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CultureCosplayMandalorian Cosplay Beats The Shit Outta Some Stuntmen
In this short Legend of Micah video, four professional stuntmen decide to dress up like they’re in The Mandalorian and just absolutely go to town on each other. Before we get into it, some credits! Ben Aycrigg is Mando, while the bounty hunters are Billy Matt Thompson, Pat Chu and Jorge Longoria. The blasters and…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureBorderlands 3 Players Use Tricks To Farm For Awesome New Sniper Rifle
The ultimate reward for completing the latest seasonal event in Borderlands 3 is a special sniper rifle called the Wedding Invitation. The game limits every character to just one of these legendary weapons, however, so players are taking some drastic measures to find the version with the best stats and bonuses before the event ends…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Beat Umbral Beast In Fire Emblem: Cindered Shadows DLC
As longtime series fans know, the real goal of any Fire Emblem game is to make it to the credits without anyone in your party dying. For the most part, well-planned tactics and well-trained troops will get the job done. But the newest Fire Emblem—an excellent full-blown DLC campaign for Three Houses called Cindered Shadows—poses…
By Ari Notis Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureFallout 76 Players Keep Crashing Servers To Duplicate The Game’s Strongest Armor [Update]
Fallout 76’s Strangler Heart Power Armor is very strong and it’s supposed to be incredibly hard to get, but thanks to the game’s latest duplication exploit, more players than ever are running around in it. While Fallout 76 has been plagued by duplication glitches of one sort or another for most of its existence, the…
By Ethan Gach Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureSony Backs Out Of PAX East Over Coronavirus Concerns
PlayStation is pulling out of PAX East due to “increasing concerns” related to the illness colloquially known as the coronavirus, it said on the PlayStation blog today. Sony’s booth was slated to feature major upcoming games like The Last of Us Part II, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and Doom Eternal. The show, which has drawn…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureBlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle Tournament Moment Is Perfect Chaos
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is probably the most anime fighting game being played at major competitions apart from Dragon Ball FighterZ, and the latter only beats it out because it’s literally based on an anime series. The latest BlazBlue is a wild game that produces incredible tournament moments on a regular basis. The latest of…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsOld-School Adventure World Of Horror Is Like Stepping Into A Junji Ito Manga
My flashlight casts a trembling light on the dark, dingy school bathroom. My head throbs from concussion, my face stitched up and heavily bandaged. I wonder if anything will be left of my hometown when the riots and thunderstorms give way to tomorrow’s sunrise. The Old Gods are stirring, and the secret to stopping them…
By Ian Walker Published February 19, 2020 -
UncategorizedEVE Online Players Raise Over $100,000 For Australian Relief Efforts
A new class of spaceship being destroyed for the first time. A massive free for all brawl in space. Some EVE Online streamers eating incredibly hot chicken wings. These disparate events are some of the things EVE players did to raise money for the game’s recent charity event, PLEX for Good. EVE Online players came…
By Lee Yancy Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureLatest No Man’s Sky Update Lets Players Grow Living Spaceships
The first free No Man’s Sky update of 2020 is here, giving players an all-new way to explore the universe. The “Living Ship” update gives players the ability to discover, nurture, and eventually fly their own procedurally generated living vessels, navigating the spaceways inside unique sentient creatures. It doesn’t get much more sci-fi than that.…
By Mike Fahey Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureGrand Theft Auto IV Returns To Steam Next Month Without Online Multiplayer
Removed from sale on Steam in January due to an issue with Microsoft’s now-defunct Games for Windows Live service, Grand Theft Auto IV returns to the service on March 19 as Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition. The new version of the game includes the core game and Episodes From Liberty City but no longer…
By Mike Fahey Published February 19, 2020 -
CultureEVE Online Shooter Canceled, EVE Online Shooter Announced
The King is dead. Long live the King! Last week, EVE Online developers CCP said that Project Nova, their long-in-development shooter based on the same universe as their famous space MMO, was being thrown in the bin. “This decision was taken because Project Nova’s gameplay experience as presented at EVE Vegas ’18 would not have…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Cindered Shadows
Last week, Fire Emblem: Three Houses received a shiny new piece of DLC. Unlike the previous “waves,” it’s not just a handful of new quests and costumes and other small-scale additions. This DLC, called Cindered Shadows, is a fully contained standalone campaign, wherein Byleth, Claude, Edelgard, Hilda, and some other less-cool students explore a mysterious…
By Ari Notis Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureThe Animal Crossing: New Horizons Info Drought Is Nearly Over
The next Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this coming Thursday, February 20, and will focus exclusively on the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons. That sound you just heard is Animal Crossing fans around the world letting out a collective sigh of relief. Nintendo has been slow on releasing official news about Animal Crossing: New Horizons…
By Ian Walker Published February 18, 2020 -
CultureBesiege Is Now ‘Out’ After 5 Years In Early Access
I’ll be honest, I thought Besiege—the construction/puzzle game that was one of the stars of 2015—was already out. Nope! It’s actually spent the last five years in Early Access, and only now is it out. The release of 1.0 brings the game’s single-player campaign to a close, along with introducing some new fancy new blocks…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsShadowbringers‘ Latest Expansion Ups The Stakes (And Robot Teeth)
Final Fantasy XIV’s current expansion Shadowbringers landed with a bang last July, and it’s been expanding since then with more battles and intrigue. Those additions have come in pieces: a string of raid monsters here, a cross-over collaboration with Nier Automata there. The early additions were enjoyable, but the story took time to move its…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 18, 2020 -
OpinionImpressions5 Reasons Vanquish Hero Sam Gideon Is Still The Greatest
Today Sega releases the Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle bringing two of Platinum Games’ best to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 with support for 4K at 60 frames per second. Both games look and play beautifully, but sequel-having Smash Bros. fighter Bayonetta has gotten enough attention. It’s smoking-and-sliding Vanquish star Sam Gideon’s time…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2020 -
Opinion‘Sam’s Story’ Sends Metro Exodus Off With A Bang And A Harmonica
“Sam’s Story,” the second of two planned DLC episodes for Metro Exodus, lets you do this thing where, if you come across select chairs dotting its rotting landscape, you can sit down and play harmonica. You, as Sam, will just jam over some grimly scenic vista. You can play for as long as you want.…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 18, 2020 -
UncategorizedWitcher 3 Update Allows You To Transfer PC Saves To Switch
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Switch got an update today. It adds new graphical options, touch control for Gwent, and the ability to port your save between Switch and PC. Rumors of the patch first spread on Reddit, but developer CD Projekt Red has since confirmed it. According to CDPR, update 3.6 includes: Added…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 18, 2020
