What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to make focaccia, after last weekend’s attempt at Mark Bittman’s no-knead bread was, uh, unsuccessful. Bread requires a lot of sitting around, though, so that’s plenty of times for video games. Fortnite has a big season event this weekend, so I’ll be tuned into that Sunday afternoon. Beforehand, Frostpunk is…

EVE Online Enemies Are Working Together To Encourage More War

EVE Online has been made famous by its players doing outrageous things in their shared sandbox. Recently, a group of players on opposing factions came together to shut down the ability for players to make money in the game, so that they can focus on war instead. EVE’s Faction Warfare mechanic allows players to swear…

Frostpunk‘s Developers Don’t Want To Call The Console Version A Port

Snowy city-builder Frostpunk was one of my favorite games of 2018, even though most of my Victorian outposts fell to cold, starvation, or citizen uprisings. Video producer Paul Tamayo and I sat down with the game’s developers from 11 Bit Studios to talk about how they’re bringing the PC survival game to consoles this summer.…

The One Fire Emblem: Three Houses Paralogue I’m Glad I Didn’t Miss

It’s hard to decide which optional Paralogue battles to play and which to ignore in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. I could look up which battles would give me the best weapons, but what I really want to know is which have the best storylines. The game doesn’t have a way to tell me that; I…

There Are Now Sonic Movie Halloween Costumes And No One Is Ready

You ever spot a really bad idea and think, “that’s definitely going to have consequences that no one can foresee”? To me, that’s the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Not because of its questionable design choices (give me the weird hog, it’s good, actually) but because no matter how great Sonic’s movie design is, Halloween was…

The Tension Of Playing Overwatch During A Blizzard Controversy

Yesterday, like I do every day, I wrapped up my workday, closed my Chrome tabs and, without pausing, hit the Windows button on my keyboard. In the search bar, I typed “Over-” and hit enter. My eyes found the big, blue “Play” button on the game launcher. Overwatch’s familiar orchestral music swelled and, in an…

On Cinema Is Funny Because It’s About Everything But Cinema

When I was first introduced to On Cinema At The Cinema, a bizarre comedic movie review show starring Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, I didn’t quite realize how cultish the fanbase for it was. Now that they’ve released a feature film, Mister America, all I want is to tell people why they should watch this…

The Gundam Soccer Parody We Need

YouTuber Hiiro has been creating computer animations of soccer-playing mobile suits. Haro is the ball, while Ultraman and Kamen Rider are the refs. The ensuing parody is delightful. This isn’t a first. In 1992, Banpresto released a soccer game for the Super Famicom called Battle Soccer: Field no Hasha in which Gundam mecha, Kamen Rider,…

Riot Says It Hasn’t Banned Casters From Saying ‘Hong Kong Attitude’

With all the protests going on in Hong Kong, League of Legends casters appear to be avoiding saying the team name “Hong Kong Attitude” and seem to even be catching themselves when they do. Riot Games, however, says that it has not banned casters from saying “Hong Kong.” Chinese conglomerate Tencent owns Riot and has…

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Donald Trump Has A Twitch Channel Now

Donald Trump got a Twitch channel, from which he’s currently livestreaming a rally in Minneapolis. This is how we live now. As of this writing, Trump’s channel has almost 9,000 followers, and about 8,700 are watching his rally in Minnesota. The chat is moving rapidly, but there are walls of “IMPEACH,” as well as a…

PC Game Install Sizes Are Ballooning And I’m Scared

Earlier today, I was reading over the PC hardware specifications for the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and, when I reached the hard drive space requirement, did a double-take. 175 GB. For one game. My hard drive currently has less than half that space free for all games. And Modern Warfare is far from…

College Hearthstone Players Who Held Up ‘Free Hong Kong’ Sign Drop Out Of Tournament

Earlier this week, three collegiate Hearthstone players on the American University team held up a sign that read “Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizz” during a stream broadcasted on Blizzard’s official Hearthstone Twitch channel. They expected a suspension similar to the one that, the day before, putpro player Chung “Blitzchung” Ng Wai on the sidelines for…