What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s been a hell of a week, readers, but we’ve made it to the weekend. I have very big plans of doing nothing but running in the very nice weather, cooking (hopefully) tasty food out of the host of cookbooks I’ve bought recently, and playing a lot of video games. I finally caved and bought Yakuza…

Battle For Azeroth Level Cap Reached, What Now?

After a week and a half of leisurely quest grinding, my diminutive Warlock has reached World of Warcraft’s new level cap of 120. Now it’s time to explore dungeons, hunt for treasure and power up my equipment. Or I could just wait for the next expansion to come along and render all that extra effort…

The Gamescom Fortnite Pooper Story Didn’t Happen, Epic Says

Yesterday, the German website Playnation.de reported on a rumor that a Gamescom attendee defecated in a bag while waiting to play Fortnite. Today, the rumor circulated further on social media. Despite how badly we may want this to be true, according to Epic, it never happened. Sorry! According to Playnation.de’s article, other attendees stepped in…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Won’t Let Me Break Up With Her

Hello all you perfumed meatbags of impending doom, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that patches a New Game+ into your love life. This week, it’s all about doing the necessary, hard work. Last week we heard from someone whose wife left him after changing up her lifestyle. This week…

Fortnite‘s Rift Is Shooting Lightning And No One Knows Why [Update: Rift Closes, Giant Alien Cube Appears]

During Fornite Battle Royale’s last season, a giant rocket launched and cracked the sky wide open, tearing the game’s space-time apart. When Season Five hit—adding a new desert area to the map—the rift seemed to die down, but now it’s blasting the ground with massive lightning strikes. Update— 5:40pm: After countless lightning strikes, the rift…

It’s Been A Groundbreaking Month For Ocarina Of Time Speedrunning

The last month has seen some dramatic changes to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunning, especially in the completionist category. A handful of newly-discovered glitches and shortcuts have blown open the doors on what was previously thought possible. One of the scene’s most accomplished players has managed to combine them to achieve some…

The Original Metroid Has No Map, But Samus Wouldn’t Need One

I’ve played through the first Metroid three times, but I’ve never played it without a map. Yesterday, I was wondering how the game’s original players even coped and what it says about Metroid, and about Samus Aran, that the first game doesn’t have one. The first Metroid game, which came out in 1986 on the…

Mario’s Supposed To Be Cute, Which Is Why His Nipples Grossed People Out

Few pieces of video game news have upset the internet so much as the recent revelations that Luigi has a penis bulge and Mario has nipples On September 13 of last year, in the runup to the release of Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo distributed a screenshot of a bathing-suit-clad Mario, in which its mascot character’s…

Developer Aims To Explore Female Sexuality With A Game That Lets You Bone ISIS To Death

Super Patriotic Dating Simulator, which is now on Kickstarter, is your typical romantic story of an elite spy infiltrating, seducing and then killing members of ISIS. Correction – 10:38am: The original version of this article misstated the beginning of this game’s Kickstarter campaign. Karlee Esmailli, who wrote and is developing the game, is an first…

Beware Of Fake Hibiki Japanese Whisky 

Earlier this week, two men were arrested in Japan for selling bottles of fake Hibiki. The bottles were real, but the whisky inside was bogus. According to Jiji (via The Japan Times, where, full disclosure, I am a columnist), Mie Prefecture police arrested Tokyo-natives Takeaki Nemoto, 29 years-old, and Yu Sasagawa, 26. They were charged…

Dragon Ball Pachinko Machine Probably Won’t Happen

Loads of anime and manga have been turned into pachinko machines, including Fist of the North Star, Evangelion and Lupin the Third. However, there is no Dragon Ball pachinko machine and probably won’t be anytime soon. Among pachinko players in Japan, the question as to why Dragon Ball doesn’t have a pachinko machine has been…

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Overwatch‘s New Busan Map Is A Chaotic Blast

It only took two years, but Overwatch’s lean, mean esports queen D.Va—easily one of the game’s most popular characters—is finally getting some time in the spotlight. Alongside her CG short about being the world’s coolest workaholic who also happens to have PTSD, there’s also a new map set in the South Korean city of Busan.…

Full Metal Arm Wrestling

Han is a Chinese-Vietnamese artist currently based in Belgium. You can see more of Han’s work at her Tumblrand order prints at her store Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their professional and personal portfolios. If you’re in the business and have some concept,…

Fortnite Now Lets You Thank The Bus Driver

Change.org signatures normally aren’t worth the paper they’re not printed on, but here’s an example of one actually working: only weeks after a campaign to allow players to thank the game’s bus driver, Fortnite now includes the ability to do just that. The original petition, first circulated in July and based on the “Thank the…

Nike, Make These Overwatch Sneakers

Korean sneaker/Overwatch fan upboyhas transformed a collection of Air Force 1s, turning them into Overwatch kicks with shoes based on heroes like D.Va, Widowmaker, Genji and Zarya. They were on display at the Overwatch Fan Festival in Korea on Wednesday, the same place D.Va’s new trailer was shown off Each shoe is obviously in the…