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Skyrim Player Claims World Record For Fastest Marriage

They say you shouldn’t rush into a new marriage, but screw it. This is the funniest use of speedrunning I’ve seen lately. While many of us are familiar with traditional speedruns that require completion of a game, sometimes, titles develop other categories with more esoteric guidelines. In this case, there’s a whole division of Skyrim…

People Are Competing To Be The Fastest At Google’s Halloween Doodle

Is it any surprise that people are speedrunning the Halloween Google Doodle? Of course not—if a game exists, people will try to play it as fast as possible. The Doodle, which is still playable, is a simple game where you play as a cat witch who fights ghosts by drawing patterns on the screen. The…

Oh Hey, Cool Robots

Will Jinho Bik is a concept artist based in Los Angeles. You can see more of Will’s mechs, armour and weapons at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing…

Cosplay Goes Wild In The Great White North

In most instances, yeah, you can get some impressive cosplay photos from a con floor or a studio. If you’re Canadian, though, you can head into that country’s vast wilderness, and get some pics that are truly special. Similar to an Iceland trip made last year by some of cosplay’s biggest stars, a band of…

Soldier 76 Makes It A Very Dad Halloween

Halloween isn’t about getting hold of candy. It’s about who is in control of the supply. And when it comes to Overwatch, only one character is in charge: the dad. Cajun Captain Cosplay dressed as Dad 76 for Halloween, and went all out, with t-shirt, dad shoes, dad pants and rocking chair (to match Soldier…

Steam Bans Misleading Store Page Screenshots

We’ve heard rumblings of a big Steam update on the horizon, and details are beginning to trickle in. Apparently it’s “a couple weeks away” and will, among other things, require developers to advertise their games with real screenshots, rather than art, CGI, or pictures of their spring break vacation to Cancun. A member of the…

Players Have Spent Years Trying To Get Peach To Save Herself In Paper Mario

In 2001’s Paper Mario, our favorite hero in blue overalls saves the day, just like he always does. Peach helps, but in the end, it’s Mario who defeats Bowser. For years, however, speedrunners and glitch hunters have attempted to rewrite that sequence of events. Many of us have played through Paper Mario sequentially, chapter after…

The Art Of Titanfall 2

Titanfall 2 isn’t just a very good video game, it’s also a very pretty one, with some of the best character, mech and environment design around. So let’s take a look at where all that stuff came from. Below you’ll find a collection of concept and promo work done by Respawn’s team of artists during…

That’s One Way To Handle Rising Sea Levels

Julien Gauthier is an artist who has worked on stuff like the PS4’s “This is for the players” commercial, and on movies like Guardians of the Galaxy and Batman vs Superman You can see more of Julien’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button…

Skyrim Halloween Mod Makes The Whole Game Spookier

Unpopular opinion: the biggest problem with Skyrim is that everybody’s not Draculas. Skyrim’s been around so long that it just got a remaster. Don’t get me wrong: it’s nice to revisit old stomping grounds, but eventually the deja vu becomes deja too much. You’ve gotta spruce up the place. In the spirit of the season,…

Battlefield 1 Respawn Goes Poorly

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A Very Pokémon Plushie Halloween

It’s Halloween, the festive holiday when Pokémon toys dress up in costumes and sit on my desk until at least Christmas. The Pokémon Center’s line of masquerading circus pocket monsters is adorable this year. While I could not catch them all this year, The Pokémon Company International sent along a trio of trick or treaters…

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The Cosplay Police Seem Awfully Chill

Photographer Lawrence Brenner took these shots of cosplay superteam Spiral Cats while they were in NYC doing some League of Legends work. I’ve never seen an assault rifle-carrying police officer look so happy in my life. You can see more of Lawrence’s photos here

This is Jelfishwith some Ring cosplay. Photos by Georgia Nelson

Negan Cosplay Is Going To Kill Your Favorite Halloween Character

Blizzard artist Rene Koiter isalso one heck of a cosplayer, which he showed once again this year by taking out (along with co-worker Jaime Scheffler) the company’s internal Halloween contest dressed as Negan from The Walking Dead A reminder this is not the first time he has won Blizzard’s contest Jaime is the zombie. Photos…

It’s Geralt. With A “T”.

Come on guys. Nobody that handsome would be called “Gerald”. Cosplay by Maul

Narcos Cosplay Keeps It All In The Family

There may be more elaborate Halloween costumes on the internet this year, more technical costumes, but none will win my heart like this family’s take on Narcos It’s not the first series that comes to mind when I think “wholesome family cosplay”, especially given the relationships between some of the characters here, but I’m willing…

The Week In Games: If These Sprites Could Talk

Owlboy is finally coming out. Like for real. This week. It’s here. The game has been in development for ten years. Originally intended to ship in 2011,development became a long and winding road of what-ifs and some-days. Life is complicated. The team wanted the game to live up to the hype. So instead of coming…