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Valve Changed The Winter Steam Sale, Says Everybody Wins
As big and important as Steam is, we rarely get any kind of official word from Valve on how it’s doing or how it works. Today, that changed, if only a little. The company accidentally (?) posted a developer message to a public Steam page (grabbed by SteamDB), and it claims that Valve’s decision to…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
DC Universe Online Celebrates Five Years With An Xbox One Version
Released five years ago today on the PC and PlayStation 3, DC Universe Online is gearing up to invite Xbox One owners to dress up as their favorite superhero and make whooshing noises this spring. DC Universe Online, the massively multiplayer online game that gives players the ability to fight side-by-side with characters from my…
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedRelive The Days Of 90s Game Magazines
The way we read about video games has changed a lot over the last couple of decades, a rigid previews-features-reviews magazine format giving way to…whatever the hell the internet decides to write about at any given second. For the most part this has been an improvement, but there will always be those misty-eyed for the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Banner Saga Is Just Fine On Console
It’s been two years since The Banner Saga was released on PC and mobile. This week, it’s out on PS4 and Xbox One, and if you haven’t played it yet, there aren’t many surprises in store: this is a good game that’s…still good. I wrote about the PC version at launch, praising the game’s visuals…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
Palmer Luckey Does Not Screw Around With His Gaming PC
Palmer Luckey is currently slapping together a new gaming rig he thinks people might find “interesting.” He is not wrong. In a recent Reddit AMA, the ceaselessly enthusiastic boy king of VR discussed the innards of his latest gaming PC, and it really is something: “I am currently working on a new PC that people…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Trip Back Through BioShock’s Fantastic Opening Level
If you played BioShock, you remember the opening level of the game. Who could forget it? In a cool new video, ex-Irrational designer Bill Gardner sits down with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey to play through “Welcome to Rapture,” the iconic opening level from the first BioShock. They chat while they play, hitting topics that range from…
By Kirk Hamilton Published January 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
Video Game Erroneously Blocked Player Named Muhammad Khan For Being On Government List
Muhammad Zakir Khan wanted to check out the beta for the MOBA-inspired Paragon from Epic Games, but when he tried to register an account, he was blocked because his name was apparently on the US government’s “Specially Designated Nationals list.” It’s been fixed, but the hell happened? Here’s what showed up when Khan tried to…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Video Game That Changed How I Saw David Bowie
I was familiar with the work of David Bowie from a young age, but I didn’t fall in love with the man and his work until 1999. That was when I played Omikron: The Nomad Soul, a video game that changed the way I felt about David Bowie entirely. David Bowie succumbed to cancer on…
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedRainbow Six Player Gets Abandoned By Team, Still Kicks Everyone’s Ass
Rainbow Six Siege is a tactical team-based shooter where lone wolf tactics are often punishable by swift, well-deserved death. But what happens when all your teammates leave a match and you have no choice but to go it alone? For most, it’s certain doom. For one player, it was an opportunity. Ben St-Lo was abandoned…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 11, 2016 - Uncategorized
That Dragon, Cancer Knocked Me On My Ass
I’ve been wondering when a game would make me cry, and that changed over the weekend. A few games have made me teary eyed, but that’s about it. That Dragon, Cancer not only made me weep, but I had to stop playing it a few times. I’m going to talk about some of the events…
By Patrick Klepek Published January 11, 2016 -
CultureOne of the World’s Best Speedrunners Can’t Speedrun Anymore
Narcissa Wright used to be the fastest Zelda: Ocarina of Time player. Her best run was nearly perfect, the stuff of, well, legends. Cut to now: Wright has developed hand problems and can’t speedrun. She’s also decided to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Her life is fraught with change, and some of her viewers aren’t taking…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Childhood Tale of Pokémon Heartbreak
This is a story about losing your innocence, and getting your heart torn out in the worst kind of way. Also, Pokémon. Once upon a time, there was a contest held by Blockbuster—you know, the old video rental company? The rules were simple. Entrants take the best picture they can manage in Pokémon Snap, they…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedWatch One Man Break The Hell Out Of Secret of Mana
There are few things more satisfying than watching someone tear apart one of your favorite childhood video games. Thanks to glitches, tricks, and the power of using two controllers at once, speedrunner Yagamoth blazed through the classic Square RPG Secret of Mana in under two hours at Awesome Games Done Quick 2016 last week. If…
By Jason Schreier Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedInside The NSFW World of Fallout and Skyrim Nudity Mods
On PC, Fallout 4 is an endless sea of possibility. Anything you can imagine, you can probably download as a customization and insert it into the game. Quality of life improvements. Characters from movies, TV shows, and books. Ridiculous weapons that shouldn’t exist. Oh, and titties. Lots and lots of titties. Massive NSFW warning! Fallout…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 11, 2016 -
CultureThe Ugliest Thing Snacktaku Has Ever Eaten
Earlier this week I encountered a food creation so hideous that I set up my camera in the noisy press room at the 2016 Smite World Championship and recorded a Snacktaku video so I could get it over with. Originally published 1/9/16 The main source of sustenance at the Cobb Energy Center in Atlanta, which…
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedA Game About Getting To Mars Without Resorting To Cannibalism
Not at all a spoiler: I don’t get to Mars in my most recent playthrough of Tharsis, the extremely difficult and very fun dice-based strategy game coming to PC and PS4 on Tuesday. This is not a spoiler, because getting to Mars is very hard. Players will fail. A lot. Count on it. In the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedSmite Devs’ First Mobile Game Is A Quick Bit Of Fun
The idea behind Jetpack Fighter, the first mobile game from the makers of Smite, might be a hard to grasp. See, you’re this fighter, and you’ve got a jetpack. Still following? Launched last week on iOS and coming as soon as humanly possible to Android, Jetpack Fighter is a game in which a variety of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedGTA V Players Have Found A New Cell Phone Secret
It seems that Los Santos is still hiding some never-before-seen easter eggs. As discovered by Twitter user @KarmaIngram1, there’s actually one more secret phone number in GTA V that you can call. Dialing 1-999-367-3767 connects you to “Black Cellphones,” which for whatever reason triggers an explosion, and it also changes the appearance of your cell…
By Patricia Hernandez Published January 11, 2016 -
UncategorizedIf You Have Three Hours To Spare, Watch This Final Fantasy IV Speedrun
If you have a few extra hours today, spend them watching this three-and-a-half-hour speedrun of Final Fantasy IV, an RPG that was certainly not designed to be completed in fewer than four hours. Using a technique called step manipulation to determine exactly when each random encounter will spawn, AGDQ 2016 speedrunner nocashnocash is able to…
By Jason Schreier Published January 11, 2016
