For the past few days, popular Twitch broadcasters and their audiences have been embroiled in a heated debate. The topic? Women streamers and whether they should—or shouldn’t—be showing skin on stream. Now, it should be noted that Twitch has a pretty strict dress code policy already, so it’s not like people can strip while they…
DOTA 2 hero Faceless Void is getting a visual overhaul. Today, Valve took the wraps off the final design. They also revealed a few other candidates that didn’t quite make the cut. Prepare to be amused. First off, Faceless Void’s actual new look: Looks good. Still faceless, vibrantly purple, and face-strainingly upset about both of…
I cannot begin to fathom the exact reasons for Mario 64: Chaos Edition‘s creation. All I know is that it is patently, unpredictably nutso, and it’s not meant to be beaten. So of course, somebody beat it. Chaos Edition is a Mario 64 mod you can install using an emulated PC version of the trailblazing…
The only thing better than a lengthy demo of a game people have been waiting nine years to play? Breaking it. Turns out, escaping from Square’s big bad demo barrier is actually pretty easy. You just have to, er, get hit by a car. Observe, in this video from Based Squall: After that, you can…
StarCraft II‘s final expansion is right around the corner. The end—some kind of end—is in sight. What happens afterward, though? While Blizzard’s definitely going to pull the curtain closed on StarCraft II‘s multi-part story (a major component of the two major expansion packs), the plan is to keep updating for a lengthy span of time…
Last week, revered author Terry Pratchett, best known for his brilliantly witty, insightful, and incisive Discworld series, passed away after a battle with Alzheimer’s. The makers of Elite: Dangerous have created a whole space station in his honor. The space sim’s latest patch added a location called Pratchett’s Disc starport. If you want to check…
I just spent the past 15 minutes trying to fool a bot into thinking blurry phone pics of my elbow crease were steamy photos of the world’s greatest butt. That, in a nutshell, is Sext Machine. Offworld came across the amusing oddity, which you play by texting an actual phone number (text “;)” to 669 333-SEXT…
A few exceptions aside, video games are pretty shitty at sex. It’s often presented as a stilted, awkward “reward” or a tool for cheap titillation. It’s also heinously un-sexy. Games have come a long way since Dragon Age: Origins‘ infamously nightmare-inducing dead-eyed doll sex, but I think there’s still ample room to grow, for games…
If you can’t beat ’em, hit them in the face repeatedly with a pick axe while weeping and then build a giant wall to make sure they never get close to you ever, ever again. Steam user Maximum Player offers a pretty spot-on rendition of what I (or any of you) would do if we…
Talking about a game in a Steam review, broadcast, curation, Greenlight upvote, or even forum post? If it’s a compensated promotion of any sort, all Steam users—yourself included—are now required to publicly disclose that info. Gamasutra came across the new Steam Subscriber Agreement wrinkle after a recent update. It covers promotions paid for in cash…
I’ve always said that the best thing about Telltale games isn’t QTE-heavy action or near-pornographic dedication to depictions of bad things happening to good people. It’s disarmingly intimate character moments. Tales from the Borderlands episode two is chock full of them. That makes it hard to discuss at length without spoiling the truly marvelous (and…
Alternate headline: “Every PC Game Released In The Year 2015.” This video by Crazy Boris Productions imagines a survival game (think DayZ and H1Z1 and Minecraft and Stranded Deep and Reign of Kings and The Forest and The Long Dark and Don’t Starve and) that combines every other survival game. It’s one of those things…
Because why only be creeped out some of the time when you can be horrified all the time? 1214 is a PC horror game that might, at first glance, look pretty familiar. You roam forlorn hallways positively dripping with dread, acutely aware that something terrible is gonna happen at some point. You just don’t know…
Over the weekend, all eyes were on Counter-Strike. Well, maybe not all eyes, but more than a million pairs of them—at once, no less. This year’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive ESL One Katowice event managed to smash previous CS eSports records, topping out at more than a million concurrent viewers—700,000 on Twitch and heaps more in-game.…
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but I’m starting to get the impression that Cities: Skylines players could’ve made it happen. The game’s only been out for a few days and someone’s already made an eerily accurate recreation of Grand Theft Auto V‘s Los Santos. Steam user grockefeller created a mod that adds the impressively…
There’s no getting around it: a lot of modern, graphically intense games look kinda same-y. At a glance, it can be hard to tell the difference. But show me a shot of the Mass Effect series and I’ll instantly be like, “Yeah, that’s Mass Effect.” Why? A single shape that’s everywhere Control500 spoke to series…
It’s Monday, March 2nd, the first day of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and I can’t help but notice a common refrain: “I’m already tired.” By most accounts, it hasn’t been a terribly brutal day, especially not by convention standards. But the developers, acquaintances, and friends I encounter seem worn down, deflated. Maybe…
Not too long ago, I stumbled across a curious fact: Valve, maker of the world’s biggest PC gaming service, was given an F by the Better Business Bureau. Other major gaming companies largely have A’s. The culprit? Poor customer service. According to the BBB’s page on Valve, people have filed 717 complaints about Valve and…
Fantasy games have become known for their vast, usually green expanses, ripe for exploration. Valve’s virtual reality setup, however, only lets you walk around areas the size of a small room. The solution? A very interesting take on fantasy influenced by Myst, among others. This demo of Cloudhead Games’ The Gallery: Six Elements is all…
Letting go of lost loved ones is never easy. They linger in our hearts and minds. One Skyrim player has taken to loading up his deceased brother’s Skyrim file, reliving the last moments he spent in the game. That inspired a modder to make his brother’s character immortal. The mod is titled Bear: In Memory…
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