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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for either doing laundry in the tub again (nooo) or trying to find an open laundromat to brave, because the clean shirts situation has grown dire. It’s also for playing video games. The BioShock Collection’s Switch release has got me itching to replay those games, though it’s hard to justify spending money on…

Aww, Apple Arcade’s Got A Spongebob Game Now

Every game platform or service worth its salt needs a Spongebob Squarepants game. Now’s Apple Arcade’s time. Spongebob: Patty Pursuit has arrived. Patty Pursuit is a colorful auto-running platformer with plenty of jumping, stomping, wall-hopping, and treasure collecting. Plankton has kidnapped Spongebob’s friends and stolen the secret Krabby Patty formula, but for some reason left…

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Track: Gratitude | Artist: Beastie Boys | Album: Check Your Head

Winners Of Counter-Strike Tournament Banned After The Event For Cheating

Cheaters get banned every day, but something you don’t see too often is the cheaters getting banned after winning a tournament. That’s the awkward position Red Bull has found themselves in this week, announcing that the winners of the Finnish Red Bull Flick tournament have been banned after the event concluded. The 2v2 tournament was…

Time For A Batselfie

Vincent Ménier is an artist at EVE Online developers CCP, who has previously worked on stuff like Fortnite You can see more of Vincent’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Study Shows A Distressing Number Of You Eat While Gaming

A recent study from analytics firm Newzoo claims that at least 80 percent of video game fans eat or drink something while they sell turnips in Animal Crossing and demolish demonic hordes in Doom Eternal. Assuming I didn’t already hate gamers, this is all it would take to push me over the edge. Newzoo’s findings,…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Recover From Being A Lifelong Fuckup?

Hello, all you Twitternet spooklets of sexcrime, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that helps you find real love in a virtual world. This week, we’re solving the little glitches in the Matrix that’re keeping your relationship from being the perfect, leather-clad version you wish it were. How do you fix…

Amazon’s Crucible Is Looking Like Another Battleborn

Last week, Amazon Games released Crucible, a free-to-play, team-based shooter, to mild excitement. Eight days later, Crucible players are almost nowhere to be found on the (Amazon-owned) Twitch streaming service, a strong sign that the community around the game seems to be already dwindling. Crucible, currently available only for PC, pits players against other players…

Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor Opening Harkens Back To Skyrim

The next year of The Elder Scrolls Online aims to take players back to “the dark heart of Skyrim” via several expansions set in the icy region. The latest stop on the itinerary, Greymoor, released yesterday for folks on PC and Mac, introducing a new questline, updates to the Vampire skill line, and most importantly, an…

GeForce Now’s New Opt-In Policy Wins Back At Least One Developer

Winter survival game The Long Dark was removed from Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming platform back in March after its developer said the game had been added without their consent. Now it’s coming back, following changes to the service that make GeForce Now opt-in only. “Back in March I decided to remove The Long Dark from…

Phantasy Star Online 2’s Microsoft Store Launch Has Been A Mess

Eight years after its original release, scifi MMORPG Phantasy Star Online 2 finally became available on PC in North America yesterday. The only problem? It came exclusively to the Microsoft Store, leading to all sorts of errors and complications for many players. A lot of the issues seem to be stemming from the fact that…

Today’s HP announced its new consumer virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2. The headset, available this fall for $600, includes a pair of Valve-designed 2K lenses, four-camera internal tracking, off-the-ear spatial audio, and support for Windows mixed reality. Preorders start *checks watch* now.

Fortnite‘s Next Season Has Been Delayed A Week

Fortnite’s upcoming season was set to start June 4. In a post today, Epic Games delayed Season 3 to June 11. This weekend’s season-ending event has also been moved, to next Saturday, June 6. “In an effort to get everything ready for Chapter 2 – Season 3, we’re extending Season 2 by one week,” Epic…

How’s It Going?: Dinner Edition

Welcome to Thursday in the longest and shortest week in recent memory, and welcome back to our daily open thread. Something that’s been tricky about these posts is that it’s hard to think of a new topic every day when most of my days are pretty much the same. I started worrying yesterday that these…

Xbox Series X Backwards Compatible Games Will Support Quick Resume Feature And HDR, Microsoft Says

Microsoft explained some of the ways the Xbox Series X will play older games even better than the hardware they were originally created for in a blog post this morning. “Not only should gamers be able to play all of these games from the past, but they should play better than ever before,” Jason Ronald,…

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That Is A Very Long Train

Min Guen is an artist who has worked on games like Warface, and TV shows like Agents of Shield and the new Snowpiercer series on Netflix. You can see more of Guen’s stuff at his ArtStation page

How The Makers Of Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection Dug Up A Long-Lost, Unreleased Game

The entirety of the Neo Geo’s Samurai Shodown library—plus one that hasn’t seen the light of day since 2005—will soon be available in one complete package for PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch. Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection, which will release on Epic Games Store (for free, at first) on June 11, Steam on June 18,…

The TurboGrafx-16 Mini Is Awesome (If You Love Shooters)

I forgive you if you didn’t even notice that the TurboGrafx-16 Mini was officially released last week. Who could know? I don’t see so much as a press release in my inbox about it. The extent of the marketing for it seems to be Konami’s official Twitter account sporadically retweeting people who bought one. But…