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Switch Reddit Users Are Making So Many Giveaway Posts, The Mods Had To Ban Them

In a random act of generosity, a user on the Nintendo Switch subreddit offered to give away a free game. Then another offered. Then another. Eventually, the mods decided they needed to temporarily ban giveaways, lest these gestures completely overtake the subreddit. It started innocuously enough, with a giveaway for the strategy game Wargroove two…

Apex Legends‘ Mozambique Shotgun Sucks, And Everyone Knows

If there’s one thing that all Apex Legends players can agree on, a week since release, it’s that the Mozambique shotgun sucks. I’m not too picky about guns in video games. If I pick it up and it shoots, I’ll take it. One exception to that rule I have made is the Mozambique shotgun in…

Socialist Tabletop Game Reminded Me That You Have To Stop Infighting To Get Shit Done

On Wednesday night, a group of friends and I gathered to spark a revolution. We were playing Comrades, a tabletop RPG that puts its players in the shoes of leftist activists fighting for their causes. I make it no secret that I am a socialist. That’s right! I’m the political dissident the President is warning…

Apex Legends Players Keep Finding Tiny Hidden Animals

Apex Legends just came out earlier this week, and players are already finding some mysterious easter eggs: small model dogs and dinosaurs. Awww. The new battle royale game from Respawn Entertainment is so new I feel like I’ve just barely scratched the surface of what I can do in it. Some players who’ve spent their…

Sul sul! Tim and I are about to start the Sims 4 Black Widow Challenge! Come watch on Twitch as my Sim murders her way through Oasis Springs.

Black Cosplayer Gives All Her Favorite Characters ‘Poofy, Curly Hair’

Most of the time when you see a cosplayer, they’re wearing a wig. One thing you might not have noticed is how often those carefully styled wigs are straight hair, even on anime characters whose hair grows up and out like kinky or coily hair does. Cosplayer Shellanin is challenging that assumption with her own…

Happy Lunar New Year! Maddy and I are playing through the new Overcooked 2 content for the holiday live on Twitch Wish us luck!

Sadly, It’s Surprising That There Are Two Black Women In Apex Legends

Loading up Apex Legends for the first time, I saw two black women as playable characters. It was a strange and arresting feeling to see them. I’m still trying to understand my feelings about it. I’m usually quite wary of falling into what my coworker Riley MacLeod calls “the diversity trap,” which is to say,…

Supermodel Tyra Banks Is Starting A Wildly Unspecific Theme Park Experience

Tyra Banks is starting a theme park and I need to lie down. I have seen more America’s Next Top Model than is probably healthy. That would be the modeling competition reality show that Tyra Banks hosted. It was a constant feature of my adolescence. I have a favorite winner (Dani), a favorite moment (Jade’s…

How Fans’ Lives Changed During The Long Wait For Kingdom Hearts III

Some got married. Some came out. Some simply got older and began looking differently at the world and the game series they loved. Devoted Kingdom Hearts fans waited 13 years for the big sequel to 2006’s Kingdom Hearts II, and in that time, their lives took some dramatic turns. Jaime bonded over the original 2002…

A Game About The First Year Of Art School

Art Sqool sucked me in early on. My second in-game assignment was to draw slowly and deliberately. It was a tall order for drawing with a mouse, but I gave it a fair shot. I made sure I traced my lines slowly, with purpose, really considering each stroke and what it added or took away.…

Mob Psycho 100‘s Heroes Offer Spiritual Advice Through A Fourth Wall-Breaking Website

Ever wanted to ask Mob and Reigen from the psychedelic anime Mob Psycho 100 for advice about your spooky problems? Now you can, at SpiritsandSuch.com The Spirits and Such website is named after Reigen and Mob’s supernatural consultation office from the show. If you haven’t seen it, the gist is that Mob is a shy…

The Sims Isn’t A ‘Virtual Dollhouse,’ It’s A Fascinating Human Life Sim

The Sims turns 19 years old today. If you’ve ever pooh-poohed it for just being a “dollhouse” aimed at women and girls, maybe it’s time to give it a try. Nineteen years ago, players got their hands on the first Sims game. As the story goes, SimCity creator Will Wright was inspired to make a…

Google Translate Makes Magic: The Gathering Cards Somehow Sound Sillier

Some Magic: The Gathering fans are sending cards through Google Translate, with hilarious results. Although I have dated not one but two men who made me sit through many long games of Magic, I still don’t understand how Magic: The Gathering is played. What I do understand is how funny it is to send different…

The Best Gummi Ships Players Have Made So Far In Kingdom Hearts III

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you give someone a chance to customize anything in a video game, they will try to make a dick. Players have made the requisite penis out of their Gummi Ships in Kingdom Hearts III, and thankfully a lot of other, varied creations. Gummi Ships are basically the…

There’s Something Weirdly Comforting About Playing Games That Are Just ‘Okay’

When I started playing My Time At Portia, I wasn’t expecting much. A few YouTubers I liked were playing it and I just wanted to check it out. It didn’t really wow me, but also wasn’t egregiously bad. It was just… fine. I still played it until midnight. I love perfectly crafted, engaging, smart games…

The Internet Reacts To Piranha Plant’s Smash Debut

Piranha Plant has finally joined the fray in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Players are welcoming their new pot-bound friend. I didn’t get Piranha Plant when it was announced. As a secret final fighter, a potted plant didn’t wow me, even if it did spit poison and spiked balls. Now that it’s actually out in the…

Kingdom Hearts 3 Starts Off With A Great Self-Aware Joke

Kingdom Hearts 2 launched for PS2 in 2006, so fans have been waiting 13 years for Kingdom Hearts 3, which came out this week. It appears that the developers couldn’t resist getting in a little joke at the expense of everyone who’s been wading through spinoff after spinoff since then. Last night I started Kingdom…

Woman Gets Impressive PlayStation Care Package After Freak Golfing Accident

Taryn Martsella was surprised when she recently received a PS4 Pro, a PlayStation Platinum wireless headset, a gift card for Maui Jim sunglasses and 10 games in the mail. But that, she says, is what she got after getting a scary injury at a Sony-sponsored pro golf tournament. Her injury had been nasty. She’d been…

A Game Where You Are The Boulder Sisyphus Must Push

Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: Inversion Edition is a browser-based game where you play not as the punished, but the punisher. It puts you in the perspective of a god, an inscrutable being of unimaginable power, and then lets you marvel in how unsatisfying that experience must be. Greek mythology is littered with stories of…