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Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Keep My Relationship Alive When I Can’t See My Partner?

Hello, all you greased porn fruitbats, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only advice column that’s too hot to handle and too cold to hold. This week, we’re taking on your personal development questions and dealing with the doubts and fears that’ve been haunting you. How do you keep a relationship going when you…

Players Are Using Destiny 2’s New Grenade Launcher To One-Shot Raid Bosses

Behold Sanctified Mind, the big boss from last year’s Garden of Salvation Raid, instantly melting before the power of Destiny 2‘s new Witherhoard grenade launcher. One of the best ways to find out how a new Destiny 2 gun stacks up against all the others is to test it out on the game’s hardest bosses,…

Embracing The Beautiful Nonsense Of The Final Fantasy VII Spinoffs

This year has not been great for my mental health. But I recently thought I could just push those vibes away, even just briefly, to dunk on Tetsuya Nomura, the creative visionary of Final Fantasy VII and a man who never met a story he couldn’t convolute. I had plenty of material, because I’ve played…

Animal Crossing: The Last Airbender

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony, until the Fire Nation ruined everything, the jerks. Don’t worry, YouTube’s The Nooksters bring all four elements back together for an outstanding remake of the Avatar: The Last Airbender intro in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Utilizing the amazing costumes put together by…

How’s It Going?: Summer Edition

It’s Thursday—we can do this! Welcome back to our daily open thread. Yesterday I turned on my air conditioner, which I always try to avoid for as long as possible. While working from home has been nice in a lot of ways, I’m not excited about what it’s going to do to my bills this…

Metal: Hellsinger Is A Rhythm Shooter Where You Slay Demons To A Heavy Metal Beat

In some ways Metal: Hellsinger looks like a traditional first-person shooter. At first I try to play it like one, strafing left to right while lining up my shots and keeping an eye out for health packs. It’s not until I start to play it like Guitar Hero with a shotgun that things begin to…

There’s a new Transformers game coming later this year called Transformers: Battlegrounds Headed to Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC on October 23, the developer, Coatsink, is calling it a “tactical warfare” game where you customize your autobot squad and fight battles from “Central City to Cybertron.” 

Bug Causes Some Call Of Duty Players On Xbox To Get Hit With Massive 84 GB Update [Update]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s latest season arrived last night alongside another giant update download. Thanks to a bug, the download was twice as big for some Xbox One players, forcing them to effectively download an entire game’s worth of data to keep playing. “We’re actively investigating an issue for #ModernWarfare where some players on…

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Board Gaming’s Industry Body Refuses To Say A Word About Black Lives Mattering [Update]

An increasing number of prominent board game industry and community members have pulled out of an upcoming show over The Game Manufacturers Association’s (GAMA) continued silence over Black Lives Matter. UPDATE 6:53am, June 11: GAMA has since released a statement on their Facebook page, cancelled Origins Online and offered to “match, dollar for dollar, any…

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Riot Games Executive Says George Floyd Was Murdered By Police Because Of His “Criminal Lifestyle” [UPDATE]

Ron Johnson, Global Head of Consumer Products at Riot Games, has shared an image on his personal Facebook account that lists George Floyd’s prior convictions before saying “this type of criminal lifestyle never results in good things happening to you or those around you”. He is now being investigated internally by the company. As Vice…

Arcade1Up Announces Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom Cabinets

During today’s IGN Summer of Games event, the folks over at Arcade1Up revealed a handful of new additions to their line of miniature arcade cabinet replicas. These include Ms. Pac-Man, Marvel vs. Capcom, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Big Buck Hunter, and a virtual pinball machine based on Marvel Comics superheroes. While Ms. Pac-Man is iconic…

Wizards Of The Coast Bans 7 Racist Magic: The Gathering Cards

The company behind Magic: The Gathering is apologizing for racist cards that have been part of the game for decades. Seven cards will be removed from competitive play and from the game’s official card index.. “The events of the past weeks and the ongoing conversation about how we can better support people of color have…

Racist Spam Bots Are Running Rampant In Team Fortress 2

If you hop into a Team Fortress 2 match right now, there’s a good chance that you’ll be greeted by some very unwelcome guests: spam bots who overwhelm chat with everything from annoying troll-speak to full-on racism. Bots of various types have been giving players fits since early this year, but they took a turn…

Sega’s Alex Kidd Is Making A Comeback Next Year

The classic Sega Master System platformer Alex Kidd in Miracle World is getting a makeover courtesy of Merge Games and Jankenteam. It will be available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC early next year. As you can see in the reveal trailer above, Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX is absolutely beautiful.…

Chivalry 2 Will Allow Crossplay Between PS5, Xbox Series X, And Other Consoles

Multiplayer hack-and-slash Chivalry 2 will be coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in addition to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store, a new trailer revealed during IGN’s Summer of Games event. Furthermore, everyone will be able to play together no matter which platform they choose. Chivalry 2, developed by Torn…

Killer Instinct Documentary Reveals Surprising Connection to Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Fighting game community documentarian Esteban Martinez of Hold Back to Block returned this week with a full-length look at the history of Killer Instinct, focusing on its 2013 reboot. Surprisingly, the celebrated competitive fighting games actually has roots in licensed fare like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Green Lantern Double Helix Games was one of…

It’s Animal Crossing Music Played On Tesla Coils

The fine folks at ArcAttack use tesla coils to create music by shaking the air with electrical discharge. Sometimes a robot plays drums. Their latest musical lightning storm happens to be an amazing rendition of the music that plays at 5PM in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. It’s shockingly good. Get it? I am sorry. If…