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“Who are you rooting for?” I asked my housemate, a non-player heckler watching a full-up game of Super Mario Party.…
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Last month, Bandai Namco revealed that Yu-Gi-Oh’s Yugi Moto will fight alongside Dragon Ball’s Goku and Light from Death Note in upcoming fighting game Jump Force. Today, we saw what Yugi’s fighting style looks like, and it looks bonkers. Yugi can summon monsters—yes, like dragons—to fight on his behalf. The real…
In July, Overwatch got a group-finder, and now meeting teammates for the game’s competitive mode often feels less…
Club Penguin is shutting down for good. Disney, which owns the long-running franchise, confirmed the news today.
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Magic: The Gathering pro player Gerry Thompson says he is protesting this weekend’s World Championship event, the…
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Overwatch’s feisty dwarf engineer Torbjorn has long been considered a“troll pick.” In my experience, it’s common for…
There’s a reason why YouTube’s “trending” icon is a flame. Influence on the $100 billion video sharing site grows…
In the lawless, wild west industry that is streaming video games, and the surprising gold rush that has gamers tearin…
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Adam “Armada” Lindgren, a longtime Super Smash Bros. Melee top player, today announced his retirement from one vs. one Melee tournament matches, the pro’s bread and butter for a decade. Citing “severe motivational issues,” Lindgren said that “If I can’t have fun doing it, then there’s no point in doing it.”
When Fortnite developers released the game’s notorious rocket launcher, surely they knew they had designed a fatal…
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What started out as a typical Weather Channel hurricane report took a turn when the broadcaster submerged himself in nine feet of digital flood water. The hyper-realistic visualization was created with Unreal Engine, which powers video games like Fortnite, Ark: Survival Evolved and Street Fighter V. Yikes, though!
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Here we are. Earth. Full of things as usual. One of those things will be Katamari Damacy on the Nintendo Switch.
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One Super Smash Bros. Melee fan manually counted how many turnips Melee pro Adam “Armada” Lindgren, a Peach main, pulled in 2018. He counted 3,048. And from this data, he analyzed Armada’s turnip strategy on a variety of Melee stages. Woah.
Diablo III Eternal Collection, what Blizzard calls its “definitive” version of the role-playing game, is coming to the Nintendo Switch on November 2, 2018. Hello, my friend.
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In mid-August, in front of an audience of his own employees, Marc Merrill, a co-founder of Riot Games, the studio…
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When a theme park shutters its gates for good, it’s usually marked with a small sigh from the local news or, if the…
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In the wake of public allegations that Riot Games has fostered a sexist workplace culture, two longtime employees…
Blizzard has confirmed eight new Overwatch teams for the Overwatch League’s second season. The teams will represent…
When the mood strikes to watch a feel-good show about the glamour and charm of teenaged girl friendship, absolutely…
Days after Fortnite publisher Epic Games started rewarding players for enabling two-factor authentication, Ubisoft began doing the same with tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft account-holders can snag a Siege skin after adding that extra layer of security with the game’s big update, Operation Grim Sky.
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