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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The Natural: The Trouble Portraying Blackness in Video Games

Every morning, I run a pick through my hair. It’s important that I do this when it’s still spongy and damp from the shower. Wait too long and my hair gets drier and less cooperative, making it harder to pull the comb through my natural. (Pro tip: A natural is something black folks sometimes call…

Tell Us Your Best Stories Of When Somebody Rescued You In A Video Game

Nothing ever goes according to plan. Maybe you die in a desert full of horrifying fuck demons, and you think your loot is gone for good. Maybe you find yourself lost in space. Maybe you accidentally punch the wrong person. Regardless, you need help. When have other players come to your rescue in a video…

Smash Bros. Mod Will Satisfy The Most Hardcore Of Players

An anticipated mod for Super Smash Bros. Melee is slated to streamline the 15-year-old game’s tournaments. 20XXTE, in beta now and released in full early March, sews the Melee community’s specific play preferences into the fiber of the game. 20XX “Tournament Edition” is a Melee mod for GameCube and Wii that players can download for…

Here’s Why Resident Evil 7 Characters Have Such Great Teeth

Resident Evil 7’s most distressing horror technique is not a well placed jump scare or dangerous boss encounter. It’s the teeth. Those terrifying, perfect teeth. Thanks to series producer Masachika Kawata, we finally know what the deal is with everyone’s stellar dental work. I had the opportunity to conduct an email interview with Kawata and will…

Lego Dimensions’ Knight Rider World Is Pretty Boring

Lego Michael Knight, a lone crusader in a dangerous world. The world of the Lego Knight Rider. A twilight world that feels like it only exists so more exciting Lego characters can play with K.I.T.T. Every new entertainment property that comes to Lego Dimensions gets its own Adventure World, a free-roaming map packed with challenges,…