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UncategorizedNeuro Voider is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year it’s co-creator confirmed on Twitter today. The colorful twin-stick shooter you probably missed when it came to Xbox One, PS4, and PC in March features four player coop and will have auto-aim for the Switch version.
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Esports
The Weekend In Esports: Call Of Duty Anaheim Open, DreamHack Summer, And CEO 2017
Watch all the weekend’s best pro gaming until your eyes bleed. Below you’ll find where and when you can catch all the weekend’s biggest events in competitive gaming. Let us know what you’ll be watching in the comments or if you think there’s something we might have missed. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare It’s a…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 - Esports
Long-Time Commentator Says Dota 2 Is Reaching A Breaking Point
Toby Dawson has been commentating in the Dota pro scene for over a decade, and has been the voice behind some of its biggest moments. In a recent post on the Dota 2 subreddit, Dawson voiced his concerns on the continued viability of the scene. It started with a tweet, where Dawson laid it out…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 17, 2017 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Xbox One Stand-Off
QUOTE | “We’re going to sell more Xbox One S’s next year than we will X. That’s always been part of the plan.” – Xbox boss Phil Spencer talking about the continued importance of the Xbox One S as it puts a focus on Xbox One X at E3 QUOTE | “I think that the…
James Brightman Published June 17, 2017 -
UncategorizedE3 Was Different This Year, And It Wasn’t Just The Crowds
It’s the first day of E3. I’m walking the show floor—or more accurately, oozing across it, slug-like, followed by a trail of my own sweat. I’m shoulder-to-shoulder with swathes of people. Across the way, crowds of people whoop and holler, each of them hoping to win swag they can stuff in their floor-length swag bags.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy XIV’s New Expansion Off To A Predictably Rocky Start
Stormblood launched in early access today, and the servers are getting bodied. As I see it, we wouldn’t have constant lag, frequent disconnects and players forming massive lines in a desperate attempt to get a quest done if Final Fantasy XIV didn’t make such attractive expansion packs. What seems completely ridiculous to folks who haven’t…
By Mike Fahey Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedA Moment That Captures Why Super Mario Odyssey Seems So Special
We’ve written a lot about E3 this week and covered a lot of games, including Super Mario Odyssey. Still, here’s one more post about that game, because it’s too cool not to share with you. The above video is from Nintendo’s Treehouse Live demo of Mario Odyssey’s forest level. In the first six minutes, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2017 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for taking a long nap after E3. Also taking a break from hearing about video games to actually play some. I am so pumped for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, readers, because The New Order freaking ruled. (I even wrote a bloga while back about BJ [and other dudes] taking a bath.)…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 16, 2017 - Esports
Tekken 7 Player Turns Down Tournament’s T-Mobile Phone Prize, Because He Uses AT&T
Tekken 7 player Bronson Tran lived up to his nickname “the mouth of NorCal” this past Wednesday night when he received and rejected the MVP prize at E3’s Twitch Esports Arena invitational. Fans nominated the MVP via Twitter hashtag, and the winner was supposed to get a T-Mobile phone. Except, as Bronson explained while standing…
By Maddy Myers Published June 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
E3 2017’s Best Dressed Video Game Characters
We’ve seen all the E3 trailers, announcement and gameplay demos, but one question remains: which game characters were the best dressed? Here’ a few of my favorite looks from the games we saw. A Way Out 70s looks are coming back in a big way, and the two main characters from A Way Out embrace…
By Gita Jackson Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedHow Many Games At E3 2017 Had Guns? A Scientific Investigation
Clifford “Cliffy B” Bleszinski once described video game guns’ profound appeal with this simple sentiment: “reach out and touch someone . . . with your gun.” Since the early 1990s, guns have pretty much been the telephone of choice for video game characters: they speak to their rivals with bangs, booms, and headshots. Now, however,…
By Tim Rogers Published June 16, 2017 - Esports
Nintendo Responds To Smash Bros. Pro’s Callout, Wants To Keep Scene Grassroots
One of the world’s top Super Smash Bros. players recently knocked Nintendo for not sufficiently supporting the scene and said he hoped that Nintendo heard him. This week in Los Angeles, they did—after we played a clip of his speech to Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma, a top-three-ranked Super Smash Bros.…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2017 -
EsportsThe 15-Year-Old Smash Pro Who Finds Confidence In Dancing Like Bayonetta
It’s Tuesday, and Zack “CaptainZack” Lauth is waiting on a plane. His flight’s been delayed twice. At 15 years old, he’s one of the youngest signed players in Super Smash Bros. For Wii U, and one of the best Bayonetta players in the world—a character as strong as she is controversial. Lauth, like his other…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
The Creator Of Metroid II Fan Game AM2R Isn’t Mad About Nintendo
DoctorM64 spent over ten years remaking Metroid II: Samus Return in his free time, only to have Nintendo send him a DMCA and have to take the project down. Now that Nintendo has announced their own reimagining of the same game, he’s just as pumped as everyone else is. When DoctorM64 was working on Another…
By Gita Jackson Published June 16, 2017 - Culture
Ask Dr. NerdLove: Is Porn Killing My Sex Life?
Hello all you spaceporn lungfish of the Twitternet, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column whose coming was predicted by the sacred mutterings of the oracle of E3. This week, we’re looking at two sides of the same coin. On the one side: what do you do when your girlfriend thinks…
Harris O'Malley Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedI Squished A Bug Inside My Monitor’s Screen And Now I Want To Die
It all started when I thought I saw a bug crawling across my computer monitor. Huh, I thought, it’s a bug crawling across my computer monitor. I reached out to flick it off, and found that I could not. I stared at it, unsure of what I was seeing. The bug was there, but I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 16, 2017 -
UncategorizedThe Six Biggest Announcements Of E3 2017
E3 is drawing to a close, and the rain of game announcements has abated. EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo all did their thing. It’s up to us to sort through the rubble. Among the dozens of hype reels, hardware breakdowns, marketing buzzwords and game announcements, a few things stood out. If you don’t…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 16, 2017 -
Tips & GuidesTips For Playing Arms
On the surface, Arms looks like a cute game about the dangers of slinky arms, but it quickly gets challenging. Out today, Nintendo’s new fighting game has players throwing punches with spring-loaded limbs. Programming good impulses takes time and guidance. And although only ten fighters feature in Arms, with so many detachable arms to choose…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 16, 2017 - Uncategorized
Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s Director On Localization Changes: ‘I Didn’t Mind Much At All’
In the heated ongoing conversation over “censorship” in localization, we’ve heard a whole lot from fans and even translators, but we haven’t seen much discussion from Japanese developers. Which is why, when speaking to Tetsuya Takahashi this week in Los Angeles, I asked him for his thoughts on the matter. His answers were a little…
By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2017