No Man’s Sky Is A Surprisingly Good ASMR Game

No Man’s Sky is, to many, a disappointment. The planet exploration game has been deemed tedious, boring and repetitive in stark contrast to its pre-release hype as an endlessly exciting adventure across a randomly-generated galaxy. Luckily, its tedium is exactly the quality that’s made it perfect fodder for the ASMR community. On a frontier planet…

Indian Lawyer Calls Pokémon Go Eggs Blasphemous In Court

India boasts an enormous vegetarian population, a fact that has somehow come in conflict with Pokémon Go, not yet released there. Gujarat local Alay Dave is claiming in court that the app offends his, and other Indians’, religious sensibilities—in this case, vegetarianism. The issue boils down to one thing: eggs. “Those who succeed are rewarded…

Black Ops III‘s New Micro-Map Is Full Of Amazing, Tiny Details

The biggest challenge in Micro, the “fun” multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Black Ops III’s final batch of downloadable content, is pulling yourself away from the massive cupcakes and copious amounts of alcohol long enough to shoot other people. Luckily it’s easy enough to create a custom game where you can explore the over-sized…

Pokémon Go Leading Players To A Notorious Suicide Spot In Japan

Located on the coast of Fukui Prefecture, Tojinbo is infamous in Japan as a place people commit suicide. Recently, however, it’s been teeming with life thanks to Pokémon Go The area is supposed to be haunted by a Buddhist priest who, according to one legend, was chucked off the cliffs because of his corruption or,…

Theories About The Mysterious New Pokémon

The latest Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer features a rather unusual Pocket Monster, even by Pokémon standards, called “Type: Null.” There are already theories about what exactly is up with this Pokémon. Where to start? Type: Null is one odd name, there’s that medieval-looking thing it has going on, and it appears to be a…

Meet Kpop’s Answer To Chun-Li

This is Cheng Xiao. She is a member of Kpop group Cosmic Girls, and for the past few months, she’s been either doing her hair up like Chun-Li or, more recently, even cosplaying as the character like she did on Korean TV. A native of China, perhaps Xiao feels a kinship with Chun-Li? Or maybe…

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It is the year 2016, and three of the items on Steam’s top ten best-sellers list are Spore. A midweek madness sale of Spore and its expansions is to blame, but still: strange times. Also interesting: despite being broadly declared a letdown, Spore’s 8,373 Steam reviews are 87% positive, or “very positive” by Steam’s measure.…

A Tale Of Love On The Overwatch Battlefield

It was an Overwatch romance that was never meant to be, that nobody asked for. Her, a pro gamer turned mech pilot with attitude. Him, a cheap Party City Halloween costume possessed by someone’s dad. Both of them controlled by cruel gamer gods with a thirst that no amount of Mountain Dew could quench. They…

More Perfect: An excellent podcast about the Supreme Court What it is: A six-episode podcast mini-series that tells the story of seven or so major Supreme Court cases and their impact on America today, all meticulously reported by the team behind WNYC’s acclaimed Radiolab podcast. What I’ve listened to: All of it. Is it good?…

Let’s Talk Overwatch! We’re back for another episode of our weekly chat series where we get together to talk about the ups and downs of the week in Overwatch. This week Cecilia, Nathan and I cover the new competitive season, how we feel about competitive play in general, and which character is going to be…

The Smash Community Is Brawling Over A Non-Existent ‘VIP Room’

“You know why I’m here,” Kenneth Bradley, a ranked Street Fighter IV player with Evil Geniuses, yelled into a camera last week. It was to talk about the latest Super Smash Bros. controversy, something that has affected the fighting game community at large. Bradley took issue with certain competitive Super Smash Bros. players who say…

Battlefield 1‘s Horses Are Unstoppable Killing Machines

Battlefield 1‘s grand maps are full of deadly tanks, poison gas, bayonets and bombs but there is one threat more dangerous than anything other: horses. These equine bastards cannot be reasoned with. They will find you. They will kill you. I already looked at some of the most badass players in the Battlefield 1 beta,…