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EA Removes ‘Toxic’ Celebrations In FIFA 21

A pair of celebrations that contributed to “toxic behaviors” online will not return in FIFA 21 when the game launches on October 9, according to series publisher EA. This news comes courtesy of Eurogamer, which reported earlier today that FIFA 21 will not include the post-goal “Shush” and “A-OK” celebrations from previous games. The former…

Enjoy This Word Salad About Why Marvel’s Avengers’ Spider-Man Is A PlayStation Exclusive

On Monday, developer Crystal Dynamics announced that Spider-Man will be coming to Marvel’s Avengers sometime next year, but only on PS4 and PS5. Fans were understandably upset. Now, studio co-head Scot Amos has explained the reasoning behind the exclusivity deal. Kinda. Not really. Amos could have just dodged the issue entirely by saying something like…

The U.S. Army Is Returning To Twitch And Unbanning Users, For Now

The U.S. Army’s Twitch channel has not streamed in almost a month. After finding itself in the crosshairs of Twitch users and Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for banning viewers who asked about war crimes and hosting sketchy giveaways, the channel went radio silent. Soon, however, it will return, and previously banned users will have their…

I Hate This Rope In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

I don’t think I’ve ever been as frustrated with an inanimate object in a video game as I have with this goddamn rope in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order I’ve been messing around with Fallen Order in brief spurts since it launched last November, but only recently set my mind to a serious playthrough. It’s…

Street Fighter V Is Getting Dan, Rose, Oro, and Akira From Rival Schools

Street Fighter V’s final season will see Dan, Rose, Oro, and Akira Kazama of Rival Schools join the game, Capcom announced during a special live stream this afternoon. The developers explained that these specific fighters were chosen for Street Fighter V thanks to the presence of storyline acquaintances already existing in the game. Dan, for…

According to Sony’s first-quarter financial results for 2020, PlayStation Plus currently has nearly 45 million active users around the world, a gain of nearly 3.4 million over the previous quarter. That number should jump significantly now that Fall Guys is a free PlayStation Plus game.

Nintendo Added A Surprise New Stage To Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Ask any Smash fan and they’ll tell you that updates to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate are negligible. Usually, they’ll introduce the barest tweaks to existing fighters, or adjust the online mode in some barely noticeable way—and nothing more. So it’s somewhat of a surprise that, in last night’s 8.1.0 update, Nintendo added a whole new…

Pikmin 3 Deluxe Comes To Switch October 30

Cross another game off the “Wii U Games That Still Need To Come To Switch” list. Beloved action-puzzler Pikmin 3 is getting the deluxe treatment, releasing on Switch October 30 with full story mode co-op, new side missions, lock-on targeting, and new difficulty options. There’s nothing quite like guiding colorful plant creatures with unique abilities…

Ninja’s Streaming Fortnite On Twitch Right Now

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is streaming Fortnite’s latest update on Twitch right now, on a stream that’s hovering at over 95k viewers. It’s the popular streamer’s first stream on Twitch since Mixer shut down last month. Ninja is playing with streamer DrLupo. He teased this last night on Twitter, though he didn’t offer any details about…

Here’s How Fortnite‘s New Cars Work

Cars are finally in Fortnite with the 13.40 update, called “Joy Ride.” They might have arrived a bit later than players expected, but now that they’re here, they’re a lot of fun. There are a few different drivable cars in the game, including a pickup truck, a taxi, a tractor-trailer, and a hotrod. (Sorry, it’s…

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Just A Couple Of German Samurai

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Activision Blizzard Boasts Record Results While Employees Protest Pay Inequity

Activision Blizzard boasted of “record results” for Q2 2020 in an earnings report released earlier today, with an eye on long-term growth thanks to the boost received in the previous quarter from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. This financial victory lap, however, comes just days after workers collaborated on a spreadsheet designed to highlight pay inequity…

The Co-Creator Of The Computer Mouse Has Died

Bill English, one of the two men responsible for the invention of the computer mouse you may be resting your hand on right now, has died at the age of 91. Along with Douglas Engelbart, who passed away in 2013, English helped usher in the era of modern computing by creating a device that could…

World Of Warcraft Classic: Maybe You Can’t Go Home Again

My brother and I started taking World of Warcraft Classic seriously again two weeks ago. We both played during the mid-2000s Vanilla period—the era Classic attempts to replicate—and jumped into Classic last year, grinding to the mid-20s. Back then, it really seemed like Blizzard’s experiment was going to work. Stormwind and Ironforge, the two most…

Just How Lethal Is Ghost Of Tsushima’s ‘Lethal’ Difficulty?

The devs bill it as more difficult than Hard, but in practice it’s more a gameplay tweak.

I Thought I Missed Out On A Free Rare Warframe Suit, And It Sent Me To A Dark Place

Sometimes, you don’t know how much you want something until you realize it may have already slipped through your fingers. That’s what I told myself on Saturday, as sunk-cost fallacy convinced me to feverishly calculate how much it would cost to buy a Warframe suit that had been completely free less than an hour prior.…

Fall Guys Servers Can’t Keep Up With Launch Day Popularity

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout released today on PC and PlayStation 4 to much fanfare—perhaps too much. The hotly anticipated physics-based party platformer has been plagued by server issues all day. Connection issues started shortly after 8:00 a.m. ET. According to the game’s official Twitter account, more than 120,000 players connected to the game at once,…

Yakuza: Like A Dragon Battle Menus Now Spell ‘SEGA’ Thanks To Joking Tweet

Game development is a collaborative effort between designers, programmers, and writers, which on big productions can number in the hundreds. It can take years to get a specific mechanic or cutscene right, and even then, it might still fall flat with players. But in the case of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, some of the best…

Even Lapsed Overwatch Players Love Pharah’s New Lifeguard Skin

It’s summer. Per tradition, this means that the Overwatch team must give somebody abs, or face dire consequences. So Pharah is a lifeguard now. Cue the entire internet dramatically leaping into the ocean and pretending to drown in hopes that somebody—nobody specific, of course—might come save them. It would be an understatement to say that…