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UncategorizedFantasy Games Are Better When They Don’t Focus On Magic
I’ve been playing through Dust and Salt recently, and I’ve been struck with how much I enjoy a fantasy game when magic isn’t the core focus of the narrative. Dust and Salt is gritty. You start as a ten-year-old who watches his father get murdered by conscripts from the city of Murk, and after rescuing…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 25, 2018 -
Uncategorized2016’s Doom Looks Very Silly In Third Person
There’s a new episode of Boundary Break, a YouTube series all about showing off the things in games we aren’t supposed to see, and it’s about Doom. It reveals how silly everything in that game looks when you’re not in first-person mode. While this episode is ostensibly about just showing off all kinds of strange…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 25, 2018 -
UncategorizedBloodborne Modder Restores Cut DLC Story Content
Lady Maria is a mysterious figure in Bloodborne. She appears front-and-center on the cover for The Old Hunters DLC, but when you finally meet her, she’s not exactly in the condition you might expect. Data digger Lance McDonald has figured out why. We’re going to spoil the Bloodborne DLC here. I’m spoiling it. You’re warned. Now…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 25, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Snake? Snake! Snaaaaake! Winners!
I’ve been missing Snake recently, so I asked you all to ‘shop up some information about what the Metal Gear protagonist has been up to recently. You didn’t disappoint, and now I have a lot of Snakes to display. I’ve got a lot of respect for Snake. After all, he’s a guy who can’t catch…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 25, 2018 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Doubt, Confidence, and the Journeys Between
QUOTE | “My lead programmer was expecting me to say, ‘you’re right, this is crazy, we can’t do this.’ But I’m like, ‘this is easy, man. This won’t be so bad.’ Even though, inside, I’m feeling a tremendous amount of doubt.” – In his talk at Devcom 2018, Sony Santa Monica creative director Cory Barlog…
Rebekah Valentine Published August 25, 2018 -
UncategorizedThis mini-doc about Doom’s cheat codes is fascinating. It’s the first episode of a new YouTube series called Codex, and it delves into how Doom’s particular cheat codes impacted everything from future cheat codes in other games to speedrunning and modding scenes.
By Nathan Grayson Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite Is Getting A Competitive Mode
Do you believe yourself to be the very best at surviving in an environment where a) everybody wants to kill you, and b) they’re all reality-bending architecture-mancers? Well, soon you’ll have a chance to prove it. Epic is finally adding a competitive mode to Fortnite this fall. Epic made the announcement in a state of…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Even Star Wars: Battlefront II‘s Developers Were Confused About A Droid In One Of Their Screenshots
It’s been a wild week for eagle-eyed fans of Star Wars Battlefront II. On Wednesday they thought they spotted an unannounced droid in the background of some new official artwork for the game. A rep for the game threw cold water on that theory but then clarified today that, actually, these both were and weren’t…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Popular YouTuber Kills Self, Two Others In Fiery Crash
Eighteen-year-old YouTuber Trevor Heitmann, aka “McSkillet,” caused a massive accident yesterday in San Diego, California when he drove down the wrong side of a freeway and his car collided with another vehicle, killing two people and injuring one other. He also died in the crash. Police confirmed this evening that Heitmann was the driver involved…
By Jason Schreier Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
Hearthstone’s New Single-Player Mode Is A Surprisingly Solid Puzzle Game
Hearthstone has shifted and bent its shape a handful of times over the years. When its first Naxxramas-themed “Adventure” expansion released in 2014, it took the shape of a single-player strategy game. Most recently, with Kobolds and Catacombs and The Witchwood, it took the form of a dungeon-crawling roguelike. And now, with the launch of…
By Joshua Calixto Published August 24, 2018 -
EsportsAlmost Nobody Predicted This Weekend’s Wild Dota 2 Tournament
The International 2018 ends tomorrow. By day’s end, over $25 million will be divided up among 18 teams from around the world with the lion’s share, $11.1 million, going to first place. Whoever that turns out to be at this point, though, will be a team almost nobody saw coming. The tournament for Valve’s action…
By Ethan Gach Published August 24, 2018 - Culture
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…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Mike Fahey Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Gita Jackson Published August 24, 2018 - Uncategorized
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…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 24, 2018
