Saturday night, one of the most anticipated fights in UFC history is finally happening. Conor McGregor, the organization’s current big hope for mainstream success, takes on Brazilian phenom Jose Aldo. McGregor—with his shit-talking antics and “movement” mumbo-jumbo—sure will be screwed if he loses, right? Wrong. First, a little background: Conor McGregor is the UFC’s current…
While playing the PC version of Star Wars Battlefront, I’ve experienced all sorts of ridiculous matchmaking mishaps. It seems like I’m far from alone. Since I posted my review, I’ve encountered some seriously mind-boggling matchmaking moments. Usually, this involves lopsided teams (high-level players with snazzy gear vs lowbies who aim worse than your average Stormtrooper),…
Valve nerfed Counter-Strike’s controversial new gun. It now does less damage (86 as opposed to 115) and has a slightly longer delay. It’s still strikingly accurate in certain situations, though. If I had to guess, I’d say this isn’t the last time it’ll be changed. We’ll see.
Christmas chicken. It’s tough to love some of the changes Valve recently made to Counter-Strike, but this year’s festive chicken makeover is great. In-game chickens now wear wool sweaters over their frigid little drumstick bodies. (Clutch chicken shot courtesy of 3kliksphilip.)
When I talked to Valve about the Steam controller earlier this year, they told me they were manufacturing the divisive hunk of owl-shaped plastic in their own machine factory, one of the biggest in the nation. Here’s what the process looks like. Valve released a video of their factory in action, and it’s kinda weirdly…
Lately, Valve’s been putting a big focus on beefing up Steam’s security—sometimes with measures that players find annoying or limiting. As part of a new security measure’s roll-out, they explained why. Valve began by pointing out that current security measures absolutely aren’t enough to keep precious, precious accounts under lock and key. In a post…
Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Rainbow Six Siege. It’s really good, but I’m not feeling very optimistic about its long-term prospects. Siege, like any multiplayer game, will only thrive if it can form a lasting community of players. My pessimism regarding its chances to do so is the same pessimism that was eventually…
“He lost his son, so he adopted the streets.” This video from DefendTheHouse showcases one of Fallout 4’s lesser-known features: basketball. I call it a “feature,” but what I really mean is, there are basketballs you can pick up and—using the game’s often clunky physics engine—throw, sometimes at basketball hoops that happen to be placed…
Valve just released a big new patch for Counter-Strike. It includes a new revolver that can drop anybody, regardless of body armor. That’s, uh, pretty intense. The R8 revolver costs $850 in Counter-Strike’s mid-match currency, which isn’t a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. It’s designed for point-blank stopping power—which is to say,…
Until very recently, EVE Online’s ship browser was known as the Interbus Ship Identification System—or ISIS, for short. Wuh-oh. The browser was, of course, stamped with those four scarlet letters before terrorist organization ISIS/ISIL rose to their place of modern infamy. For a while, the name was even abbreviated as ISIS in the game’s UI.…
Lauren “Pansy” Scott is a professional eSports commentator with the ESL. Once upon a time, she was a pro gamer before you could really make a living off that sort of thing. Now she makes Counter-Strike and other games understandable for the masses. Despite what you might think, it’s not an easy job. Scott is…
Remember Apotheon, that cool, slightly NSFW game about Greek myth that Stephen really liked? It’s now got a completely free (no microtransactions or ads) multiplayer spin-off on Steam. Give it a go if you’re looking for crunchy side-scrolling combat in modes like deathmatch, team deathmatch, and team elimination.
Alone With You is a spooky sci-fi adventure with a heaping helping of romance. Wanna feel Feelings for AI holograms of your dead colleagues? Wanna feel exceedingly weird about that? Here you go. The game is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita sometime next year. Here’s what it’s about: “You play the sole remaining…
In the run up to Uncharted 4’s release, Naughty Dog’s hinted that this will probably be their last Uncharted. Also, it’s kinda in the title. “A Thief’s End” is a little, you know… final. I asked lead game designer Robert Cogburn why Naughty Dog’s saying they’re gonna hang up the half-tuck after Uncharted 4 comes…
It’s the talk of the Internet: a big Steam “leak” just dropped, and people are saying it “confirms” things like PC ports of Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture and Journey. Oh, and some little game called Half-Life 3. There is, however, reason to be skeptical. You might be starting to notice a trend here: every…
My favorite Just Cause 3 moment so far. In a mere 23 seconds, I soared gloriously, crashed hilariously, and encountered a man who looked like Luigi from Super Mario Bros. After scrutinizing the bag of broken bones before him, he blurted, “Rico! I have your old race car tattooed on my back!” and casually strolled…
You don’t have to play the newly announced Rez Infinite in VR. If you do, though, it’s certainly… something. The Rez Infinite synesthesia body suit is something of an experiment. Debuted during the PSX keynote, it’s a series of vibrators that rumble in reaction to what’s happening in the latest iteration of Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s beloved…
Hello, my name is Nathan Grayson, and I have a broken brain. Manifold Garden broke my brain. Manifold Garden is a PS4 first-person puzzle game based on M.C. Escher’s famed piece, Relativity (it was even called Relativity before a recent re-reveal). What this means at first blush: it looks damn cool. What this means for…
Cosplayers lead dramatic lives. Ratchet (of Ratchet and Clank fame) cosplayer and TAY contributor division-ten told me how she encountered the official PSX Ratchet cosplayer, and they had an intense staredown. “They waited for me to put on my mask,” she said. Evidently, though, the encounter ended peacefully.
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