New Hearthstone Expansion ‘Journey To Un’Goro’ Adds Quests To Matches

Blizzard unveiled the next expansion for Hearthstone today, bringing with it a series of mechanical adjustments and a massive overhaul to deck-building options in April 2017. Dubbed “Journey To Un’Goro” and slated for an April release, the set will be prehistorically themed, filled with dinosaurs and primal elements. Some of the more intriguing cards already…

New Website Makes It Easier To See New Games On Steam 

With so many games coming out on Steam each week and the service’s fondness for focusing on “popular” and “recommended” new releases, it’s easier for smaller games to fall through the cracks.What’s On Steam is a website that gives every new game on Steam equal treatment. Launched earlier this month by the folks at indie…

Dota 2 Team Accused Of Peeking At Match Stream, Which May Or May Not Be Cheating

An amateur Dota 2 team lost during the StarLadder FastCup this weekend when their wards—temporary items that provide crucial vision of the map—were picked off one-by-one, with alarming accuracy. The other team was not clairvoyant, but rather appeared to be getting outside information. “Stream sniping” is the act of viewing another player’s stream to gain…

An American Hentai Publisher’s Journey From Piracy To Premium

The biggest English-language hentai manga publisher, Fakku, just celebrated its 10-year anniversary last December. That’s ten years of “monster girl,” “oppai,” “nakadashi,” “yaoi” and “futanari,” tags under Fakku’s clean taxonomy of hentai genres. The company’s founder Jacob Grady has a lot to celebrate. In its torrid lifespan, Fakku evolved from an underground hentai piracy operation…

Game-Filled Korean Reality Show Is A Must-Watch

In 2013, South Korean television network tvN aired a competition-style reality television show called The Genius. On the surface it sounds like most other shows in the genre: a group of celebrities are tasked with playing games together in order to win a cash prize. But The Genius is something special. It’s a twisty, often…

EVE Online Players Destroy $13,000 Worth of Ships In A Surprise Attack

EVE Online is a game of risk versus reward, a game where players can take chances with their resources. Over the past weekend, the in-game organization know as “The Imperium” staged an annual event called “Burn Jita.” During this event, the safest areas of the game are invaded by renegade players, who turn everything into…

Unknown Lucario Player Starred In This Month’s Best Smash 4 Set

At this weekend’s Frostbite Smash 4 tournament, competitors ZeRo and Tsu faced off in a tense grand finals match that could only be compared to the last fight between Dragon Ball Z’s Goku and Cell. Diddy Kong main ZeRo was, for two years, the top Smash 4 player in the world. He’s great at Diddy…

Not All Switch Games Will Support TV Mode

Not all Nintendo Switch games are going to take advantage of the console’s dual TV/portable nature. Released last year for iOS and Android, rhythm game Voez is now a Japanese Switch launch title, and it requires a touch screen to play. Does this mean we’re in for a flood of tablet ports? The latest game…

The State Of Toys In 2017

The New York Toy Fair is a showcase for the latest and greatest playthings hitting store shelves in the coming year, but it’s also a good indicator of where the toy market is heading. In 2017, that’s directly to the inexpensive collectibles aisle. Much of my Toy Fair coverage centered on the basics. Action figures,…

Twitch Starts Selling The Games Streamers Play This Spring

Millions of people watch games being played on Twitch. This spring, they’ll be able to purchase the games they watch directly from the streaming site, with a portion of the revenue going to the on-screen talent. Detailed in a blog post over at Twitch.tv, the new game sales program will allow stream viewers to click…

Here’s The Official Trailer For Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War

As revealed by Targetover the weekend, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is getting a sequel on August 22 called Shadow of War. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, here’s nearly two and a half minutes of standard Middle-Earth cinematics, with the promise of gameplay on March 8. As expected, players will be wielding a…

Today Is Pokémon‘s 21st Anniversary

Can you believe it? On February 27, 1996, the first games in the Pokémon series were released in Japan. The world has never been the same. In Japanese, the games were titled Pokémon Red Version and Green Version, and the series hit North American two years later in 1998. The trading card game wasn’t released…

Jim Sterling Returns With A New Jimquisition About The Dismissed Lawsuit 

Last week, the $10 million lawsuit against Jim Sterling was thrown out of court. This week, Sterling is back with much more to say.  Sterling previously commented to Kotaku about the dismissed suit, but has much more to say in a nearly forty minute, rather somber YouTube video. Toward the end, Sterling says, “I’ve done…

Get Ready For More Nier: Automata Cosplay 

Now Nier: Automata is out in Japan and soon coming to the West, expect more and more cosplayers to bring the main android protagonist to life. Nier: Automata isn’t new per se. I mean, 2B outfits were already make their way through the internet last fall. But in the past month, there has already been…

Boy Uses Dragon Ball Z To Survive Bee Attack 

An 11-year-old boy in Phoenix ended up in intensive care after being stung by 400 bees. He says he got through that terrible attack by channeling Vegeta. According to Gila Valley Central, Andrew Kunz and a friend were shooting BB guns at an old rusted car. A colony of Africanized bees had taken up residence…

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The Best Cosplay From Katsucon

Sean Spicer wasn’t there this year, mercifully, but there were still a lot more conventional things of note to be found at this year’s Katsucon. Namely, a ton of A++++ cosplay from folks from not only across the United States, but around the world While we’ve already seen a bit of Katsucon, there are around…

Japan’s Comeback In Smash Bros. Crew Battle Leads To Trash Talk

America’s team in the Smash Bros. Wii U Crew Battle at Frostbite 2017 had a big lead going into the second half and things looked to be coming up roses until Japan replied with a slew of brutal matches that left many of the game’s top pros bruised and bloodied. It all began with Kirihara…