Destiny Players Solve Ridiculously Complicated Secret Weapon Quest

Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space wondering why the hell they can’t get new artifacts, has a brand new quest that might be the most complicated thing we’ve seen in the game to date. It involves completing the new raid, finding a whole bunch of secrets, and… converting binary numbers to…

Gal*Gun Has A Panic Button, For When Mom Walks In

Gal*Gun: Double Peace, thePlayStation game about shooting your love at schoolgirls is now on Steam, and it’s even managed to crack the top-sellers list. The more people playing, the bigger chance someone gets caught in mid-play. Luckily there’s a button just for that. Available on both the PlayStation 4 and Steam versions of Inti Create’s…

Overwatch’s Zarya Translates Nicely Into Heroes Of The Storm

The great thing about bringing Overwatch characters into Heroes of the Storm is that their shooter skills are perfect for Blizzard’s MOBA. Zarya’s damage absorption and gravity manipulation skills make her a pink-haired point-and-click powerhouse. Absorbing attacks to up her own is Zarya’s thing, kind of like Bishop from the X-Men, only with a gravity…

A Postcard From Destiny’s Felwinter Peak

Sung Choi is an artist at Bungie working on Destiny He’s also done stuff for companies like Wizards of the Coast. You can see more of Choi’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is…

Poll: 25 Anime That Are Better Than The Manga 

Loads of anime are adaptations of manga. But which ones are the best? A recent Japanese poll tried to find that out. Goo Ranking (via Sankaku NSFW) polled 500 men and women (250 of each, all in either their 20s or 30s), and here are the top twenty five anime that are better than the…

A Fighting Game Hoax Makes News In Japan

A temp staffer for Ota City, Japan held a press conference at city hall this week, announcing that he had recently won a fighting game tournament in Paris, France. The man now admits this was a lie. Several Japanese papers reported the story, with the man claiming he had won 3 million yen (US$29,776) for…

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When Lovecraft Meets Anime

This is a trailer for Force of Will, an anime adaptation of a card game (of the same name) that’ll be out in 2018. An anthology of six short films (think The Animatrix), Shuhei Morita (Possessions) is directing this Cthulu one that the trailer below focuses on, which is pretty neat. Other shorts (also based…

Weapons Nerfed After Elite: Dangerous Players Protest With In-Game ‘Terrorism’

“This game deserves a better class of criminal,” a member of Elite: Dangerous’ player-run Smiling Dog Crew wrote in a plea for a nerf of the game’s heat weapons. “We hope to fix that with this operation,” they added, calling their plan “terrorism.” The plan’s name? Operation SpicyBois. Heat weapons were introduced as part of…

Overwatch characters, re-imagined as off-brand Halloween costumes. Artist Nina Matsumoto has been drawing characters like Tracer, Genji, and Reaper in the grand tradition of costume manufacturers trying to get around copyright laws. Who doesn’t love characters like “Futuristic Tea Time Cop” and “Blue Balls Zen Lover”?

New Hitman Level Snarks About Donald Trump

Hitman released its fifth episode today, dropping Agent 47 in Colorado to infiltrate a farm compound turned militia training facility. This game has some amazing NPC dialog. But what do these NPCs think about the US presidential election? Hidden in the compound, one militia man talks about a presidential candidate with a “famous hairdo.” The…

Mankind Divided‘s System Rift DLC Is Surprisingly Full Of Character

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s latest DLC, System Rift, has shady corporate dealings, Illuminati conspiracies (and characters saying “Illuminati” with a straight face), and Adam Jensen answering video calls shirtless. But unlike the campaign, where characters have all the affect of conveniently-placed crates, System Rift is full of moments of unexpected personality. The DLC is a…

Figma Makes Good-Looking Twilight Princess Toys

Normally I’d pick fancy dress-wearing Zelda fover plain old green elf any day, but the DX version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ Link, packed with everything from the Ball and Chain to the Hawkeye mask is making it hard to decide. Up for preorder today through October 27 at the Good Smile Shop…

Ubisoft Buys Ketchapp, The Studio Behind Mobile Clone 2048 And Other Games

Mobile game publisher Ketchapp is an absolute force on the App Store. Since 2014, they’ve released a salvo of arcade-y hits like 2048, ZigZag, Stack, Stick Hero, Twist, and Jelly Jump. However, they’ve also been accused of cloning games on a handful of occasions. Ubisoft shelled out for Ketchapp to gain a stronger foothold in…