Like most holidays, video games have a lot of trouble doing Halloween justice. Sure there are exceptions—Destiny just did a pretty good job, and Costume Quest is fun—but for the most part it’s a time of year that games struggle to really celebrate. Unless we’re talking about Undead Nightmare, the most Halloween video game experience…
So the faster your framerate, the faster you move. Which is fine, whatever in a singleplayer game like Bethesda are used to making, but not fine for a multiplayer-only release like Fallout 76, where changing a player’s framerate is as easy as entering a few lines of code. By default, the Fallout 76 beta‘s framerate…
As Nathan said earlier this year, all video games should let us pet the animals. That includes cats, Red Dead Redemption 2 Like horses and humans, when you approach a dog in Red Dead Redemption 2, you’re given the option to interact with it. You can praise it or scold it, but you can also…
The Fallout 76 beta starts on PC tonight, but an 11th hour bug in Bethesda’s launcher has had unusually severe repercussions for some affected users. Earlier this evening, Bethesda tweeted: Don’t click any buttons? Weird. Turns out the “issue” wasn’t your average freeze. It was a bug where clicking any button on the launch client…
Sweet dreams. This animated take on artist Will Burke’s nightmarish Garfield sketches was done by artist and animator Lumpy There’s more coming!
This is Yukeshiro with some League of Legends/K-Pop cosplay. All photos by Sarenka z Aparatem
This is Keltonfx, a cosplayer and makeup artist, with one of the most incredible pieces of Overwatch cosplay I’ve ever seen. This male Symmetra costume takes three of the character’s skins (Oasis, Dragon and Devi) and combines them with other elements of Hindu mythology and classical Indian dance to form this fantastically elaborate piece of…
It doesn’t take long with Red Dead Redemption 2 before you run into a Kirk Hamilton-sized conundrum: do you play with the HUD on, and experience the Old West through health meters and radars, or do you turn all that off and do things the pretty/pure/hard way. We’ve spent years debating the merits of both…
New Zealand’s Nigel Richards, 51, has won his fourth Scrabble World Championship after beating American Jesse Day in this year’s final. His very first word went for 100 points. That word was “zonular” (“like a zone”), but he also scored 84 with “phenolic” and 68 on “groutier”. His opponent had some big words of his…
The inaugural Anime Fest@NYCC x Anime Expo was a fairly controversial show as far as these things go! Seen as an intruder on the existing Anime NYC, and with ticketing and scheduling issues with the main NYCC show, it didn’t exactly set the world on fire. But some cosplayers still braved the mess to turn…
Artur Mukhametov is a Russian concept artist who has been working in the games business since 2013. You can see more of Artur’s work at his ArtStation page
Read-Only Memory are taking John Szczepaniak’s excellent three-volume series The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, condensing it into one book and adding a bunch of new stories and art. The result is Japansoft: An Oral History, currently taking orders on Volume.
The excellent Two Point Hospital is adding a sandbox mode, which is good news for everyone sick of having to start over from scratch every time they progress to a new stage. It’ll be a free update, and will also let players unlock all tech and buildings for free play.
Sasha Tudvaseva is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Sasha’s work at her ArtStation page.
Back in the year 2000, Angel Studios in San Diego began development on a video game Western. They were making it for Capcom, the Japanese publisher of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil, and I think it’s safe to assume not a single person involved could have predicted what would happen next. An action…
Zero Wing, an old shooter most famous for its “All your base are belong to us” intro, was presumed (at least among Westerners) to have 3-4 different endings. Turns out only the English language version has three; the Japanese one has 35, most of which are absolute nonsense. Legends of Localization dug into the game…
At DragonCon earlier this year, there were enough Fallout cosplayers around for photographer So Say We All to run a little themed shoot for the series. You can see the results below. I’m still not sure that Tunnel Snake didn’t just walk right out of the game.
Patrik Rosander is an artist at Fatshark, where he’s worked on games like Warhammer Vermintide II You can see more of Patrik’s stuff at his ArtStation page
The Vatican has commissioned a mobile game called Follow JC Go, an AR title which is almost identical to Pokémon Go, only you’re out there collecting Saints and “blessed characters from the Bible”. It works exactly the same as Niantic and Nintendo’s blockbuster: you hit the streets and run into things you can capture, only…
That Bastion was just the start; there’s a whole line of LEGO Overwatch sets coming, featuring many of the core cast, some locations, some vehicles and of course, The Payload. While not officially announced by Blizzard yet, Target went and put pictures of the sets up a bit early, andThe Brothers Brick were able to…
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