Fortnite’s Halloween Event Released, Then Removed Because Of Issues [Update: It’s Working Again]

Another day, another Fortnite patch. The one that went live this morning is V6.20, notable for introducing the game’s Halloween event, Fortnitemares. Unfortunately, players began experiencing problems, including long matchmaking times, as soon as they started trying to play. Within a few hours the event had already been removed. [Update – 11:11am]: The Fortnitemares event…

Fake Ultra Rare Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Leads To Arrest 

Lorelei The Symphonic Arsenal was a prize card at the 2008 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships. There are only six in the whole world. Six real cards, that is. According to YTV and MBS, 29-year-old Shunki Iwasaki allegedly sold a fake Lorelei The Symphonic Arsenal to a 20-something year-old Kyoto woman for 400,000 yen ($3,556) through an…

After Cocaine Allegations, Yakuza 4 Gets A New Voice Actor 

In Yakuza 4‘s original PlayStation 3 release, the character Masayoshi Tanimura was played by actor Hiroki Narimiya. The upcoming PS4 remaster, however, will feature another actor. Narimiya made a name for himself as a popular TV and movie actor, starring in the live-action adaptation of Phoenix Wright as well as 2016’s Assassination Classroom: Graduation flick.…

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B-Boy Recreates Smash Bros. & Overwatch Moves

This is Martin Cochingco, a man able to take a bunch of ridiculously exaggerated video game animations and somehow recreate them in real life. Here he is recreating some select Smash Bros. victory animations, from Bayonetta to Sonic to Captain Falcon to Green Mario. And here he is with some friends doing some Overwatch animations:…

Overwatch Is Getting A Spectator Mode

If you’ve ever found yourself tired of Overwatch esports spectators’ camera angle choices and thought you could do a better job, your big day is just around the corner. Blizzard’s shooter is getting an in-game spectator mode, though it’s gonna have to go through some testing first. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan—who, in a stunning turn…

Tree Queen

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Grand Theft Auto V Mods Continue To Look Incredible

NaturalVision Remastered, a mod we’ve covered previously, takes Grand Theft Auto V—already still a very good-looking game!—and turns it into something extraordinary. It’s just got its final update, and surprise, it now looks even better. In a chat with PC Gamer the mod’s creator, Razed, explains that the last update was also one of the…

It Takes Two To Cosplay As Doctor Strange

This is wrussell9 cosplaying as Doctor Strange, getting more than a little help from the Cloak of Levitation, aka his sister elliebabygurl

Massive Fallout Mod New California Is Out Today

Fallout: New California, an enormously ambitious mod for Fallout: New Vegas, is now out, finished and ready to play. New California—built from the bones of an older mod called Brazil— is set in between the events of Fallout 2 and Fallout New Vegas, and to simply call it a “mod” is to sell it short.…

PS3 Game Shutting Down Servers Earlier Than Promised [Update]

Warhawk is a third-person military shooter that came out on PS3 in 2007. Over a decade before Call of Duty thought to do it, Warhawk ditched the standard single-player campaign to focus instead on multiplayer only. Last month, Sony announced the game’s servers would finally be abruptly shutting down on October 25. Thirty days’ notice…

Newly Discovered Super Smash Bros. Melee Technique Turns Link Into A Rocket

Super Smash Bros. Melee turns 17 years old next month, but that doesn’t mean the game has been completely solved. Sure, there’s an upper echelon of competitors who you can count on to win just about any tournament they enter, but there are also Melee players like Joseph “Savestate” El-Khouri grinding out new techniques for…

Bethesda Tries To Set Player Expectations Ahead Of Fallout 76‘s Beta

Late yesterday, Bethesda published a letter to its fans that appeared to be an attempt to set their expectations for today’s launch of the Fallout 76 beta test on Xbox One. The letter covered a variety of topics, but the most notable was when Bethesda touched on how buggy its games have been in the…

GTA V Exploit Let Hackers Kill Players In Single-Player

Last week, Twitch streamer FriendlyBaron was in the middle of a GTA V single player speedrun. Suddenly, his in-game car slowed to a stop and his player character got out of the vehicle and randomly died. Had he discovered some bizarre glitch? No, FriendlyBaron had been killed by a GTA modder while playing single-player. FriendlyBaronposted…

Spider-Man’s Heist DLC Is Fun But Familiar

My favorite part of the new downloadable addition to the new Spider-Man on PS4 involves a hungry and exhausted Peter Parker eating a pizza on the roof of an apartment building with the city skyline behind him. Warring mob families, stolen art, a love triangle between the Black Cat Mary Jane can all wait. Everybody’s…

Rimworld, As Told By Steam Reviews

Rimworld was officially released last week after being in early access for five years. All these years, players on Steam have been sharing their wild stories in their Steam reviews. I love games like Dwarf Fortress, so Rimworld has already stolen a lot of my time. It’s management sim where you build a base on…