Adult Game Billboard Removed In Akihabara For Being Too Lewd

On November 1, a billboard went up in Tokyo’s Akihabara near the station. The advertisement featured about ten anime-style young women in revealing clothing. Besides the complaints, the billboard did not conform to regulations regarding public advertisements. Editor’s note: This article contains imagery some readers might find objectionable. The billboard is for an adult game…

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A Look At How The ESRB Rates Video Games

Danny O’Dwyer’s Noclip documentary series recently got the chance to visit the ESRB and see just how the organization works. The 44-minute video touches on a number of topics. First, it’s a pretty good history of the ESRB, detailing their originsin the wake of social and political hysteria surrounding video game violence in the 1990s…

Witcher Cosplayer Turns Geralt Into A Firefighter, Football Player And Rock Star

Having released one a few years back, Witcher cosplayer extraordinaire Maul has decided to do another one, only this time he’s imagining Geralt jumping through The Witcher 3’s portals and ending up in more Earthly forms of employment. And so we have Geralt, no longer a Witcher, but a firefighter: And a rock star: A…

Red Dead PC Players Find Hidden Princess

Ever since Red Dead Redemption 2 was released last year, some fans have been trying to find Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister, a missing person who is mentioned repeatedly in the game but (until now) never seen. Now that PC players can dig through the game’s code, though, she’s been found. Observant players might have seen…

How To Best Use Terry In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Super Smash Bros. isn’t known for having a lot in common with traditional fighting games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters, but the latest installment has introduced a number of complicated mechanics by way of its third-party guest characters. The latest of these characters, Fatal Fury’s Terry Bogard, can make use of a particularly…

YouTube Changes Renew Calls For YouTubers To Unionize [Update]

To say that YouTubers have an uneasy relationship with the company that hosts their videos would be a massive understatement. It’s not uncommon for YouTube to demonetize videos with little in the way of explanation and, as a recent terms of service update reminded users, it can also just straight up remove videos and channels…

Like Real Fitness, Ring Fit Adventure Is Great But Tough To Stick With

For a wonderful stretch of days in late October, every short workout I did with Nintendo’s Ring Fit Adventure revealed it to be a better game. Then I just stopped playing. These are the best and worst things that can come from a video game combined with exercise. First, the good stuff… I reviewed Ring…

HBO’s Watchmen Is Better At Lore Than Most Games

Watchmen, the new HBO television series that we find incredibly intriguing, has a lot in common with some of my favorite video games. There is punching and costumes, damn good music, and a thoroughly imagined world that I want to spend a lot of time in. It also pulls off one of my favorite video…

Assemble With Care Is Helping Me Handle Myself With Care

In Assemble With Care, a mobile game from the makers of Monument Valley, you play as a woman who’s made a career of restoring old and broken things. It’s a pretty tactile game where you rotate objects to connect wires and replace broken parts before putting them back together again. You even repair an old…

Twitch Streamer ‘Trained For 3 Months’ To Try And Break 569-Hour Streaming Record

Humans do lots of inadvisable things in public for attention (see: hot dog eating contests, “the worm”). There is, though, a fine line between inoffensively asserting your existence and setting a bad example by putting yourself at risk. This is the debate at the heart of record-setting. Right now, Twitch streamer Andrew “GiantWaffle” Bodine is…

Peak ‘OK Boomer’ Reached As Naruto Voice Actor Says It On Camera

Only a couple of weeks into the meme, we’ve already reached peak “OK boomer.” How do I know that? Someone got Naruto’s voice actor to say it at a convention this weekend, and frankly, I don’t think I ever need to hear it again. In a Reddit post, an attendee of Minneapolis convention Galaxy Con…

The Week In Games: The British (Pokémon) Are Coming!

A brand new Pokémon game is releasing this week. I’m not even a big Pokémon fan and I’m still excited about Sword and Shield, the first big main entry Pokémon RPG to land on home consoles. Sure, not all the Pokémon from the past are coming back, but I doubt the internet will get angry…

In Japan, Fans Question Famitsu-Related Cameos In Death Stranding

Online in Japan, fans are wondering why the mascot character and the official representative for the country’s biggest game magazine Famitsu appear in Death Stranding Famitsu recently gave the game a perfect score—one of only 26 to get the coveted 40/40 in the publication’s history. A thread on 2ch, the country’s biggest bulletin board, pointed…

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