The game lineup for the EVO 2017 fighting game tournament has been announced, an eight-game mix of the usual suspects and newcomers like Injustice 2, Tekken 7, The King of Fighters XIV and BlazBlue: Central Fiction, with a ninth game being left up to player voting.

Jawas, Workin’ The Night Shift

Ronnie Jensen is a sci-fi artist based in Norway. You can see more of Ronnie’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Transformers Fans Are Voting For The Next Leader Of Cybertron

Normally it’s the Matrix of Leadership that determines which Transformer takes up the Prime mantle, but this year Hasbro’s doing things a little differently. Fans are voting to see which Autobot, Decepticon or unknown evil gets the next Optimus-style upgrade. Every Prime has to start somewhere. Optimus Prime was once Orion Pax, a lowly dock…

Poll: The Top Five Most Popular Final Fantasy Heroines In Japan

Everybody has his or her favorite Final Fantasy heroine. But which ones are the most popular in Japan? A new poll tries to answer that question. According to Nico Nico News (via My Game News Flash), two hundred men and women in Japan were asked this month to list their fav female character in the…

Of Course, The Oscars Ignored The Biggest Anime Movie Ever

Tell me you didn’t see this coming? Your Name is a wonderful motion picture, and one of the best anime films I’ve ever seen. It’s also the highest grossing anime ever, which doesn’t validate it as a great film but, at least, will be solace to the folks who made it. According to Variety (via…

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Blizzard Says Overwatch Skins Accidentally Made Mei Look Thinner

Like most of Overwatch’s Lunar New Year skins, Mei’s outfits for the Year of the Rooster are great. They caused a slight stir earlier today, though, when people who had previously believed (and loved) Mei for being a little thicker than your average video game woman thought she was now looking a bit slimmer. For…

The Gun Game That Nearly Broke Nintendo

Nintendo’s first arcade video games were, to be honest, pretty terrible. Way more interesting were the machines that came before those, starting with 1973’s Laser Clay Shooting System, an elaborate entertainment offering that nearly sunk the company (but also led to one of its most famous video games). The first of seven amusement machines that…

Game Developers Mourn Sudden Passing Of Ex-Harmonix Dev Roger Hanna Morash

Roger Hanna Morash was an indie game developer who used to work at Harmonix. Among other things, he was code lead on Amplitude and one of the minds behind brain-bending platformer Shard. Yesterday, Morash and his wife, Valerie, unexpectedly passed away. According to local publication SF Gate, the couple’s bodies, along with those of their…

The Switch’s Launch Lineup Is Getting Beefier

The Nintendo Switch’s launch lineup was initially a disappointment for people who wanted more than five launch titles. Nintendo fans were complaining that, in fact, the only “real” launch title for the Switch is Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It makes sense—the Wii U, Wii and 3DS all launched with more. Weeks after…

Real Skaters Recreate Yuri On Ice Routines

This isn’t a post about people dressed as Yuri on Ice characters. It’s about people who can skate recreating some of the anime’s most famous routines. Via Daily Dot, the hit show’s popularity is getting skaters out onto the ice to bring the show’s signature moves to life. Here’s Patton Chen performing Yuri’s Eros, complete…

Overwatch‘s New CTF Mode Has Too Many Draws

Overwatch’s new seasonal event is the automated cosplay and porn generator’s first stab at a time-honored first-person shooter tradition: capture the flag. So, how does it fare? The short answer is, not great. Let me preface this by saying Overwatch’s Chinese New Year-themed “capture the rooster” brawl isn’t terrible. I’ve played for about two hours…

Temporary Tournament Teabagging Ban Splits Some of Killer Instinct’s Community

Teabagging is a relatively new phenomenon in the fighting game community, but recently it has caused a stir among Killer Instinct competitors following a temporary tournament ban on the taunt. Prior to 2017, the Killer Instinct World Cup’s rules included an unspoken teabagging ban as a way to ensure a measure of respect was kept…

The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft

Yesterday, I posted about a Fallout 4 mod that uses a complex, intertwining network of, er, kitties to make radios work. Turns out, game development is full of stories like that. World of Warcraft, for instance, is overrun with ghost bunnies. WoW encounter designer Nathaniel Chapman explained it to me via Twitter “A lot of…

Surgeon Simulator Devs Announce Ridiculous New Skateboarding Game

Bossa Studios, creators of Surgeon Simulator and I am Bread, announced their new game today, the competitive multiplayer skateboarding game Decksplash “X meets Y,” descriptions are kinda passé, but really, this looks like Tony Hawk meets Splatoon. Decksplash is centered on 3v3 multiplayer battles where you paint the turf the color of your team using…

You Should Watch This HBO Documentary On The Slenderman Murder Trial

HBO’s documentary Beware The Slenderman doesn’t offer easy answers about the attempted murder of Payton “Bella” Luetner by two 12 year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. They believed that by sacrificing their friend, they could save their families from a monster named Slenderman, who has appeared in countless games and internet short stories. While…