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Track: Burnin’ Through The Night | Artist: Sam Mehran & Zak Mering | Album: I Need My T.V.

By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2017

American Takes First Place At DDR World Championship

Chris “iamchris4life” Chike was one of a handful of Americans invited to Japan to compete in the DDR World Championship. It was the first time players from the States had ever been asked to attend, and Chike wasted no time in winning the whole thing. Included as part of the 6th Konami Arcade Championship, itself…

By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2017

Esports

EA Takes $3,000 Back From Madden NFL Pro After ‘Inappropriate’ Tweets

Chris “Dubby” McFarland proved himself the best Madden NFL 17 player in the country after defeating Eric “Problem” Wright in the grand finals of the Madden Bowl just over a week ago. Less than a week later he was forced to give back $3,000 of his $75,000 prize winnings after violating EA’s Code of Conduct.…

By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2017

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Salt and Sanctuary is still coming to the Vita. At least according to a recent blog post from the developer, Ska Studios, who wrote yesterday that the team is hoping for the Vita version to arrive sometime in March. The game originally released in March of last year as a totally excellent 2D Souls-like

By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2017

Esports

The Weekend In Esports: Call Of Duty World League Open Comes To Atlanta

After last weekend’s Rainbow Six Siege Invitational and lots of recent action in the world of CS:GO, it’s back to the land of MOBAs with big games across League of Legends, Dota 2, and Heroes of the Storm, but with one minor exception: the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Atlanta Open. Below you’ll find where…

By Ethan Gach Published February 11, 2017

Culture

This Week In The Business: VR We There Yet?

STAT | 200 – The number of Oculus Rift demo units being pulled from Best Buy stores in the US, reportedly due to a lack of consumer interest in trying them. QUOTE | “We were happy to bring the titles to market because it was a reflection of the fact we have the R&D abilities…

Brendan Sinclair Published February 11, 2017

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Grandfather Shares How Destiny Helped Save His Life

Sometimes, Twitch streamer lucent_beam decides to take on what she calls ‘The Tower Challenge,’ a game where she picks a low-level Destiny player to help out. After some research, the plan unfolds with a message. “The reality is that a lot of people won’t respond to a random message from someone in the Tower, thus…

By Patricia Hernandez Published February 11, 2017

Culture

Steam Greenlight’s Replacement Could Pose Problems Of Its Own

Today, Valve announced that they’re killing Steam Greenlight, the user-driven service they use to ferry lesser-known games onto the Steam store. Soon, it’ll be supplanted by Steam Direct, a service that allow anyone to pay a fee get their game, well, directly onto Steam. No more votes. This approach, however, creates complications of its own.…

By Nathan Grayson Published February 10, 2017

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Flipping Burgers Will Save You From Zombies In Dead Hungry

We’re all familiar with what zombies want to eat, but has anyone tried feeding them something else? Burgers, perhaps? The PixelJunk people at Q-Games give it a try in their first virtual reality game, Dead Hungry, and it works like a charm. Who knew? In Dead Hungry, available for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive…

By Mike Fahey Published February 10, 2017

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The Hair Flips Of Madoka Magica’s Homura, Ranked

Among her many virtues, including strength and compassion, is her incredible hair, which often is in her face and needs a good flip.

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published February 10, 2017

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The Difficulty Of Making A Game Where Players Are Other Players’ Parents

One Hour One Life is a survival game where death comes swiftly, even if you do everything right. You’ve got one hour before your character permanently dies, and you spend your first ten minutes as a mostly helpless child. Your parents are other players. Hopefully, everyone collaborates to get through a huge crafting tree that…

By Nathan Grayson Published February 10, 2017

Culture

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

Weekends are for wearing my fuzzy weekend socks around the house. And also playing video games! I bought a friend Overwatch a few weeks ago, and they subsequently bought it for their two brothers, so now sometimes I get to play with a whole family. It’s how I imagine The Brady Bunch would feel if…

By Riley MacLeod Published February 10, 2017

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The Most Fabulous Styles From Fire Emblem Heroes

Fire Emblem Heroes is a lot of things—a horny casino, a frustrating free to play racket, and a surprisingly complex addition to the lineage of the Fire Emblem’s tactical RPG series. It’s also a bona-fide gallery of looks I wanna cop. Here are some of the best ones. Fire Emblem has long had a love…

By Gita Jackson Published February 10, 2017

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Some Fans Already Want To Bang Mass Effect: Andromeda’s New Alien

We don’t know much about the Angara, Mass Effect’s new alien race. That’s OK, though. Some fans are already getting flustered just thinking about having someone new to smooch. That someone is an Angaran called Jaal, pictured above. As Eurogamer has noted, Jaal’s already got a clubhouse going on, fan art and everything. Really, it…

By Patricia Hernandez Published February 10, 2017

Culture

Glitching Through Majora’s Mask Requires Serious Patience

I got my first 3DS recently. It’s magical. With Majora’s Mask 3D I’m able to enjoy the best game in the series wherever I am. With glitches, I’m turning it into a whole new experience and learning life lessons all the while. I’ve been fascinated with the glitches and tricks Ocarina of Time and Majora’s…

By Heather Alexandra Published February 10, 2017

Tips & Guides

Nioh‘s Sloth Magic Turns Bosses Into Jokes

Nioh has some difficult bosses. They’ll shish-kebab you in the blink of an eye. What if I told you one magic spell that turns them into total pushovers? I’ve played close to 50 hours of Nioh. I’ve slain brutish yokai and engaged in some pretty awesome sword duels. I’m a straight up ninja warrior. Until…

By Heather Alexandra Published February 10, 2017

Culture

Valve Kills Steam Greenlight

After years of saying they’d do it, Valve is finally getting rid of Steam Greenlight, Steam’s user-driven service for admitting smaller games to the Steam store. They’re replacing it with something called Steam Direct. Here’s how it’ll work: “We will ask new developers to complete a set of digital paperwork, personal or company verification, and…

By Nathan Grayson Published February 10, 2017

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Activision Has Big Layoffs Despite Surpassing Financial Targets

Activision Publishing laid off a number of employees across several companies this week, Kotaku has learned. The publisher let go of staff at Infinity Ward, Beenox, and other internal studios as well as their corporate office, according to sources, despite saying yesterday that they had surpassed their revenue targets for 2016. From what we’ve heard,…

By Jason Schreier Published February 10, 2017

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Into the Breach will be the next game by FTL creators Subset Games It will be a turn-based, randomly generated strategy game where giant mechs fight aliens. There’s no release date yet, but it looks rad.

By Riley MacLeod Published February 10, 2017

Esports

The 11 Most Popular Monsters Tearing Up Competitive Pokémon

Out of hundreds of potential choices, competitive Pokémon players can only bring six Alolan monsters into a battleground. Three months in, despite the uncertainty of the overall metagame, some picks are turning up more often than others. In an effort to illuminate the current state of VGC, below are 12 of the most popular monster…

Jason Krell Published February 10, 2017