The Top 30 Selling Games In Japan Are Dominated By Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Last week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was way out in front in the Japanese sales chart, surprising absolutely no one. Some of the entries, however, might catch you off guard. Via Famitsu, here are the top 30 selling games from April 24 to April 30.  30. Final Fantasy XV (PS4): 2,220 copies Total: 975,104 copies…

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CG Artist has Made An Image Every Day For 10 years

That’s over 3600 days in a row. I can’t even write shitty blog posts for five days without needing two days off. As Vice reports, Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann, a professional CG artist who has released a ton of animated shorts and worked with musicians like Flying Lotus and deadmau5, started a project a decade ago…

A Card Game That’ll Help You Freestyle Rap

Vers is a card game designed to feed you words and context so that you—yes you, likely a person who in reality can not write rhymes—can create your own raps that do not suck. It’s kind of like Cards Against Humanity, only in reverse: instead of giving you sentences with words missing, it’s giving you…

Bethesda Asks For Indie Game’s Name To Be Changed Because It Has ‘Prey’ In it

Prey for the Gods, an indie PC game paying homage to Shadow of the Colossus, now has a new name courtesy of some pressure from Bethesda, publishers of the upcoming Prey In a post mostly about updates made to the game following its successful Kickstarter, No Matter Studios also announce that the project will now…

Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code And Returns It To Blizzard, Gets Free Trip To BlizzCon

Last month, Reddit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn’t know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back. Khemist49 first came across the disc in a “box…

Professional Smite Player And Caster Dies Of Cancer At Age 25

David “Allied” Hance, professional Smite player and caster, passed away this afternoon at 25 years old after a year-long battle with cancer, according to a post by LeafreTV, a colleague and friend. One year ago, Allied announced his cancer diagnosis. In response, the Smite developers at Hi-Rez Studios held marathon gaming streams to raise money…

Black Ops II Player Kills 10,000 Zombies While Sitting In a Corner

If you’ve got a spare three hours, you can watch a YouTube streamer set a remarkably high score in Call of Duty: Black Ops II by hanging out in a pool of goop. With the recent addition of Black Ops II to Xbox One backwards compatibility, several players are going back to set new high…

Volta V Wooden PC Review: An Heirloom Gaming Machine

I’ve spent the past few weeks gaming, working and pretending to work on theVolta V, the world’s first commercially-produced handcrafted wooden computer. It feels like it’s part of the family. There was a time when most of our electronic entertainment equipment was either made of wood or, at the very least, stylized to look as…

The Only Five Valve News Stories That You Ever Read

A wise person once defined insanity as “watching Valve do the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.” Once a quiet enigma, popping out an all-time classic video game once every handful of years, Valve now does a bunch of stuff—largely centered around hardware and updating Steam—announcing these efforts without much in the…

A New World Record For Beating Fallout: New Vegas Fast

Watch in awe as speedrunner Kungkobra destroys Fallout: New Vegas in a mere 13:45. The last time we wrote about New Vegas speedruns, the “any percentage” record was just under 20 minutes. Since then, a handful of minutes have been shaved off, yes, but the central mechanics have also changed a bit, too: Those who…

Nintendo’s Line Of Wario Platformers Ended Far Too Long Ago

There’s a certain strain of Nintendo fan that’s probably wondering, these days: What’s up with Wario platformers? Once a staple of the company’s lineup, action games starring Mario’s bizarro-world clone have been MIA for nearly a decade. By reviewing the history of Wario, we might understand why. So let’s do it. To trace the history…

There’s A Brand New Trails Game Out Today

If you are wondering what the top-selling item on Steam is right now, beating out the likes of Battlegrounds and the Star Wars collection, wonder no further: it’s Trails in the Sky the 3rd, a PC-only JRPG that’s out today. I haven’t yet gotten to play the third Trails in the Sky game—my PC is…

YouTubers Say They Can’t Make Money Covering Call of Duty: WWII

Since March, YouTubers have watched their revenue plummet as advertisers bleed out of the platform. Some videos containing violence, real or fictional, are considered “inappropriate for advertising.” First-person shooter Call of Duty, a massively popular game on YouTube, is no walk in the park. So, the huge community that’s formed around it is getting hit…

A Hand Drawn RPG About Everyday Life

Beeswing is a charismatic game dancing the line between adventure and RPG. Exploring a quiet Scottish village, you help citizens solve their problems in a beautifully handcrafted world. It’s this week’s indie pick. Created by Jack King-Spooner, Beeswing originally released in 2014. With a recent update, you can play the game in your browser. The…

When You Order A Sword Off The Internet And It’s The Wrong Size

Tatyana Latypova is an artist from Russia. You can see more of Tatyana’s work at her 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 professional and…

World of Warcraft‘s ‘Running of the Gnomes’ Fan Event Gets Official Blizzard Makeover

Since 2010, World of Warcraft players have been creating hordes of pink-haired level one gnomes and running them across Azeroth to support the fight against breast cancer. This year Blizzard is giving the event a boost with special decorations, a cheering crowd and its own special quest. The tradition of running low-level gnomes across a…