For Twitch Streamers Who Spend Their Lives On Camera, It’s Hard To Know When To Stop

The booming industry of live-streaming yourself gaming is a largely unregulated one. Streamers are weed-whacking their way through the industry’s nascent years, struggling to find a work-life balance for a job that they can technically never stop doing. Launching a streaming career is like launching a cable network—a reliable, sustained source of entertainment—but on Twitch,…

Resident Evil 7 Producer Explains How They Made The Game So Scary

Resident Evil 7 was a watershed moment for the series that reinvigorated the languishing franchise. Series producer Masachika Kawata told us how the team over at Capcom brought the series home again. Kawata explained that Resident Evil 7 creates a horrifying experience by changing the camera perspective, so the player never feels like a spectator.…

Injustice 2 Doubles Up On Cats

Move over Catwoman, Injustice 2‘s got DC Comics’ actual cat-woman to the line-up. The latest trailer for Injustice 2 showcases the fighting women of DC, featuring Poison Ivy, Black Canary, Catwoman and the animalistic Cheetah. We’re going to need a bigger litter box. While Catwoman making a return in Netherrealm Studios’ sequel was a no-brainer,…

GTA Online Players Have A New Conspiracy Theory That NPCs Are Out To Kill Them

Recently, a paranoia has taken a hold of some GTA Online players, who are convinced that recent updates are forcing drivers to be more aggressive. It’s probably not true, but the idea has gotten many sharing potential evidence of that conspiracy theory. It all started last year, after the bikers update DLC. Players enjoying the…

Battlefield 1’s Winter Update Adds Ribbons, Increases Class Level Cap

Numerous changes are coming to Battlefield 1 as part of a winter update. Alongside the expansion pack They Shall Not Pass, the game will see changes to class rankings and the addition of combat ribbons. In a blog post today, the Battlefield 1 team outlined some new additions that will come in the game’s winter…

YouTube Cancels Pewdiepie’s Show, Removes Him From Premium Advertising

A month after YouTube’s biggest star uploaded a video containing the phrase “Death To All Jews,” the service that once hosted that very content is distancing itself a bit from Felix Kjellberg. Variety reportsthat YouTube has cancelled the second season of Scare Pewdiepie, the premium $10-a-month show that sought to scare Kjellberg IRL in elaborate,…

Now Even Zelda: Breath of the Wild Is Getting DLC And A Season Pass

You know times are strange when even Zelda games are getting season passes, and here we are. Nintendo announced today that Breath of the Wild will get two pieces of downloadable content throughout 2017, and to buy them both, you’ll need to get the Zelda expansion pass. This expansion pass will be $20 and come…

How Blizzard Is Combating Korea’s Overwatch Hacking Problem

As previously reported, cheating has been plaguing Overwatch’s South Korean servers. Today, Blizzard Korea announced a new policy designed to combat that. To recap: Because of the way the net cafe business works in South Korea, Overwatch players there could walk into any PC bang and create a free Battle.net account to play. It wasn’t…

Konami’s Profits Increase By Almost 230 Percent

During the nine-month period ending on December 2016, Konami reports a 229.8 percent increase in profit to the tune of US$183 million. Total revenue, however, did not increase, and as Focus Gaming reports, fell 8.5 percent year-on-year. Konami has combined its arcade business with its pachinko business to form a new streamlined “Amusement Business” division,…

Disney Drops Pewdiepie Over Anti-Semitic Jokes

Maker Studios, a division of Disney, just severed their deal with YouTube megastar Pewdiepie. They pointed to a (now-deleted) January 11 video in which Pewdiepie paid two men to hold up a sign that read, “Death To All Jews.” The Wall Street Journal reports that Pewdiepie had editorial independence in his deal, but this was…

Conan Exiles Player Uses Mods To Make Everything Gigantic (Dicks Included)

Conan Exiles got official mod tools at the tail end of last week, so there’s nothing super elaborate in the wild just yet. There are, however, comically oversized barbarians and regular-sized barbarians with comically oversized dicks and boobs. Warning: this post is extremely NSFW. I wrote it from a Starbucks, which I have to admit…

No Truce With The Furies is a “police procedural RPG” that looks fascinating. Dialogue is the focus, and you have an inventory for your thoughts. It takes place in a seaside city, but also there’s disco. The game’s big influences are Planescape Torment and Kentucky Route Zero. It’ll be out later this year. Hat tip…

Borderlands Cosplay Is A Living Cartoon

This Borderlands outfit is so good that it won a prize at last year’s Starcon in St Petersburg, one of the best cosplay shows on Earth. We see a lot of Borderlands cosplay, and a lot of it is very good, but this is something else. The hair in particular, with the cel-shading running all…

I Hope Nobody Killed This John Wick Cosplayer’s Dog

TheIdeaFix is one of the best cosplayers on the planet. He doesn’t just dress up as a character, he becomes them, as he’s done for everything from The Hobbit to The Avengers to, in this case, John Wick. I just…the outfit, the hair, the beard, the make-up, the facial expressions…it’s almost perfect. Photos by Haji-san

New ‘Humble Freedom Bundle’ Donates Money To Civil Rights Groups, For Obvious Reasons

Right now, you can spend $30 and receive $600 worth of video games, books and comics in return, with 100% of the money going to organisations cleaning up the mess left after President Trump’s (stalled) attempt at immigration bans. Available for a week, the “Humble Freedom Bundle” sees 100% of the money spent on games…

Battlefield Player Needs To Watch Their Back

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