DMing A Roleplaying Game Wasn’t As Scary As I Feared

This weekend I DMed my first tabletop RPG. I was really nervous about it, but it was actually way easier than I thought it would be. Our tradition in my Dungeons & Dragons group is whenever someone has a birthday, someone else will run them a one-off in the system of their choice. Our current…

Here’s June’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

There’s a range of genres in June’s Xbox Live Games with Gold, from racing to stealth to a MOBA. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an Xbox Live Games with Gold subscription. June’s Xbox Live Games With Gold are: Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (June 1-30) Smite Gold Bundle (June…

Splatoon 2‘s ‘Octo Expansion’ Is Full Of Short, Challenging Single-Player Levels

Fans of single-player Splatoon should know that a whole lot more of it will be landing on Switch very soon in this summer’s “Octo Expansion.” The $19.99 DLC will finally let you play as an Octoling, a species previously encountered in the games as enemies (or as a TV show host), in online multiplayer matches.…

Sailor Moon Wedding Ring Only $1,486

In Sailor Moon, when Usagi finally married her beloved Mamoru, she wore a pink heart-shaped stone offset by jewels. Now, Bandai is making real-life versions of that ring. Priced at 162,000 yen ($1,486), the ring is made from platinum and made in Japan. The heart-shaped jewel is synthetic corundum, while the smaller stones are 0.13ct…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Studio Is Suing Over Fortnite

South Korea’s PUBG Corp., the studio behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, is suing Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was filed this past January, according to The Korea Times, although it only became public this weekend. PUBG Corp. is claiming that Fortnite’s popular Battle Royale mode copies PUBG’s interface and in-game items. When…

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And Now For Some Excellent Solo Cosplay

Here’s Sunjiwith one heck of a Han Solo/Alden Ehrenreich smirk. Photos by kmitenkova

The Good Sir Boye

Rudy Siswanto is a concept artist and illustrator based in Indonesia. You can see more of Rudy’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of…

Solo Has A Weird Little Video Game Easter Egg

Spoilers here, obviously. So there’s a scene in Solo where Emelia Clark, playing Han’s former flame Qi’ra, shows she’s a lot more dangerous than first thought by handing out a brutal beatdown to a bad guy. That eventually happens a lot in the movie, so whatever, but it’s memorable the first time she does it…

How World of Warcraft‘s Quest Chains Came To Be

Back before World of Warcraft launched, in 2004, the template for quests in an MMORPG was a little dry. Games like EverQuest were primarily inspired by text-based MUDs, where you didn’t need much incentive to go out and kill things. For World of Warcraft, that wasn’t going to work. Jeff Kaplan, who’s now known as…

Final Fantasy IV Randomizer Mod Turns The Game Into An Open-World RPG

What would happen if you started off Final Fantasy IV with the airship? And if every boss and item in the game were made completely random? It’d turn into one big, sprawling treasure hunt, that’s what would happen. Final Fantasy IV Free Enterprise, a ROM hack that launched earlier this year, transforms the seminal Super…

A Look Back At Dante’s Inferno‘s Over-The-Top Sex Level

Whenever someone starts talking about their guilty-favorite games on Twitter, they’re usually thinking of something tame, like one of the weirder Metal Gears or that one Metroid that everyone thinks is bad. But mine comes with a lot more guilt than most—an appropriately Catholic amount of guilt, in fact, because my guilty favorite is Dante’s…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Star Finally Beats His Longtime Rival

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean has won titles in a number of games, but in Dragon Ball FighterZ, he found his challenge in Goichi “Go1″ Kishida. After losing to Goichi in several tournament and exhibition sets, McLean finally got his tournament win last night in a heated grand finals at Combo Breaker 2018. Taking the stage in…

Battlefield V Shows How The Video Game Industry Is Turning On Loot Boxes

Last night, the official Battlefield Twitter account published something interesting—a promise that not only will the makers of the upcoming Battlefield V refrain from charging for extra maps, they’re also going to avoid what has become the most toxic two-word phrase in gaming: Loot boxes. “No loot boxes,” read the tweet, referring to the slot-machine-like…