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PC flight sim DCS is one of the best-looking games on the planet, even moreso with the launch of its new Supercarrier module. And while this trailer looks very Top Gun, the soundtrack…is not very Top Gun

Customs Seizes 86,000 Fake Pokémon Toys For Very Weird Reasons

US Customs has seized 86,000 bootleg Pokémon figures, worth an estimated $600,000, hidden inside a shipment arriving from Hong Kong earlier this week. Which is fine, that happens all the time, and fake Chinese stuff is violating trademarks, so this is literally Customs’ job. But instead of just saying that the figures are fake and…

EA Is Releasing Command & Conquer And Red Alert’s Source Code

We’re all very used to seeing modern games ignore or even remove mod support, so it’s nice to see that EA of all publishers is going the extra mile for the modding community with the upcoming re-releases of the original Command & Conquer and Red Alert In a post on the project’s Reddit page, producer…

Shady Key Reseller G2A Fucks Up Spectacularly

Last year, G2A—a supremely suspect grey market seller of PC games—offered to pay studios 10x the cost of their games if it was found to be selling stolen keys. Only one company took them up on the offer, and whaddya know, it turns out G2A was selling a bunch of stolen keys. Factorio creators Wube…

Gen Con 2020, America’s Biggest Board Game Show, Has Been Cancelled

Just as video games has E3, board games has Gen Con, an enormous trade show that takes place every August and attracts tens of thousands of visitors from across the world. And just like E3, this year’s Gen Con has been cancelled. Not that anybody really expected the show to take place, since August isn’t…

Please Enjoy These Slightly Terrifying 3D Celebrity Heads

Hadi Karimi is a 3D artist from Iran who has sculpted some very lifelike celebrity busts. You can see more of Karimi’s stuff at his personal site andArtStation page

Going Medieval Lets You Build A Wee Little Town, Then Defend It

This is Going Medieval, an upcoming city-builder that has you constructing a township, defending it then managing the day-to-day-affairs of its inhabitants. Set in an alternate timeline where the black death killed 95% of Europe’s population, you have to take charge of a group of survivors. While city-building seems to be the main thrust of…

Paralives, A New Sims-Like Game, Looks Cool

The Sims has kinda had the “livin a life” genre all to itself for a while now (if you don’t count slightly different stuff like Stardew Valley), but the upcoming Paralives is looking to at least show that there are other ways to go around cleaning house and working out. Coming to PC and Mac…sometime…

Joyride

Joshua Cotter is an artist who has worked at places like Treyarch. You can see more of Cotter’s stuffat his ArtStation page

Big Soccer Tournament Shelved, Konami Releases DLC For It Anyway

Like the Olympics, this Summer’s Euro 2020—Europe’s big, once-every-four-years football championships—have been moved to 2021. But Konami’s planned adaptation of the tournament is going ahead this year anyway, because why the hell not. It’ll be out on June 4, and comes in the form of a DLC update for Pro Evo 2020, the company’s flawed…

Fallout: New Vegas’ Fan Remake Is Coming Along Nicely

Fallout 4: New Vegas is a very ambitious mod that’s not just trying to recreate New Vegas inside Fallout 4, but is having to re-record every line of dialogue as well. That would be enough work to kill 99% of fan projects, but these guys are still plugging away. This new video shows some of…

Madden Bowl Winner Didn’t Use A QB, Or Throw A Single Pass

The 2020 Madden Bowl, EA’s big official championship for its long-running football series, was won last week by a player who didn’t throw a pass for the entire tournament, or even put a recognised QB under centre. If you know football, you will know that is messed up! It’s one thing to favour a running…

It Appears You Have A Bug Problem

Peter Lee is an artist at Blizzard where he’s worked on games like StarCraft II, Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm You can see of Lee’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Soundtrack, Ranked

Vice City might have the best licensed soundtrack of all time, but I think Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 comes in a very close second. Released 20 years ago, the game didn’t just ship with a whole bunch of famous skaters on the roster (and be an excellent sports title in its own right), but…

Crusader Kings III Is A Kinder, Gentler Crusader Kings

No pressure, guys, but Crusader Kings III might be Paradox’s most important game of all time. The second game in the series was a breakout, mainstream success for the normally hardcore PC strategy label, drawing in millions of people to the joys of running a medieval kingdom, seducing princes and murdering a lot of people.…

Publishers Read-Only Memory have released this print called Japansoft Hardware History, to accompanythe excellent book Japansoft: An Oral History. It features 29 platforms, from the FM Towns to the SNES, and you can get it here

The new Microprose may have little in common with the old studio aside from the name, but as it tries to get old heads excited about its lineup, it’s showing off some very Microprosey games. Like Sea Power here.

Bah Gawd That’s The Empire’s Music

Ken Le Bras is an artist at Zag studio in France, the place behind shows like Miraculous You can see more of Ken’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Four More Games Added To Nintendo’s Switch Online Library

Nintendo just announced four new (well, old) games coming to its Switch Online service for May. Three are for the SNES, and one for the NES. From May 20, you’ll be able to play Wild Guns, Panel de Pon and Operation Logic Bomb from the SNES, and Rygar from the NES. Note that none of…

It’s 2020, So Of Course An Armed Pokémon Was At A Lockdown Protest

Because the United States of America is a rapidly failing state, one incapable of performing even the most basic civil functions, a stay-at-home order issued by the Governor of Michigan—like those enacted everywhere else around the planet to save lives—has been met with armed protests. And armed Pokemon. Among the small crowd of assholes, crackpots…