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Clustertruck‘s Developers Are Pranking Its Twitch Streamers

Streamer Vinesauce was surfing a parade of trucks in the new physics platformer Clustertruck when, on screen, these words appeared: “Hello Vinesauce. We are in control now.” Since Clustertruck’s Tuesday release, its developers over at Landfall Games have been pranking the game’s Twitch streamers live, on-air. They enter their Twitch chats, to the surprise and…

Dark shoujo magical girl anime Madoka Magica is heading to mobile in 2017 with Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Aniplex just created the smartphone game’s website, Anime News Network reports. It looks like it might be an adventure game. A release date is slated for Spring.

YouTube celebrity PewDiePie announced today that he’s designing his next game with one of the masterminds behind Goat Simulator, a satirical game that owes its popularity to YouTubers, the Verge reports The details of the game are unclear, but it will be on PC, iOS and Android. Today, PewDiePie released his newest game, Tuber Simulator.

A Horror Game Where The AI Learns From Your Every Move

Ever been curious about a neighbor—so curious that you’ve considered snooping? Announced today, stealth horror PC game Hello Neighbor will take that spying, meddling impulse to the extreme. Also extreme is your enemy, just a friendly neighborhood AI who learns from your every move. In Hello Neighbor, an advanced AI will come after you if…

Twitch’s Channel page just got a much-needed facelift. Now, it will be easier to browse past streams when a channel is offline and subscribe to new streams hosted by your favorite channels.

24 Perfectly Legitimate Reasons For Why You Lost At A Game

You lost at a video game. And definitely it was not because you were bad. In fact, there are a slew of perfectly good reasons for why you lost. This time, you lost because you had a finger spasm. You lost the next round because you thought you heard something growling in the freezer. Surely,…

FFXIV Might Finally Solve Its Spam Bot Problem

Over the last few years, Final Fantasy XIV has suffered from a public spam problem. In every major zone, bots would flood general chat with “MONEY FOR GIL” ads, prompting players to switch their statuses to “busy.” FFXIV’s Tuesday patch made some necessary changes that allows players to more easily report real money transfer (“RMT”)…

Pokémon Sun’s Alolan Exeggutor is a joke. Alolan Exeggutor nail art, however, is the real deal, and also a joke. Amounet nails did it, and it kills.

Winston has one cool trick for protecting his team against Dva’s exploding mech. In a feat of extraordinary bravery, /u/VaporTsunami discovered that Winston’s barrier can contain the blast.

Celebrated slash-and-dash indie Hyper Light Drifter just added a Boss Rush and Newcomer mode, as well as a frame rate boost. Originally criticizedfor being too difficult, HLD is now offering modes for every level of play on PC.

New Hacking MUD Encourages Players To Screw Each Other Over

It’s 2016 and I’m addicted to a text-based game whose fuel is foul play. Hackmud’s only setting is a terminal; its only gameplay, writing scripts. It’s a cyberpunk multi-user domain (MUD) in the ‘80s style, an MMORPG, in which you are role-playing a hacker. Hackmud’s simple pretense, as the game unravels, feels tremendous with possibility.…

New Trailer Hypes Battlefield 1‘s Campaign

Battlefield games are known for their multiplayer mode, but EA is trying to get fans invested in the campaign for Battlefield 1, too. Battlefield 1 single player’s first trailer, which landed today, is shot like a movie, with gripping, emotional scenes inspired by WWI. Battlefield 1’s single-player campaign slated for release on October 21st for…

Perhaps the most notorious Super Smash Bros. combo in history—the “Wombo Combo”—has earned itself a mini-doc. The story of how one NorCal rivalry spawned the mythical team Melee combo (which earned 11 million YouTube hits) is at once light-hearted and ruthless.

That Time Donald Trump Fired Fake PlayStation Employees In An Xbox Skit

Ah, 2004. It was a simpler time—a time of MySpace and Xanga, a time of American Idol and 7th Heaven. In games, 2004 was the year of World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2. George Bush defeated John Kerry. It was also the year Donald Trump appeared in an Xbox E3 ad spoofing The Apprentice and…

Lil B Talks About Dragon Ball Z

Rap and anime are like salt and caramel—not an intuitive match, but a delightful one. Most referenced among rap superstars like Lupe Fiasco, Soulja Boy and RZA is the classic ‘90s staple Dragon Ball Z, your childhood five o’clock Toonami fixture. “Bitch, I look like Goku”: Soulja Boy “I push ki likeDragon Ball Z”: Lupe…

Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 3.4 drops tomorrow with a bouquet of new features, including fresh PvP options, the dungeon Xelphatol and apartments. What really looks exciting is “Wondrous Tails,” which prompts players to inscribe their “heroic feats” into a journal in exchange for rewards. Check out Patch 3.4’s full rundown here.

If abandoned ‘90s Angelfire sites met a Tamagotchi inside surrealist PlayStation title LSD, it would look like upcoming game Hypnospace Outlaw In the PC, Mac and Linux title, currently raising funds on Kickstarter, you are an internet police officer “cruising the Hypnospace Highway.” Its developer, Jay Tholen, also made Dropsy, in which you are a…

VR Developers Speak Out About Oculus Founder’s Support Of Trump Trolls [UPDATE]

Following last night’s newsthat Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is helping fund a troll army of Trump supporters, several VR developers have decided to pull Oculus support for their titles. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30 PM: Palmer Luckey posted a statement to Facebook in which he claimed he’s not a Trump supporter and instead plans to vote…

Street Fighter V Update Makes Losing Matches More Embarrassing

Losing in Street Fighter V is now very, very embarrassing. Last night’s Street Fighter V update added Street Fighter III’s suit-clad human-muscle Urien and a Versus CPU mode, but the game’s new environmental stage KOs are the real… kicker. SFV patch 1.06’s new stage KOs are just vicious. Your limp, defeated corpse no longer just…

After Backlash, Riot Is Changing How Pros Are Paid

League of Legends publisher Riot Games announced major changes to their revenue structure today, addressing concerns waged against Riot by esports figureheads last month. In an open letter, Directors of Esports Whalen Rozelle and Jarred Kennedy describe steps Riot is taking to ensure stability for esports players and teams. Riot is actively soliciting long-term investment…