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Doom, Now With Some 2K Textures

Hoover1979is working on a texture pack for Doom (and Doom II) that takes the original game’s blurry surfaces and brings them into the 2K generation. He’s re-doing everything. Not just the walls, but terminals, windows, skies, the works. Even at this early stage, the results are a lot better than the whole idea sounds on…

Battlestar Galactica Is Getting A Tabletop Miniatures Game

It’s like the excellent X-Wing, basically, only you get to yell “launch alert fighters” a lot. The game is called Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles, and while there’s no release date yet, it will be present at Gen Con for people to get an early look at. Before anyone accuses this of being an X-Wing…

The Best Clips And Screenshots From Fortnite‘s New Replay Mode

Like PUBG before it, Fortnite now has a suite of replay tools that allow you to pan around gameplay moments you’ve captured, position cameras, mess with colors, and, if you want, create elaborate clips. Players have already used them to churn out some quality stuff. You can find replays by opening your career menu and…

Tekken 7 Competitor Gets So Mad He Has To Spike Someone Else’s Controller

A recent Tekken 7 exhibition ended in carnage as the match’s loser trashed multiple peripherals in a hilariously childish display of anger. Body Count Fighting is a Southern California-based operation that brings together some of the best fighting game players in the competitive community for slick show matches at the Machinima studios. Last week, competitors…

Wackiness, Not Power, Defines Hearthstone’s New Witchwood Cards

Now that all the cards from Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion have been revealed, most streamers and analysts are doing their best to rate cards and theorycraft about the upcoming meta. Well, dear reader, we’ve been through this enough times to know that once the expansion drops tomorrow, everyone will prove to be slightly wrong in their…

WarCraft III Is Still Getting Patches

Warcraft III was released over fifteen years ago, but yesterday it got an enormous patch, with a lengthy list of small changes. Warcraft III is the third Warcraft game, a fantasy-flavored real-time strategy game that predates the incredibly popular MMO set in the same world. You’d think that Blizzard was long done tweaking the game,…

Shovel Knight Sold Fewer Copies In 2017 Than Its Best Year But Made More Money 

A new blog post from the makers of the excellent 2D platformer Shovel Knight breaks down the game’s sales in surprising detail. Shovel Knight was released in 2014 on PC, Wii U and 3DS, the year after it was Kickstarted. It was eventually ported to every other console. Of its two million sales to date,…

How Two Underage Girls Say An Overwatch Pro Took Advantage Of Them

When Overwatch pro Jonathan “DreamKazper” Sanchez followed Anna* back on Twitter, she was in shock. A 16-year-old high school junior, Anna had only just purchased Overwatch for her Xbox One but was sold on the league of charismatic pros championing the blockbuster first-person shooter. The first game she tuned in for was New York versus…

Game Developers Mourn (And Celebrate) The End Of Steam Spy

In the wake of changes to Steam’s default privacy settings yesterday, unofficial data and sales tracking kingpin Steam Spy is doomed. Many developers who relied on it are mourning its passing, but some are saying good riddance. The service scraped publicly viewable Steam profiles to estimate game sales along with troves of other data. Some…

Free Game Is WarioWare With Ducks  

Duck Jam mixes WarioWare style mini-games with a touch of absurdist comedy to tell the story of a bunch of ducks trying to make money. Bills, you could say. The fast-paced change from one game mode to another means you need to always be on your toes if you want to avoid begging for bread…

How Do You Know If a Game Is Worth Finishing?

With many games asking players to spend dozens of hours in them to see their endings, it can be a game in itself deciding which ones are worth finishing. Movies use a more traditional structure to introduce characters and then present a conflict that keeps viewers engaged through the end to see it resolved. But…

Twitch’s Roasting of Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most 2018 Thing

Over ten thousand people watched the second day of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress today on The Washington Post’s Twitch channel. The spammy, fast-moving Twitch chat for this hearing was like seeing the entirety of 2018 collapse into a self-referential black hole. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where it was discovered…

Dota Pro Has A Very Racist Reason For Hating His Own Name [UPDATE]

Professional Dota player Daryl Koh “iceiceice” Pei Xiang was streaming today when he felt compelled to explain why he doesn’t like his own first name. “I don’t even like the name Daryl,” said iceiceice. “Daryl is like a nigger’s name. It’s not an… okay, it’s a black person’s name. I’m not a big fan of…

Overwatch‘s New PvE Event Is Its Best Yet

Overwatch got its spring event yesterday, which includes a new player-versus-environment mode where players can take down swarms of killer soldiers in a picturesque, futuristic Venice. Retribution, the new PvE mode, is absolutely the best of its kind yet. It might have players asking why Overwatch can’t get its own story mode already. Retribution is…

Creepy Radio Static Has Far Cry 5 Players Chasing A New Mystery

Drive around long enough in Far Cry 5 and you might stumble into an area where strange static comes out of your radio. Stop and listen for a bit and you might even be able to make out voices on the other end. It’s weird and creepy, and has a few players wondering if it…

Hacker Says It Took Him Two Weeks To Add Save Back-Ups To Switch

One of the biggest flaws in Nintendo’s portable console is that you can’t back up your data: if you lose your system, or somehow get your data corrupted or wiped, that’s it. It’s gone. But thanks to a burgeoning hacking scene, Switch fans are now adding features that the Switch desperately needs. Bernardo Giordano, a…

My Favorite Moment In Nier: Automata Is A Musical Cue

Nier: Automata’s existential story about an endless war between androids and machines has a ton of great moments. My favorite moment of all doesn’t come from an epic sword duel on top of a tower or a difficult, fourth wall-breaking decision, but instead from a perfect musical cue. Early in the game, protagonists 2B and…