Street Fighter V Fans Are Highlighting Akuma’s Flaws By Obliterating Him In Two Combos

The latest goal for the fighting game community is simple: kill Akuma in Street Fighter V using just two combos. The challenge began last Friday when a player named Javits Arias posted a Tweet, asking his fellow competitors to deplete Akuma’s health Arias wanted players to start the first combo with a jump-in attack and…

Here’s The PlayStation Plus Lineup For April

April’s PlayStation Plus lineup features a launch game, Drawn to Death, as well some older games you might have missed. Co-op Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a lot of fun if you enjoy yelling at your friends under the guise of teamwork. Remember, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation…

Fire Emblem Heroes Spring Event Comes With Bunny Costumes

Fire Emblem Heroes is about to get a little more colorful. The Spring Festival tosses fan favorite heroes into bunny costumes and adds a new, lighthearted side story to battle through. But it’s mostly about those absurd outfits. The Spring Festival will run from March 30th to April 13th. The biggest draw from the event…

Final Fantasy XV‘s First DLC Is Short And Pointless

Final Fantasy XV, a Cup Noodles commercial cosplaying as a video game, got its first piece of downloadable content this week, and you really don’t need to bother with it. It’s short, straightforward, and—unless you’re particularly attached to Gladio—really boring. Episode Gladiolus, which came out yesterday for $5, starts off with the Final Fantasy XV…

Funcom Relaunches The Secret World As A Free-To-Play Action RPG

Despite a unique setting, inventive quests and genuinely creepy vibe, Funcom’s supernatural MMO The Secret World doesn’t get a lot of play, so they’re taking all of the content from that game and putting it into a free-to-play online action RPG called Secret World Legends Funcom is calling it a relaunch, but traditionally relaunches involve…

EVE Online‘s New Pirate Ship Can Hold 100,000 Human Corpses

EVE Online is about to get its biggest, most expensive warship ever: the Molok. A version of the game’s giant Titan spaceship that’s aligned with the Blood Raider pirate faction, it’s going to cost three to five times the price of an Avatar-class Titan. But all that cash outlay comes with serious benefits, like the…

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…

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…

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Mass Effect: Andromeda Cosplay Gets The Stare Right

This is Nebulaluben—who in space-related cosplay circles also does a mean Destiny—as Mass Effect: Andromeda’s Peebee.

All 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…

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…

Rain 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,…

Pro 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…