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People Love To Pee Outside Conan O’Brien’s House In Death Stranding

Hideo Kojima never met a celebrity he didn’t want to include in Death Stranding. As such, his latest game contains all sorts of celebrity cameos. Talk show host Conan O’Brien makes one such appearance, as a prepper slash cosplayer. For reasons that are not entirely clear, players have covered his house in pee. If you…

Twitch Streamers Raise Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars To Fight Australian Bushfires

Australia is on fire. Thousands of homes have been destroyed, countless people have been displaced, and 24 people have died. More than 15.6 million acres of land have burned. All this, and Australian summer is only just beginning. With the government failing to act against the blisteringly obvious effects of climate change, some streamers are…

Hard Games Haven’t Gotten Easier, But They Did Get Nicer

In an earlier era of video game design, the most lucrative way to extract money from customers was to pulverize them into atomic dust and make them insert a quarter to reassemble themselves back into a humanoid shape. Hard games never stopped coming out. What has changed about them, especially in recent years, is in…

How An Overwatch Skin Left Some Of D.Va’s Biggest Fans Feeling Betrayed

Overwatch hero D.va has been considered a symbol of empowerment by a lot of feminists in the Korean Overwatch community, representing how women could be lauded for their talent instead of their looks. Long before Mei graced protest memes for Hong Kong, a group called FAMERZ, then called National D.va Association, attended rallies and protests…

Annual Steam Release Numbers Used To Climb Every Year, But In 2019, They Held Steady

I’m fairly certain that I haven’t played 8,400 games in my entire life, but that’s the number of new releases that rolled up their sleeves and threw down for Steam users’ time and money last year. That is, obviously, a lot. But it’s not that much more than the number of games released on Steam…

Fallout 76 Camp Tortures Players With Math

If you thought Fallout 76 couldn’t get any more nihilistic, there’s now a campsite that burns players alive if they don’t solve math problems fast enough. It’s the latest creation from Fallout 76 player Korindabar, one of the game’s most notorious builders. Korindabar is responsible for a number of “trap” campsites that lure in unsuspecting…

The Sexiness Of Control

When I guide Jesse Faden through the Federal Bureau of Control, I summon a slab of concrete the size of a small desk, hovering it effortlessly over my right shoulder as I shoot, dodge, fly. I feel the crackle of the energy she can unleash on every object around her. The weighty rock yields to…

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Games Artist Releasing His Own Comic About Space Robots

Ben Mauro is one of the best artists working in entertainment today, and we’ve featured his work on Fine Art a bunch of times. We’re doing it again tonight because he’s releasing a graphic novel called HUXLEY, about “two scavengers who find an ancient robot and get swept up on an adventure that could change…

Modern Warfare Players Glitching Under The Floors Are Becoming A Major Problem

Players of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s large-scale “Ground War” mode have discovered several ways to get underneath the floors or inside the walls of the game’s maps, letting them kill other players with impunity before raining down nukes. Before this influx of cheaters, the 32-versus-32 Battlefield-style mode was once a great place to level…

Pour One Out For A Lucasarts Millennium Falcon Simulator

Just in case you haven’t suffered enough anguish over the years/decades at the demise of quality LucasArts Star Wars games, let’s look back at a pitch for a game that sounded too good to be true, and so was promptly never made. Before we go any further, let’s be very clear: This was an idea,…

Destiny 2’s New Exotic Mission Is Worth Doing Just To Hear Shaxx Sing

Destiny 2’s weekly update today brings with it a new exotic quest that’s short, easy to complete, and ends with one of the best character moments the game has ever had. Devil’s Run is a sidearm that shoots lasers and has one of the shortest questlines I’ve ever come across in the game. All you…

Alienware Is Definitely Not Ripping Off The Nintendo Switch

This week at CES in Las Vegas, Alienware showed off its ConceptUFO, a portable PC gaming system with detachable controllers that can be played handheld, in tabletop mode, or connected to a television. It is not a Nintendo Switch. For one, the Switch is a real product you can buy, and ConceptUFO is just a…

Player Breaks Out Prop While Speedrunning Fallout 4 To Explain Glitch

Last night speedrunner Tomatoangus flew through all of the main Fallout games in just over 2 hours and 16 minutes, and he pulled out all the stops to do so, including an actual prop to explain how to glitch through an elevator in Fallout 4 While all of the Fallout games have a fascinating litany…

The Sims Is Officially Getting Tiny Houses

In a move capitalizing on a longtime Sims 4 trend, the next expansion, or Stuff Pack for the game will be focused on tiny homes. I cannot, cannot wait. The Sims 4 has three tiers of expansions, and Stuff Packs are the most minimal. At best, they come with some new furniture and clothes and,…

Escape From Tarkov Developers Say Adding Playable Women Would Be A ‘Huge Amount Of Work’

Battlestate Games, the studio behind the newly popular online shooter Escape From Tarkov, says they won’t implement playable female protagonists for “game lore” reasons and because it would be too much work. Right now, you can only play Escape From Tarkov as a man. “[T]here will be no playable female characters because of game lore…

Track: I Want A Boy For My Birthday (1982 home demo) | Artist: The Smiths | Album: N/A

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The PlayStation 5’s New Logo Sure Looks Familiar

Sony just showed off the PlayStation 5’s logo on-stage at CES. It’s…well, yeah, it sure is a PlayStation console logo. So you can see just how similar it is to the PS4’s logo, here’s a comparison: Don’t fix what ain’t broke, I guess! That’s all Sony announced at the show, so if you were hoping…