Not content with Valve’s own timetable for rolling out special events, a bunch of Team Fortress 2 fans have joined forces to make their own, called Workshop Wonderland. It’s pretty neat, but the highlight for me is this glorious Heavy x Gabe Newell pic.

After Years Of Sadness, I’m Digging A Total War Game Again

There was a good chunk of time there when the Total War series was one of the best things on the PC. Its combination of real-time battles and turn-based planning made it a lot of people’s—mine included—perfect strategy game. Then along came Total War: Rome II It wasn’t a bad game by any means. But…

Arkham Knight Gives Players Something Special For 240% Completion

The newest unlockable Batman costume in Arkham Knight doesn’t want your money. It wants your time, Caped Crusader. You don’t just have to complete the game to get it. You have to complete it at 240%. The latest game for DC Comics’ nocturnal crimefighter is positively silly with alternate Batman costumes. Players can don variants…

Counter-Strike Player Takes Out Four Enemies With A Single Shot

Single-file lines. The world teaches us to stand in them, almost without thinking about it. Counter-Strike proposes an alternative: you really, really should just never do that. Counter-Strike player ggHushHush posted a highlight in which they took a Scout sniper shot at what appeared to be one enemy player emerging from a smoke grenade haze.…

No, Sega Isn’t Launching A ‘Dreamcast 2’

Today on Facebook, you might have seen an exciting little news nugget in the corner of your homepage. “Dreamcast 2,” it read, “Sega Reportedly to Release New PC-Console Hybrid.” All day, “Dreamcast 2” has been one of the top items on Facebook’s Trending Topics feature, which launched last year and has been particularly awful in…

Steam Sales Are Getting Kinda Boring

If you check Steam, you’ll notice that the big Steam winter sale kicked off today. It’s got a couple good deals, a bunch more alright ones, and… that’s kinda it. No big game-like event, no real frills, no surprises. Just like the autumn sale before it. Is it just me, or are Steam sales getting…

Trails of Cold Steel Is Basically Suikoden Meets Persona

Take a dash of Suikoden’s world-building, add some Grandia-style combat, stir it all in with the setting and social links of Persona, and bam, you’ve got Trails of Cold Steel, which comes out for PS3 and Vita today. I haven’t played too much of Cold Steel—been trying to finish up Trails in the Sky SC…

Battlefield 4’s Latest Secret Easter Egg Is Incredibly Complex

I am in awe that anybody managed to figure this out. Recently, Battlefield 4 received a holiday update patch that included a number of tweaks and bug fixes. It also came with a new map pack, which included an area known as Dragon Valley—veteran players might know this as a locale from Battlefield 2. The…

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A Look At Dream, The Unreleased Predecessor To Banjo-Kazooie

Before Banjo-Kazooie was Banjo-Kazooie, it was Dream, an RPG-adventure hybrid that might have been the best-looking Super Nintendo game ever made. Today on YouTube, Rare released a neat little mini-documentary about Dream, which was pushed from the SNES to the Nintendo 64 before it evolved into the Banjo we all know and love today. You…

Bloodborne‘s Biggest Problems Have Been Fixed

Souls fanatics aren’t done when the credits roll. It’s the beginning of a longer journey—New Game Plus, PVP, different builds. Bloodborne should have followed the same path, but it didn’t take long for people to encounter limitations. Between a new patch and an expansion, The Old Hunters, that’s no longer the case. Bloodborne originally shipped…

Fallout 4 Star Wars Mod Lets You Kill People With Lightsabers

Because your murderous wasteland rampage needs a little extra something, don’t you think? “Lightsaber Renew” is a cool Fallout 4 mod created by invalidfate, and not only does it let you equip a lightsaber, it also comes with the appropriate shoom sound effects whenever you unleash it. You get a few color choices, too, including…

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Beaten In Japan By…Yo-Kai Watch

There has been an awakening. Whilethe new Star Wars movie crushes box office records across the US and Europe, let’s take this moment to consider that not every market awards box office victories based on cash money. Japan, for example, tracks movies based on the number of ticket sales, not how much money was made…

And The Most Glitchy Just Cause 3 Item Award Goes To… The Pogo Stick

It’s no surprise that the pogo stick is a hidden item in Just Cause 3, when you can casually bounce on someone’s face with it and ascend to the stars, at the same time. It’s a powerful item (vehicle?) and YouTuber HelixSnake—famous for his silly Skate 3 videos—went on a crazy, glitchy rampage with it.…