The YouTuber Trying To Introduce Hearthstone Players To Poetry

For some, the soothing dulcet tones of Bob Ross is a great way to unwind after a bad dose of Hearthstone RNG. For others, a stiff drink. But one YouTuber has another idea: poetry. The project, called “Life on Hearthstone”, started out year ago. It starts out as a vignette about playing Hearthstone: picking a…

A History Of Kirby Death Animations

Need to scrub the sight of Kirby’s human feet from your eyes? YouTube’s MasterofHyrule has compiled a ten minute video history of the pink puffball’s death animations and game over screens. It might help. Is this video really necessary? You tell me. Yes, I could have just linked it and left it at that, but…

Overwatch Ranks You Lower Than It Should So You Feel Better About Yourself 

Overwatch’s 5th Competitive season debuted last week, and in its wake, players are finding themselves demoralized and embarrassed. Skill ratings, Overwatch’s measure of how good you are, have plummeted about 200 points across the board since the end of last season. And, of course, adamant players are flooding Overwatch forums with protestations that these numbers…

Street Fighter Veteran Mocks Idea Of Selling Out By Selling T-Shirt

The fighting game community has mixed feelings about the term “esports.” For the FGC, the term has come to connote corporate influence and sponsorships. Mike Ross, Street Fighter veteran and co-founder of fighting game-centric YouTube channel Cross Counter TV, addressed the controversy this week in a bizarre video titled “Mike Ross Breaks His Silence About…

Moirai Is An Adventure Game With A Killer Twist

Moirai is a first person adventure game set in an idyllic farming village full of secret tragedy. Players explore a deep mine in search of a missing woman, armed only with a knife and their morality. It’s this week’s Indie Pick. I definitely recommend playing Moirai before reading further. The game is free for PC,…

When Arcades Closed, The Fighting Game Community Built Their Own Battleground

Street Fighter veteran Alex Valle remembers when fighting game players would crowd around arcade cabinets to face off. After the demise of arcades, Valle believed that future generations of fighting game players still needed a way to learn from one another in person. What began in 2009 as a series of meetups hosted in Valle’s…

A Cartoon Action RPG With Adventure Time Vibes

The trailer for The Swords of Ditto is adorable enough that I can’t wait to see more of this game. The Swords of Ditto is a newly-announced action RPG that takes place in a charming fantasy world Developed by One Bit Beyond and to be published by Devolver Digital, it’s slated for an early 2018…

Secret of Mana Collection Proves Switch Is Awesome For Retro Gaming

I’ve been playing Super Nintendo games on my Switch all week, and it is a glorious thing. Virtual Console might be MIA on Switch thus far, possibly due to Nintendo wanting to roll out a Netflix-type catalog alongside its paid online service in 2018. But Square Enix ain’t got time for that, and has rolled…

Data Shows Xbox Gamers Aren’t Using Backward Compatibility Much [Update: Microsoft Contests]

Backward compatibility is a big draw for console gamers nostalgic for older titles, but new data shows that Xbox One players don’t spend much time revisiting backward-compatible Xbox 360 games. A new Ars Technica report that grabbed stats from nearly a million Xbox Live users showed that, on the Xbox One, only 1.5 percent of…

What We Loved About The Wonder Woman Movie

After a run of mediocre to downright disappointing releases, DC Comics finally gets a movie worth eating overpriced popcorn in a room full of strangers. It’s as if all the world’s been waiting for Wonder Woman and the power she possesses. Compete’s Maddy Myers and I saw the movie over the weekend, and we have…

The New Crazy Taxi Mobile Game Gets By On Personality

Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire’s gameplay is pretty run of the mill, but it’s fun and charming regardless. Crazy Taxi Gazillionaire is a clicker game for iOS and Android, based on the arcade driving game that released on the Dreamcast in 2000. It does nothing to pretend it is not a clicker game. In the game you…

GTA Online’s “Gunrunning” update drops on June 13th, and here’s the trailer. Things to spot: new bunkers, weaponized vehicles, and a “mobile operations center.” Also, guns. Obviously.

Atlus Announces A Trio Of 3DS RPGs For North America

In case you were worried about the state of JRPGs on the Nintendo 3DS, Atlus just announced not one but three new games coming to the console in late 2017/early 2018—Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux. The fifth main installment of the Etrian Odyssey…

A Look Inside The Art Of Overwatch 

Coming this fall from Dark Horse, The Art of Overwatch is more than 300 pages of the illustrations and concept art that Blizzard produced while creating its frighteningly popular hero shooter. We’ve got four of those pages, and they’re quite nice. As someone who loves looking at Overwatch much more than actually playing, I’m looking…

Team Ninja’s Final Fantasy Fighting Game Comes To PS4 Early Next Year

Fighting Final Fantasy fans eagerly awaiting the console port of Team Ninja’s arcade brawler now have a better idea of how long they’ll be waiting, as Square Enix announces Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for early 2018 release on PlayStation 4. Japanese arcade goers have been enjoying three-on-three free-roaming battles between popular Final Fantasy characters since…