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UncategorizedDavid Hayter Returns As Voice Of Snake In Touching Metal Gear Solid Tribute
David Hayter, who voiced Metal Gear Solid protagonists Solid Snake and Naked Snake until he was replaced by Kiefer Sutherland in Metal Gear Solid V, has returned to the former role in a short video produced by filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts in celebration of the Metal Gear franchise’s 31st anniversary. The video was posted earlier this…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 18, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Cowboys Go Everywhere, Winners!
Do you wonder where the cowboys go when they wander off the map? Well our devoted community ‘Shop Experts are here to show you. Last week I asked everyone to help me out with some speculation. If the map for Red Dead Redemption 2 is so big, then there must be some weird places to…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 18, 2018 - Culture
This Week In The Business: The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
QUOTE | “Assume months at this point.” – Valve representative SeanJ, in response to a developer’s question of when the Steam storefront’s new features for filtering adult content would be released. The representative said games with adult content are not being allowed to debut on Steam until those tools are ready. QUOTE | “Due to…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published August 18, 2018 -
CultureHelping Hand Is A Clever Idea That Falls Flat
Helping Hand begins with your character getting into a car accident and smashing almost every bone in their body. In the game, you can only communicate with your left hand. It’s more interesting than actually being in a full-body cast, but not by much. The main conceit of Helping Hand is pretty brilliant: you’re in…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Valve Launches Steam.TV, Which Could Be A Twitch Competitor [UPDATE]
Today, Valve quietly debuted what appears to be a new video game streaming platform, which could be a direct competitor to Twitch, called Steam TV Earlier today it came to light that the company had registered the domain Steam.tv after it was first spotted by Pavel Djundik, the curator of the third-party website Steam Database.…
By Ethan Gach Published August 17, 2018 - Esports
Overwatch World Cup Match Grinds To A Halt When Game Crashes
The primary ingredients for a great Overwatch moment are a) a hotly contested match and b) a cheeky strategy the other team doesn’t see coming. During the fourth game of last night’s Overwatch World Cup match between South Korea and Finland, both these things happened. Then the game crashed. This year’s Overwatch World Cup—in which…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 17, 2018 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Call Of Duty World Championship And More
Stay inside, turn on the air conditioning and watch gamers pwn one another to your heart’s content over the weekend, because there are a crap ton of high profile esports tournaments going on. Call of Duty: WWII Call of Duty’s annual championship takes places this weekend in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. For those tired…
By Ethan Gach Published August 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedMonster Hunter: World Could Be Weirder
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate comes to the Switch on the 28th. Yesterday, Paul and I streamed the demoand faced off against a massive Valstrax. It’s a sort of laser-shooting dragon that darts around like a fighter jet. As I wait for the full release, it occurs to me that Monster Hunter: World could learn a…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Three Rules The Makers Of Assassin’s Creed Origins Used To Design Quests
Assassin’s Creed Origins is an incomprehensibly large game, so packed with quests that most players will likely never see them all. If you do see them all, however, you may notice that they follow certain rules—rules that Ubisoft detailed pretty specifically while making the game Speaking on the AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook podcast in an…
By Jason Schreier Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Another week, another batch of details about what’s changing in Destiny 2: Forsaken. This week it’s mostly PvP, with some granular stuff about Crucible and Gambit progression and rewards. Notable: Radar is returning to competitive, Glory ranking is getting simplified, and the Redrix’s Claymore grind is being retooled. More here
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2018 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for finally making that pasta dish you spent all week planning to make but then kept ordering delicious takeout instead. Also, video games. I don’t have a lot of free time this weekend, but my friends have been bugging me to play some Overwatch with them. I have, in return, been bugging…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
PUBG‘s Throwback Mode Is A Reminder Of What Made It Great
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds keeps on expanding, adding new guns and maps that change the game’s pace into something faster than before. The game now has new rules for armor loot drops and tweaks to the dreaded blue zone. PUBG’s latest event mode, ‘Early Access Memories,’ brings back many of the game’s rough edges. Playing it reminded…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Court Blocks Maker Of GTA Online Cheating Programs From Selling Them
Yesterday, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction against a man distributing cheating software for Grand Theft Auto V. In other words, he’s prohibited from making or selling any more cheat programs for the game until the court can definitively sort out whether…
By Ethan Gach Published August 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedThere Is No Longer A ‘Best’ Time To Play A Video Game
That game you bought last month isn’t the same game today. It’s almost certainly been patched, updated, rebalanced, and tweaked. The original version is shrinking from view as it washes downriver. But is it better now? Truer? Should you have played more of it back when you bought it, or waited? This article was originally…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Graveyard Keeper Feels Like A Job
If you ever thought that Stardew Valley needed more corpses, Graveyard Keeper is the highly specific game for you. Managing a graveyard, performing autopsies, and keeping the Church happy is a humble and rewarding existence. It’s also hard work; after my first day playing Graveyard Keeper, I was legitimately exhausted. My grandfather worked for years…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedJapanese Sex Toy Gets A Transformer-Type Robot
Some transforming-type toys turn into cars or fighter jets. This one turns into a mock-up male masturbation aid. Keep in mind, it’s not one-to-one scale and not designed for actual use. This is just Japanese sex-toy maker Tenga releasing an off-beat transforming-type toy As Otakuma reports, the regular Tenga Robo is 3,700 yen ($33.50). These…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Japanese Voice Of Pokémon‘s Professor Oak Has Died
Voice actor Unsho Ishizuka, who voiced Professor Oak and narrated the Pokémon anime in Japanese, has died. Ishizuka has been voicing Professor Oak and narrating the Pokémon TV anime since the show debuted in Japan in 1997. He also voiced some Pocket Monsters, including Onix and Steelix. Besides his Pokémon anime work, Ishizuka also voiced…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2018
