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Overwatch Test Patch Nerfs Genji, Buffs Mei And Mercy
Overwatch’s competitive season two patch just hit the public test servers, and it’s a doozy. Nerfs, buffs, laughter, tears of delicious, delicious salt—it’s all here. The centerpiece of this PTR patch is, of course, competitive season two. The skill rating system has been overhauled and divided up into tiers, and sudden death is dead, unloved…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
Serious D&D Player Chugs Wine Underwater To Settle Rules Dispute
Game Masters can be nit-picky sticklers with wands up their butts. It’s a respectable mode for navigating the endless charts and dice rolls and idiosyncratic mechanics of tabletop RPGs. Seriously, I respect you, stickler GMs. Without you, I wouldn’t know the difficulty class for reaching across the table and grabbing a Cheeto. Is that a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedWatch Us Play The Dream-like PS4 Game Bound
Bound is a visually striking game that comes from small Polish studio Plastic. It’s out this week on PS4. It’s a little plain in terms of gameplay but looks fantastic. It has a great in-game photo mode, and with good reason. Every scene in this game is a stunner. There’s a story being told in…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedWe recently played a bit of the upcoming BioShock collection: all three BioShocks, all the DLC, everything but BioShock 2‘s multiplayer. No gameplay tweaks; just graphical polish so that it looks as good as it looks in your memories (see above). Out Sept. 13 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
By Stephen Totilo Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedMajora’s Mask In-Game Ocarina Is A Surprisingly Versatile Instrument
I wasn’t initially impressed with PuppetMaster9‘s compilation of popular tunes played using the in-game Ocarina from The Legend of Zelda: Major’s Mask for the 3DS. Then he got to “Baker Street.” Such a sucker for that song. You may have seen some of PuppetMaster9’s performances when they started blowing up on Twitter back in March.…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
Man Finds ‘Arrow To The Knee’ Joke In Skyrim‘s Big New Mod, Reacts Appropriately
One of the most ambitious mods in Skyrim history, Enderal, is now out in English. It’s really good! But it makes reference to A Certain Inescapable Meme, A Dragon From Our Collective Past, and there’s only one thing that can be done about that. Streamer Cryaotic stumbled across The Gag We All Swore We’d Never…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedWhy Overwatch Players Hate Genji Now
Some relatively minor tweaks aside, Overwatch’s cyborg ninja dragon blender Genji hasn’t changed much since launch. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve come across dozens of threads begging Blizzard to nerf Genji so hard he starts throwing rubber ducks instead of ninja stars. What happened? In hero-based games like Overwatch, there’s always a “nerf…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
Five Great Books About Video Game Culture
Probably my favorite hobby next to playing video games is reading about people who love and design them. And I’m not talking licensed-by-Nintendo glory stories about CEOs overcoming their mistrust of Crash Bandicoot to make millions—I’m talking books about the rest of us, lovers on MMORPGs, struggling indie devs, self-hating gaming addicts, virtuous guild leaders,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedWorld Of Warcraft Expansions Revisited: Shadows Of The Pandaclysm
As the sixth expansion to World of Warcraft looms ever closer, our Gnome Hunter-led tour through the previous five takes us to post-draconic apocalypse Azeroth and an ancient land filled with beautiful sights and ridiculous pandas. Given the speed of even the most casual leveling in World of Warcraft these days, I’ve decided to double…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2016 - Reviews
No Man’s Sky: The Kotaku Review
My lengthy first tour of No Man’s Sky was a disappointment. I spent 30 hours skating across the surface of an endless puddle, searching for depths that didn’t exist. I skipped and skimmed until, with great regret, I stopped. On my second time through, I liked it a lot more. I spent 15 hours standing…
By Kirk Hamilton Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedCartoon Network Gets Everybody Together For A Old School Sidescrolling Brawler
It’s Steven Universe meets Adventure Time meets The Amazing World of Gumball meets The Regular Show meets Clarence meets Uncle Grandpa. Basically Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers is a whole lot of meeting followed by a whole lot of hitting. The Cartoon Network folks have been publishing some pretty amazing licensed games lately, fromthe Steven Universe…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Witcher 3’s New Screenshot Tools Are So Good
The Witcher 3 is the latest game to see Nvidia’s fancy new Ansel screenshot technology implemented. Which means users can now not only take very high resolution screens, but panoramic 360-degree shots of their gameplay as well. The necessary upgrades and patches for the tech went live earlier this week. I’ve been testing it out…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Heroes Look Sharp In Their Street Clothes
What, you think Widowmaker buys bread and milk in that skinsuit? Korean artist YD has drawn these images of some of Overwatch’s cast looking very cool on their days off, just hanging out, enjoying each other’s company, maybe taking in a movie, maybe doing some shopping.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedNice Try Deadshot, But This Is Harley Quinn’s Injustice 2 Trailer
Deadshot being upstaged by Harley Quinn? That’s something you only see in movies. Or comics. Or incredibly brief cameos on Arrow. Poor Deadshot. It’s nice to see Floyd Lawton getting a little video game love in the second iteration of Netherrealm Studios’ DC Comics fighting game, but he is still Floyd Lawton, the really good…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2016 -
UncategorizedThere’s An Entire Level’s Worth Of Crash Bandicoot In The New Skylanders
At E3 2016 Activision revealed that one-time Sony mascot character Crash Bandicoot would be appearing in Skylanders Imaginators this fall. Announced during Gamescom, Crash is also bringing his best enemy along for the ride, along with an entire level set in the Wumpa Islands. Crash gets a toy! Dr. Neo Cortex gets a toy! Even…
By Mike Fahey Published August 17, 2016 - Culture
The Internet Reacts To Konami’s New Metal Gear Game
Here we go. Konami is making a new title called Metal Gear Survive. And you better believe the internet has opinions about it! Taking place in an alternative universe, it’s a co-op survival game that’s set after Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. This is the first Metal Gear Solid console game, notpachi-slot remake, that…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2016 - Uncategorized
Olympic Athlete Races With Sonic The Hedgehog Tattoo
Javier Culson is once again competing in the Olympic Games for Puerto Rico. And he is once again showing off his cleverly themed Olympic Sonic tattoo During the 2012 Olympics, people noticed Javier’s ink, and during this summer’s games, they’re noticing it, again. Thematically, the tattoo is smart for a handful of reasons. One is…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 17, 2016
