The devil in this particular equation? “Legitimacy.” Today news broke that the UFC parted ways with one of their most recognizable figures. Not a fighter, not a commentator, not even a referee—but rather, a cutman by the name of Jacob “Stitch” Duran. Cutmen play a massively important role in the octagon: they tend to injuries…
Fallout 3 wasn’t built to feature functional subway trains. Bethesda’s extremely weird workaround? You. Recently a 4chan user claimed to have discovered that Fallout 3’s trains—specifically, the Presidential metro in Fallout 3’s ‘Broken Steel’ DLC—were actually hats worn by non-player characters who’d run beneath the game world, thereby creating the appearance of a functional train—you…
Star Citizen—the crowdfunded space game that’s pulled in $85 million and counting—has been making progress in small steps, not giant leaps. Fans are starting to get worried. Recently, creator Chris Roberts tried to assuage their fears. Star Citizen has inspired a degree of skepticism since day one, given that it’s one of the most ambitious…
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II—the best KOTOR—just got a huge update, for some reason. The update just dropped on Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux. It’s a doozy—at least, for a game that’s more than ten years old. New features include: 37 achievements to be earned through gameplay Steam Cloud saves Native…
Steam survival hit Rust is adding women characters, and you won’t get to choose whether you’re a guy or a gal. Some players love the idea. Others, not so much. (Warning: some of the media in this post is NSFW.) Rust’s character creation isn’t like other games. You don’t play as a pre-made character, but…
Valve’s been showing a demo of a virtual reality Portal game behind closed doors for a few months. Now, finally, you can see the whole thing. ValveTime filmed their playthrough of the Aperture VR demo at a recent game jam in London. It’s not the best view ever (unfortunately, they weren’t able to get direct…
Horror games, movies, and books are at their scariest when things get a bit too real. OK, let’s get this out of the way upfront: a lot of horror games do the whole “this asylum was actually twisted and fucked up and at some point everybody became zombies or something” thing. It’s a cliche, one…
Stephen Colbert has a text adventure now, and it’s great. Escape From The Man-Sized Cabinet chronicles Colbert’s adventures while waiting for his new show to start. You can die alone and afraid in a cabinet! Or you can explore a place that’s basically Narnia. Your call.
Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity experiment ended with a whimper. It basically functioned as a giant advertisement for the “God of Gods” feature in then-upcoming god game revival Godus. Years later, there are still no plans for how they’ll actually, you know, do any of it. The God of Gods feature would’ve seen Bryan Henderson, the winner…
Here lies Besiege. It was massacred by a giant elephant robot monster. Yes, people are still making stuff in Besiege—stuff more elaborate and terrifying than anything they were making back when everybody was paying attention. This elephant is goddamn absurd. Between layers upon layers of armor and so many methods of attack that I lost…
Skyrim mods, they’re the gift that keeps on giving. Years after the fantasy RPG kingpin came out, we’re seeing stuff that’s practically professional-quality. The Forgotten City could be mistaken for a full-on Bethesda-made expansion. It’s not quite on Enderal’s level, but there’s still a lot to be cautiously optimistic about. Check it out: The mod…
“13/13,” Method’s Scott McMillan tweeted. And just like that, the World of Warcraft community went nuts. McMillan was referring to the fact that his guild defeated all 13 bosses in WoW’s latest top tier raid, Hellfire Citadel, on Mythic difficulty. And they only wiped 472 times before pulling it off. (For some perspective, they wiped…
I never cringe at UFC fights. One fight on last weekend’s UFC 189 card made me cringe hard (Warning: some of the photos in this post are a little nasty.) Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald II is one of the greatest fights I’ve ever seen. The welterweight championship battle was that rare occasion where I…
When you’re a small game on Steam, reviews can be hard to come by. This isn’t a good solution to that problem. For the past few days, debate has been raging over Epic Cards Battle, a Steam port of a mobile trading card game. The issue? In an attempt to garner more Steam reviews, the…
Conor McGregor has taken the UFC by storm. He’s brash, he’s well-spoken, he’s a thrilling knockout machine in the cage. He can’t keep this up. If you didn’t already think McGregor was incredible, this weekend’s fight against miniature man tank Chad Mendes proved it. McGregor can run his mouth like nobody else, but with people…
If you’ve followed video games for more than five minutes, you’ve seen players and creators clash. The constant tug-of-war over what devs think is best and what players want, the tremendous aid an active fan community can provide versus the volcanic damage that can come from miscommunication (or something worse), the floss-thin tightrope dangling over…
These days, most horror games have a certain “look” about them. Shadows everywhere, sickly colors, grit and grime on everything. Not Brighter Day, though. Brighter Day’s aesthetic is best described as “fucking weird as shit.” I mean, look at this: It’s colorful and cartoony, yet minimal to the point of feeling sterile—a juxtaposition that makes…
Creating Hearthstone cards isn’t easy—unless you’re a robot. Scfdivine created a neural network that spits out new Hearthstone cards by analyzing all pre-existing cards. It’s hardly flawless, but it’s actually kinda shocking how often it’s on the money given the way it works. Scfdivine explained: “The way it works is the network is trained on…
This is certainly one of the more… imaginative Counter-Strike maps I’ve seen in recent times. The map is based on the Thousand Sunny, the ship captained by the main characters of anime titan One Piece. No super-powered pirate antics here, though—just terrorists. Though I suppose you could pretend that they’re pirates in the very real…
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