I Met A Genuine Pirate Legend In Sea Of Thieves

This weekend, I sat down to play Sea of Thieves. As I sailed on my lonesome, passing time until my friends could log on, I returned to port and ran into another group of players. This type of encounter usually leads to disaster, but I was instead treated to a surprise: I had come face…

After A Disastrous Debut, Pokémon Go Fest Is Returning

A year after Pokémon Go Fest’s calamitous Chicago debut, the event is coming back. Anyone who heard about the misery its 30,000 attendees stood through might be a little surprised, but today, developer Niantic announced 2018’s Pokémon Go Tour across Japan, Germany and the U.S. between June 30 and July 1. Mobile signal was a…

Fortnite Is Getting An Avengers: Infinity War Crossover

Fortnite’s next big limited event will feature a Marvel villain that will change the way the game works. Here’s what to expect. Starting tomorrow, Thanos will make an appearance in Fortnite. According to Entertainment Weekly, the mode will still feature one hundred people vying for the number one spot, except there will also be an…

Want To Make Zelda? Nintendo Is Hiring!

Nintendo has a level designer job listing for working on The Legend of Zelda series. The gig is at the company’s Kyoto headquarters. The job entails working on dungeons, the field (or map), cutscenes as well as designing enemies. Nintendo is looking for those with experience as game planners. The listing is in Japanese and…

Game Boy Creator Said He Didn’t Leave Nintendo Because Of The Virtual Boy

Gunpei Yokoi’s last major release at Nintendo was the Virtual Boy. It was a disaster, and there has long been speculation that it caused Yokoi to resign. In an article he wrote before his tragic death, Yokoi explained why he left the company. The Virtual Boy’s failure was not the reason. The Virtual Boy was…

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New York Claims Overwatch League Stage 3 Title, Ends Boston’s Undefeated Streak

After dancing around each other as the two top teams of stage 3, the New York Excelsior and Boston Uprising finally settled the score in the grand finals of the stage’s playoffs. New York emerged victorious in a 3-0 win, securing back-to-back stage titles in the Overwatch League. The two teams had played before in…

Nerf This

Andrei Mishanin is a 3D artist from Russia. You can see more of Andrei’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 both their professional…

250 Fake Nintendo Games That Don’t Exist, But Probably Should

*Checks calendar* oh boy it’s that time of year already, when artists from around the world dream up fake Nintendo games then print them out on cartridges for us to look at them and think, oh hell yeah, why wasn’t there a No Man’s Sky for the Famicom? The cart designs are part of an…

The Week In Games: Zombies and Tactical Opportunities

I hope you like zombies, because there’s a lot of opportunities for attacking zombies in the next week. On the road, in a dungeon, and in a war! You could also choose to get tactical or become a space detective. This is a jam-packed week depending on what kind of games you enjoy. Death Road…

PSG.LGD Wins Its First Dota Major And Also An Infinity Gauntlet

Fresh off a sponsorship from football club Paris Saint-Germain, LGD Gaming—now PSG.LGD—won this weekend’s Dota 2 Epicenter XL major, getting some prize money, circuit points, and a sweet Infinity Gauntlet. PSG.LGD got its first big points grab in the Dota pro circuit in last month’s Dota Asia Championships 2018, where the team came in 2nd.…

Mariners Go Retro To Showcase Starting Lineup

The Seattle Mariners announced their lineup for a game yesterday using the respectable pixelated mode of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for the Super Nintendo yesterday, and it was actually really cool. I, for one, am incredibly proud of a brand who tries to engage with this millennial obsession with video games and…

Soulcalibur VI Player Accidentally Goes For A Swim

That’s one way to wake up, I guess. An exhibition was held at Texas Showdown last night for the unreleased Soulcalibur VI. As an unreleased game, that might explain why one move didn’t go exactly as planned. It happens to the best of us. Party Wolf went on to win the exhibition in the next…

World Record Dark Souls 2 Run Is Extremely Watchable

Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is the lesser-loved of the games in the Dark Souls lineage, but that didn’t stop speedrunner Distortion2 from breaking the world record in the All Bosses category last night in 2:23:43 Speedruns are always a complicated act of plate spinning. On one hand, a runner has to…

‘Shop Contest: Headed West

In honor of the Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer from earlier this week, I think it’s high time we take the ‘Shop Contest to the uh, wickey wild wild, wicky wicky wild, wicky wild, wicky wicky wild wild wild west. The Western genre is one that we don’t get too much of in video games.…

Japan’s Yoshi Specialist Beats Top Melee Player

Masaya “aMSa” Chikamoto has been on a tear at this weekend’s Smash Summit 6, and yesterday he pulled off an upset on one of Melee’s best players. Chikamoto is considered the best Yoshi player in the Super Smash Bros. Melee scene, and he hails from Japan, a region that can be tough on the players…