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Will Ferrell Starring In Movie About Esports
Will Ferrell is making a movie about esports. ESPN says it “will have similarities with the role he had in Talladega Nights”. His schtick, as exciting and unexpected as you may find this, will be that he’s an old dude playing in competitions where nobody else is over the age of 30, and esports powerhouses…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2016 - Reviews
Sennheiser PC 373D Headset Review: Great Audio, Steep Price
Most gaming headphones are made by companies better known for video game gear than for audio equipment. Enter Sennheiser, recording industry stalwarts trusted by people who actually use headphones to listen to music. A few weeks ago someone from Sennheiser emailed asking if I’d like to check out their new PC 373D surround-sound gaming headphones.…
By Kirk Hamilton Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
Mads Mikkelsen, After Kojima Explained Death Stranding: ‘I Only Understood Some Of It’
Don’t know what’s going on in the new trailer for Death Stranding? No worries: neither does Mads Mikkelsen, and he’s starring in it. In an interview with Birth.Movies.Death, Mikkelsen told the outlet that he only joined the project after checking out the first trailer with Norman Reedus. “I thought that was spectacular just from the…
By Gita Jackson Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
The No Man’s Sky Subreddit Is Happier Now
On October 5th, the No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily shut down due to being what then moderator R0ugeW0lf called “a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion.” If you checked the community today, you see none of that. For reference, this is a smattering of topics that reached the front page of the sub on…
By Gita Jackson Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
Brutal Pokémon Sun and Moon Hack Makes The Game Way Harder
Pokémon Sun and Moon are among hardest games in franchise, meaning that for some, fainting is a real danger. Others, however, don’t think the challenge is enough. Enter ROM hacks. GTA Temp user Kobazco has developed an edit of Pokémon Sun and Moon that amps the difficulty nearly to the extreme.Dubbed Pokémon Rising Sun and…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedOverwatch Players Hit Lowest Possible Rank In Record Time
Remember Dale Brown, aka Hanjo, aka the guy who got the lowest possible rank in season one of Overwatch? Well, he’s still around, and this time, he and a friend pulled off a world first. On the first day of Overwatch season three, Brown and his friend Jon “WrstReaperNA” Kingham hit rank one, with Kingham…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
Nintendo’s Luigi Miiverse Keeps Getting Hacked In Funny Ways
If you’ve visited the New Super Luigi U Community recently, you might have noticed something was a little different. Instead of prominently displaying the green-overalled plumber, the social media community has seen a number of banner changes that definitely didn’t come from Nintendo. Someone appears to be messing with Nintendo’s infamous community, as there are…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Offers Cash Bounties To People Who Find 3DS Exploits
You know all those stories about people who hack into tech companies in such impressive fashion that those companies immediately offer them jobs? Nintendo won’t do that. But they will offer you cash. Partnering with the HackerOne group, Nintendo is offering bounties ranging from $100 to $20,000 to anyone who can find security vulnerabilities in…
By Jason Schreier Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedAnime’s Fan Service Can Be A Minefield
Today, how you feel about panty shots can determine how you feel about anime as a whole. And it’s not just panty shots. In the blockbuster anime Food Wars, women’s clothes burst off their bodies when they taste an exquisite bite of steak. Skirts often don’t cover the bottom halves of women’s butts in Prison…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
10 Hours In, Dead Rising 4 Misses What Made The Earlier Games Great
Dead Rising 4 offers a fun zombie-bashing playground, but is not a good Dead Rising game. Dead Rising 4 is a sandbox survival game where you explore and fight against massive waves of zombies. You move from case to case, trying to solve a giant conspiracy. You’ll cut down zombies, try to take the best…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Painful Shot-By-Shot Breakdown Of The Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer
The first trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight went up last night, giving fans a first look at the flashy nonsense that will make Michael Bay, Hasbro and Paramount a ton of money next year. Let’s see what knowledge we can glean from those explosive 140 seconds. First off, let’s watch the trailer for Transformers…
By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
New Hotline Lets You Pay $3/Minute To Talk To Game Developers
If you have ever wanted to pay $3/minute to talk to game developers on the phone—and who hasn’t?—today is your lucky day, thanks to the launch of Callvention, a wild new website that will no doubt be used by many people. Over at Callvention, you can pay varying amounts of money to get some quality…
By Jason Schreier Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedEven Dunkey Likes Final Fantasy XV
“All they do is kill shit and eat spaghetti” – perhaps the most fitting description of Final Fantasy XV, as described by YouTube funnyman videogamedunkey. The usually negative dunkey was charmed by Square Enix’s latest, mostly because of Gilgamesh. For another take:
By Jason Schreier Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedParagon Is A Much Different Game Today
Multiplayer arena game Paragon has been in a weird place since it debuted last year. Harnessing the full power of the Unreal Engine, it looked like an action game, but played like a slow and plodding MOBA. Today’s Monolith update speeds things up a great deal. I’ve been feeling the disconnect between Paragon’s look and…
By Mike Fahey Published December 6, 2016 -
UncategorizedUpcoming action RPG Indivisible, from the creators of Skullgirls, announced today that anime studio Trigger (Little Witch Academia, Kill la Kill) will direct its opening animation. Last year, Indivisible received nearly $2 million on IndieGoGo.
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 6, 2016 - Culture
The Art Of Battlefield 1
Despite being set in one of the darkest periods of human history, Battlefield 1 is a beautiful video game, matching the grim browns of trench warfare with some of the most striking weather and landscapes we’ve ever seen. It’s a pleasure, then, to highlight the work of some of the artists involved in concept and…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 6, 2016 - Uncategorized
Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Find Cut Walking Feature That Fans Have Wanted For Years
For years, Pokémon fans have begged developers Game Freak to let monsters follow the player around in the overworld, as Heart Gold and Soul Silver once did. Well, it looks like that feature is actually contained within the files of Pokémon Sun and Moon. Hacker @KazoWAR discovered the latest Pokémon games hide something very interesting:…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 6, 2016
