It looks like beloved alien hellshow Invader Zim is coming back. Nickelodeon Animation’s Twitter account just posted a teaser, explaining that “Soon you will all know the taste of DOOM…Again!”
“They’re leaping onto the payload with a dive comp wombo combo and a nanoboosted face tank” is total gibberish. Unless you’re an Overwatch player. Overwatch is more accessible than most team-based competitive games, but that doesn’t mean it’s simple. Dig beneath the surface and you’ll find a labyrinthine tomb that houses some deformed cousin of…
Starting today, Twitch users can purchase games like For Honor and The Walking Dead directly from Twitch. Under game streams, viewers will now see a “Buy Now” button. Also, games over $5.00 will earn viewers “Twitch Crates,” which contain badges and emotes and the like.
Nine years post-release, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is remembered as the problem child of the Smash franchise. Nintendo took some risks with it, some of which worked, and most of which did not. Famously, the tripping mechanic did not work. Neither did its near-Martian gravity. On the other hand, Zero Suit Samus, a fighter with…
“Death positive” was a term I’d never heard before I saw the trailer for upcoming indie game A Mortician’s Tale. It describes the movement to embrace and understand death instead of fearing and hiding from it. For morticians, the philosophy isn’t exactly voluntary. In A Mortician’s Tale, you’re a mortician prepping corpses and soothing the…
Attack on Titan’s new season began on Saturday with more of the same, along with a few bombshells that failed to make up for the show’s poor pacing. If you’re already into Attack on Titan, you’ll love what the first episode is doing. If you aren’t a fan of the series, it doesn’t offer a…
After paying money I will never get back for the disappointment that is 2017’s Ghost in the Shell, I realized that it hadn’t scratched my itch for a Tokyo-esque sci-fi tech opera. It delivered, mostly, on the dystopian vision of Tokyo that Io9’s Evan Narcissecalled “futureshock design porn.” But while its setting contained infinite storytelling…
When Orisa first launched onto the Overwatch PTR, she felt like a formidable, deadly tank who could lead charges or back up her teammates in the worst of situations. Weeks later, after she’s landed on both console and in Competitive Mode, there’s been a consensus: Orisa isn’t going as planned. Before her release, the tank…
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