Help Me Solve The Mystery Of These Divinity: Original Sin 2 Boots [UPDATE]

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is one of those games that’s filled with objects. Each cottage, fortress, tavern, and dungeon you come across is loaded with things that you can pick up, move around, equip, or sell. Sometimes those things tell a story. Sometimes those stories do not immediately make sense. In the game’s second act,…

The New Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Is A Lot Like The Old One

Some video game sequels take great pains to get players up to speed on what occurred in the previous game. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory is not one of those sequels. It’s a side-story, and if you play it without playing the original Cyber Sleuth, you’re going to be a little lost. A…

Goblin Fights In D&D Are The Worst

For four decades, players have dutifully sacrificed a large portion of their Dungeons & Dragons games to take turns hitting a goblin with a broadsword. It’s time for us to release ourselves from the thousands of collective hours we’ve spent on D&D’s most tedious chore. Let’s kill off the goblin fight—or at least make them…

The Stopwatch Has Slowed Pro League of Legends To A Crawl

This past weekend was the season opener for the North American League of Legends Championship Series. It was the first games for a newly franchised LCS and also the first on the newest patch of the game, and one thing dominated: a whole lot of stopwatches. The stopwatch was added last November, but opening weekend…

New Wind Waker HD Trick Breathes Life Back Into ‘Dead’ Speedrunning Category

Last year, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker speedrunners found a way to get to the end of the game early, but reaching Ganon for the final fight involved a risky trick that was entirely dependent on luck to complete. A new trick discovered this weekend removes the random chance and makes the game…

Guild Wars 2 Developers Donate Thousands After Fan’s House Burns Down

Two weeks before Christmas, a Georgia woman lost her home and nearly everything she owned in a fire. When she went back to survey the damage, one of the few things she recovered was a collector’s edition copy of Nightfall, an expansion for Guild Wars, her favorite video game. After she posted her find on…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Loot Boxes Don’t Cost Real Money

Late last week rumors circulated that Dragon Ball FighterZ featured the ability to purchase loot box-style Z capsules using real money. That’s not how it works, at least not currently. The rumors sprang froma post on Resetera featuring a conversation with a player who had received an early copy of the game. Discussing his avatar,…

The Week In Games: Dragon Balls And Monster Hunters 

The release calandar is ramping up with two of 2018’s most anticipated games dropping this week: Dragon Ball FighterZ and Monster Hunter World. I honestly can’t even begin to explain why a ridiculous anime adapted from a manga that originated decades ago about alien ape-men beating the crap out of one another and other progressively…

A Good Look At Official Post-Final Fantasy X-2 Character Art 

Square Enix just kicked off a Final Fantasy 30th anniversary exhibit in Tokyo. Among the displays was this Tidus and Yuna character art. The art might look familiar, because black and white versions of these Tetsuya Nomura character designs, as well as ones for Chuami and Kurgum, were included in the Final Fantasy X |…

Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Controllers Make Excellent Grasshopper Legs

If Nintendo is short on Labo ideas, which I doubt, here’s one from Twitter user Colonel Odonger: a cardboard grasshopper. I have no idea what kind of game could be made with it, but putting those Joy-Cons in the grasshopper’s legs is neat. The building level, though, looks high Colonel Odonger has already been running…

Former Sonic Team Head Yuji Naka Has Joined Square Enix

Yuji Naka is not only best known for programming and producing classic Sonic games but also for heading up titles like Nights into Dreams, Samba de Amigo, and Phantasy Star Online while at Sega. He’s recently joined Square Enix. In 2006, he left Sega to start up his own studio, called Probe, which released Let’s…

Pop Team Epic Anime Fans React Accordingly 

If these were any other anime fans, sticking their middle fingers in their air would be considered rude. But these are Pop Team Epic anime fans, so this seems about right. Pop Team Epic’s main characters are famous for flipping the bird. Explaining why these cosplayers are making the gesture. This weekend in Tokyo’s Akihabara,…

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A Quick Look Behind The Scenes On That Blizzard Anime Short

That Blizzard anime from last week was one of the coolest video game clips I have ever seen, but it turns out it wasn’t the work of the company’s in-house cinematics team. Instead, it was made by two British studios, with help from some of the best video game artists in the business. The Line…

Tight Controls Define This Retro Homage To Ninja Gaiden 

At first glance, The Messenger looks like any number of pixel-art projects trying to recreate the magic of decades-old games. Beneath the nostalgic presentation, however, lies an action platformer focused on not just reliving the past but also improving on it. Sabotage Studio, located in Quebec City, is developing it based on the Ninja Gaiden…

NBA Star Has PlayStation Sneakers, And They’re Not Terrible

I used this video games platform to call Paul George’s first signature shoe (the PG1) “trash” last year, so it’s only fair I return in 2018 to say his second is “not trash”. George launched the revised PG2 sneaker over the weekend in the Thunder’s game against the Cavs, with a special PlayStation model of…

Chun-Li Cosplayer Is 70 Years Old 

Imagine yourself at 70. Then imagine yourself doing deadlifts to keep in shape so you can keep cosplaying. At 70. Shirley Chua is a treasure. The Singaporean, a former beauty pageant contestant, has found a contemporary way to get back to her modelling days by cosplaying, and talks all about it in this interview with…

The Directors Of Monster Hunter World Try To Explain Why It’s Not Coming To The Nintendo Switch 

Monster Hunter World is due out January 26 on PS4 and Xbox One but not the Switch. According to the game’s directors that’s because it was in development well before Nintendo’s handheld had been revealed. The Monster Hunter series is a familiar sight on portable consoles, including Nintendo’s starting with Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on…