Dishonored Was Such A Beautiful Video Game

Cedric Peyravernay is a French artist who has worked on games like Dishonored (indeed, we featured some of his paintings from that game a few years back). Most of the images below are Peyravernay’s character work on that game, though fans of Ulysses 31 should get to the bottom for a rad surprise. You can…

Fallout 4 Player Goes On Drug-Addled Basketball Odyssey

“He lost his son, so he adopted the streets.” This video from DefendTheHouse showcases one of Fallout 4’s lesser-known features: basketball. I call it a “feature,” but what I really mean is, there are basketballs you can pick up and—using the game’s often clunky physics engine—throw, sometimes at basketball hoops that happen to be placed…

YouTube Bans Another Game Channel For Mysterious Reasons [UPDATE]

Valkyrie Drive Bhikkhuni is an action game released for Vita in Japan today, but trailers for the game seem to have gotten one of Marvelous’ YouTube channels banned. I say “seem” because there’s no way to be sure—YouTube is confusing that way—but, uh, the anime it’s based on is one step away from pornography. Update…

GTA Online’s New Mode Reminds Me of Manhunt

The multiplayer competitions in Grand Theft Auto Online tends to happen in big, spread-out sections of Rockstar’s fake Los Angeles. But the newest ways to take out fools in the online version of Los Santos happens in tightly confined spaces, making for quick, spectacular sessions. Every Bullet Counts—the new player-vs-player Adversary Mode option that hit…

Finding Inspiration In Popples And Power Rangers

Playing around with some of the latest Power Ranger Dino Charge toys and transformable plushies from Saban’s Popples reboot has inspired me to do two things—one noble, and one mildly insane. A table filled with toys from these two very different lines united under Saban Brands says a lot about the world we live in…

Blaming Lag Is The ‘My Dog Ate My Homework’ Of Video Games

A short story. Last night I was playing a game of league of legends and losing really, really badly. One opponent was boasting in /all chat about winning. Suddenly we rebounded. He immediately responded “OMFG LAGG.” “OMG WTF LAG” Moments, as I like to call them, happen all the time in League of Legends—and, really,…

Fallout 4 Patch Gets Rid of the Infinite Caps Glitch

Today, Fallout 4 receives an update on all platforms that fixes a variety of different bugs, glitches, and technical hiccups. And according to a variety of reports around the web (as well as our own testing), the patch also gets rid of the infamous ‘infinite caps’ glitch available in earlier versions of the game. Ah,…

Counter-Strike Players Really Hate The Game’s New Gun

Valve just released a big new patch for Counter-Strike. It includes a new revolver that can drop anybody, regardless of body armor. That’s, uh, pretty intense. The R8 revolver costs $850 in Counter-Strike’s mid-match currency, which isn’t a whole lot in the grand scheme of things. It’s designed for point-blank stopping power—which is to say,…

Destiny Exploit Lets Players Bypass $10 Microtransaction [UPDATE: Fixed]

A new exploit discovered in Destiny this week allows players to get certain microtransaction rewards without actually spending real money. Expect this one to be fixed pretty quickly. UPDATE (2:04pm): Bungie has issued a hotfix to stop the exploit Original article follows: Yesterday, developer Bungie opened up the Sparrow Racing League, a limited-time event in…

The State Of The Xbox One in 2015

It must be frustrating for the people who work on the Xbox One, to have turned one of the worst-pitched gaming consoles ever into a machine that’s in several ways better than its competition. Lately, Microsoft has done so many things well. They’ve improved their box in so many ways. Surely they ask: Will you…

How One Man Beat Fallout 3 On Hard Mode Without Ever Healing

Last weekend, someone completed one of the most incredible Fallout 3 runs of all time. The rules for the permadeath playthrough were simple: One lifebar. No healing. No radiation treatments. No companions. The YouTuber behind this hardcore madness is none other than Jon “Many A True Nerd,” the same man who beat Fallout New Vegas…

Elite: Dangerous will let players to roam planets in the Horizons update on December 15. It’s coming to PC first, but will arrive on the Xbox One down the line. The game’s coming to PS4 eventually, too. The expansion is pricey: $60 for new players (base game + expansion), $45 if you already own the…

The New Need For Speed Is So Much Better Now

When last I wrote about the new Need for Speed itwas a bit messy—rubberband AI and stuttering made racing frustrating and the in-game cell phone was annoying as hell. With today’s “Legends” game update, all of my major gripes have been addressed. The biggest issue with Ghost Games’ reboot of EA’s racing franchise for many…

Bloodborne Player Defeats DLC’s Hardest Boss Using Only His Fists

Few Souls players are more talented than Lobos Jr—he once beat the game upside down! Like many Souls enthusiasts, he’s digging through the Bloodborne DLC, The Old Hunters. Just recently, he pulled off something incredible: beating the crazy hard first boss on New Game+++++++ (that’s 7!) with only his fists. Ludwig is the first monstrosity…

Why A Street Fighter “Butt Slap” Was Removed

Last month, observant fans noticed that some changes had been made to Street Fighter V character R. Mika. Namely, that her ass-smacking celebration—first shown off in August—had since been toned down to keep the slapping out of view. Here’s the before-and-after: While some cried CENSORSHIP, and everyone else got on with their lives, there remained…

Black Ops III‘s Purifier Flamethrower, In LEGO Form

ZaziNombies created a 1,200-piece, 3-foot long replica of one of the most unique weapons from CoD: Black Ops III, the Purifier. Some of the bricks look a bit toasty, as you can see in the top pic above. That’s because Zazi took things a step further by adding real flames to his build. Alright, we…