Divinity: Original Sin 2 has a mode that lets players design their own Dungeons & Dragons-esque adventure inside the…
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At least four GameStops were refusing to sell the Nintendo Switch on its own without a warranty or game attached, Kot…
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A very weird anime called Neo Yokio, which stars Jaden Smith and features Steve Buscemi, Jason Schwartzman, Tavi Gevinson and Jude Law, has arrived on Netflix. I am very skeptical.
One Thai computer art student gave the Overwatch community something we didn’t even know we wanted, and now, a lot…
What nostalgia looks like in 2017 isn’t what it looked like at the dawn of video games. The virtual worlds in which…
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When a Switch owner named Setery told a gaming forum about how NES Golf randomly appeared on her Switch’s screen,…
Dungeons & Dragons’ selling point is that is lets players be and do things they’ve always dreamed of. Dinosaur…
Oops, it looks like for a brief few hours PS4 and Xbox One cross-play was available in Fortnite. Now, Fortnite develo…
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It looks like one ludicrously lucky Battlegrounds player managed to be the last one standing and win the game, all…
Over the course of three years, an impostor convinced the Smash community—as well as her friends, housemates and…
Tekken game director Katsuhiro Harada has made some hard decisions to keep the 23-year-old franchise current—without compromising its classic appeal. In an interview with Gamasutra, Harada explains why he had to cut some beloved moves’ frames, put his chips on online play and “give up” on features considered… Read more
So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where…
In Battlegrounds’ bombed-out hospital, I can’t tell whether my footsteps are my own. Every few meters, I duck into a…
A new Netflix show about a kid playing the MMO Final Fantasy XIV with his out-of-touch dad totally nails the freaky…
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Copyright, free speech, and entertainment lawyers have mixed opinions on the legality of game developer Campo…
Since Nintendo released the Switch’s cephalopod third-person shooter Splatoon 2 in late July, they’ve been injecting…
“We’re gonna have some fun here,” Beeftipsy said, spraying his tag on the ground of Overwatch’s Oasis map, the Overwa…
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Today’s Nintendo Indies Summer Showcase, or “Nindies,” didn’t bring many Earth-shattering revelations, but did share…
A year after release, Overwatch players on PS4 and Xbox One now have recourse for the trash Mei who won’t stop icing…
How do you practice consent in an online role-playing game? Game designer Raph Koster published a fascinating blog post yesterday about how players in MMOs now have tons of agency over their characters’ actions (“/bite”), but others can’t control what is done to them (have you ever seen “/accept”?). Read more