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At E3, amid the booming explosions of big-budget game trailers and sterile setups for pricy gaming PCs, I stumbled…
It’s time to toss your London Spitfire jersey in the wash because the Overwatch League just announced its 2019 schedule. The first match will take place on February 14 and include four games—one more nightly match than the 2018 season’s, perhaps because there are now a whopping 20 teams. First up, we’ll see a… Read more
Ten years after Nintendo released its first online Smash game, it still hasn’t gotten the online experience right.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting a pro league, publisher Wizards of the Coast announced yesterday. 32 top players will get the change to win a combined $10 million in prizes. Their contracts, Wizards says, will be for $75,000, directly addressing concerns Magic pros had about earning sub-par money. Some top players…
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the very best of the Smash Bros. series.
In a burnt-out, four-story shopping mall on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, one room blared with the…
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Wow, that new Super Smash Bros. game looks great! Big thanks to the YouTuber Dunkey for..... whatever this is.
One of the great online gaming paradoxes is the group-finder, a feature intended to bring people together that often…
Leaked copies of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are circulating two weeks ahead of its highly-anticipated release. Over…
To hear her tell the story, Twitch streamer Sweet_Anita has lived a fascinating and unusual life.
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The much-anticipated Harry Potter augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite has been delayed until 2019, co-developers Niantic and WB Games indicated today in a new trailer. It was slated to come out this year. The mobile game will capitalize on the success of Pokemon Go’s tech, although details on Harry…
Swatter Tyler Barriss, 26, pled guilty yesterday to the crimes that led police to forcibly enter the home of Wichita…
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Ambient ocean exploration game Abzu is coming to the Switch November 29, publisher 505 Games announced today. It is chill as heck and beautiful through and through.
The haunted-mansion horror game Betrayal at House on the Hill is an easy, irresistible pitch for board gamers: You…
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Today, Nintendo released its new GameCube-style controller for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, out on the Switch December 7. Playing Smash 4 with it today alongside my crappy $15 knockoff GameCube controller, the new official controller has a significantly longer cord and tighter trigger action. Its analog sticks are… Read more