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Space exploration game Elite: Dangerous will add Fisher’s Rest, a memorial outpost to Carrie Fisher, in its 2.3 update, according to a forum post by Executive Producer Michael Brookes The Star Wars actress passed away at the age of 60 this week.
By Riley MacLeod Published December 30, 2016 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Last New Year’s I was sick, so I skipped the parties and played through all of Wolfenstein: The New Order. It ruled. I might run outside without a coat and see if I can have a repeat this year. I’m going to check out Far Cry Primal this weekend, which several of my colleagues are…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
One Father’s Issue With Peach Getting Kidnapped In Super Mario Run
Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first mobile game, follows the standard Mario formula: Princess Peach gets kidnapped right away, and it’s up to Mario to save her. It’s for this reason that Chris Suellentrop doesn’t want his daughter to play it, as he wrote in an Op-Ed for The New York Times, saying, “the game is…
By Gita Jackson Published December 30, 2016 - Reviews
Yuri On Ice: The Kotaku Review
This season’s breakout anime was Yuri on Ice, a welcoming show about an insecure Japanese figure skater named Yuri, and Victor, the Russian skating legend who mysteriously decides to become his coach. Yuri and Victor develop a relationship flush with love and young sensuality. Since October, fans feverishly watched the simulcast, playing “will-they-or-won’t-they?” while the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Year In Video Game Sex, 2016
2016 was a big year for nerdy perverts. Overwatch alone probably started an entire sex industry, VR porn became the face of virtual reality, and more games tackled raunchy subjects. More than anything, 2016 felt like the year horny fandom took over the internet. We talked more about the characters people wanted to kiss and…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 30, 2016 - Culture
How Do You Define ‘Cheating’ In A Video Game?
We don’t always play games the way we’re supposed to. We’ve all pulled out that little trick that helps us get through a tough area, beat a boss, or get a higher score. It might not be turning on God Mode in the developer console or using an aimbot, but it’s not quite on the…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 30, 2016 -
EsportsNebby Gets Out of The Bag, Destroys A Pokémon Team
The only two moves that Cosmog can learn are Splash and Teleport. Surely, then, a Cosmog would be useless in a Pokémon battle? Not necessarily! PIMPNITE was challenged by YouTube fans to set up a “sweep” with Cosmog, meaning, a battle in which Cosmog takes out the entire enemy team. Nobody really thought it was possible—the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
Nathan Grayson’s Top 10 Games Of 2016
“Pa,” said the girl, “famine took everything from us, and disease the rest. Also the other day a pack of wolves plain stole old man Edwards, and they didn’t even ‘splain what they was plannin’ to use him fer.” The father studied his daughter, gaunt but strong, face hollowed by months of uncertainty. “The video…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedSuper Mario 3D World Hack Is Totally Normal, Don’t Worry About It
Yep. That’s good ol’ Mario, alright. Our favorite plumber would never kill us in our sleep. CosmoCortney decided to stretch Mario’s joints apart with a hack, and the result is this monstrosity: It’s like Skinny Mario all over again, dear god. Every aspect of this is terrifying: Somehow, the happy-go-lucky music only makes it better/worse.
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Nier: Automata Demo Lets Players Kill Themselves By Unequipping An Item
The demo for Nier: Automata released last week. Playing as a super fashionable android, players slice and dice their way through waves of robot enemies. But un-equipping one essential item gives an instant game over. The item in question is the OS Chip. In Nier: Automata, players can equip various skill chips to enable or…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Year In Patch Notes [Updated To Version 1.02]
2016 was a fine year for gaming at launch, but over the course of the past 12 months various updates and bug fixes have made it even better. Here are some of the year’s finest patch notes. Can you tell which games they are from? Before we jump into the notes for this year’s update,…
By Mike Fahey Published December 30, 2016 -
UncategorizedI Introduced My Mom To VR For Christmas And She Took It Like A Champ
On Christmas evening, after the rest of our extended family had fled to their respective homes, I hooked up my Oculus Rift to the new Razer Blade Pro, pushed aside the plants and cat food bowl on the keeping room table and introduced my 70-year-old mother to virtual reality. It went quite well. The idea…
By Mike Fahey Published December 30, 2016 - Uncategorized
A Friend Convinced Me To Shut Up And Enjoy Halo 3
It took my buddy Dave several months to coerce me into playing play Halo 3 with him. “We should nail down our weekend plans,” he texted me on July 1st. “I’m thinking of getting an early start around 8 a.m. and just play straight through until we beat it.” “I can bring Mountain Dew and…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 29, 2016 - Opinion
A Game About Meeting Cool Weirdos At Train Stations
Traveling for the holidays, I spent a lot of time sitting in trains and waiting on platforms. In the real world, it’s a pretty dry affair. In The Endless Express, it’s full of charm. Strange sounds play as bright trains shuttle wobbling creatures to and fro. It’s relaxing and makes for a Cool Indie Game.…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 29, 2016 -
UncategorizedFurby Horror Game Captures The Terror Of Owning A ‘90s Robo-Pet
‘90s virtual pet horror game Tattletail, released yesterday, is a game specifically about my fear of Furbies. More specifically, it’s about how unoriginal, how generational and how predictable my fear of Furbies is. Tattletail taps the well of millennial capitalist terror that ‘90s Nickelodeon cartoons injected into our bloodstream. Your character wakes up in a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 29, 2016 - Uncategorized
I Put A Bunch Of Celebrities In The Sims 4 And Drake Got Owned
In The Sims 3 and 4, you can upload your creations to a virtual gallery for other players to admire and download for their own games. This means that virtually every celebrity has been made and is ready to download from the gallery. Today I decided to just throw a bunch in a house to…
By Gita Jackson Published December 29, 2016 -
UncategorizedPirates Leak Pokémon Prism After Nintendo Shuts It Down
Pokémon Prism is a fan-made ROM hack for Pokémon Crystal. Over the course of eight years, creator Koolboyman and his team crafted a new Pokémon experience, which they hoped to release this Christmas. Nintendo hit them with a cease and desistfour days before release. Thanks to a group of pirates, the project still made it…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 29, 2016 -
CultureMafia 3 NPCs Realize They’re Supposed To Fall Now
Today on Highlight Reel we have forced falls, takeoffs, landings, flips, horse kills, gritty reboots of the popular film The Santa Clause starring Tim Allen, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links…
By Chris Person Published December 29, 2016