My New, Healthier Mobile Game Obsession Is Fidel: Dungeon Rescue

Some mobile games play psychological tricks with you to get you to keep playing. Others hook you the much better way, simply by being great. So it is with the new iOS port of the stellar Fidel: Dungeon Rescue, which is billed as “the roguelike where you can rewind.” My colleague Heather highlighted the game…

Soulcalibur VI Is A Fresh Reboot Of Its Eternally Retold Tale

The Soulcalibur franchise needed either a hard reboot or an adrenaline shot, and Soulcalibur VI is both. The latest entry in the fighting game series, available October 19, circles back for a do-over of the first few Soulcalibur games, retelling the major characters’ stories all over again and even putting everyone back in their original…

League of Legends Coach Urges Underdog Teams To Play Their Own Style

The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left. One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to…

PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Delayed Again, Now To April

Days Gone is the first to flinch in the game release death race currently slated for February 22, 2018. Today, Sony announced the open world zombie game will be delayed again by two months so the studio can finish polishing it. “We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February…

The “AirDrop Perverts” On Japanese Trains 

In Japanese, the word “chikan” refers to those who grope others in public or the unwanted touching itself. “AirDrop chikan” has entered the public discourse. As this Japanese news broadcast points out, it’s also called “cyber chikan.” In the West, the BBC reported on the “first cyber-flashing” in 2015 after a British woman was sent…

The Internet Reacts To Crunchyroll And Funimation’s Break Up 

For the past two years, Crunchyroll and Funimation have been sharing anime broadcasts via a cross-licensing deal. Variety reports that agreement is over. Bummer. Sony-owned Funimation has decided not to renew. The reason? According to Funimation president and CEO Gen Fukunaga in an internal memo, Sony is increasing inventions in the streaming company in order…

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Zelda Really Needed A Frog Village

Ziggy Zhu is a concept artist from China who, as a tribute to Breath of the Wild, decided to design his own village for the game. It’s beautiful. And very froggy. The village hook is simple: it’s built in a swamp, and everyone is a frog, and they all love sumo. And I love Frog…

Dying Genji Obliterates Enemy Team With Their Own Ult 

Tired: Getting a team kill with your own ultimate in Overwatch. Wired: Dying a painful death as Genji, only to posthumously realize that you deflected the other team’s ult right back at them, resulting in a team kill so inevitable that their Bastion didn’t even try to get out of harm’s way. That’s exactly what…

Wait, There’s A Ghost Ship In The Witcher 3?

The Witcher 3 is a big game, so big that even three years later it can still surprise us. The series’ official Twitter account posted this earlier today: And not a single one of us—that’s thousands of combined hours in the game—had ever seen the thing. Throw in the fact loads of players never see…

Putting Usain Bolt In FIFA 19 Hardly Seems Fair

You may remember Usain Bolt as the fastest man on the planet, but ever since retiring from sprinting in 2017 he’s been trying to make it as a professional footballer. And by God, he’s actually doing it. With a dream to ultimately play for Manchester United, Bolt had a run with some Norwegian teams earlier…

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.…