The Moment Assassin’s Creed Origins Goes From Big To Ridiculously Big

If I had to sum up the last act of Assassin’s Creed Origins in three words, those three words would be, “Wait, there’s more?” Origins is a big game by any measure. Thanks to the smart way the designers snake the story quests down and back up the Nile river, the map feels bigger than…

New Steam Competitor Will Let Users Resell Games

At this point, Steam allows users to sell almost everything, except full games. In the absence of such functionality, sketchy key resale sites like G2A have come to thrive. It’ll be interesting to see if a new PC gaming storefront called Robot Cache can put a dent in that when it launches later this year.…

Consensual Tentacle Porn Card Game Will Come Out In May

The card game Consentacle is an awesome exploration of the complexities of sex, as told via interactions between a human and a tentacle monster. True to its name, however, every interaction is aggressively consensual. Consentacle has been around for a few years now, but there’s only been a couple of copies in existence. Now, following…

Somehow, The Sims Has Made Me Like Doing Laundry

It turns out I am just as bad at laundry in The Sims as I am in real life. But as I made my virtual people load up the washing machine, I did gain a new appreciation for my least favorite chore. The new Laundry Day Stuff stuff pack for The Sims 4 does a…

Battlefront II Patch Nerfs Overpowered Wookiee Warriors

Players who earn enough points during Star Wars: Battlefront II matches can play as a variety of special characters, from hi-tech Stormtroopers to the Emperor himself, but none are as deadly as the Wookiee Warrior. A new patch has nerfed these overpowered creatures and brought an end to their hairy reign of terror. Wookiee Warriors…

The Secrets Behind Fortnite’s Massive 40 Million Player Success 

When Epic Games originally announced a Battle Royale mode for its co-op zombie survival game Fortnite, the internet seemed skeptical. Battlegrounds had already taken over the world, so it was easy for Fortnite: Battle Royale to look like a trend-chasing copycat. Months later, the studio’s enormous player base seems to have proven everyone wrong. Much…

Fifteen New Emotions You Feel After Building A PC

Last week, after a temporary hiccup thanks to a power supply that was dead out of the box, I finished building my first gaming PC. For the past few days I’ve been using it extensively, and as a result, I’ve experienced a number of brand new feelings that I’d like to share. These feelings include:…

Overwatch Players Are Imitating Their Favorite League Stars

Everybody I know who plays Overwatch’s pistol-slinging cowboy McCree is coveting the digital skin worn by Do-hyeon “Pine” Kim, the world class McCree pro who stole everybody’s heart last week in his debut Overwatch League match. It’s a dreary blue skin repping New York’s Excelsior team but wearing it is aspirational. If I dress like…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta Hides More Classic Moments From The Anime

Over the weekend players got to spend time with Dragon Ball FighterZ during an open test beta. It turns out the game still looks gorgeous and, if you’re huge fan of the source material, even has pre and post-fight scenes that reenact the anime. While most of Dragon Ball FighterZ’s fight introductions are quick and…

World of Warcraft Gets Level Scaling Today

As promised at Blizzcon 2017, today’s massive 7.3.5 update for World of Warcraft implements the level scaling introduced in the Legion expansion across the whole game. This allows players to tackle the game’s leveling zones in the order of their choosing, within limits. Prior to today’s patch, there was a certain order to leveling a…

The Horror Game Developer Who Disappeared For A Decade

The developer for a cult classic, experimental horror game disappeared from the internet for a decade. Their sudden, unexplained resurfacing on Steam leads to more questions than answers. Yume Nikki is a game defined, in some ways, by its obscurity. It was released on 2channel, the Japanese precursor to 4chan, in 2004. Yume Nikki, which…

The Best Speedruns From AGDQ 2018

Last week was a seven-day bonanza full of exciting speedruns, as the Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 marathon raised over two million dollars for charity. Here are some of my favorite runs from the show. Final Fantasy IV by riversmccown (starts at 17:03) The first two hours of this FFIV run are a blast to…

Behold The Deadliest Crate In All Of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

Winning in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds sometimes means playing dirty and hiding until the right moment. Originally, I used shrubbery and plants as my secret weapon, but the new desert map of Miramar features another devious hiding spot behind a very specific kind of crate. I spent last Friday night playing Battlegrounds late into the evening, starting…

Canadian Man Accused Of Mass Twitch Spamming Faces Criminal Charges

A Canadian man is facing federal charges after allegedly flooding over 1,000 Twitch channels with 150,000 spam messages early last year. The messages, which included racial and antisemitic slurs, spurred the British Columbian supreme court to issue a criminal charge for “mischief in relation to computer data” in early December, CBC reports. He could face…

Dissidia Final Fantasy’s Mobile Spin-Off Is So Cute

While Western PlayStation 4 owners await the January 30 release of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, Square Enix prepares a smaller helping of fantasy fighting with Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia, featuring much smaller, more adorable versions of fan-favorite characters teaming up for turn-based battles. A free-to-play offshoot of the Team Ninja-developed fighting game, Opera Omnia…

The next Scribblenauts is a party game, coming March 6 to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. It’ll come with a four-player Showdown mode with a board-game-style map and a two-player Versus mode where you can battle in various mini-games.

Brave Man Counts One Piece‘s Most Famous Sound Effect

If you’ve read the One Piece manga, you know how often the “boom” (ドンor “don” in Japanese) sound effect appears written. A lot! YouTuber Hikaru bought all 87 volumes of One Piece and counted each boom, even as the total number climbed into the thousands. By Hikaru’s count, there are 5,678 “booms” in all 87…