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Welcome To Australia

Andrew Hamilton is an artist who has worked on games like Battlefront II and Battlefield V He’s also, while currently living in Sweden, Australian, and has made this tribute to his homeland about his “crystal clear memory of a sound, smell, or particularly calm experience as a kid growing up in the land down under”.…

Hard Lads, A Game About Shirtless Dudes Hitting (And Kissing) Each Other

Hard Lads is an adaptation of the now-famous internet video British lads hit each other with chair, in which…well, the title says it all really. Made by Robert Yang, creator of stuff like The Tearoom and Cobra Club, it’s a short, free (though you can pay what you want) game that “casts the player as…

Desert Golfing’s Sequel Is Out Now!

Here is the most pleasant of surprises: a full-blooded sequel to mobile time-annihilator Desert Golfing, one of the finest mobile games ever made, has been quietly released on both iOS and Android over the weekend. It’s not Desert Golfing 2 though, because really, for a game that felt like it literally never ended, we don’t…

Counter-Strike Is Now Old Enough To Drink

On June 19, 1999, Minh Le and Jess Cliffe released a humble little mod for the original Half-Life called “Counter-Strike”. In 2020, 21 years later, it is still one of the most popular video games on the planet. I remember playing the mod at the time—not right at launch, but sometime early in 2000—and finding…

Is This Going To Be A Standup Fight, Sir, Or Another Bughunt?

Yuri Quirino is an artist from Brazil currently based in Charlotte . You can see more of Yuri’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Staff Quit After Board Game Site Refuses To Support Black Lives Matter

At least 17 staff (and counting) contributing to Everything Board Games have left the site after its current owner, Lake Leafty, not only refused to issue a statement in support of Black Lives Matter, but said such a statement would be “virtue signalling”. In a statement released on June 17, staff say that in response…

EA Is Making A New Skate Game

Finally! After all the campaigning and all the years, EA today made a very brief announcement that a new Skate game is in development. And…that’s about it. That’s all we know. But hey, new Skate game! We can stop asking now!

Evangelion Unit-01

Lok Du is an artist from China with one hell of a dramatic flair for Evangelion. You can see more of Lok’s stuff at his ArtStation page

The Excellent Game Of Thrones Board Game Is Coming To PC

Game of Thrones, which is maybe one of the best board games of the last decade, has long been a mainstay among my crew for its balance, ruthlessness and hilarity. And it’s now going to try and bring all of that to PC. Publisher Asmodee Digital announced the game today, and in promising news the…

Some copies of Persona 5 in Japan came with an official recipe card so you could recreate Sojiro’s famous Leblanc curry yourself. So here’s someone doing just that (you can also check out the recipe in full here). And if you’d rather try something a bit less apple in it, you could always try Chris’…

Desperados 3 Is A Modern Stealth Masterpiece

It has been a weird and quiet year for video games this year, both because we’re in a pre-next-gen lull and, you know, everything else. Out of this downtime though has come a pleasant surprise: a genuine game of the year contender emerging out of the long-dormant Desperados franchise. Despite this being the third game…

Deus Ex Fan Game Is Just About Cleaning Adam’s Disgusting Apartment

To help celebrate the series’ 20th birthday this year, Deus Ex fan Bear Parker has made a game with a deeply specific purpose: cleaning up Adam Jensen’s apartment, which as Parker says, has been “an absolute tip” for years. Parker, community manager at TT Games, made the short game using the PS4’s Dreams (where he’s…

Bloody Nice Day For A Stroll

Kerstin Evans is art director at Drop Bear Bytes, the team working on Broken Roads, an isometric RPG set in a post-apocalyptic Australia You can see more of Kerstin’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Red Dead Online Update Removes Modded KKK From The Game

For a little while now modders had been taking advantage of a vulnerability in Rockstar’s Red Dead Online that allowed them to spawn members of the Ku Klux Klan, who are normally only present in the offline singleplayer component. That loophole has now been closed. As Polygon reports, Red Dead players had been complaining about…

Fake Crowds Added To Actual Football Matches, Looks Like Some FIFA 96 Shit

Spain’s La Liga, which has resumed its season after March’s Covid-19 lockdown, is like every other major sports league returning to action playing in front of empty seats. So to try and add a little atmosphere for the folks watching at home, they’ve added artificial video game-style crowds, and they are terrible. The league teamed…

Nintendo Quietly Releases Free Switch Game That Was Made By Developers Working From Home

With loads of people all over the world still in situations like working from home or having their local gyms closed, Nintendo has released a new first-party fitness game for the Nintendo Switch that anyone can play, right now, for free. It’s called Jump Rope Challenge, and simply uses the Joy-Cons as virtual skipping rope…

New Game For Treatment Of ADHD Requires A Prescription

A new game designed to treat some ADHD symptoms in kids aged 8-12 has been officially approved by the The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meaning that anyone who wants to attempt treating children with the game needs to get a prescription first. As AP report, it’s not only the first time the organisation has…

Let’s Go!

Tonight we’re looking at some art done by Emmanuel Edeko. You can see more of Emmanuel’s stuff at his personal site andArtStation page

The Last Of Us 2 Cosplay Sure Gets The Setting Right

This is Russian cosplayer Molzadoing a fantastic Ellie from The Last Of Us 2, with a shoot taking place in a half-finished, abandoned Moscow hospital that is about as perfect a Last Of Us setting as you could get. All photos are by Kira, with a guest appearance by Jackas some dead meat. Cosplay by…

Steam Switcheroo Swaps “Pirate Action” Game For Hentai

There’s a small but growing trend on Steam where developers take existing games that few people have ever seen or played and just…swap them out, replacing them with entirely different games, albeit ones using the same store page. As GI.biz report, and pulling examples from this excellent community post by Mellow_Online1, there have been quite…