Recently, top YouTubers are saying that, yet again, the behemoth video sharing network is fucking them over. This time, it’s about an alleged issue with subscribers—suddenly, they’re disappearing. And, no, it’s not because they unsubscribed. YouTube, for their part, denies that there’s a glitch. Regardless, several popular YouTubers are up in arms about shrinking subscriber…
Compared to the summer’s plush anime selection, Fall 2016’s offerings are a little slim. We had Berserk, Orange, Mob Psycho 100, ReLIFE, 91 Days and other high-impact titles scattered across shonen, fantasy, shoujo and historical fiction genres. This season’s a little different. My top pics for this season are more about girls and female audiences.…
Tickets just went on sale for One Piece Film Gold’s North America run. Theaters around the United States and Canada will show the high-grossing anime movie between January 10th and 17th, the One Piece Podcast reports
Overwatch’s upcoming map, Oasis, will crush you. Literally—there’s traffic. Now live on the PTR, Oasis features cars that drive around its periphery. Will they actually kill you, you might ask? Yes. And then they’ll drive away, probably laughing, as Overwatch player ElatedAmpleAruanas found. Here’s a full tour of the map, which, bear in mind, could…
Today, Facebook introduced ‘Instant Games’ to its Messenger service. Pac-Man, Galaga, Zookeeper and 14 other titles will be readily available from the controller icon in your Facebook Message box or on your Newsfeed’s “Instant Games” tab. So if you, like me, want all your friends to know you smash at Words with Friends, challenging them…
Overwatch’s Genji is the annoying buzz in your ear when you know a fly is in the room and can’t damn find it. But you have to admit—his weapon design is awesome. In a video posted today, weapon craftsmen Man At Arms hand-made Genji’s glowing, green katana sword and Shuriken. They’re the same guys who…
Pokémon Go will not stop fumbling its tracking system. With each new update has come a slew of problems so damning that it’s a wonder people are still out there, tracking the little beasts with their phones. Last week, Niantic expanded Pokémon Go’s newly-updated “Nearby” feature to areas outside of San Francisco, where the company…
Black Friday is the Armageddon of retail, and even has the name to fit. On that unholy day, armed soldiers of capitalism move on local games outlets with just one thing on their minds: new shit for less money. This piece originally appeared on November 23, 2016. Gaming equipment is expensive. We get it. But…
Rare today are opportunities for gamers to step outside the prescribed outlines of a developer’s intended gaming experience, especially in MMORPGs. Back in the early 2000s, anarchic players eagerly hunted down the virtual unknown, where possibility and impossibility were deadlocked within some specter of the original game. (Originally published 8/25/2016) The other day, I heard…
In the “water is wet” category, researchers at Indiana University just published a study confirming that Twitch viewers on popular women’s streams like to talk about boobs. It also asks why big-name female streamers hear a higher ratio of chat comments about their bodies than women who run less-trafficked Twitch channels. The researchers analyzed 200…
VR is for living out our dreams with no real consequences. And if your dream is to be an enormous, city-destroying monster, you’re in luck: King Kaiju is here. King Kaiju, available on Steam for the HTC Vive, gives you everything you need to go on a shitstorm mayhem spree of indiscriminate chaos. You’ve got giant,…
The Wii U-exclusive Lego City Undercover will be re-released for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in 2017, the game’s Twitter account announced today. In another tweet, they added that it will also come to PC.
A supremely adorable 3-year-old doles out names to the Overwatch heroes in this new video. Spoiler: Sombra is “tickle.”
Yesterday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Honshu island, Japan, sent waves as far as Tokyo, where it rocked a humble Twitch streamer playing Pokémon Kai Hamano, whose streams as Kaihama, was sorting through his inventory in the new Pokémon game when his bedroom started shaking. “What the fuck?” he asked his viewers. “Oh my god, it’s…
A woman who helped market a wildly popular upcoming Conan board game, which raised over $3 million on Kickstarter in 2015, is speaking out against its portrayal of women. In a November 12 essay titled “Grab ‘Em By The Board Game,” Cynthia Hornbeck, who marketed the game for Asmodee, the company that is distributing the…
Today is the 15th birthday of a game that just will not go away. Super Smash Bros. Melee will just not go away. There’s a reason for its stubborn popularity. Melee builds. Without post-release balance adjustments, the game actually seasoned instead of growing dry. Time only gave it depth, and players who grew up with…
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For over two decades, Chris Metzen was a cherished mascot for Blizzard, where he was the senior Vice President of Story and Franchise development. When he retired in September, at 42, fans wondered why he’d abandon a company he’d been at since he was 19. Today, in an interview with podcaster Scott Johnson, Metzen explained…
Seen any Nintendo Switches floating around recently—for example, in the viral EWNetwork video of a YouTuber brandishing his shiny, new Switch console? Don’t hold your breath for a leak. It’s a fake. Two days ago, Etika from EWNetwork appeared to reveal a Nintendo Switch in his Brooklyn apartment. Yelling, he held it up on stream,…
SimCity is so realistic. That’s probably why, in SimCity 4, you can mod in a vestige of our current surveillance state, 33 Thomas Street, New York, NY, which just today was outed as a probable NSA surveillance site. SimCity is all about managing the less convenient aspects of life. Road planning, earthquake management and government-sanctioned…
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