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UncategorizedOverwatch Gets A New Hero: Moira, A Support Healer
Overwatch is getting a new hero and she looks rad as hell. Moira is a powerful support healer that mixes DPS and healing. A geneticist working for the nefarious organization Talon with additional ties to the Overwatch’s spec ops group Blackwatch, Moira (full name Moira O’Deorain) mixes high mobility with support skills. In a trailer shown…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 3, 2017 -
UncategorizedOverwatch‘s Next Map Is Blizzard World, A Tribute To Blizzard Games
Overwatch’s newest upcoming map is a crazy theme park full of World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Starcraft and other Blizzard games’ lore. So Blizzard can advertise its other games to you while you’re playing Overwatch. Yay! Blizzard World will be part assault and part payload and released early next year. This is almost certainly the “Yo…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 3, 2017 -
UncategorizedSoon, There Will Be Hanzo Mains In Heroes Of The Storm
Sick of all those Hanzo mains wrecking your Overwatch competitive ranking? Well, now you can’t dodge them in Heroes of the Storm. A new breed of Hanzo main is about to emerge. At BlizzCon today, HOTS’ senior producer Kaeo Milker announced that Overwatch’s Hanzo is coming to the MOBA in December, joining the half dozen…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
StarCraft II Is Going Free-To-Play
StarCraft II is going free-to-play, Blizzard announced today during the BlizzCon 2017 keynote. On November 14, you’ll be able to download the Wings of Liberty campaign without paying a cent, getting access to both single- and multiplayer for free. If you already have Wings, you’ll get a free copy of the game’s first expansion, Heart…
By Jason Schreier Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
Studio Behind Torchlight Shuts Down; Big Layoffs At Studio Behind Gigantic
China-based publisher Perfect World this week laid off most of Motiga, the developer of the hero shooter Gigantic, and shut down Runic Games, the studio behind the popular action-RPG Torchlight and the recently released puzzle-platformer Hob. Both game developers were based in Seattle. In a statement, Perfect World said that it will continue to sell…
By Jason Schreier Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
Half-Life 2 Episode 3, As Imagined By Five Different Developers
In August, former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw posted a blog post on his site which outlined a potential story for Half Life 2: Episode 3. A game jamusing that story as inspiration has created some colorful interpretations of Gordon Freeman’s final adventure. Epistle Jam, which took its name from Laidlaw’s post titled ‘Epistle 3,’ sought…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 3, 2017 - Culture
Ask Dr. NerdLove: Help, My Girlfriend Is An Alcoholic
Hello all you interweb heartbubbles of desire, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the official dating advice column of The New Donk Times. This week, we’re going to be talking about handling the hard questions in a relationship. When your partner is struggling with an addiction that’s out of their control, how long can you…
Harris O'Malley Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
Players Have Already Found Ways To Glitch Out Of Call Of Duty: WWII Levels
Players dedicated to breaking games have been hard at work hunting for glitches in Call of Duty WWII, and they’ve already found ways to get outside of the normal map areas areas and make themselves invincible to zombies. Take the beaches of Normandy for instance. It’s kind of a rule at this point that if…
By Ethan Gach Published November 3, 2017 -
UncategorizedEA Is Making Another UFC Game
After a promising but still too-barebones second installment, EA’s taking a third swing at the UFC. EA Sports UFC 3 is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on February 2. Here’s what it looks like: The big new features this time around are an improved animation system, a movement system with an emphasis on…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 3, 2017 - Esports
After leaving his home in Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, Luis Galarza Figueroa made the cut for the Los Angeles Gladiators, one of the 12 teams competing in the inaugural season of the Overwatch League. You can read about his journey in our article here
By Eric Van Allen Published November 3, 2017 -
UncategorizedBowser Will Comment On Your Outfit In Super Mario Odyssey
In addition to being a great platformer and excellent collectible game, Mario Odyssey is also a fashion sim. In the game, just like in real life, every outfit has its fans and critics. What follows includes some very minor spoilers for the ending of the game, so readers beware. As pointed out in a recent…
By Ethan Gach Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
MSI Geforce GTX 1070 Ti Review: Solid, If Not Exciting
Equipped with 5% less CUDA cores than the GTX 1080 and the same GDDR5 memory as the vanilla GTX 1070, it’s not so simple to judge the performance of Nvidia’s new GTX 1070 Ti. We know that it has 2432 cores (27% more than the 1070) and a throughput of 8Gbps thanks to its 256-bit…
Steven Walton | Techspot Published November 3, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Xbox One X Is Great So Far, But Waiting For Game Updates Is The Worst
After spending a week with the Xbox One X, Microsoft’s “world’s most powerful console,” I know three things for certain. It’s definitely an Xbox One, it makes enhanced games look lovely, and waiting for Xbox One X enhancement updates sucks. The $500 Xbox One X is a ridiculously powerful console, but in order to actively…
By Mike Fahey Published November 3, 2017 -
EsportsThe Ups And Downs Of Teabagging In Pro Gaming
When the clock counted down the last 100 seconds, Injustice 2 Pro Series player Dominique “Sonic Fox” McLean knew he’d already won the match. His opponent’s health bar had been reduced to a sliver. All Sonic Fox had to do was kill time. So he started teabagging. As the enemy player cowered on the other…
By Maddy Myers Published November 3, 2017 - Culture
Tokyo’s Best Souvenir Snack Just Got Better
When people who know go to Tokyo, they buy one souvenir. Make that, the best souvenir. They buy Tokyo Banana. And that snack just got better because it’s getting a Kit Kat version. Or maybe Japanese Kit Kats just got better because they’re getting a Tokyo Banana flavor. Whichever. The point is, Tokyo Banana are…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 3, 2017 - Uncategorized
War. War Sometimes Changes.
2002’s Medal of Honor and 2017’s Call of Duty: WW2 have very similar intros (a nice touch, given CoD’s lineage). So similar that they’re a handy example of just how far video game visuals have come in the last 15 years. Both involve the same scenario—a first-person invasion of the beaches of Normandy—and both are…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 3, 2017
