A couple audience members at the Overwatch League season one debut just got their Pepe sign taken away. They’d been using Pepe, a meme commonly associated with alt-right movements, to cheer on Dallas Fuel. Oddly, the video feed in the arena briefly zoomed in on it at one point. Eventually, the two audience members were…

In The Future, Corporations Still Own Everything

Anyone who’s familiar with my daily Fine Art feature will know ArtStation, the gallery site that’s become the default home to professional artist portfolios around the world. Well ArtStation is now publishing books as well, and the first one is Project 77, featuring art by Ubisoft’s Martin Deschambault. Project 77 is an exercise in universe-building,…

YouTube Removes Logan Paul From Google Preferred, Puts Other Projects On Hold [Updated]

YouTube star Logan Paul, who caused an international controversy last week when he made a film inside Aokigahara, known as Japan’s “suicide forest,” has been removed from the lucrative Google Preferred system, while all of his original YouTube Red deals are now on hold. On January 9, YouTube released a statement acknowledging the outcry, and…

Ambitious No Man’s Sky Mod Wants To Make The Game More Like Its E3 Trailers

RaYRoD’s Overhaul is a No Man’s Sky mod that is trying to take the game we got in 2016and turn it into the game many fans wanted when it was first shown off in 2013. Aside from some visual tweaks to bring everything more in line with those early trailers, the mod’s creator says he…

No Overwatch League Team Signed The Game’s Most Notable Female Pro To Their Roster

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—During yesterday’s Overwatch League media day in Los Angeles, one of the most mentioned names belonged to a player who’s not even on an OWL team. Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon, a top-level Zarya player who overcame a rash of cheating accusations and threats in 2016, was on the tip of everybody’s tongues, but nowhere…

Fan Creates Fallout Version Of Ticket To Ride

Ticket to Ride, a casual board gaming juggernaut, is very light and cheery. Not at all the kind of thing you’d expect to be suited to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but then, maybe that’s why this works. XsimonbelmontX made this last year for his wife’s birthday, and it’s incredible. He hasn’t just reskinned an existing map/copy,he’s…

How Warframe Players Got Taylor Swift Lyrics Etched Permanently Onto Its Map

A joke from years ago has been permanently etched into Warframe. Here’s why players are still faced with the Taylor Swift lyrics that lit up the billboard charts back in 2014 every time they grind for loot on Mars. Warframe’s star map is a lot like the one in Destiny You choose a planet and…

Total War’s Next Big Game Is Set In China

Having made one hell of a detour into the lands of Warhammer, Total War is returning to its historical roots for its next big strategy game. And it’s doing so in a region the series has never visited before: China. Note that this isn’t another expansion or experimental title; this is the next full, new…

When Assassin’s Creed Origins Goes Dark, It Goes Dark

When it gets dark in a video game, it’s usually not all that dark. The cave you’re in may be dim. The forest at night might be shadowy. But video games almost never go pitch black. Assassin’s Creed Origins is a welcome exception. I’ve been replaying Origins on PC, taking a more methodical approach than…

A Shooter Where You Risk Losing Your Gear Forever

Escape From Tarkov is a military shooter currently in closed beta all about shooting other players and stealing their loot. Set in a fictional Eastern European city rife with conflict, Escape From Tarkov feels like a mashup of ARMA and Borderlands Players embark on raids to different locations and scrounge around for guns and loot…

Fighting Game Legend Plays Street Fighter And Vampire Savior At His Wedding

The people who actually get married at a wedding have so much to do—write the vows, master the cadence of the walk to the altar, personally greet everyone in attendance—that it leaves a miniscule amount of time to really take in the whole affair. One iconic fighting game competitor, however, felt it was important to…

No One Knows How To Run An Overwatch League Team Yet

When it launches tonight, Overwatch League will become the biggest undertaking in the history of esports. Backed by massive investments from sports billionaires and tech companies, esports, if you choose to believe the hype, has finally grown up. And yet, despite the fact that Overwatch League is ostensibly a global undertaking with teams “based” on…

Nvidia’s Freestyle Is Like Instagram Filters For PC Games

Image filters aren’t just for photo mode anymore. The latest version of Nvidia’s Geforce Experience app introduces Freestyle, a series of special filters that change the way games look while they’re being played. It’s a bit of a trip. Freestyle is basically an extension of Nvidia’s Ansel, the screenshot tool introduced last year that helped…

‘Suckin Dick While My Man Plays 2K‘: When Video Games Meet Sex

Back in September 2017, one Twitter user informed the world that she was “suckin dick while my man plays 2K.” At first glance, it seemed like she was boasting about some video game foreplay, but no. She later clarified, “LMAO y’all thought i meant my mans dick?😂 fohhh.” Months later, I can’t stop thinking about…

12 More Of The Strangest Foods In Gaming

Food is such an important part of our lives, so I’m always curious about its portrayal in games, especially the stranger dishes. This piece originally appeared 11/23/17. I’ve had a lot of strange food (like the earlier mentioned Resident Evil 7 Brain Cake from the Capcom Cafe), seen weirder ones that I was too scared…

PUBG Devs Publish Drop Rates For New Loot Boxes

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has outlined new additions to its loot box system to go live on the game’s test server. In addition to disclosing the odds of getting different cosmetics, the patch notes also point toward a new type of microtransaction that will be making its way into the game in the future. Loot boxes have…