No, Smite. Just No. 

Coming to Smite with the season four update, Such Cold Skadi is a premium skin that is bad and everyone who made it should feel bad. Before you say anything, watch this. A couple of years ago I wrote about how much I loved some of the silly skins that the Smite folks come up with.…

Tips For Playing Yakuza 0

A lot of you will be playing Yakuza 0 over the next few weeks, and for many it will be your first time with the series. Which is OK! While it may seem daunting at first, we’re here to help. Below are some handy, general and very much beginner’s tips to help you on your…

Playing Overwatch At 100 x 105 Resolution Is Not Recommended

Most of the time, PC gamers want their games to look the best. Here is an example of someone trying to make a game look the worst MinorVidsPC has taken Overwatch and got the resolution down to a miniscule 100 x 105. Throw in playing it on the lowest quality settings and you’ve got a…

Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road, Remade In Halo 5

Rainbow Road, the dangerous and psychedelic Mario Kart map you and your friends barely survived in elementary school, is now a Halo 5 map. And, yes, of course you can race on it. The map accommodates up to 10 players. It’s got all the thwomps and twists and turns and traps that will test your…

A Quick Way To Catch Up On Pro Counter-Strike Games

Keeping up with esports isn’t easy. Counter-Strike matches are made up of multiple multi-round games. Tournaments quickly turn into time investments. Naturally, you’re gonna miss a few here and there. Or a lot. YouWrong has come up with an elegant solution to that problem. Their videos straddle the line between full matches and highlight reels.…

The New Power Rangers Game Isn’t Good

Can we just get a Power Rangers Musou already and stop releasing nonsense like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Mega Battle? My initial reaction to the October announcement of the 2D brawler from Bandai Namco and developer Bamtang was “This looks like garbage,” but not having played the game I gave it the benefit of the…

Players Try Bringing Missingno Into Pokémon Sun and Moon, Get A Glitch Instead

Pokémon Bank, the service that allows players to transfer monsters between titles, is now live for Pokémon Sun and Moon. It was only a matter of time before people tested out if Pokémon’s most infamous glitch could be imported into the service, and thus, the latest games. Last year, Pokémon Red and Blue were released for…

Crypt of the Necrodancer DLC Adds New Character, Music and Loot

DLC for the roguelike dungeon crawler rhythm game Crypt of the Necrodancer is now available in Early Access on Steam Crypt of the Necrodancer is the kind of game that shouldn’t work at all, but totally does. Amplified, the DLC, offers new loot; remixes of its great music from OverClocked Remix, amilyJules, A_Rival, Virt, and Girlfriend…

How Peanuts Used Marcie To Explore Unhealthy Relationships

For many years, I thought that Marcie, the bespectacled, book-obsessed girl in Peanuts, was Asian American. It wasn’t just about how badly I wanted an Asian American in my favorite comic strip; it was about how much I identified with her. Through Marcie’s various story arcs, Charles Schulz depicted the struggles of a shy person…

Overwatch’s Roadhog Improves With Hook 2.0

We are now in the age of Hook 2.0, my friends. It’s been a long, sometimes unjust journey, often through walls or thick pillars. But yesterday, Blizzard fixed Overwatch’s Roadhog. And now, I feel good knowing that I deserved to hook you chumps, and didn’t just get lucky with a glitch. In the patch notes,…

Francis Ford Coppola Announces Apocalypse Now Video Game

Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope is teaming up with a crack team of game industry veterans to turn classic war movie Apocalypse Now into a crowdfunded psychological horror role-playing game. It’s been nearly four decades since Francis Coppola turned Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella Hearts of Darkness into a Vietnam-era war film featuring a surprisingly overweight…

A Samurai Game With A Sharp Learning Curve

A dangerous bird-man stands before you. Music beats rhythmically and and chimes down, each second signaling your impending demise. You only have one shot at this. You scramble to line up your attack and slice, cutting him in half. This is Sinewave Samurai and it’s this week’s Indie Pick. Sinewave Samurai is a game jam…

The Latest Overwatch Thing Is ‘Hot Zenyatta’

Zenyatta has a new skin for the Overwatch Lunar New Year event and uh, is it getting hot in here or is it just me? Zenyatta’s new skin portrays him as Tang Sanzang from the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Sanzang is actually the central character of the novel, which is about the Buddhist…

Sometimes The Swimsuit Costume Is The More Modest Option

Tales of Berseria isa very good game, but its main protagonist is normally dressed in shredding Devil May Cry cosplay leftovers. She’s much better off wearing a swimsuit. Velvet’s revealing default outfit caused a stir when it debuted last year, with some fans disappointed that the first solo female main protagonist in the Tales series…

The game lineup for the EVO 2017 fighting game tournament has been announced, an eight-game mix of the usual suspects and newcomers like Injustice 2, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV and BlazBlue: Central Fiction, with a ninth game being left up to player voting.

Jawas, Workin’ The Night Shift

Ronnie Jensen is a sci-fi artist based in Norway. You can see more of Ronnie’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Transformers Fans Are Voting For The Next Leader Of Cybertron

Normally it’s the Matrix of Leadership that determines which Transformer takes up the Prime mantle, but this year Hasbro’s doing things a little differently. Fans are voting to see which Autobot, Decepticon or unknown evil gets the next Optimus-style upgrade. Every Prime has to start somewhere. Optimus Prime was once Orion Pax, a lowly dock…