If League of Legends were a mobile game, I like to think it’d be something like a slickly produced version of last year’s sleeper hit Flappy Bird: cute, charming, distressing at its difficult low points and dizzying at its high ones. Riot probably feels differently about this, as evidenced by Blitzcrank’s Poro Roundup Poro Roundup…
Mr. Handy might be a robot, but he sure has a lot of humanity. I’ve been toying around Mr. Handy in Fallout Shelter lately, and I’ve been pleased to find that he’s become the best thing in the new update. Yes, Mr. Handy is useful—he’ll automatically collect resources for you, as well as help defend…
Blues and Bullets is a noir adventure series (kinda like Telltale’s stuff) that quietly crept onto Steam a few weeks ago. Turns out, it’s pretty great! Here are a few reasons why. (Warning: slight Blues and Bullets spoilers ahead.) There are not enough noir games First things first: noir is a rarity in games (we’ve…
Squirrel Girl started as a joke, a character so implausibly silly that you had to laugh at her even in her victories. But, a funny thing happened after the character got her own series: people started laughing with her. Spoilers follow for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, which you really should be reading already, gosh. Way…
The latest XCOM 2 trailer gives a sense of how base management will work. Research and development, troop training, and monitoring for attacks, all from your new mobile base on a repurposed alien ship. Which I’m sure won’t lead to any complications…
The Internet’s attempt to play Dark Souls has been fun to watch, even if they’ve spent most of the time rolling into walls. But last night, a breakthrough: they beat the game’s first boss. It was awesome, but how they pulled that off calls into question whether they’re really playing Dark Souls anymore. The bar…
Hey Smash Bros. fans who like to play as Shulk: if you’ve had trouble with the guy’s Up-B recovery move, you’re not alone. YouTuber and Smash Boards forum member erico9001 put together a handy video on the glitch that causes his recovery problems, and how to avoid them. Contact the author at [email protected]
For a long time now, StarCraft II players have been asking Blizzard for variety in competitive multiplayer. Traditional ladder matches are fun and all, but they can get a little repetitive—especially when you’re addicted to StarCraft and play like four hours a day. Enter tournament mode. In addition tooverhauling macro mechanics(RIP MULEs), the next patch…
“Glitch” is the name of a move in Call of Duty: Black Ops III that lets you teleport—but only back to the position you were in a few seconds earlier. It can be tricky to pull off because messing up the timing or positioning will leave you out in the open, vulnerable to all kinds…
After Dark, the first expansion for Cities: Skylines, is coming on September 24, the game’s publisher announced today. The add-on introduces a day-and-night cycle, among other night-themed new features. Contact the author at [email protected]
PC owners can’t pre-load Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, according to the game’s community manager.You can pre-load on consoles! However, you’ll be able to start downloading (and apparently, playing) the game as soon as it’s available in the earliest country, New Zealand. That’s almost like pre-loading? You can reach the author of this…
Sixteen years after the release of Final Fantasy VIII, Square Enix has finally released an official stand-alone version of its legendary card game, Triple Triad You can get Triple Triad right now on both iOS and Android by downloading the Final Fantasy Portal app. Both the Portal app and the card game—which you download inside…
From August 30, Nintendo 2DS will get cheaper in North America. The console will be priced at $99.99, which is thirty bucks less expensive than it’s current $129.99 price tag. And yes, the handheld will still come with the digital version of Mario Kart 7.
Japanese retailer Shimamura has stopped selling Nazi-style swastika pendants. For the time being, apparently. Yesterday, a Twitter user pointed out that the swastika pendant was being sold with a tank top for 980 yen ($8). The photo spread all over Japanese internet sites, appearing on 2ch, the country’s most popular bulletin board. According to Yahoo!…
This month, a large Godzilla sculpture appeared in Tokyo. It’s made of sand. Hope it doesn’t rain! This sand Godzilla sculpture popped up in Shinjuku Central Park. Earlier this year, another Godzilla appeared in Shinjuku, towering over the streets below. That statue is part of new Godzilla-themed hotel rooms. [Photo: KONFUNK] [Photo: maruzo0717] [Photo: maruzo0717]…
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In South Korea, a blogger named Tipytipy recently uploaded photos of his bike. His Mass Effect themed one, that is. [Photo: TipyTipy] Via tipster Sang, the bike is an Aprilia RS4 125 with custom decals designed to make the motorcycle look like the Normandy SR-2, one of the Mass Effect starships. [Photo: TipyTipy] [Photo: TipyTipy]…
D3 Publisher hasn’t always been the most subtle developer with games like the Dream Club series and Metal Gear Panty-er I mean Summer-Colored High School. Their new upcoming game for the PS Vita, Omega Labyrinth carries on the D3 Publisher traditional unhindged libido wackiness with an unhealthy obsession with boobs. Omega Labyrinth (see the visual…
Japanese prints come to life when they’re turned into GIFs. Website Spoon & Tamago reports that an animator who goes by the name Segawa 37 created an animated series of “floating world images” (ukiyo-e), uploading the GIFs to Twitter. Ukiyo-e was popular in Japan from the 17th through the 19th century. The prints feature some…
Street Fighter V tried to have a beta test.It didn’t work, though hey, that’s what beta tests are for. To ensure that they run one that does work, Capcom is taking it a little easier this time, and starting today they’ll be rolling out “a series of region specific stress tests” The first is in…
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