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Your 2016 Smite World Champions Are Not These Guys
These five gentlemen, collectively known as team Enemy, clawed their way into the 2016 Smite World Championship grand finals only to lose three straight games to Europe’s Epsilon, letting all of North America down. As punishment, they only get $230,000. I blame myself. Enemy (spelled all cleverly on their fancy shirts) were my favorite to…
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Watch The Grand Finals Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Right Here
It’s Europe’s Epsilon versus North America’s evil Enemy in a best of five fight to the finish, with the winner getting more money than the loser. Let’s watch people play Smite in front of a live audience! The whirlwind four-day eventall comes down to this. Will Enemy beat Epsilon by a whole lot, or will…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
2016 Is A Crucial Year For Star Wars: The Old Republic
With Knights of the Fallen Empire, the latest expansion for SWTOR, Bioware tried something different, and right now I’m not talking about all the gameplay changesI applauded back when it first hit in October. The game is in a better place than it was. Now it has to keep improving. Though KOTFE did technically release…
By Phil Owen - Uncategorized
Witcher 3 Dev Says There’s No Enhanced Edition Coming [UPDATE]
Update: PR for CD Projekt RED says “There’s no Enhanced Edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that we are aware of, this is some kind of error that we will look into.” So. Original post: It’s probably too soon to know what this means, but a pair of European store websites have posted listings…
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UncategorizedSomebody Hacked Watch Dogs Into GTA V
As intrepid modders the world over continue in their quest to make dicking around in Grand Theft Auto V more fun and chaotic, we may have reached a new milestone. JulioNIB has engineered a script that inserts a whole bunch of Watch Dogs-inspired hacking fun into GTA V, and it’s really wild. You can explode…
By Phil Owen - Uncategorized
What Game Would You Fund With Your Powerball Winnings?
As a relatively poor human being, I enjoy fantasizing about what I would do were I to suddenly become obscenely wealthy. As the Powerball jackpot has shot through the roof, to $1.3 billion for this coming Wednesday’s drawing, I’ve naturally been thinking about that a lot this week. Hello! I’m Phil, and I’ve returned to…
By Phil Owen - Esports
It’s Europe Versus North America In The 2016 Smite World Championship Grand Finals
After North America’s Enemy secured a spotin the Smite grand finals over Europe’s Paradigm, all eyes went to returning champions Cloud9. Then those eyes got really sad. My own personal set of eyes were actually rather happy, as the increasingly evil, decreasingly underdog North American team—my pick to win the whole shebang—achieved victory over Europe’s…
By Mike Fahey - Uncategorized
Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Rift In Your Bank Account
The future of looking at fake things is upon us, and it costs $600. Many people are upset over the official price tag for the Oculus Rift, but as the image manipulators in our community will no doubt prove, it could be worse. I mean really, that $600 only takes into account the basic version…
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UncategorizedA Lot Of Work Goes Into Making Skylanders The Most Story-Focused Toys-To-Life Game
Where Disney Infinity delivers a series of small self-contained stories and LEGO Dimensions is just getting started, the Skylanders series has spent the past five years building an original fictional universe—and tearing it apart. With toys from all three series littering my desk at any given moment, I think about the blossoming toys-to-life genre a…
By Mike Fahey - Culture
Watch The Final Day Of The Weeklong Awesome Games Done Quick Charity Marathon
Just when you thought the holidays were ending, along comes an entire week of super-speedy runs through your favorite games for an excellent cause. It’s time for Awesome Games Done Quick. Let’s watch together! Along with its summer variant, the Awesome Games Done Quick marathon has quickly become one of my favorite gaming events of…
By Mike Fahey - Esports
Day Two Of The 2016 Smite World Championship Packed With Good, Evil And Mild Pouting
The quarterfinals of the 2016 Smite World Championship passed in a flash of four swept best-of-three matches, including the brutal but not unexpected elimination of both Chinese teams and the boys from Brazil. There’s not much I can say about the first match of the semifinals between European first seed Paradigm and China champions OMG,…
By Mike Fahey
