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Hey, Batou

Sergey Samarskiy is an artist and illustrator at Gameloft. You can see more of Sergey’s stuff at his ArtStation page

World Of Warcraft Is Getting Turned Into Another Board Game

There’s already a WoW board game, and it’s fine, but Blizzard is teaming up with Days of Wonder to release another one, this time pitched at a quicker, breezier end of the market. It’s called Small World of Warcraft, and is a licensed reskin of 2009’s Small World, a game about a world that is…

PUBG Adds Bots On PC, Folks Are Not Happy

The latest update to PUBG on PCintroduces a “ranked mode”, where “players can finally test their skills against the best players in the world”. As part of that same update, though, every mode that’s not ranked is about to get bots taking up spots on the battlefield. That’s a deeply unpopular move. You can tell…

Cloud Always Wears A Dress In This Final Fantasy VII Mod

Why only have Cloud wear a dress for a small part of the Final Fantasy VII remake when you can have him wearing it for the entire game, combat to cutscenes? The footage you’re seeing below is courtesy of Pryna, who as Polygon report managed to modify the game’s save data to make sure Cloud…

Sony Says Covid-19 Hasn’t Changed The PS5’s Release Window

The covid-19 pandemic has thrown a lot of plans around the world into chaos, from sports to travel, but one area it’s not impacting—not yet, anyway—is the upcoming release of the PlayStation 5. Sony released its company-wide FY19 4th quarter earnings report today, and inside was an interesting section where the PlayStation group addressed the…

Persona 2 Guide, Written In 2011, Gets One Hell Of An Update

In October 2011, GameFAQs user ThatGuy4913 decided to upload a guide to playing Persona 2. In May 2020, ThatGuy4913—who says they have now “learned to love Jesus”—has some additional thoughts on the game, because “Contrary to popular belief, dying is NOT cool”. The update was first spotted by freelance writer Graham Sigurdson, who only this…

Target Acquired

Lucia Hsiang is a freelance artist from Hong Kong. You can see more of Hsiang’s stuff at her ArtStation page.

Sorry, Cat, But You Are Tom Nook Now

While my cold, rational brain knows my cat will fight me over this, will claw and scream and resist at every turn, my stupid heart is like fuck it, let’s dress this cat up as Tom Nook with some bootleg Chinese animal cosplay because it will look amazing, no matter the pain involved. Behold: lil…

Dino Crisis Fan Brings Game Back Into The 21st Century With 4K, 60FPS Support

Capcom’s old Dino Crisis, which came out in 2000, isn’t available commercially on the PC, and getting the original to boot in 2020 can be a nightmare. Enter this very modern makeover. As PC Gamer report, Dino Crisis Classic REbirth update takes the Japanese version of the game and does stuff like giving it DirectX 9…

Welcome To Hong Kong

Olga Orlova is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Olga’s stuff at her Instagramand ArtStation pages.

Cygni: All Guns Blazing is an upcoming shmup for the PC that looks very sharp.

Four Years Later, Civilization VI Gets A Season Pass

Civilization VI is getting a season pass that’ll cover a range of updates coming to the game over the next 12 months. It sounds…fine? Four years after it was announced, Civilization VI is in a weird place. It’s two big expansions were good, but not great, and the game’s district-building meta isn’t for everyone. It…

Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America Is A Very Timely New Board Game

Boy, talk about bad (or very good) timing. Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America is the newest game in the long-running Pandemic series, a range of best-selling classics that have been entertaining people around the world for years. This latest entry was shown at Toy Fair in February, obviously commenced development a long time before…

Ellie’s Bad Day

Chloe Veillard is a concept artist and character designer from France. You can see more of Chloe’s stuffat her ArtStation page

Star Wars Cosplayer Thrown To The Ground, Arrested For Carrying “Plastic Gun”

A restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada last week thought it’d be fun for an employee to stand outside dressed as a Stormtrooper to celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4. Instead, the woman in the costume ended up getting the cops called on her and her nose smashed up before being arrested. As LNN report, the…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Visiting Random Animal Crossing Islands [Update]

Politicians aren’t exactly able to go door-to-door meeting folks at the moment, but Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing the next best thing—or maybe even the better thing—and heading out to meet folks in Animal Crossing instead [Update: and attend graduation ceremonies!]. AOC put out a notice earlier today that she was planning on visiting “random…

The 2020 Tokyo Game Show Has Been Cancelled

The Tokyo Game Show, one of the biggest video game events on the planet—last year’s drew over 260,000 people—has been cancelled for 2020 amidst the covid-19 pandemic, and will now be replaced with an online showcase. A statement released by the show’s organisers sent to Kotaku reads: Due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)…

A Cute Lil’ Akira Prequel Sounds Weirdly Tempting

Nilberto Tawata is a 3D artist from Brazil, and this is his lil’ Kaneda, who as a kid was learning all the important skills he would go on to need as a…bigger kid. I love how, since the whole model is including iconic Kaneda imagery like his bike (and stickers), jacket and hair, the brake…

Radio Commander, A Strategy Game Where You Just Talk On A Radio And Get Very Upset

The entire point of strategy games, and a lot of the appeal, is that you’re given direct control over entire units or even armies, even if historically you’d have only a fraction of that influence. Radio Commander realises that, and it’s a fascinating game because of it. It puts you in the position of an…

RIP EVA-01

Arson Liu is an artist from China. You can see more of Liu’s stuff at his ArtStation page