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Anthem‘s ‘Day-One’ Update Fixes Some Things And Breaks Others
Anthem’s “day-one” patch dropped last night, and while it addresses a host of performance issues, bugs, and other frustrating problems, the update has also broken the game’s frame rate for many players on PC. One of the most prevalent criticisms of BioWare’s new loot shooter during its early release period has beenits grueling loading times.…
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Apex Legends Needs An Option For Reporting People
It’s a cold truth that some people in this world are just assholes. That’s why every online game game should have an option for reporting jerks. It’s a feature that’s become pretty standard, especially in competitive shooters. So it’s weird that Apex Legends released without it. Instead of being able to directly report someone you…
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Every Big Game Coming Out In Winter 2019
Winter begins today, which means it’s officially time to forget about all the games that came out this year and start preparing for all of the new ones. It used to be that you could ease into the new year by quietly plugging away at all the games you missed months prior. But now the…
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In Anthem, Falling Is Faster Than Flying
BioWare’s new loot shooter Anthem really nails the feeling of flying around in Iron Man-style exosuits, except when dive-bombing. As players have learned, it turns out the fastest way to get around in the game’s world is by simply falling. While it’s nice to pause every once in a while and take in the beautiful…
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Anthem‘s Day-One Patch Promises To Fix The Game’s Biggest Issues [Update]
Anthem will get a patch on February 22 to fix a number of issues both big and small that players have had with the game since it entered early access on February 15 for PC and Xbox One players with paid EA subscriptions. Chief among the changes will be improvements to some truly soul-crushing loading…
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OpinionImpressions
Six Hours In, Anthem Has A Lot To Love
I’ve played about six hours of Anthem, a game where players fly around in mechanical suits blowing stuff up in search of ever more rare loot, and while I’m still getting my bearings I already feel a lot better about the game than I did back during its two demos. The game launched earlier today…
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Esports
Esports Will Be Your Valentine
Don’t have a special someone with whom to share foot rubs and chocolate-covered strawberries tonight? No worries, esports is here for you. Have a special someone but don’t feel like trying to make-up last minute plans to impress them? Esports has you covered there, too. In esports this is called a double-kill, otherwise known as…
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The Roblox Company announced in a forum post that it has reinstated YouTuber PewDiePie’s account in Roblox and that it had previously been deactivated as part of a larger effort to block mentions of “pewdie” which it claimed become part of a meme last December that violated its community standards.
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Tips & Guides
Tetris 99 Has No Tutorial, So Here’s What You Need To Know
Yesterday Nintendo announced and released Tetris 99, a battle royale-style multiplayer Tetris game for the Switch in which you play against, wait for it, 98 other players in a merciless puzzle-off. It’s out now and free to download. There’s just one problem: the game doesn’t tell you how it works. If you’ve ever played any…
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Deadmau5 Says He’s Quitting Twitch After Getting Suspended For Using A Homophobic Slur [Update]
Joel Zimmerman, better known by his stage name Deadmau5, announced in a now deleted Reddit post that he’s quitting Twitch after the streaming platform temporarily suspended his account because of a homophobic slur the DJ used while playing PUBG over the weekend. As first reported by the music outlet EDM.com, Deadmau5 was being shot at…
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Epic Games Asks Court To Dismiss 2 Milly Lawsuit, Claims Fortnite Dance Is Different
Almost two months after Terrance Ferguson, better known as the rapper 2 Milly, sued the makers of Fortnite for including his “Milly Rock” dance in the game, Epic Games has asked the judge in the case to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the Milly Rock is too short to be copyrighted and that it’s not…
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PewDiePie Clashes With Roblox, Which Appears To Have Banned His Name [Update]
The makers of the online social multiplayer game Roblox appear to have blocked controversial Swedish YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg from playing their game while using a variation of his famous online name. His name, it seems, is a problem for them. In a new video weighing on on the matter, PewDiePie shared a notice from…
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Sony Says It’s ‘Open For Business’ On PS4 Cross-Play, But Developers Disagree
In a recent interview with Game Informer, the chairman of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios said that the company was “open for business” when it comes to cross-play between PlayStation 4 and other consoles. The makers of games like Smite and Wargroove say that’s not the case. “People keep saying, ‘Why doesn’t Sony allow more…
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Capcom has uploaded a bunch of its video game soundtracks to Spotify under the artist name Capcom Sound Team. The albums include music for Street Fighter, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Okami, as well as some games not released outside of Japan. Finally no more fiddling around with fan-curated YouTube playlists.
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Goofy Dad Returns To Recreate Smash Bros. Ultimate Taunts
With a new Smash Bros. game out, the biggest Smash Bros. game of all time, it should come as no surprise that Nick Luciano’s now 67-year-old dad is back to perform each of its over 200 fighter taunts. Nick Luciano’s dad previously performed all the taunts from Smash Bros. Wii U, followed by all of…
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Valve Updates Steam VR Because Beat Saber Players Are Too Fast
Real-world data collected from Beat Saber players has changed what Valve developers had previously thought to be “humanly possible.” In a recent post announcing the latest update to Steam VR, one of the changes listed reads: “Increase limits of what we thought was humanly possible for controller motion based on tracking data from Beat Saber…
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Fallout 76 Players Accidentally Glitch Into An Unopened Vault
Over the weekend, a group of Fallout 76 players encountered a glitch that transported them inside the otherwise inaccessible Vault 63, one of the three locked vaults scattered throughout the game’s world. They didn’t find much inside, but took pictures anyway before reaching out to Bethesda Support to explain what happened, for fear the game’s…
By Ethan Gach