Magic: The Gathering‘s Duel Decks Are Perfect For Casuals

Magic: The Gathering is a very good card game that I am very picky about playing. I’m a casual player, more likely to challenge a friend at a bar than attend a local tournament. I’m not about to pore over apps and blogs to assemble some impenetrable, holy deck; I’d rather play Magic: The Gathering…

Dota 2 Pro Loses Game And Balance

Jacky “EternaLEnVy” Mao, captain of Team NP, was coming off a loss in the team’s first game at the Dota 2 Manila Masters when even gravity seemed to let him down. During a break between games one and two, as both teams went over strategy and drafts for the coming, likely decisive contest, Mao got…

Whoa, Your Pokémon Can Die In The New Magikarp Game

Magikarp Jump, a game about raising Pokémon’s most useless monster, is out today for iOS and Android. It is just as much a game about training Magikarp as it is a game about losing your Magikarp in horrible ways. I have been playing the game for about two hours, and I am terrified about making…

Injustice 2 Tournament Player Throws Controller, Because Deadshot

Injustice 2 is just a week old, but competition is already heating up thanks toDeadshot’s frustrating zoning gameplay. After losing to the character during a recent tournament, one player gave his controller a good bounce. As competition wound down on Saturday at the Toryuken tournament in Toronto, paths to the finals bracket became valuable commodities,…

This DIY Voltron Model Is Some Next Level Stuff

Behold one of the most incredible do-it-yourself Voltron models I’ve ever seen. I’m willing to bet the same is true for you. Designed by a Korean model-maker known as “Juny,” this Voltron is made up of three hundred and forty 3D printed parts. The metallic paint job is, in particular, spectacular. Check out more of…

Poll: Japan’s Favorite First Person Shooters (And Third Person Shooters)

Wonder which shooters folks in Japan like best? Here’s a poll that might shed light on that question. As with the previous polls (here and here), each person was allowed to vote for up to three titles (though people could only vote for one or two if they wanted). Famitsu then calculated these votes as…

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Nier: Automata Cosplay Is Not Fucking Around Here

Here are two Chinese cosplayers—Omiya(2B) and Ichinosehikaru(9S)—going absolutely nuts with their Nier: Automata cosplay partnership. Before you say it, yes, these are heavily edited images. But hey, if you’re going to photoshop your cosplay images, you may as well go hard. And even if you’re the type to recoil at the thought of effects and…

Guy And His Dad Are The Ultimate Battlegrounds Team

Turns out, the keys to success in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and family life are one in the same. It’s all about communication. With your dad. PUBG is a game fraught with moments of panic and uncertainty. It’s hard to find a duos partners who can keep it together under pressure—let alone communicate effectively when shit is…

A Cinematic Trailer For A Fan-Made Halo Game

This is the world we live in now. Where even fan-made, multiplayer-only Halo games get four-minute cinematic trailers. This clip is for Installation 01, a back-to-basics Halo fan game for the PC that we first took a look at last year Looks like things are coming along nicely. Installation 01 is an attempt to get…

Kong: Skull Island Is Full Of Cute Video Game Easter Eggs

Jordan Vogt-Roberts, director of Kong: Skull Island, hid a bunch of video game tributes and influences throughout the movie so well that nobody noticed. So he’s now pointing them out. Some of the homages made it into the finished film: And some stuff didn’t: If you were going to ask “well why isn’t this guy…

Killers & Thieves Is A Game About Medieval Burglary

This is one of the nicest video game surprises I’ve had in a long time. Stoic, creators of the excellent Banner Saga, dropped a game on Steam this week out of almost nowhere. And it’s pretty good! Killers & Thieves is a game made by Stoic co-founder Alex Thomas, and is all about the daily…

First Trailer For Netflix’s Castlevania Animated Series

Announced earlier this year, here’s the first trailer for Netflix’s animated Castlevania series. There are whips and skulls, so it’s got that going for it. The series is due on July 7.