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UncategorizedThe AAF May Be Dead, But Its Spirit Will Live Forever In Sports Video Games
In the real world the Alliance of American Football, a shitshow of a league that was shut down before it could even complete its first season, will never have a champion. But a mod for a PC game can let the truly dedicated/curious try and decide one anyway. Axis Football, which I very much did…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedModder Gets Custom Quests Working In The Witcher 3
rmemr has created a set of tools called radish that allow for the creation of new, custom-made quests for The Witcher 3, something fans have been dying for since the game’s release back in 2015 The good news is that the tools are up and ready for download! The bad news is that they’re pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedNickelodeon Releases Official Spongebob Meme Figures
In a “how do you do fellow kids” moment for the ages, you can now buy officially licensed Spongebob figures based on the series’ memes. From “Handsome Squidward” to “Surprised Patrick”, there are six figures in all, though sadly the best one—which I hope is just called “sPOngeBoB”—is already sold out. They’re going for around…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Has Designed A Magic: The Gathering Card
War of the Spark, Magic: The Gathering’s next expansion, features the game’s largest collection of Planeswalker cards to date. Wizards of the Coast has tapped a number of different artists to create alternative versions of the cards for Japan, including Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame. Amano produced concept art for the series up until…
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedRage-Quitting Is Appropriately Bloody in Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat wouldn’t be Mortal Kombat without extreme violence, and the look of the game has only gotten more and more gruesome as home consoles have become more powerful. The most recent game in the series, Mortal Kombat 11, kicks things up to, well, 11 in the way it displays bloodshed. Naturally, this brutality also…
By Ian Walker Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedFor Honor gets a new samurai class called Hitokiri on May 2 for season pass owners and May 9 for everyone else. The hero wields a battle ax and serves as an executioner. The season two update will also rework the Lawbringer and Raider classes as well as add a new map.
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedA New, Annoying Ad Keeps Popping Up In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
A new in-game ad for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s second big expansion wouldn’t be so annoying if it didn’t appear repeatedly every time I paused checked my map or tried to access my inventory. While we’ve found a fix, the whole thing feels like marketing run amok. I first encountered this ad while doing the free…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedAnimal Crossing Fan Is Animating Every Fish And Bug In The Series, One Per Day
The wait for Animal Crossing on Switch has been interminable. In order to take the edge off, one fan has been animating one of the game’s bugs and fish every day. They’re so adorable, but sadly only make me want this game even more. Since the announcement of its existence during a Nintendo Direct in…
By Gita Jackson Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedBioWare Delays Anthem’s Big Cataclysm Event
In an Anthem update released today, BioWare lead producer Ben Irving and head of live services Chad Robertson announced that a number of updates planned for the game, including its limited-time Cataclysm event, have been delayed. “While we have delivered many of the Act 1 features on time, we are not going to hit all…
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedPlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Un-Banned In Nepal, For Now
A couple weeks ago, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds—the stalwart second-place finisher in the endless battle royale between battle royale games—got banned in Nepal over addiction concerns. Turns out, however, that in the eyes of Nepal’s Supreme Court, those addiction concerns were not enough to warrant a game being tossed into the dungeon of dangerous toys. According to…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedFans Theorize That Sims Alien Abduction Plotline Is Just A Cover Up
There’s a mystery in The Sims 2 that has never been solved. The Goth family, consisting of Bella, Mortimer, and Cassandra, has thus far made an appearance in every single Sims game. Throughout the series, the developers have explored different aspects of the Goth’s family tree, even going back in time in The Sims 3,…
By Gita Jackson Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedAnthem Is Less Frustrating After Its Latest Update
When BioWare’s online multiplayer loot shooter, Anthem, launched in February, it wasn’t possible to embark on missions back-to-back or swap out equipment on the fly. In today’s update, BioWare has finally changed that, helping to streamline an experience previously mired by frustrating restrictions Patch 1.1, which went live earlier today on PS4, Xbox One, and…
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 - Uncategorized
Something cool happen to you in World War Z? Create a very funny Smash Bros. stage? Do something unbelievable in Blade & Sorcery? We wanna see it! Send your impressive or funny game clips to [email protected] and we could feature it on our show.
By Chris Person Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedPeople Are Upset About Things That Don’t Actually Happen In Jax’s MK11 Ending
In keeping with series tradition, every character in Mortal Kombat 11 gets a unique ending sequence depicting what would happen if they won. This game’s big baddie is Kronika, a new villain with the power to control time. She’s got serious beef with thunder god and humanity’s pal Raiden, and she plans to do away…
By Mike Fahey Published April 23, 2019 -
CultureSekiro Speedrunners Are Using A Glitch To Swim Through The Air
Speedrunners use a variety of tricks to reduce Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice from a difficult combat gauntlet to a breeze. The fastest Any% runs now take less than 30 minutes, with the current world record at 24:37 at time of publication, held by Distortion2. Some tricks involve dying in the right place to avoid a…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 23, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryThe Fortnite World Cup Is Worth Watching, Despite Its Flaws
Over the last two weekends, I’ve obsessively watched the Fortnite World Cup tournaments. I turn on the long broadcasts while cleaning the house or cooking, certainly tormenting my neighbors with hours of esports shoutcasting. It’s introducing me to new players and techniques, and it’s inspiring me to get better at the game. Watching competitive Fortnite…
By Riley MacLeod Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedInsomniac Reveals One Of The Camera Tricks That Makes Spider-Man‘s World Feel So Big
Last year’s Spider-Man on PS4 offers one of the most sprawling recreations of Manhattan ever realized in a video game. Not only is the city huge, but so are some of the interiors of the buildings that you get to explore. The studio recently shared one of the camera tricks that helped the team to…
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Has Had A Black Female Character ‘In Development’ For Four Years
During a livestream last week, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan revealed that the team has actually had a black female character that’s been part of the game’s lore since around 2014. Fans are wondering why she still isn’t playable. Last week, Overwatch streamer Fareeha held a stream at Blizzard HQ, during which Kaplan dropped in.…
By Gita Jackson Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedReport: Fortnite Developers Describe Severe Ongoing Crunch
Crunch is a widespread disease in the gaming industry, sometimes forcing developers to pull 16-hour workdays or six-day work weeks to finish a game on an over-ambitious timeline. Today, a new report from Polygon detailed how the developers of Fortnite, a game that technically is never finished, can suffer through crunch to keep the blockbuster…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 23, 2019
