This season’s breakout anime is Re:Creators, a show that asks the question “Should we have empathy for our anime…
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In 2008, I brought my laptop over to my friend Amanda’s house to pirate Spore. Her boyfriend Nate, who worked at the…
Elizabeth E. looted everything in Fallout 3’s Raven Rock. She collected three units of vodka, five stealth devices,…
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Healing in Overwatch isn’t always appreciated—usually just a “Thanks, I’m glad someone is doing it.” Now, players…
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Overwatch just broke one of its big design rules: Every car is a flying car. And in response, fans are deeming the…
Yesterday, on Easter, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson chased his daughter around the house wearing a Pikachu costume. And…
The anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is full of perfect moments. And buried in it is a very, very anime love…
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“I need healing.” Yeah, well, get in line, buddy. In Overwatch, needing healing is a way of life. It’s also a thing…
Pokémon Go’s Easter event, “Eggstravaganza,” begins this afternoon and lasts through April 20th. 2 km eggs will hatch more types of Pokémon. Each hatched egg will also earn players more candy.
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Unique to the digital age is the video content creation industry, one where employees are “users” and employers are…
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From now until May 1st, in the first-person shooter/dating simulator Overwatch, you can defend the Londonesque…
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Crawl is a spooky, nasty multiplayer brawler that creates good-natured rivalry in a gruesome, 8-bit world. Tomorrow…
This spring, Minecraft will add a marketplace where approved creators can sell user-made content. There, players…
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In 2017, even malware is anime. Anyone affected by the new malware Rensenware, named after the anime-style game Touho…
A California court ruled that German cheat maker Bossland, who makes hacks for Overwatch and World of Warcraft, must pay $8.5 million to Blizzard, VICE Motherboard reports. And yet, Bossland didn’t even show up to the case. You can read the full article on it over at VICE.
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Your Name, already the world’s highest-grossing anime movie ever at the box office, is rolling out in U.S. theaters…
Yesterday, Ubisoft released a big patch for For Honor, which players last week threatened to boycott unless Ubisoft acknowledged their complaints. And Ubisoft did: For Honor’s over-powered Peacekeeper was nerfed and Ubisoft added back in a popular map that they had removed. Ubisoft confirmed that some of… Read more
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In 1982, a technology straight out of contemporary science fiction was on track to be the world’s first Twitter.…