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Duelyst‘s Latest Expansion Plays To The Card Game’s Unique Strengths
Unearthed Prophecy, the game’s fourth expansion, came out earlier this week and after spending several hours fiddling around with the latest cards, I’m already in love with it. Duelyst is a collectible card game that deviates from other heavy-weights in the genre by borrowing the grid-based elements of a strategy RPG. Instead of dropping minions…
By Ethan Gach Published July 15, 2017 - Esports
Mike “OlafRedland” Spragg displays his Evo wristbands after making it out of his Street Fighter V pool. Competitors this year receive a special wristband designating them as “official pool survivors” if they make it through their double-elimination bracket.
By Eric Van Allen Published July 15, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Evo 2017 and DreamHack Valencia
Evo 2017 is finally upon us. That means lots of triumphant victories and heartbreaking loses. Also a ton of anime You can check out our guide to the year’s biggest fighting game event for details on what games will be featured and what players to keep an eye on, but don’t worry, there’s also plenty…
By Ethan Gach Published July 15, 2017 -
EsportsTracer Ultimate Fizzles Out In Overwatch World Cup Match
Some days, you just can’t get rid of a good pulse bomb, so the game does it for you. As group B matches continued this morning in the Overwatch World Cup 2017 Shanghai Qualifiers, one moment caught viewers by surprise. Thailand’s Sasalak “NzNr” Wannarak seemed to land a pulse bomb, Tracer’s sticky bomb ultimate, on…
By Eric Van Allen Published July 15, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Dizzying Days For VR
STAT | $400 – The current asking price of an Oculus Rift and Touch Controllers bundle. As recently as March, it was $800. QUOTE | “We used to invest $100K, $200K, but we don’t have to do that so much anymore because those people can get paid out [from the install base].” – Oculus VP…
Brendan Sinclair Published July 15, 2017 -
CultureToy Time Plays With Mattel’s 2017 SDCC Exclusives, Destiny And Otherwise
San Diego Comic-Con 2017 is right around the corner, and thousands will be standing in line for a chance to purchase exclusive toy goodness. This year Mattel’s hitting the show with stuff from the Justice League movie, DC Super Hero Girls, Spider-Man, Cars and some team-based shooter game. As with previous years, Mattel’s actually pretty…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2017 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for assembling IKEA furniture in your un-air conditioned apartment, but you live alone now, so at least you don’t have to wear clothes. Also, video games. I’ve recently gotten on a Spelunky kick, because it makes a nice break between unpacking boxes from my recent move. I wasn’t that good at it…
By Riley MacLeod Published July 14, 2017 -
UncategorizedGlitch Creates Unintentional Extra Ending In Sci-Fi Steam Game
Event 0 is a science fiction game that came out last year. Since release, players have discovered four different endings to the game—which is strange, because according to the designer, it only has three. SPOILERS AHEAD The emotional core of Event 0 rest between the player and an AI called Kaizen-85. Throughout the game, players…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 14, 2017 - Uncategorized
Telling Lies is the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, and it will be released by Edith Finch publisher Annapurna Interactive, Variety reported today. The new game will also be an interactive movie, but with more characters and a more complex story. Filming will begin late this year or in early 2018.
By Chris Kohler Published July 14, 2017 -
UncategorizedBattlegrounds Is Addictive Because There’s No Wrong Way To Play
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is amazingly fun and offers an exciting experience every time you play. But how is it so good? One little sentences from PlayerUnknown himself makes it clear. We take a look in this critical video. Transcript: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a giant battle royale game that’s simple in concept and exciting in execution, asking…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 14, 2017 - Uncategorized
Final Fantasy XIV Besieged By DDoS Attacks
The biggest threat to Eorza isn’t the Garleans, or some other villain that I don’t want to look up because I haven’t even finished Heavensward yet. It’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which have been hitting Final Fantasy XIV since June and show no sign of stopping, according to the developers at Square Enix.…
By Jason Schreier Published July 14, 2017 - Esports
The Pac-12 Doesn’t Consider College Esports Sports For Now, Thank God
A.J. Dimick sees big things in the future for collegiate esports. “I think college esports has a limitless ceiling, I really do,” Dimick told me over the phone earlier this year. To that end, Dimick, esports director at the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering department, has facilitated the creation of the first varsity…
By Jack Moore Published July 14, 2017 - Uncategorized
Dating Simulator Lets You Netflix And Chill
In Flix and Chill, your goal is to basically Netflix and chill. The game doesn’t call it that, of course, but you’re still trying to invite people your back to your house to watch movies and have sex. The point-and-click game is divided into five different episodes, and while your goal always remains the same,…
By Chloe Spencer Published July 14, 2017 - Uncategorized
Zynga Tries Charging Random Prices For DLC, Fails
Letty’s Sting Ray from The Fate of the Furious showed up as a premium microtransaction in CSR Racing 2 earlier this week. It cost $4.99 to unlock. Or $14.99. Or $34.99. According to Zynga, prices for the premium vehicle were set to random as part of a feature test. Really. The situation came to our…
By Mike Fahey Published July 14, 2017 -
UncategorizedNintendo Switch Game About Sheep Seems Horny, Is Actually Sad
This new Nintendo Switch game about sheep is a little bit horny, and also very morbid. When you look at Shephy on the Nintendo Switch eShop, it looks like a cute card game about sheep. And for the most part it is. The goal of the game is to use all the cards in your…
By Gita Jackson Published July 14, 2017 -
EsportsHow Three People Crushed Final Fantasy VII In Less Than Eight Hours
By the time it was Final Fantasy VII’s turn on the Summer Games Done Quick schedule, the trio of runners were already tired. A mixture of nerves and anxious excitement had kept them from getting a full night’s sleep, and starting at 1 a.m., they were about to steer the graveyard shift through eight solid…
By Eric Van Allen Published July 14, 2017 -
UncategorizedIf You Hear Someone Getting Harassed In An Online Game, Don’t Stay Silent
“I think we’d do better with a healer,” I suggested to my Overwatch team earlier this week. We were in the spawn room defending the Temple of Anubis and, without a healer, we would quickly forfeit the objective. Not even the slightest pause passed before a teammate told me that, instead, “What we need is…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 14, 2017 - Uncategorized
Popular Pokémon Minecraft Mod Gets Shut Down [Update]
Pixelmon, a robust Pokémon-themed modification for Minecraft released in 2012, can no longer be downloaded. The developers say the take down is the result of a request by The Pokémon Company itself. “With much sadness, but keeping all our fond memories, we must announce that Pixelmon is ending its development,” MrMasochism, creator of the mod,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published July 14, 2017
