Close Up With A Life-Sized Nero From Devil May Cry 5

It’s time to have a closer look at Nero’s new design in the waxy flesh. Capcom rolled out a life-sized statue of the character’s Devil May Cry 5 iteration at its Tokyo Game Show booth. Let’s have a look!  

The PlayStation Classic Compared With The Original PlayStation 

The recently announced PlayStation Classic is small. But how does it look side by side with the original? Like this! Both consoles are on display at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show booth. The PlayStation Classic sure is small! Even the Classic’s box is a throwback to the original with added “PlayStation Classic” written in Japanese. As…

Steam Introducing Community Comment Moderation

Beginning on September 25, a moderation team at Valve “will start reviewing reported discussion posts in all game hubs on Steam.” Developers can opt out of this universal system if they like, but otherwise any time a user reports a comment in a game’s community area, it’ll be “added to a queue for our moderation…

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Microsoft’s Custom Charity Consoles Are Great

Xbox and Make-A-Wish are teaming up again for their Consoles For Kids charity drive, and the 2018 batch of custom-designed celebrity consoles are looking very pretty. How pretty you find them may depend on your feelings towards a particular celebrity, since many of them just have someone’s face plastered over the front, but there are…

Don’t Worry, Switch Online’s CRT Filter Isn’t Damaging Players’ Screens

Nintendo’s online service for the Switch also grants you access to some classic Nintendo games, and the NES library even provides a filter so it looks like you’re playing them on an old school CRT television. Unfortunately for some players, playing those games with this filter on has left them with an afterimage on the…

Sephiroth Cosplay Rises From The Flames

This isn’t photoshop: cosplayer Leon Chiro went all out on this Sephiroth getup, sitting himself in a ring of fire to make sure everything was as evil and brooding as possible. The fire photos were taken by Muffin Geek Production, while the others are by EoS Andy and Tobias Schmelzer. The shoot was part of…

Hackers Have Already Cracked Open The Switch Online’s NES Library

Nintendo Switch Online hasn’t even been out for a day and hackers have already found a way to upload new NES games to its existing library. Nintendo Switch Online, a paid subscription service required to play most Switch games online starting today, also included other features like cloud backup saves and a downloadable library of…

Fortnite‘s Tilted Towers Temporarily Had An Address On Google: The Freedom Tower

I stumbled upon something strange today while writing up a story about how the Fortnite cube crushed a building in Tilted Towers. Looking up an image of Tilted Towers on Google brought up a listing for a real world address. But it wasn’t just any address; it was the site of One World Trade Center,…

As Streaming Games Goes Big Money, Debt Collection Comes Along

In the lawless, wild west industry that is streaming video games, and the surprising gold rush that has gamers tearing up their I-9s, an time-honored line of work is now arriving on the scene: debt collection. Forty outstanding bills sat in Omeed Dariani’s accounting system when we spoke last week. “And a third of them…

Fortnite‘s Cube Destroys The Game’s Unluckiest Building [Update: It’s Sunk Into Loot Lake Now]

Last month, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky closed and spat out a giant alien cube that’s stomping around the map. Players are eagerly tracking each new move, wondering what will happen when it finally stops. The cube’s latest route took it through Tilted Towers, where it destroyed what might just be Fortnite’s unluckiest building.…

Seven Ways To Make The PlayStation Classic Feel Like The Real Thing

Once an entertaining hypothetical, Sony’s answer to the NES Classic is now an actual retro gaming console due out before the end of the year. Here’s a perfectly reasonable list of games and features that could help make the PlayStation Classic a more enjoyable and authentic experience. Include The Games We Want To Play That’s…

Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Online Mode Launches In November As A Beta

Rockstar announced today that Red Dead Redemption 2‘s online component will be called Red Dead Online and will launch in November starting with a public beta. “As with most online experiences of this size and scale, there will inevitably be some turbulence at launch,” the studio said, saying it looks forward to working with the…