What Fortnite‘s Dance Emotes May Owe To The Black Artists Who Created Them

One of the many purchasable dance emotes in Fortnite is from Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” It’s called the Tidy Emote, and goes for 500 V-Bucks, the equivalent of $5 in the game’s rotating store. Players who get it can make their character mimic Snoop’s wheel turning gesture from the video’s “park it…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to make my apartment look super cool so my niece is really impressed when she and my sister come to visit next week. It’s also for playing video games Last weekend I played Fortnite with a friend of mine for the first time. We barricaded ourselves in a cave, built…

Prey‘s Mooncrash DLC Is Better Than The Main Game

Prey: Mooncrash released last month, adding a rogue-like twist to the 2017 game’s mix of action and exploration. The DLC arrived during E3 and was easy to sleep on—I ignored it in favor of big releases like Octopath Traveler. That was a mistake. Mooncrash might be even better than the main game. In Mooncrash, you…

New Hearthstone Card Builds Its Own Crappy Deck So You Don’t Have To

Hearthstone is a game about careful preparation, where you amass a grand collection of cards so that you can build powerful new decks. But yesterday, in the continuing rollout of its new science-themed expansion The Boomsday Project, Blizzard announced a card that ignores all that, allowing players to build a deck that includes this one…

No Man’s Sky Never Got Sandworms Because ‘People Would Hate Them’

If you’re hoping for giant sandworms and non-stop player-vs.-player space battles in No Man’s Sky, you’re probably going to be disappointed by the new update coming next week. If you’re down to just chill in lonely vacuum of space with a couple of buds, buckle up. There are still players seeking out some of the…

Dying In Games Can Be Its Own Reward

In real life, death is my greatest fear. In video games, I’ll court disaster. When faced with obvious traps or perilous dialog choices, I will run in with reckless abandon. I’m not really sure what this says about me. Death, in video games, often feels to me like a carry over from the arcade designs…

Twelve More Of The Best Gaming Episodes In Cartoons

Cartoons and video games are a match made in heaven. Well, maybe not when the cartoon is actually based on a video game. Single shot animated stories in cartoons always seem to capture the quirky and obsessive nature of gaming in the most meaningful and hilarious light. This piece originally appeared 2/19/18. It’s been nearly…

So Far In 2018, Japan’s Most Downloaded Nintendo Switch Game Is Minecraft 

Minecraft isn’t only popular in Japan, it’s also popular on the Nintendo Switch. Minecraft is the most downloaded game on Nintendo Switch in Japan during the first half of this year, according to lists Nintendo published today. Here are the top five for package and download versions. Note that Nintendo did not release download figures.…

People Love Goku And Vegeta’s New…Jackets

A new Dragon Ball Super: Broly trailer just debuted at San Diego Comic-Con. In it, Broly goes bonkers, but what many fans also dig are Goku’s and Vegeta’s winter wear. Just look at these jackets! Folks love them. I do, too. In Japan, those who pre-order movie tickets for Dragon Ball Super: Broly get little Goku…

The Next Evangelion Movie Will Be Out In 2020

The years-in-the-making Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 finally has a release year. The movie is slated for 2020 in Japan. Currently, the movie does not have an international release date. The release date was announced during movie previews starting today, including the previews before Mamoru Hosoda’s new feature Mirai of the Future Here is some artwork for the…

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Even LeBron James Is Impressed With This 2K Fan Video

A 2K18 player has made this little mixtape vid of his game, which has created LeBron James’ son (LeBron James Jr.) and put him on the same Lakers team as his dad. It’s pretty good! Both as a video and as a vision of a possible future, where James sticks around in the leaguelong enough…

Breath Of The Wild Comes To Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Nintendo just announced a couple of new updates to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, adding some Breath of the Wild-related items to the game. First up is a Breath of the Wild-skinned version of the Master Cycle: You’ll also be able to dress Link up in his tunic from the Switch game. Ancient customisation parts will…

OK, Maybe Adidas’ Dragon Ball Sneakers Won’t Be That Bad

Earlier this year,there was a big fuss from Dragon Ball fans over a line of sneakers that Adidas was releasing based on the franchise, mostly because a bunch of leaked designs looked terrible. Now that one of the shoes is actually coming out, though, things might not be so bad. The first sneaker in the…

Blizzard Is Sorry World Of Warcraft Patch 8.0 Messed Up The Game

Earlier this week, what should’ve been the second-biggest event of World of Warcraft’s calendar year landed with a dull, wet thud. The big 8.0 patch, which lays the foundation for the upcoming expansion Battle For Azeroth, sailed into players’ lives aboard a raft of bugs and tedium. Now Blizzard has apologized and vowed to improve…

Sony’s Spider-Man PS4 Is Very Nice

On September 7, Sony will be releasing this Spider-Man PS4 console in the US and Canada. It’ll cost USD$399/CAD$499. The bundle includes a Spider-Man themed PS4 Pro console, DualShock and a copy of Insomniac’s Spider-Man game. We used to get a lot of custom, limited edition consoles, whether they were colour schemes or branded offerings…