Valve Discloses The Odds For Its New Dota 2 Loot Boxes

Valve’s latest update for Dota 2 changes how the free-to-play MOBA’s loot boxes work. It now discloses the odds for the rare items that have a chance of dropping in each box, following in the footsteps of other companies amid growing public concerns over loot boxes’ similarity to gambling. Yesterday, Valve added the “Treasure of…

EVE Online Cheaters In China Might Get Sent To Space Jail

When EVE Online’s Chinese version relaunches in Q4 of 2018, rulebreakers may find themselves facing a type of punitive action that goes way beyond banning—they might end up in a virtual prison labor camp. Data miners from Hoboleaks, a site dedicated to discovering changes pushed to the EVE Online test server, recently uncovered new in-game…

Have Sex With King Arthur And Sir Lancelot In This Text Adventure

Sometimes, I wish I could spend just a little time in the historical days of England. I’m not a huge fan of plagues, bread shortages, and the feudal system, but I do like courtly love—the chivalrous, disciplined romantic overtures that drove noble women wild with passion, lust, and the mystery of what came after all…

Controversial Streamer Suspended From Twitch, Barred From TwitchCon After ‘Harassment’

Last week, controversial Twitch streamer Ali “Gross Gore” Larsen landed himself in hot water after attendees of official Runescape convention RuneFest alleged that he’d harassed women and gotten into a physical altercation with another streamer. Now he says he’s been suspended from Twitch and forbidden from attending TwitchCon, but, he claims, this happened because of…

Some Starlink Copies Bought From Best Buy Didn’t Include The Game, Players Say

A number of Best Buy customers who purchased copies of Ubisoft’s Starlink: Battle for Atlas starter kit for Nintendo Switch received boxes containing everything but the actual game. The publisher says it is investigating. As mentioned inour Starlink buyer’s guide yesterday, reports of missing games began popping up on the Switch subreddit on Tuesday, the…

Sims Players Want More Diverse Options From Fan-Made Creations

If you don’t want to make new Sims in The Sims 4, you can always download ones other players have made from the gallery. Some players are saying that unless you’re looking for characters who are white, your options are pretty slim. The gallery has been a feature of The Sims since The Sims 3.…

Well, You Don’t See That Very Often

In fighting game competition, there are supposed to be winners and losers. Players are either one or the other once a match has concluded. But sometimes, the fates like to throw a wrench in that rigid dichotomy with the anticlimactic and almost unheard of draw game. At last night’s Next Level Battle Circuit, local competitors…

Independent Game Shops Told They Won’t Get Red Dead Redemption 2 Until November

In the lead-up to Red Dead Redemption 2’s October 26 release, Zach Gieg spent over $3,300 adorning his small, local chain of Pennsylvania video game stores with billboards, flyers, posters, and other displays touting the the highly-anticipated Western adventure game that his customers began preordering two years ago. It was at the store’s own expense,…

Dark Souls Remastered On Switch Is Rough But Worth Playing

Dark Souls Remastered released on most consoles back in May, giving players a chance to relive (or finally experience) the game that inspired countless imitators. The Nintendo Switch version will finally arrive this Friday. It’s an impressive technical achievement that, while not as robust as other versions, is still worth exploring. Dark Souls Remastered is…

Three Powerful Hearthstone Cards Just Got Nerfed

If you’ve played any Hearthstone since the Boomsday expansion launched in August, you’ve probably gotten destroyed by a couple cards time and time again. Earlier this week, Blizzard announced that three of those cards will be getting nerfed, and today those nerfs are live. At the top of the nerf list is the dastardly Giggling…

Skybound Games ‘In Discussions’ With Former Telltale Staffers About Completing The Walking Dead

Skybound Games, which is currently finalizing an agreement with Telltale Games to finish the final season of The Walking Dead, hopes to release episode 3 by the end of the year and have episodes 1 and 2 back up for sale later this month, according to comments by its CEO during an AMA on Reddit…

Gwent‘s New Solo Campaign Includes Some Great Battles

I’ve been playing the same fight in Thronebreaker, Gwent’s standalone story, for a few hours now. I still haven’t beaten it. In most games, that would make me frustrated with myself or furious at the designers. But thanks to Thronebreaker’s unique mechanics, I’m itching to keep trying. Thronebreaker is the single-player standalone accompaniment to CD…

The Unusual Effort That Went Into Creating WarioWare Gold

WarioWare fans who were eager for the series to finally return this year had to settle for a best-of compilation on the aging Nintendo 3DS. But WarioWare Gold, is more than just a greatest-hits remaster. It actually had a lot of effort put into it, its lead developer explained to Kotaku “We basically redrew the…

Black Ops 4’s Narrator Says Some Wild Stuff

Jumping into Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 can be a little disorienting for people returning to the series after a bit of a hiatus. Thankfully, the game offers a “Specialist Headquarters” that onboards players by showing them how to utilize each character. But it’s not hidden in some lifeless practice arena. You’re guided along…

Several Excuses For Why I Am Still Playing Nintendo’s Latest Mobile Game

When Nintendo and Cygames’ Dragalia Lost launched at the end of last month, I said it was a slick version of the same old mobile action role-playing game. Turns out a little slickness goes a long way, as I’ve been playing the damn thing every day since. Why? Let me pull out my list of…

Red Dead Redemption 2 Developers Speak Out After Rockstar Lifts Social Media Ban

Last night, Red Dead Redemption developer Rockstar Games lifted its social media policies, telling employees they were no longer banned from speaking about their work experiences on Twitter and Facebook. The move has led to a number of current staff sharing mostly positive stories from their time at the massive game company. “First off, this…

The New Anime That Has Fans Complaining About Animation Quality

Another season of anime! Another season of fans pointing out animation problems. This time it’s My Sister, My Writer So far, the show is two episodes in and regardless if you are enjoying the story or the characters, it seems rife with animation issues. Which will, no doubt, be smoothed out with the animators are…

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