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Stay With Me Here: Dungeons & Dragons, Except You Cook What You Kill
So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where you kill what you eat. A few questionably-spent days of vacation after spawning this ludicrous idea, I found a way to mod Dungeons & Dragons to accommodate my cooking fantasies. And, surprisingly, it turned out great. The…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 13, 2017 - Opinion
Find Your Favorite Room In A Kaleidoscopic Labyrinth
The Catacombs of Solarisby Ian MacLarty is an exploration game that sends players through a maze of warping walls. There’s only one goal: find your favorite room in the labyrinth. It’s a trippy waltz through a technicolor wonderland. It’s this week’s Indie Pick. Navigating through the catacombs seems like a straightforward process. The walls and…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 13, 2017 -
EsportsPro Overwatch Team Starts Cooking Show
Team EnvyUs is a major esports organization whose Overwatch team is like a circling bird of prey. Other teams might be flying high, but Envy’s shadow always looms heavy. So anyway, they’ve started a cooking show. The first episode of EnvyUs’ YouTube show “Envy Eats” stars Overwatch aim god Timo “Taimou” Kettunen and follows him…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 13, 2017 - Esports
The Immortals esports franchise has signed their debut Dota 2 team made up of the five newly reunited members of the MVP Phoenix team, which was the first Korean team to advance to The International in 2016. Now that the band’s back together, they’ll be competing in North America under the Immortals team name.
By Maddy Myers Published September 13, 2017 -
UncategorizedHow EVE Players Pulled Off The Biggest Betrayal In Its History
EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their…
By Lee Yancy Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
Uncharted 4 Co-Director Bruce Straley Leaves Naughty Dog
Bruce Straley, co-director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, is officially leaving Naughty Dog following an extensive sabbatical. “After heading up three extremely demanding projects, and taking some extended time away from the office, I found my energy focusing in other directions, and I slowly realized this was the signal that it’s time…
By Jason Schreier Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
What Homestuck Was
On September 14th, at long last, the first episode of the Kickstarted Homestuck game, Hiveswap, will be released, only five years after it was originally announced. Homestuck was one of the biggest fandoms of the early 2010s, but what exactly was it? Well, that’s a complicated question. Before it ended in 2016, Homestuck was a…
By Gita Jackson Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
I’m Obsessed With Battlegrounds‘ Brutal Hospital
In Battlegrounds’ bombed-out hospital, I can’t tell whether my footsteps are my own. Every few meters, I duck into a room and stop to listen to my own movement, taking a few test steps to match them with their corresponding sounds. If there’s silence, I keep moving. That way, I can amass a dozen items…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 13, 2017 -
UncategorizedKlei has announced Don’t Starve Hamlet, a new expansion for Don’t Starve. According to the description to this trailer, Hamlet will take Wilson to a city, with “pig shops, houses, new items, biomes and more.” While it won’t come out until early next year, you can add it to your wishlist on Steam
By Gita Jackson Published September 13, 2017 -
UncategorizedIt Isn’t Easy Being An Overwatch Fan In Africa
When Shuaib Sookia, an Overwatch fan who lives in the African country of Mauritius, posted to both the game’s subreddit and official forums about how much of a pain it can be to play Blizzard’s team-based shooter without servers located anywhere on the continent of Africa, he wasn’t expecting much in the way of response.…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 13, 2017 -
UncategorizedTransformers’ Dinobots Finally Combine To Form A Giant Robot
Announced at Hascon over the weekend and debuting later this month in the Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game, Volacanicus is what happens when the Autobots’ robot dinosaurs get their act together. The ‘80s cartoon and toy line was packed with teams of five or six robots combining together into gigantic gestalts, but the Dinobots never…
By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2017 - Esports
Two more Overwatch League team buyers have emerged from the world of traditional sports. ESPN reports that Neil Leibman, co-owner of the Texas Rangers, has purchased the Houston Overwatch League slot. Comcast Spectacor, which owns the Philadelphia Flyers, has staked its claim on Philadelphia.
By Maddy Myers Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
Ghost Recon: Wildlands PvP Mode Finally Gets Open Beta Next Week
Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ PVP mode is called “Ghost War,” and will enter into an open beta that anyone can play, even if they don’t own the game, starting on September 21, Ubisoft said today. Ghost War will allow players will choose from a list of classes designed for one of three specific categories—Assault, Marksman, or…
By S.E. Doster Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms Is A Great Game To Not Play When Your Power’s Been Knocked Out By A Hurricane
Hurricane Irma’s violent and selective deforestation of the woods surrounding my Atlanta-area home has left me without power for over 36 hours. One of the few saving graces has been knowing that once I got back to the new Dungeons & Dragons idle clicker, I’d have billions of gold waiting. Idle Champions of the Forgotten…
By Mike Fahey Published September 13, 2017 -
UncategorizedThere’s Blood Everywhere: A YouTube Shark Beast Battle Simulator Story
A few days ago, the developers of the physics-based battle game Beast Battle Simulator introduced a new beast: sharks. These sharks don’t need any water—they skitter across the land at a slow pace, and launch themselves at their opponents. Like their real life counterparts, they fight with their teeth and jaws. YouTubers have been putting…
By Chloe Spencer Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Switch Voice Chat No Longer Stops Working When You Change Apps
Nintendo’s phone app for the Switch was updated today, fixing two really annoying issues with voice chat. When the Nintendo’s Switch app launched, people were happy to finally be able to play Splatoon with voice chat, but were disappointed that voice chat would disconnect if you tabbed to another app or if your phone went…
By Gita Jackson Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
Tooth and Tail Makes Strategy Games Approachable
Rodents roar across the plains. Ferrets launch mortars into farms. In the distance, cobras slither closer, ready to tear down a freshly-built bunker. Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game that puts you in the commander’s chair of a gunpowder-era Redwall war while trying to avoid pitfalls that keep newcomers from experiencing that splendor.…
By Eric Van Allen Published September 13, 2017 - Uncategorized
How To Make Figure Photos More Dramatic
If you take figure photos, here’s an easy way to make them into action shots: throw some sand or dirt. That’s what Twitter user Negikatsu7 has been doing for his dramatic figure photos, and the results have been excellent. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 13, 2017
