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What It’s Like To Watch Overwatch At A Bar
Yesterday marked the official beginning of Overwatch League, Blizzard’s official multi-million dollar pro Overwatch proving ground. To celebrate the occasion, a San Francisco bar called Brewcade played a couple preseason matches on a big screen. Self-described Deadspin “doofus” Patrick Redford and I ventured there to see how the experience stacked up against watching The Big…
Nathan Grayson & Patrick Redford Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Look At This $1,400 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Replica
South Korean toy company Blitzway has created the perfect accessory for its line of 12-inch premium original Ghostbusters figures. The sixth-scale Ecto-1 replica is over 40 inches long, more than big enough to fit all four figures and accessories. Also, it costs nearly $1,400 dollars. Now before we go on and on about how expensive…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2017 -
CultureMario Deserves Better Than Knock-Off Lucky Charms
The most exciting thing about new Super Mario Cereal is the box. That’s just sad. Announced last week and showing up in stores starting December 11, Super Mario Cereal is essentially a generic Lucky Charms knock-off. It’s got star-shaped oat bits and three types of vaguely Mario-ish marshmallows. It’s not bad, it’s just not anything…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Video Games As Told By The Simpsons
A picture is worth 1,000 words and a good Simpsons picture is worth one kwyjibo. Anintrepid Twitter user is turning still from The Simpsons into wonderful summaries of 2017’s top video games. “Thom Coldman” has assembled a great collection of images that mix and match classic Simpsons moments with games. From the truckasaurus standing in…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Games Still Don’t Feel Right On Mobile
So far, Nintendo’s mobile offerings have been pretty good. They’re also frustrating. Nintendo resisted mobile games for a long time, but finally relented in 2016 when they released the app Miitomo. Though I deleted it long ago, I still have fond memories of it. You’d dress up a little Mii avatar, set a greeting, and…
By Gita Jackson Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Yesterday, Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth players got to play as Satoru Iwata The former head of Nintendo died in 2015. Every year since, he’s appeared in the game on December 6, his birthday. Afterbrith never made it to Wii U or 3DS, so was the first time the tribute was on a Nintendo platform.
By Ethan Gach Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Frustration Simulator Getting Over It Climbs Steam Best Sellers List
Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy is a nonsensical game that challenges players to climb a mountain with a hammer. The silly premise and highly animated reactions from streamers who take a tumble have launched it right to the heights of Steam’s best seller list one day after its release on the platform. It looks…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 7, 2017 - Esports
Twitch Man Plays Super Mario World Theme With His Nose, Says He Has Perfect Pitch
Jason Yang is a musician and composer who live streams on Twitch, taking song requests to play on his violin, keyboard, and nose. Pulling up a Super Mario World video, Yang nose-whistles the game’s overworld theme. You can compare Yang’s version to the original Super Nintendo classic While that clip gained traction, what happened immediately…
By Eric Van Allen Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
New Hearthstone Card Looks Suspiciously Familiar To Magic Players
Hearthstone’s latest expansion Kobolds and Catacombs launched today, featuring 135 new cards. One of them is called Violet Wurm, and as some players have noticed, it’s almost exactly like a Magic: The Gathering card that came out 17 years ago. Here’s the tale of the tape: Violet Wurm is a new Hearthstone card, a minion…
By Ethan Gach Published December 7, 2017 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Gets Yeti Boss Fight
The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means: new Overwatch stuff. And also family and celebration or whatever, I guess. In a new video update, game director Jeff “It’s Beginning To Feel A Lot Like” Kaplan announced that the game’s Mei-focused holiday event is returning. It’ll include everything from last year—skins, the…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 7, 2017 - ReviewsMultiplatform
Reigns: Her Majesty: The Kotaku Review
In my time as queen in Reigns: Her Majesty, I was torn apart by my subjects, eaten by wolves, and burned at the stake. I had affairs with pagan women, barbarian queens from other lands, and rakish explorers of new worlds. I was coronated again and again, born anew to rule once more. You’re always…
By Gita Jackson Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
My Splatoon 2 Match Became A Dance Party
Last night, during a match of Splatoon 2, everyone got fed up with our senseless land war. We all laid down our arms and came together for the one thing that matters most: having a kickass party. Last evening, I streamed Splatoon 2 on my personal Twitch channeland leapt into a turf war match on…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 7, 2017 -
CultureSouth Park: The Fractured But Whole Uses Little Details To Make Its Characters Human
South Park: The Fractured But Whole has sentiment. This might be a surprise given the television show’s notoriety for crass, irreverent humor. Shock humor can grab an audience’s attention, but it can’t maintain it, and that’s why The Fractured But Whole uses small details to give its bawdy cast of nine-year-olds humanity. It’s difficult to…
By Kevin Wong Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Says It Won’t Remove Russia From Its 2018 Olympics Game
Earlier this week the International Olympic Committee announced Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Despite that news, Russia is going to remain in the winter sports sim Steep Road to the Olympics, at least for now. Road to the Olympics is a new expansion to the 2016 winter sports…
By Ethan Gach Published December 7, 2017 - Esports
After A Decade Away, 31-Year-Old Tekken Pro Is Back On Top
Ten years ago, Byeong-mun “Qudans” Son was one of the strongest Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection players on the planet. But professional esports was different then, and in 2007, Qudans largely stepped away from competition as he pursued an education and satisfied South Korea’s requirement of mandatory military service. It wasn’t until…
By Ian Walker Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft has delayed three games, the publisher said today. Far Cry 5, previously scheduled for February, will be out March 27, 2018. The Crew 2 will be out later next year. And an unannounced game that was scheduled for FY18-19 (April 2018-March 2019) will now come out the following fiscal year. Sorry to those of…
By Jason Schreier Published December 7, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Devil May Cry HD Collection is coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 13th, 2018. It contains Devil May Cry, the oft-misunderstood Devil May Cry 2, and Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition aka The Best Thing Ever. Better start practicing your moves so you can rock, baby!
By Heather Alexandra Published December 7, 2017 -
UncategorizedGTA Online’s Doomsday Heists Takes Players Inside Mount Chilliad (With Jetpacks)
Jet packs, flying cars, underwater cars and a trip inside the mysterious Mount Chilliad—all that and more look like they’ll be part of The Doomsday Heist, a surprise “epic new online adventure” Rockstar announced today for Grand Theft Auto Online. It’ll be out on December 12. GTA Online players have spent years trying to unravel the…
By Mike Fahey Published December 7, 2017
