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  Cheers To This Witcher 3 Cosplay

  TophWei is a cosplayer from Russia. She is not, as you may have guessed, a living Witcher 3 screenshot. Photos here, as in thatlast (NSFW) Witcher shoot we featured, by Victoria Milligan. I love that it’s not just Ciri in character, but her alt outfit.

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016
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  Report: Jake Gyllenhaal To Star In The Division Movie

  Variety is reporting that not only is Ubisoft trying to get a movie made out of The Division (not news), but that they’ve already got Prince of Persia star Chesty Jake Gyllenhaal attached to the project, as both actor and producer (interesting). Before we go any further, remember: as bad as video game movies tend…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016
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  7 Year-Old Kid Punches Armed GameStop Robber

  On Friday night, two men stormed into a GameStop store in Montgomery County, Maryland. They ordered everyone onto the ground at gunpoint, and while employees and a husband and wife complied, the couple’s seven year-old boy started swinging punches at the robbers instead. “He’s a brave little boy, and he recognized he was in a…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016
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  Why Won’t My PC’s Optical Drive Open?

  My PC’s optical drive won’t open. It’s been that way for a few weeks. Why won’t my PC’s optical drive open? It’s passive-aggressively suggesting that I don’t really need an optical drive in the first place. It’s still recovering from when I tried to get it to read my original 7th Guest discs. It still…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 1, 2016
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  Overwatch Doesn’t Do Enough For Its Support Heroes

  In team-based games like League of Legends and Team Fortress 2, and MMOs like World of Warcraft, support classes—medics, buffers, debuffers, etc—are a necessary element of victory. However, they’re under-appreciated and sometimes under-played. Overwatch addresses that problem in some smart ways, but it doesn’t completely solve the problem. Whether in single or multiplayer games, support…

  By Nathan Grayson Published June 1, 2016
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  More Companies Should Explain Their Censorship Decisions The Way NIS America Just Did

  When NIS America announced erotic dungeon crawler Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors would arrive this September on Vita, it came with a big caveat. Like the last game, there have been “modifications” to make it appropriate. In advance, the company published an exhaustive explanation. Warning: The content in this post may be considered NSFW. “I…

  By Patrick Klepek Published June 1, 2016
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  AMD’s New Radeon RX 480 Is VR-Ready For $200

  The price of entry to PC-based virtual reality just got a lot lower. The first graphics card based on AMD’s Polaris architecture arrives at the end of June, promising VR performance of a $500 GPU for less than half the price. Where Nvidia aimed high with its first two next-generation graphics cards, the GTX 1070…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2016
• CultureOdds and Ends

  The NBA’s Rookie Of The Year Is Streaming Games On Twitch

  First up? Not Call of Duty, not Destiny, not League of Legends, but...Monopoly

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016
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  Developer Rejects Player Requesting Steam Key For Supporting LGBT Rights [UPDATE]

  Operation Caucasus developer Dream Games has given out tons of early access keys for their shooter. But when this player asked for one, sporting a colorful avatar signaling support for LGBT rights, the developer responded with a simple message: “We’re not support lgbt. Please, just f**k you.” This exchange was posted as part of a…

  By Patrick Klepek Published June 1, 2016
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  Vivendi Takes Over Gameloft, Eyes Ubisoft Next

  Media conglomerate Vivendi has successfully seized control of the mobile game publisher Gameloft, and it looks like they’re not done yet. Next up: Ubisoft. The Paris-based Vivendi, which owned Activision Blizzard until late 2013, has been gobbling up shares in both game companies for the past few months as part of a hostile takeover attempt.…

  By Jason Schreier Published June 1, 2016
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  Reaper Players Always Have The Best Names In Overwatch

  Reaper’s tryhard edgelording is partially on Blizzard, which has given the character sharp lines such as “DIE, DIE, DIE.” But players who play Reaper also make him seem like a ridiculous character, too. The excellent @reapernames Twitter account collects screenshots of actual Reaper players in the wild, and they all have amazing names. Sometimes, the…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2016
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  PS4 Video Editing Gets A Bunch Of Useful Upgrades

  If you create and publish videos using your PS4, Sony’s added a bunch of new features that should make your life easier. The best way to capture, edit, and stream videos from any device, PS4 or otherwise, is using a separate capture box connected to a computer. Since that’s not possible for most people, you’re…

  By Patrick Klepek Published June 1, 2016
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  What A Year To Love Playing Video Games

  Somewhere around my fifth hour of Stardew Valley, I thought, “Oh, shit, 2016 is going to be a really good year for video games.” That was back in February. The subsequent months have borne that prediction out. A few weeks ago a new Doom game came out and instead of being bad, it was really…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published June 1, 2016
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  Toy Time Plays With Victorion, Transformers’ First Female Combiner

  Last year Transformers fans from around the world voted the first all-female combiner team into existence. Now Toy Time finally gets the chance to combine six robots into on giant robot woman. Rust Renegades, combine to form Victorion! My enthusiasm for the Combiner Wars Transformers line has waned a bit since I started covering it…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2016
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  GOG Now Offering Steam Users DRM-Free Copies Of Their Games

  GOG is a service that sells PC games and offers a client with community and update features, much like Steam. Difference is, GOG focuses on DRM-free games, which allowed them to come up with a scheme to lure Steam users over to their side of the online galaxy. Today GOG announced GOG Connect. It’s a…

  By Nathan Grayson Published June 1, 2016
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  Our Favorite Games From May

  A lot of great games came out in May, from reboots of classics to new team-based shooters to the end of a dashing adventure series. Take a look at some of our favorite games from the last month. Overwatch In this team-based multiplayer shooter, actually playing the game feels like such a small part of…

  By Riley MacLeod Published June 1, 2016
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  Overwatch: The Kotaku Review

  Overwatch has technically only been out for a week, but it’s already a phenomenon. Even people who have never played Overwatch are getting sucked into its orbit through fan fiction, cosplay, memes and porn. That’s because Overwatch is not really a game as much as it’s an event. Normally, hype tells you nothing concrete about…

  By Patricia Hernandez Published June 1, 2016
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  If Rovio Ever Got Hold Of Your Favorite Characters…

  Javier Burgos is a lead artist at Rovio, the developers of the Angry Birds series. Not that any of the awesome art in this showcase of his work has much to do with Angry Birds, since it’s more focused on rendering some of his favourite characters in his own cute cartoon style. And just like…

  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016
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  Skylanders Imaginators Lets Players Bring Custom Characters To Life

  Fans of Activision’s toys-to-life franchise have been dreaming up their own Skylands champions since the first game arrived back in 2011. This year’s Imaginators finally harnesses that creativity, giving players the ability to piece together the Skylander of their dreams. The first thing Activision’s Lou “Zoo Lou” Studdard showed me during a meeting earlier this…

  By Mike Fahey Published June 1, 2016
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  By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2016