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The No Man’s Sky Subreddit Is Happier Now
On October 5th, the No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily shut down due to being what then moderator R0ugeW0lf called “a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion.” If you checked the community today, you see none of that. For reference, this is a smattering of topics that reached the front page of the sub on…
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A Self Care Game For The Trashfire That Was 2016
Self care can seem like an unnecessary indulgence when you’ve got a million things to accomplish. Who has time for a manicure when there’s bills and deadlines? But it turns out being good to yourself, especially when you feel like you can’t or don’t deserve to, can make a huge difference in your outlook. Twine…
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Hannibal Fans Are Psyched To See Mads Mikkelsen In Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima’s new best friend, Mads Mikkelsen, features heavily in the new trailer for Death Stranding. To most people, Mikkelsen is best known as the villain in the Doctor Strange movie, if he’s known at all. But the Danish actor already had a thriving fanbase, and they’ve got some feelings about his appearance in Kojima’s…
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Sims Are No Longer Okay With Other People Watching Them Bang
The Sims 4 was patched yesterday and, big surprise, some of the changes are hilarious. Let’s take a look. Woohoo or Mess Around with a non-household Sim on a non-household lot will now properly shoo other Sims from the room during said action. Before this patch, your sims were apparently okay with their partner’s family…
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10 Cool Player Bases From No Man’s Sky‘s Update
No Man’s Sky’s Foundation update allows players to finally start building bases. With limited tools, players are making beautiful new homes in the game’s refreshed universes. The tools and pieces the game provides you can feel basic until you look to the history of architecture. The composite parts you’re given to make bases all have…
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Pokémon Sun And Moon Player Beats Elite Four With Just A Magikarp
It’s an accepted fact that Magikarp is a useless Pokémon until you evolve them into Gyrados. But one player managed to beat Sun and Moon Elite Four with nothing but the flailing fish. How did Japanese twitter user Nanako_Official accomplish this feat? Patience, grinding and a deep knowledge of Pokémon mechanics. While the Magikarp was…
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Doing Thanksgiving In The Sims 4 Is Like Herding Cats
I’m not going home for Thanksgiving, and I’m too busy packing my apartment to celebrate with friends. This year, I decided to recognize the holiday in a different way: with my sims. There aren’t really holidays in The Sims, but you can have parties, so that would have to do. To start getting ready for…
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Pokémon Sun and Moon‘s Characters Are Dancing All Over The Internet Thanks To Fans
The 3D models for Pokémon Sun and Moon have been co-opted to make dance videos, and it’s amazing Players have been using MikuMikuDance, a program developed to make Vocaloid fan videos, to make Team Skull, Professor Kukui and the protagonists from Sun and Moon boogie down. The models have only been available for a few…
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A Horror Game About Finding A Stranger’s Phone
Sara Is Missing is a horror game that takes place entirely on a stranger’s phone. While it never strays too far from horror clichés, it still manages to be pretty frightening, and takes full advantage of its limited format. Horror movies often find fear in granular elements of life—an unclosed door, a barely heard whisper,…
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Some of Watch Dogs 2‘s Multiplayer Features Are Coming Online Today
Watch Dogs 2‘s seamless multiplayer was broken at launch, but some of the features have been brought online today for Playstation 4, with availability for Xbox One soon to follow. Should the update run smoothly “additional elements” to the multiplayer will be phased in, Ubisoft noted in a statement this morning. If you want to…
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Teen Game Has The Best Video Game Ads Of 2016
If you use Facebook or Tumblr, you’ve probably seen ads for Episode. It’s a story-telling app that currently sits at #12 in the iTunes chart for games and has been downloaded over ten million times on Google Play. That popularity is not explained at all by its advertising, which frequently centers on pregnant women. The…
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Pokemon Sun and Moon‘s Wonder Trade Is Full of Monsters Named Donald Trump
The Wonder Trade feature in Pokémon Sun and Moon is dice roll: you put a Pokémon in, get a random Pokémon from somewhere else in the world in return. Out of 700+ possibilities, players keep spotting Yungooses named Donald Trump circulating on Wonder Trade. Fans have thought the reality tv star and the Alolan Pokémon…
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In Fandom, Sombra Is Overwatch‘s New Gay Explosion
After a long, tedious ARG, Sombra is finally in the wild. For some, the biggest question about Sombra is how she’ll change up Overwatch’s competitive play. For others, it’s “who is she gonna kiss?” After Sombra was officially announced at Blizzcon, many shippers eagerly hooked her up with D.va, the 19 year-old professional gamer. The…
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Watch Dogs 2’s NPCs Are A Constant Source Of Joy
In Watch Dogs 2, NPCs aren’t just set dressing. Instead, the virtual people populating the streets of San Francisco are a constant delight to interact with. Yesterday I decided to swing by Stache & Vine to grab some new clothes after a long day of being a hackerman. While in the store, I decided to…
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Screeching Jeep In Watch Dogs 2 Scares The Hell Out Of Pedestrians
Messing around with NPCs is a time honored tradition in open world games. Never before have I seen it done with a screaming car. There are 7 unique vehicles hidden on the map in Watch Dogs 2. This one, the Mountain King, screeches when you honk the horn. Murphurf on r/watch_dogs, has discovered that NPCs…
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Inside The Taboo World Of Teen Pregnancy In The Sims
Normally, teens can’t WooHoo or get pregnant in The Sims. To “fix” that, some players use mods that allow teen sim romance. Surprisingly, these mods are popular with real teen girls who roleplay fictional pregnancies, ultrasounds and all, on social media for hundreds of thousands of people. ForeignSimmer, a YouTuber with an ongoing series about…
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Sims 4 Babies Will No Longer Get Stuck, And Other Great Patch Notes
The Sims had a new patch today and it’s a treat to read about. Take a walk with me as we explore some of the most fun patch notes in video games. We have fixed the issue of babies getting stuck in apartments; stuck babies will be unstuck, and babies will hereby no longer get…
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Props To Watch Dogs 2 For Making Marcus Look Fly As Hell
One of the first things you’ll do in Watch Dogs 2 is buy some new clothes. As both a fan of fashion and a judgemental person, I was ready to roll my eyes. Little did I know that the clothes in this game are all fantastic To be frank, a lot of clothing in video…
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Game About Buying Condoms Feels Just Like The Real Thing
Well, This Is Awkward is a twine game about buying condoms. You play as woman tasked with condoms buying before she and her partner have sex, and every step of the way you’re prone to doing something a little bit weird. While the writing makes sure you go to the most cringeworthy depths of human…
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I Have Some Questions For The Shirtless Luchador Who Showed Up In My Sims 4 Game
In my game of The Sims 4, there’s an NPC named Bruce Biggs. I first met him as he wandered over to a park bench, shirtless, wearing basketball shorts and a luchador mask. He promptly fell asleep. The Sims is a bizarre, unpredictable game, and the randomly generated outfits for townies are often weird as…
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