Tips For Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda

Andromeda is an entirely new galaxy, and exploring it can be overwhelming. Here’s what you need to know to make the most out of the latest Mass Effect game. Don’t try to do everything at once Mass Effect: Andromeda throws a lot at you from the get-go, and stopping to immediately make sense of every…

Diablo III Seasons Finally Come To Consoles

Years after Diablo III’s seasons first started, they’re finally coming to consoles. Just as PC players begin clicking their way through the game’s 10th season, those who decided to go with the superior version of Diablo III will get to start seasonal characters on Friday, March 31. Seasons, of course, are limited periods(usually lasting around…

The Live-Action Death Note Movie Gets A Trailer

Netflix just showed off its trailer for the live-action adaptation of horror anime Death Note. Slated for release later this year, the film is directed by Adam Wingard. Here’s the trailer: Death Note is about a teenaged boy who mysteriously acquires a book that kills anyone whose name is written in it. Flush with power,…

Pokémon Go‘s New Water Event Makes The Rare Lapras More Common

If you’re still waiting for Lapras to land in your Pokémon Go PokeDex, it might be your lucky day. Pokémon Go announced its new Water Festival event today, which will increase select water spawns globally. Totodile, Squirtle, Magikarp and others will appear more often after 1 P.M. PDT for the next week. To celebrate, your…

The Stories Behind Some Of Pro Gaming’s Oddest Names

Esports may be bigger than ever, but it can still be hard to take players seriously when their competitive names are things like Dr. Pee Pee, Balls, JesusStick, FruitDealer, and Rape. Yes, there’s a Counter-Strike player called Rape. This piece originally appeared 2/11/15. There’s a disconnect with esports that doesn’t exist with real-life athletics, the…

The Last Naruto Episode Is Tomorrow 

It’s the end of an era. The final episode of the Naruto-starring TV anime will be aired on March 23, bringing to a close a highly successful series. The first Naruto TV series debuted back in October 2002 and ran to 2007. That same year, the current series Naruto Shippuden kicked off. Now, fourteen and…

Explaining Japanese Geek Slang: “Babumi”

Recently on Japanese television, the anime slang babumi (バブみ) was introduced. For many, it was the first time they’d heard it. In the above image, the handsome guy on the left is “pre-babumi,” while the cuted up version on the right is “post-babumi.” So, what the heck is babumi? In Japanese, “babuu” (バブー) is baby…

Yu-Gi-Oh Hair Looks Insane In Real Life

Not surprising! It looks nuts in the manga and anime, too. Out of all the Yu-Gi-Oh characters, Yami Yugi has the most amazing hairdo. It’s always been tricky to replicate in real life. In a new series of ads, Konami tries to do just that—even if the result is more plastic hat and less actual…

Poll: The Most Anticipated Anime Of Spring 2017

Soon a new anime season will start. Excited? A thousand people in Japan were polled about which shows they were looking forward to most. Here are the results. The poll comes via Japanese site Charapedia, and the data breaks down to 63.7 percent men and 36.3 percent women. Age-wise, 66.2 percent were in their teens…

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Is Now A Nintendo Switch Game

The Wii U version is no more. It’s been canned! Instead, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is coming to the Nintendo Switch. “During our Kickstarter campaign, the Wii U was at the height of its popularity, but the situation has drastically changed after the release of Nintendo Switch,” states Bloodstained designer Koji Igarashi on the…

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The Best Civilization VI Mods

Civilization VI is a very good video game, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. Since the game’s launch in October 2016, fans have been working on mods that do everything from make the game look better to improving the creaky AI to speeding up your trips through the user interface. Below you’ll…

Just Because A Game Is Old Doesn’t Mean It Must Be Cheap

I’m nuts for Secret of Mana. That blend of Final Fantasy RPG gameplay with Zelda-style action combat was the game that made me a fan of what we used to call “Squaresoft” back in the day. Today, all Square Enix has to do is put up a website that auto-plays one of the tunes off…

New Horizon: Zero Dawn Patch Fixes ‘Issues When Playtime Exceeds 200 Hours’

Today, Sony released a new patch for Horizon: Zero Dawn that makes a bunch of improvements including quest fixes, X-axis inversion, and, most pivotally, a fix for “game running into issues when playtime exceeds 200 hours.” I don’t know what those issues are, exactly—Sony hasn’t responded to my request for comment—but I do know that,…