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UncategorizedSmash Event Bans Competitor Who Got In Fight At Previous Tournament
Super Smash Con, a Super Smash Bros. tournament and convention, has announced they will no longer be permitting a controversial competitor to attend the event in Chantilly, Virginia this weekend due to his alleged history of causing trouble in the community, which includes a recent incident at a tournament in Florida. Super Smash Con has…
By Ian Walker Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureTwitchWhat Mixer Has That Twitch Doesn’t (Besides Ninja)
Microsoft recently put their streaming service Mixer back in the spotlight by securing exclusive rights to Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who had been one of the top streamers on Twitch. Exclusive streamers aside, there are several compelling reasons to stream and watch streams on Microsoft’s platform instead of Amazon-owned Twitch. Mixer started life as Beam, an…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedRocket League Is Ditching Loot Boxes
Psyonix announced in a blog today that its car soccer game Rocket League will be leaving loot boxes behind in a move aimed at “creating the best possible experience for our players all over the world.” The change will happen sometime before the end of the year with a new system coming in to replace…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureRemastering Resident Evil Games Kept This Indie Developer From Giving Up
Resident Evil is one of the biggest and most important names in video game horror. The first three games in Capcom’s survival horror series defined a genre and influenced generations of developers and players. So it’s strange how hard it is to play the original trilogy on modern hardware. It’s a problem that would largely…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 6, 2019 -
CulturePUBG Is Steadily Improving And Winning Back Players
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds officially released a year and a half ago. In that time, competitors like Fortnite Battle Royale and Apex Legends have arguably surpassed it for popularity. But PUBG has quietly persisted, and the developers continue to address player concerns. In the last month, it’s drawn back popular streamers and breathed fresh life into the…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedMortal Kombat 11 Devs Are Looking Into Ongoing Threat Of DDoS Attacks
It’s become clear to Mortal Kombat 11 players over the last few weeks that the game’s online modes have some critical vulnerabilities. Netplay competitors have been subjected to numerous attacks, including distributed denial of service (DDoS) targeting that makes matches unplayable and has apparently even exposed IP addresses, a particularly heinous problem that has led…
By Ian Walker Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureAfter Months Of Delay, Anthem’s Cataclysm Event Is Finally Live
Without any fanfare, today BioWare dropped Anthem’s biggest update since the game was released in February. Update 1.3 adds a bunch of new loot, a guild system, and the game’s long-awaited Cataclysm event, which was originally due out in May After a rough launch, BioWare announced a series of updates that would be coming to…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedPokémon Card Requiring Players To Speak Banned To Prevent Linguistic Confusion
The Pokémon Company announced late yesterday that it’s banning one of the Pokémon trading card game’s newest cards at this year’s World Championship. That’s because this card introduces some potential language barrier issues between international players that would, overall, make it a huge pain in the ass if anyone decided to actually try and use…
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryI Love When A Book Feels Like A Good Role-Playing Game
Role-playing games are one of my favorite genres. They’re also the genre I came latest to. I didn’t play video games for most of my teenage years, the time when I would have lost entire weekends and nights to them. Coming to love them as an adult has been a minor tragedy, because the amount…
By Joshua Rivera Published August 6, 2019 -
UncategorizedGrandia HD Collection, featuring the first two games in the series, is coming to Switch August 16. It’s the first time both games will appear on a Nintendo console. If you don’t have a Switch or can’t stand to wait another week an HD version of Grandia II is currently on Steam.
By Ethan Gach Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureCook, Serve, Delicious 3 Takes The Intense Restaurant Sim On The Road
The first two Cook, Serve, Delicious games cast players as the head chef and principle operator of small restaurants, cooking and managing their way to foodie fame. Announced today for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC, Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 sends players on a journey across war-torn America in a food truck with…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureMonths After Labor Controversy, Rockstar Converts Game-Testers To Full-Time
Workers at Rockstar Lincoln, the British studio that does the lion’s share of testing for the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption games, are being converted from contractors to full-time employees, three sources familiar with the studio have told Kotaku The move will remove the uncertainty of working on temporary contracts, a positive turn…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 6, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsThe Samurai Shodown Limited Edition Neo Geo Mini Is Clearly Superior
Our original review called the Neo Geo Mini arcade-style retro console “cute, but an imperfect nostalgia trip.” The Samurai Shodown limited edition, released this week to celebrate the latest entry in the long-running fighting game series, is exactly that, but it comes with more stuff and looks so much nicer. I firmly believe that translucent…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureThe Star Ocean Mobile Game Is Shutting Down
Barely a year after launching in the West, free-to-play mobile RPG Star Ocean: Anamnesis is shutting down. Players have until November 5 to finish collecting characters before Square Enix pulls the plug. Star Ocean V was not good. Instead of Star Ocean VI, we got Star Ocean: Anamnesis, a mobile gacha game in which players…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2019 -
OpinionImpressions2011’s DC Universe Online Finds New Life On The Nintendo Switch
On a large computer monitor or television set hooked to an Xbox One or PlayStation 4, DC Comics’ eight-year-old, free-to-play massively multiplayer online superhero role-playing game looks pretty rough. On a lesser-powered console like the Switch with its smallish handheld display, DC Universe Online is a perfect portable MMO. DC Universe never was a looker.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 6, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Home | Artist: Depeche Mode | Album: Ultra
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 6, 2019
