Teacher Inspires Students With Chalkboard Art

Naohiko teaches art at a junior high school in Japan. To inspire students during athletic day competition, the teacher drew some encouraging chalkboard art. In Japan, a school’s athletic day is a big deal, with students divided up into different colour-coordinated teams. Naohiko’s class, it seems, was the green team As GameOver points out, here…

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Roadhog!

One of the coolest things from PAX West this year was shyaku_cosplay’s Roadhog cosplay, so it’s a treat to be able to showcase some close-ups of the costume. All photos below by Ashley Russell

New Tomb Raider Cosplay For A New Tomb Raider Game

With Shadow of the Tomb Raider out this week, a couple of cosplayers took to nature to pay tribute with their own takes on 2018’s version of Lara Croft. Cosplay by 2playergame | Photo by Flash Bang Cosplay Capture The cosplayers are kat.ofalltrades and 2playergame, while the photographer is Rex Yau, aka Flash Bang Cosplay…

It Appears Nobody Is Home

Kamila Szutenberg is a concept artist based in Germany who has worked for companies like Bethesda and Slitherine. You can see more of Kamila’s work at her ArtStation page

Guys, Just Go Around

Tyson Ibele is an animator who has created tyFlow, a particle simulation tool for 3dsmax. What this means for you is: funny videos of 3D models falling over Like this: And this: Animators, if you’re not testing and showing off stuff with slapstick comedy videos, what are you even doing. You can see more of…

NBA 2K19 Is A Nightmarish Vision Of Our Microtransaction-Stuffed Future

Let’s start with the good news: NBA 2K19 is not as egregious with its nickel-and-diming as NBA 2K18 was. But that being the good news is also what makes this the worst news. Last year’s entry in what’s still the best basketball series (on the court at least) on the planet was heavily criticised by…

Steam Approves ‘100 Percent Uncensored’ Adult Game

Things were looking dicey for a little while, but it seems like Valve is set to start allowing uncensored adult games onto Steam. Well, some of them, anyway—starting with Dharker Studio’s lingerie-centric visual novel, Negligee: Love Stories. Today Dharker announced that the game—previously stuck in limbo while Valve sorted out tools that’d allow users to…

Local Hero Thrashes Evo 2018 Champion At French Tekken 7 Tournament

Sun-woong “LowHigh” Youn has been riding high since becoming Evo 2018’s Tekken 7 champion over the summer, and he entered last weekend’s tournament at The Mixup in Lyon, France as one of the favorites to win. As the event came to a close, however, he got eliminated handily by a local player. Mickaïa “Kalak” Rabenja…

Epic Drops Video Capture From Fortnite On Switch, Cites Performance Issues

Earlier today, Epic released a new content update for Fortnite that, among other things, vaulted the game’s overpowered drum gun. Something else went missing though, at least for Switch players: the ability to use the system’s video capture while playing the game. After the new update was pushed out early this morning, Fortnite players on…

Spider-Man‘s Windows Are Amazing

When you live in a giant city like New York, you stop noticing certain things. Spider-Man for the PS4 lets you swing 80 stories above the city, but it still takes time to indulge in little details that remind me of the life that happens all around that I usually tune out. One of my…

Destiny 2: Forsaken Definitely Has Its Share Of Bugs

Every Destiny expansion launches with some bugs. That’s been doubly true of the new Forsaken expansion, which for all its many improvements has also introduced an unusual degree of uncertainty and frustration thanks to bugs and other technical problems. Since Forsaken’s launch last Tuesday, Bungie has been documenting known problemssmall andlarge on the company website.…

Twitch Streamer Dr. Disrespect Abruptly Ends Stream, Saying His House Was Shot At [UPDATE]

While streaming on Twitch today, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm suddenly got up and walked off camera for a minute. When he returned, he told viewers he was ending his stream for the day because someone had just shot at his house. The popular streamer, known for playing (and sometimes over-playing) the character of a hyper-competitive,…

‘DefunctLand’ Investigates How And Why Theme Parks Die

When a theme park shutters its gates for good, it’s usually marked with a small sigh from the local news or, if the park was big enough, a what-went-wrong exposé from the national press. Decades later, they’re rusted-over playgrounds for teens who want to spook their dates. One YouTuber, who runs the channel Defunctland, is…

The Best Horror Game Weapon Is A Flashlight

What’s your favorite horror-game weapon? Pistol? Crossbow? Flamethrower? While I enjoy the feeling of security that comes from wandering a dark hallway with a spiked baseball bat in hand, I enjoy walking down a not-dark hallway even more. And so I would like to pay tribute to the oft-unsung MVP of the horror game protagonist’s…

Eevee Is What Pokémon Is All About

The heart of what makes Pokémon games so enduring is the sense of adventure and self-discovery. Each game begins with its adolescent protagonist taking a rite of passage, their first voyage into the wider world as their own person. In their own ways, every Pokémon game is about finding yourself and establishing yourself in the…