Somewhat unlike its predecessor, Watch Dogs 2 has a personality! I would even go so far as to call it feisty. Warning: minor Watch Dogs 2 spoilers ahead. The embargo dam on Watch Dogs 2 preview footage recently burst, and some interesting tidbits have surfaced. Tonally, the game seems to take some cues from Grand…
A Cities Skylines player just debuted his crowning achievement: a spot-on 1:1 recreation of San Francisco. It’s just like the real thing, all the way down to individual neighborhood and building placements. There’s just one teensy little problem: massive death tolls. The ambitious build’s creator, radiativeDoctor, estimates that it took him 200-250 hours to get…
Gal*Gun: Double Peace is basically House Of The Dead, except anime boobs. It is in all ways shameless, a policy that extends to its DLC. The new DLC, called Pheromone Z, lets the game’s sight zoom “see through clothes instantly.” It costs a whopping $90, because we apparently live in a world where all the free…
Racism is everywhere in Mafia III, in a way never before seen in a major video game. It’s gotten people talking. The game is set in a fictional version of 1960s New Orleans. In it, white computer-controlled characters (NPCs) regard the player’s character, a black Vietnam veteran named Lincoln Clay, with suspicion and fear. Some…
Plenty of Overwatch players do commentary over matches they’re streaming, but TheUnsteady has the voice of an angel… who ate an eSports commentator. He’s become notorious for suddenly shoutcasting in the middle of matches he’s playing. Funny thing is, he’s so good that people tend to stop talking and just listen. It’s pretty amazing. One…
Yesterday, Samsung filed a copyright claim on a viral video of a Grand Theft Auto V mod that turns the notoriously explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 into, well, a bomb. The video got taken down, even though it clearly wasn’t in violation of any copyrights. After the video got taken down, the video’s creator, who goes…
The latest episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD featured a slightly unhinged Australian demolitions expert. You can probably see where this is going. The character, James, is an Inhuman whose monitor was hacked by the Watchdogs (a fictional terrorist group, as opposed to the video game that is also about hacking and monitors). He quoted…
Earlier this month, a mod that added Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 to Grand Theft Auto V started making the rounds. The twist? In the game, it was meant to be used as a bomb, because the real Note 7 can get a little explode-y from time-to-time. Samsung, apparently, did not love the joke. If you…
In low-level Overwatch matches, Bastion is the bane of everybody’s existence. At the high levels, however, everybody knows how to counter the bastard bullet tube. If you look at hero tier lists, Bastion is usually at the bottom. Pros hardly ever pick him. That made it all the more surprising when NoName of Korean team…
Update 10/18/2016: After two months of inching forward, the Sombra-related countdown site hit 100 percent. And nothing big happened. People are now more fed up than ever. Upon completion, the countdown site read, “…Carga finalizada. Unidad Bastion E-54 comprometida…,” implying that Bastion has been compromised in some way or another. Apparently there’s now some funny…
A few months ago, Valve finally got around to cracking down on Counter-Strike skin gambling, a sketchy secondary market potentially worth billions of dollars. The saga, however, is far from over. Valve is now facing potential criminal charges from the Washington State Gambling Commission. A couple weeks ago, the Washington State Gambling Commission said that…
Cheating might win you a game, but it won’t win you any friends. In this case, the red-handed dickhead didn’t get either. Overwatch player SixZoSeven recounted a recent incident in which their competitive mode team picked up somebody pretty obviously using an aimbot, a type of cheat that aims for you, as opposed to an…
Rockstar’s been teasing the crap out of a big reveal for the past couple days. Their tease medium of choice? Images of stars and cowboys. Obviously, they’re either about to announce a new Red Dead game, or a gripping open-world narrative experience about sports teams from Dallas, Texas. Where some fans see pictures of Cool…
Time to raise your APM. D.Va is coming to StarCraft II as an announcer. She’s the first from outside StarCraft lore, and she’ll be available to folks who attend BlizzCon. You can listen to a bunch of clips where she says things like, “Your base is under attack!” and “Your SCV has been interrupted, stupid…
Overwatch is no stranger to gimmick controllers. People have used flight sticks for D.Va and turntables for Lucio. This Winston controller, though, is completely bananas. Rudeism, who you might remember from previous over-the-top controller setups, has finally gone too far. He’s created a controller not from plastic or metal, but from organic material. And also,…
For a brief, shining moment, Overwatch player Miso snatched the rank most competitive players can only dream of: number one in the whole dang country. So of course, he called his mom. The moment came after a showdown between Miso and friendly rival Mangachu, a pro player who was ranked number one at the time.…
Mafia III takes hours to really get going. Sometimes it’s a predictable, janky slog. Once it finds its groove, though, it’s an open-world crime game unlike any other. It’s a bold depiction of a difficult time and place—a portrait of New Orleans in the late 1960s, racism and ugliness included. Early on in Mafia III,…
Mafia III has some issues. Despite that, I’ve been enjoying my time with it. I really like losing myself in the sprawling, multifaceted city of New Bordeaux. The game’s navigation system does a great job of enabling that. If you’ve played an open-world game in the past five years, you know how this usually works:…
Two Elite: Dangerous players have managed to reach the top of the galaxy. “It is the very top,” said one, who goes by the name Dr Kaii. “There are no stars above at all.” It was all thanks to a mistake in the beta of the game’s upcoming Guardians update. Recently, Elite’s developers added plumes…
I’m still working my way through Mafia III for our review, but I can tell you this much: It’s glitchy. Damn glitchy. Certainly, there are things to like about Mafia III. New Bordeaux is a place I prefer to stroll, rather than drive, through, just to take it all in. It’s a shame, then, that…
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