Japan’s Best April Fools Jokes of 2016

Today is April 1st. Know what that means? Internet hijinks everywhere online, including in Japan. For the past few years, the country has done a solid job with April Fools (you can see previous coverage here and here), and this year is no exception. Here’s a roundup of some of this year’s standout gags. Drone…

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Japanese VR Game: Save The Cat Or Die Trying

Look, spaceships and guns are fine for hardcore gamers, but when it comes to VR and the masses, you need to start somewhere softer. Like cats. On April 15, Namco Bandai will open VR ZONE Project i Can, a demo and display centre in Tokyo that’s going to let people put on a HTC Vive…

Privisa Is A Beautiful New Animated Film

Privisa is an upcoming animated feature film made in Poland, which is all about a kid who just does not want to grow up. From the creators: It tells the story of Wilkan, son of the great hunter Borzymir who is about to get his first haircut. He finds out that the elders of the…

Daigo Immortalized With Statue (That You Can Buy)

Daigo Umehara is getting his own piece of fancy merch later in the year, when statue company Kinetiquettesreleases this piece commemorating the Street Fighter legend. Flanked by two of his favourite characters—Ryu and Evil Ryu—Daigo’s at the back, just chillin’, holding his arcade stick. The statue will stand around 18 inches tall when it’s done…

The Division‘s Endgame Is About To Get A Lot of New Stuff

There are some rad changes coming to Ubisoft’s online shooter very soon. As part of a livestream this afternoon—the archive is right here—the company revealed a bunch of changes coming to The Division’s endgame. First and foremost, there’s incursions, which seem similar to Destiny’s raids. These extremely difficult challenges can be played over and over…

Streaming Video Games All Day Is Harder Than You Might Think

It’s a little bit shocking that you can make real money playing video games all day. For a certain generation, this was the dream: being a “streamer,” one of the legion of men and women who live a joyful existence of being likable while playing games on camera. Against all odds, it’s an actual career…

North American Counter-Strike Has Its Best Moment In Years

Counter-Strike is not exactly a sport where North American teams dominate. North American Counter-Strike is something of a joke in the CSGO community, known more for drama and sloppy team play than stunning site takes or bodacious bomb defusals. But that might be changing. In a stunning upset against the best CSGO team on this,…

VR Game At A Glance: Playing With My Alien Friends in Farlands

Have you ever wanted to visit an alien planet and make friends with some cute alien creatures? Farlands might be your jam. It’s a neat Oculus Rift exclusive that takes a little Pokémon Snap and a little Animal Crossing and puts it all in virtual reality. Here’s a clip of me playing some of the…

​The Ten Commandments Of PC Gaming

PC gaming is pretty much the best. You get the prettiest, cheapest, most flexible versions of almost every game, along with hundreds of games that aren’t available anywhere else. But despite all that, some of the people who make video games don’t treat PC gamers all that well. This piece originally appeared 12/12/14. We’vereturned to…

Mod Fixes The Biggest Problem With Fallout 4‘s Robot DLC

For whatever reason, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC did away with the ability to put a cute bowler hat on Codsworth. Thankfully, there is a mod that fixes that, and it also allows you to put other cutesy hats on your robo companions. Yay!

Cursing Is Still Allowed In Nintendo’s Miitomo App

Today is the day that Miitomo launches in the United States and many other countries. When Nintendo’s first mobile release came out two weeks ago in Japan, you could get your Mii character to say curse words. As of right now, your Mii can still drop f-bombs to friends and family. After Miitomo went live…

It’s 2016 And Warframe Is Still An Excellent Free-To-Play Game

In the distant future of Warframe, you are a space ninja who has woken from a long slumber to find the solar system in disarray. Armed with a variety of exciting powers, you must fight an army of decaying clones, tech-minded science jerks, mutant freaks and other awesome enemies. The entire game is free to…

Fallout 4‘s Head-Exploding Rifle As A Rusty Replica

The talented folks over at Show and Tell Props made a real life version of Fallout 4‘s limb-destroying, unique gauss rifle, The Last Minute It’s an awesome-looking replica and with that scrap table in the background, it’s ready to get some mods too. Here’s some work in progress pics by Show and Tell Props and…