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“I think we’d do better with a healer,” I suggested to my Overwatch team earlier this week. We were in the spawn…
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This deeply unintimidating GameCube controller is precious to me (and one of the last functional ones I own). It…
Today thousands of websites are protesting the government’s recent threats against net neutrality, a harbinger of…
Arms’ first big update added a few much-requested features to the slinky-limb fighting game—and took away some…
Enter the tavern. Bite the plot hook. Go on your righteous journey. Kill the monsters. Fight the boss. Free the…
I am very sure that the Arms AI is cheating, and I am not the only person who thinks so.
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Yesterday, Overwatch’s roster finally welcomed the gauntlet-wearing supervillain Doomfist. And the question on…
Frustration over Final Fantasy XIV’s housing shortage has come to a head after two players angered a lot of others…
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At long last, Overwatch’s gauntlet-wearing villain Doomfist is seeing the light of day. The new character has been…
Medieval fighting game For Honor is launching a weekly 1 vs. 1 tournament called the Hero Series with the Electronic Sports League. It begins July 8th and culminates in a live event in Burbank, California.
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Tekken 7’s Alisa Bosconovitch looks like a woman, but she is certainly a robot. So recently, a confused player asked …
Nintendo’s slinky boxing game Arms has come down with a cheese plague. A popular, cheesy playstyle of Arms’…
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A Silent Voice, which won Japan’s Movie Critics Award for Best Animation, finally got an American release date: this coming October. It’s a drama about a deaf girl and her elementary school bully who are reunited years later.
Manga pirates have operated in the internet’s shadows for decades, hiding from furious publishers whose translation…
About an hour into taking Diablo 3’s new Necromancer class for a spin, I encountered a turgid, hulking monster…
Today, Diablo 3 added a Necromancer class to its morbid ranks. It’s a blast—and literally. “Corpse Explosion,” a callback to Diablo 2, does exactly what it says. When a Necromancer explodes some corpses to kill a monster, and then explodes that monster’s corpse to kill worms it hosts, you know you’re playing Diablo.
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Dungeons & Dragon’s cousin, the tabletop role-playing game Pathfinder, is finally primed to get its own…
Almost every copy of the first Dungeons & Dragons adventure written by a woman is buried in a landfill in Lake…
When a player reports an abusive teammate in Overwatch, the most common response is rarely fear, regret, or even an…