What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Weekends are for agreeing to go see A Doll’s House with your friend so spending tomorrow morning brushing up on your Ibsen because you don’t remember that play at all. Also, video games. I enjoyed my time with Gwent on PS4 last weekend, and today I got an email saying I’m in the PC beta.…

Dota Match Turns Into Five-Hour Melodrama

At about 11:00 p.m. local time a day ago, in the European West servers of Dota 2, 10 players queued up for an average, unranked match. Over the course of five hours, these players would rage, taunt, abandon, create new accounts, and become good friends. It was an odyssey of Dota matchmaking, a play in…

Soon, EVE Online Players Will Help Discover Actual Planets

This summer, EVE Online players won’t just be exploring virtual galaxies—they’ll be helping to map out the actual universe. At Fanfest, the annual gathering of players of the popular MMO taking place this weekend in Iceland, the game’s publisher CCP provided the details of its latest collaboration with Reykjavik University and the University of Geneva,…

Tinder Parody Game Tries To Turn Your Controller Into A Massager

Mr. Massagy is a PlayStation 4 game in which players go on Tinder-esque dates with a variety of women to unlock, ahem, massage settings for your controller. Who is this game for, exactly? Let’s pause for a moment: is Mr. Massagy actually intended for massaging? All the packaging of the game points to no. In…

Overwatch Fans Love Genji’s Edgy New Backstory

Recently released Overwatch comic Uprising showed off more of the heroes’ pasts. A juicy lore revelation and slick character design for Genji has captured fan’s imaginations, inspiring theories and lots of amazing art. Uprising focuses on the Overwatch team as a crisis erupts in London. Overwatch is barred from intervening and must decide if they will…

GTA Online Can Look Pretty Different These Days

A couple weeks ago, Rockstar added mesmerizing “props” that GTA Online players can use to create stunt races, and the coolest ones aren’t just flashy—they bend and break tracks in new ways. (Seizure warning!) Some fans are using an “underground” glitch to create strange tracks underneath the GTA Online map. While players have pulled this…

Anime Malware Locks Your Files Unless You Play A Game

In 2017, even malware is anime. Anyone affected by the new malware Rensenware, named after the anime-style game Touhou Seirensen (Undefined Fantastic Object), has to score over 200 million points on the game’s “lunatic” level or they won’t be able to access their computer files. Ransomeware is a malicious brand of malware that holds files…

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A surprisingly sweet movie with a muggle who steals the show. What it is: The latest movie in the Harry Potterverse. Fantastic Beasts was a fictional textbook the kids read in the original books, which was then turned into a “real” textbook written by Harry Potter creator J.K.…

Actually, Bulletstorm Is An Excellent Shooter

Bulletstorm was one of the best games of the last generation, tragically ignored because of an awful marketing campaign, an even worse PC port, and the fact that EA wanted audiences to spend $60 for a seven-hour campaign, which is a steep price by any metric. It’s too bad because once players got past all…

Someday, Our Astronauts Might Have Clothes As Cool As These Mass Effect Uniforms

Human beings won’t make it to the far reaches of space for a long, long time, and the engineers who make spacesuits aren’t sure what we’ll wear when we get there. I hope our future astronauts look at cool as the characters in Mass Effect: Andromeda The purpose of a uniform is to broadcast who…

How Much Do Pro Gamers Sweat?

“Blood, sweat and tears” appears on many a weight room motivational poster, but isn’t quite as applicable to esports as it is to more traditional sports. There arecertainly tears, after wins and losses, and injuries are becoming commonplace as pros get older. Curious, we reached out to esports competitors in all sorts of games to…

This Isn’t The World War Two I Read About…

Charles Lemor is an artist and illustrator based in France. You can see more of Charles’ work at his personal site. And if you like any of it so much you’d want to own some, he’s got a print store here To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in…

The Latest Pokémon Anime Episode Was Depressing As Hell

You thought the Pokémon Sun Moon was all silliness and sunshine? Wrong! Yesterday’s episode was a real tearjerker. Warning: Spoilers ahead! This week was an hour special with back-to-back episodes. The second episode, number 21, was a doozy. Sun Moon continues to surprise, because this isn’t the only weighty episode of this season. (That Mimikyu…

A New Ghost In The Shell Anime Announced!

With the beleaguered Hollywood movie out the door, Production I.Ghas revealed it’s working on a new Ghost in the Shell anime project. Details are scant, but it will be co-directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series) and Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed). That’s all we know for now! Official teaser images, concept…