Blizzard’s Building A Professional Sports League For Overwatch

Announced today at BlizzCon 2016, the Overwatch League is a professional gaming organization modeled after traditional sports organizations, complete with regional teams, baseline minimum salaries and benefits. Basically Blizzard is looking to create the NFL or NBA of Overwatch esports. Teams will be based around major cities, fostering regional fan and player bases. “The Overwatch…

Blizzard Reveals Sombra, Finally

Today, at BlizzCon, Blizzard unveiled Sombra, Overwatch’s newest hero. The announcement comes after apparently endless wild goose chase for information about her that has left fans exhausted. Sombra is a stealth hacker offense hero who infiltrates other players’ heroes. “Her hacking can disrupt her enemies, ensuring they’re easier to take out, while her EMP provides…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: Is Being A Virgin Hurting My Dating Chances?

Hello, all you petrochemical sex cobras of the Internet. Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the column that puts the “Hell yes” in FPS. This week, we’re talking about experience. How much does being a virgin actually affect your dating success and how much of it is about expectations? And speaking of expectations: how do you…

New York Times Publishes Intense Game About Voter Suppression

Yesterday, the New York Times released The Voter Suppression Trail. The politically-charged Oregon Trail-inspired mini-game has players fight off long lines and intimidating “observers” to finally vote and describes certain hurdles some voters will face on November 8th. In the game, you can go vote as a white programmer from California, a Latina nurse from…

The 1920s Needed More Giant, Smoking Mechs

Artist Jakub Rozalski, whose 1920+ series of illustrations inspired the excellent board game Scythe, is about to see his art grace not one, but two video games. Which means we get to see more of those fantastically surreal images of 20th century peasants being towered over by giant mechs. One of those games is the…

Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Dumbest ‘Press X To Feel’ Moment

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s “Press X To Pay Respects” is a infamous example of the series use of button prompts as a narrative device. Infinite Warfare has a couple as well, including this scene, in which a character’s life fades away as you hold the shoulder buttons. SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Late…

The Quaint Obsession With Civilization’s Canals

For as long as the series has existed, there have been few things as satisfying in Civilization as building a city on a single tile/hex of Earth separating two larger landmasses. They’re known as Canal Cities. In their best examples, you’ll see them called Canal Porn. If you play Civ a lot you probably already…

Galaga Wars Is A Fine Way To Update An Arcade Classic

Released this week for iOS and Android, Galaga Wars turns the classic arcade shooter into a fast-paced, phone-friendly survival shooter. It’s good stuff. You’re still a spaceship fighting bug-looking aliens. You can still free captive ships from the enemy, doubling your firepower. Some of the enemy waves even resemble the classic arcade playfield setup. What’s…

Nintendo Brings Back The Power Line For A Weekend

In honor of next week’s Mini-NES (which is officially called the NES Classic but I’ll keep calling the Mini-NES ‘cause that’s a way better name), Nintendo is going full nostalgia, pulling out the big guns in hopes of blasting your brain with thoughts of the 80s and 90s. Get ready for the return of the…

Infinite Warfare‘s Windows 10 And Steam Versions Don’t Play Together

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare launched today, and while it may be tempting for PC gamers to pick it up through the Windows 10 store at a substantial discount, not being able to battle online with Steam players is probably a deal breaker. The basic edition of Infinite Warfare is $59.99 on Steam. On the…

The Most Successful Anime Movies Ever in Japan

This year’s big hit is anime feature film Your Name. It’s earned critical praise and raked in massive amounts of yen. But it’s not the biggest anime movie ever released in Japan. It is, however, one of them. Via Cinema Ranking, here are the highest grossing movies ever in Japan. Not all of them are…

Inside Japan’s Dragon Ball Cafes 

For a limited time, Japan has not one, but three Dragon Ball Cafes, all of which are serving up DB themed food and drinks to mark its 30th anniversary. One of the spots is located at the Tower Records Cafe in Tokyo’s Omotesando, another is in Shibuya, while the final one is in Osaka’s Umeda. …

He’s Driving A Bus And Playing Pokémon Go 

Footage has surfaced of a bus driver in Japan appearing to play Pokémon Go while he is driving. The clip is rather unsettling. Sanyo News reports that this is a tour bus driver from the Ryobi Group in Osaka. The company has banned drivers from having mobile phones while they’re behind the wheel and apologized…

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They Should Really Have More Conventions On The Beach

Oni-Con was held last week in Texas, a smaller convention that’s notable for one very cool thing: the con is held right opposite a beach, so cosplayers can cross the street and get some shots on the sand. Mineralblu headed down there for some shoots, and was cool enough to share some of those images…

Tracer cosplay by Rose. Photo by Martin Wong

C’mere Roach

Anna Podedworna is a concept artist at CD Projekt Red, where she’s worked on projects like the new spin-off release of Gwent, the card game from The Witcher 3 Below are some of the cards Anna illustrated for the game. You can see more of Anna’s work at her DAand ArtStation pages To see the…