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Kid Makes A Cardboard Nintendo Switch Because Mom Won’t Buy The Console
Gotta love the creativity of kids! Twitter user Ama-chan’s kid brother made this cardboard Nintendo Switch because their mother wouldn’t buy the real deal. According to Ama-chan, her little brother is in fifth grade and dreams of making video games in the future. If that doesn’t work out, he can always design hardware, cardboard or…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2017 - Kotaku East
Japanese Stock Photos That Are Strange On Purpose
That’s the point! Welcome to the world of Sukima Nurse, a stock photo site for those with very specific stock photo needs. Most stock photos seem varying degrees of goofy. But, as IT Media notes, this site is dedicated to the “one percent of maniac demands.” Sukima Nurse is an offshoot of Nurse-Web.jp, a recruiting…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2017 - Kotaku East
An Excellent Way To Make VR Barfy
Hope you don’t mind feeling pukey! I know I do. This is “Robot VR,” a three-minute long attraction at the Everland Amusement Park in Yongin, South Korea. Check out this short TechInAsia clip: It reminds me of this barfy VR gaming chair we posted a while back, but with more seats so you can get…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 29, 2017 -
CultureAll Walls Must Fall is a tactics game that owes as much to Rez as it does to XCOM. It takes place in a future Berlin where the Cold War never ended. Time-traveling agents loop the same night over and over via tactical battles that occur to the beat of music. Looks wild! It’s on…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 28, 2017 - Culture
The Fantastic Space Art Of Paul Pepera
Artist Paul Pepera, who worked for companies like id, Valve, and 343 Industries, passed away suddenly on March 27. One of the co-founders of Astroneer developers System Era, Pepera worked on games like Halo 4 and Red Orchestra 2 “Many knew Paul in this industry as an artistic tour de force”, a statement on System…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedRain World Broke Me
Every time I think I’m getting close to overcoming the brutal learning curve of Rain World, I die. Initially I blamed myself. I decided to spend my first 30 minutes with Videocult’s long-awaited 2D survival gamestreaming over Facebook. Between my lack of familiarity with the game and Rain World’s aversion to hand-holding of any sort,…
By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2017 -
EsportsPro Overwatch Team Known For Wild Plays Finally Meet Their Match
Over the course of the big APEX Overwatch tournament, Meta Athena went from unassuming underdog to dark horse favorite with plays that seemed to spring forth from some mad scientist’s lab, freshly glistening with incubation tube goop. Their winning streak, however, has finally come to an end. In the most recent semifinal match of the…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 28, 2017 - Esports
TBS’s Eleague Takes the Life Out of Fighting Games
The third season of TBS’ esports tournament is the first to feature a fighting game. Judging by yesterday’s premiere online broadcast, which will lead into televised episodes, it’s got problems. So far, it’s too quiet, too subdued, and too weirdly structured to work well as a fighting game event. The first two seasons of Eleague…
By Maddy Myers Published March 28, 2017 -
UncategorizedPlanescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition Makes An All-Time Classic Way More Playable
If you’ve always wondered what can change the nature of a man but never wanted to play the clunky old version of Planescape: Torment (or bother with mods), here’s a new option: Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition, announced today by the folks at Beamdog (best known for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition). I’ve played a couple hours…
By Jason Schreier Published March 28, 2017 -
EsportsFor Honor’s Peacekeeper Is Apparently So Overpowered, A Tournament Is Now Banning Her
It was inevitable: For Honor players have determined which of its heroes is overpowered and must be banished. In a game so dependent on balance, For Honor’s Peacekeeper won’t jibe at an upcoming Major League Gaming tournament. Eurogamer reports that the Peacekeeper is rubbing players the wrong way. She can spam her light attack, which…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 28, 2017 - Uncategorized
Stunning Widowmaker Statue Kicks Off Blizzard’s Collectibles Line
After years of licensing third parties to create expensive statues and replicas based on its hit video game properties, Blizzard’s taking high-end collectibles in house.Blizzard Collectibles kicks off with an array of existing pieces, joined by one hell of a rendition of Overwatch’s spidery sniper. While I wait patiently for an overpriced Reinhardt statue, Widowmaker…
By Mike Fahey Published March 28, 2017 - Esports
Rivals of Aether Makes The Smash Bros. Formula Feel New Again
Rivals of Aether, out today, wants to become every newbie’s first platform fighter. Rather than relegating that throne to Smash Bros., Rivals of Aether guts the iconic Nintendo game while retaining the skeleton of its famous playstyle. In a genre monopolized by an established AAA game, Rivals succeeds at nearly everything it sets out to…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 28, 2017