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Love Island Game Is All About Six-Packs, Banter, And Random Hookups
Love Island is a British reality TV show in which several glistening, muscular men with sleeve tattoos and unaddressed anger issues are sent to a sunny island villa along with several glossy-haired, incredibly basic women who I’m pretty sure have their perma-bikinis sewn onto their skin, and are then expected to “couple up” in order…
By Kate Gray Published July 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
The new 1.52.1 PC patch for No Man’s Sky fixes base reclamation, among other things. I spent uh, a while trying to scare up a base location over the weekend, so I’m glad to finally be able to continue progress in the base building quest. Hello Games says the fixes are coming to other platforms “as soon…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 30, 2018 -
CultureWe’re streaming Overcooked 2 live on Twitch. Come watch!
By Paul Tamayo Published July 30, 2018 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To DJ Khaled’s Underwhelming Overwatch League Concert
DJ Khaled performed at this weekend’s Overwatch League Finals. The fans were not having it, not even when he yelled “Overwatch me!” Fans who gathered at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center this weekend to watch the Overwatch League’s Philly Fusion and London Spitfire duke it out in the League Finals were also graced by the musical stylings…
By Gita Jackson Published July 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedConflicted Feelings About The Mobile Game I’m Playing
If I’m commuting on the subway and don’t have two hands free to play Switch or 3DS games, I play a mobile game. Usually, it’s Threes, but sometimes another game takes its place. That’s the case now. The new game is Holedown I feel good about playing Holedown, because, really, I’ve played way too much…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
Gran Turismo Sport Gets Microtransactions A Year After Series Producer Said It Wouldn’t
Gran Turismo Sport’s July update is now live, adding a new race track and more cars. It’s also introduced microtransactions, something the series producer said last summer the game wouldn’t have. As of today, players can now purchase cars outright for cash as long as they cost less than 2,000,000 in in-game currency. The change…
By Ethan Gach Published July 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
How To Make Lots Of Money In No Man’s Sky Next
Unless you’re running tons of side missions, it can be difficult to raise funds in No Man’s Sky. If you’re not interested in farming or running errands, you might want to consider investing in cryo-pumps. They’re easy to craft and sell for obscene prices. The first thing I did in No Man’s Sky after the…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 30, 2018 -
UncategorizedPokémon The Movie: The Power Of Us is an upcoming Pokémon movie starring Ash and Pikachu that’s heading to theaters for four days only. On November 24, 26 and 28 and December 1 you’ll be able to watch Ash and his buds visit a island town and summon a Lugia. If you want to find…
By Gita Jackson Published July 30, 2018 - Culture
The Week In Games: Witness The Revolution
This week has a lot of games coming to platforms where they were not before. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday makes many leaps, Forsaken gets a remaster, and Yakuza 0 comes to PC. This is yet another week when Switch releases outnumber all other platforms, but there’s a wide range of games offered on all platforms,…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 30, 2018 - Esports
Chinese Esports Team Has An Amazing Training Facility
China’s OMG (Oh My God) dominates not only dominates League of Legends and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but also esports compounds. Check out its training facility. The digs were designed to look like a spaceship (success!) and were completed last year. Recently images have been circulating on websites like Sohu.com, HK01 and Dexerto Here are more photos…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 - Esports
Street Fighter Pros Appear On Prime Time Japanese TV
Yesterday, popular Japanese sports talk show Junk Sports featured Street Fighter pros Momochi and Chocoblanka. Professionally gaming still doesn’t quite get the respect it deserves in Japan, so for fighting game fans, simply seeing these two on mainstream Japanese TV was a big deal. Junk Sports features a handful of guests, and this episode featured…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 - Uncategorized
Unlike in Pokémon, Digimon Humans Keep Aging
In the Pokémon anime, Ash is ten years old. Eternally. But in the Digimon anime, the human characters are getting older. The upcoming Digimon movie, which marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary, stars a 22-year-old Taichi (“Tai”) and Yamato (“Matt”) When the anime started, both characters were boys and now, years later, they’re adults The fact…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 -
CultureCosplayGallerySome Of The Best Cosplay From The 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Comic-Con, the biggest nerd show on Earth, wrapped up earlier this month, and aside from over-priced toys and exhausting panel talks there was also a ton of cosplay present. Mineralbluwas there braving the crowds for us to bring you this showcase of some of the best of it, featuring everything from very good cosplay dogs…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 - Culture
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Grafit Studio is an outsourcing and production company based in Russia, who have worked on games like Gwent and The Elder Scrolls: Legends. You can see more of Grafit’s work at their company site and ArtStation page Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 - Uncategorized
Adidas’ First Two Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Goku & Frieza
OK, we’re pretty much done with leaks: these are some of the first official shots of Adidas’ anticipated upcoming collaboration with Dragon Ball Z, and they show the first two pairs are running with a Goku vs. Frieza theme. As Sneaker News reports, the Goku shoe is a modified ZX500 RM, which is not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 -
UncategorizedCivilization IV’s Theme Was On America’s Got Talent, And It Was Excellent
Last week, the procession of pop songs on TV show America’s Got Talent was interrupted by a massive group performance of Baba Yetu, the Grammy-award winning Civilization IV theme Sung by the Angel City Chorale, it’s one hell of a performance of Christopher Tin’s work, which despite its surprise contemporary prominence (it won its Grammy…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 -
UncategorizedRemembering Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4‘s Most Bogus Mission
Before the twitch-restarting of Super Meat Boy or weird hacks of Super Mario Bros. built for maximum frustration there was the San Francisco level of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4. It was here that this manual-gap-manual combo reduced me to a broken teen. I’ve recently set up a “game room” in part of my office…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published July 29, 2018
