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UncategorizedInterviewer Tricked Into Thinking Soccer Star Was Pro Counter-Strike Player
This is André Schürrle. He’s a very, very good footballer. A lot of people would recognise him as a star for both Wolfsburg and the World Champion German national team. This German web TV host, however, did not. Sofia Kats, from gaming channel Rocket Beans TV, was pranked by her colleagues into doing the interview,…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2015 - Culture
In The Future, There Will Be Street Meat
Dimitar Marinski is a concept artist at IO Interactive, the team behind the Hitman series. You can see more of Dimitar’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedKonami’s Latest PC Port Is Garbage
Here’s a weird thing. The PC version of Metal Gear Solid V, a Konami game running on the Fox Engine, looks great! The PC version of Pro Evolution Soccer 2016, also a Konami game running on the Fox Engine, is the worst. On PS4 and Xbox One, the game looks fantastic! I’ve been playing it…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
2015: The Year I Loved The Games I Hate
If you’d told me on New Year’s Eve 2014 that my two favourite games of the next year would be a Witcher and Metal Gear title, I’d have laughed, then frowned, then walked off to talk to someone who wasn’t clearly crazy. I mean, the Witcher games were a mess! Clunky controls, confusing UI, an…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 17, 2015 - Culture
Star Wars KOTOR II Getting New, Player-Created Achievements
Against all odds, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, a decade-old game, keeps getting official updates. After a big out-of-nowhere update a couple months ago that added snazzy modern features like Steam Workshop support, ultra-high resolutions, and cloud saves, the (best) Star Wars role-playing game is getting even more achievements. There’s a twist,…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedBeating This Mario Maker Level Felt Like Defeating A Dark Souls Boss
Yep, this is a level in which the creator turned Mario’s glorious star into a player’s worst nightmare. It’s early days for Super Mario Maker, which means people are still figuring out what makes a Mario stage tick. It’ll take time before we see what people are truly capable of, but I’m already impressed by…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 17, 2015 -
CultureThe Backlash Against Counter-Strike‘s New Bomb Defusal
The bomb. Counter-Strike matches revolve around it. Suddenly, it’s different, and that changes a lot of things. As part of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s latest big update, Valve added a bunch of new animations to the more-popular-than-several-million-high-school-jocks-assembled-into-one-mega-jock multiplayer shooter. Some just make the game look nicer (or worse, depending on who you talk to), but the…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedThe Metal Gear Solid V Players Trying To Do The Impossible
One of the biggest secrets in Metal Gear Solid V may not actually be possible—but that’s not stopping players from coming together and trying to achieve it anyway. First, some background. Yesterday I wrote about a hidden ending of sorts that players found while datamining the game on PC. It looks like this, uploaded courtesy…
By Patricia Hernandez Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
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By Jason Schreier Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Meet the Hutt Who Helped Luke Skywalker Learn About the Jedi
At the end of the original Star Wars movie, Luke Skywalker had a lightsaber and not much else. The old man who started to mentor him died at the hands of the Empire’s most feared enforcer and he didn’t know anything about the legacy he was supposed to continue. This week’s Star Wars comic shows…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Destiny: The Taken King Leaves Players Who Didn’t Upgrade Behind
Are you a Destiny player with no interest in buying The Taken King? You might want to find another game to play. As it turns out, The Taken King doesn’t just add a ton of excellent new stuff to Bungie’s ambitious MMO-shooter—it also locks out much of the old content both in PVE and PVP.…
By Jason Schreier Published September 17, 2015 -
CultureThe GameStop Hero Who Drove A Customer To A Police Station, And Other Game Retail Stories
I’ve raked through miserable game store story after even more miserable game store story. So it warms my heart and restores my faith in humanity to learn just how many employees go out of their way for customers, too. The Stolen Car (via Tim) Shortly after I moved to Minnesota, I located my local Gamestop…
By Tina Amini Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Remember When Sonic Kissed A Woman?
While there’s not enough alcohol in the world to forget this scene, it’s my journalistic duty to remind you it exists. It hasn’t been easy for Sonic the Hedgehog fans. Perhaps no other series inspires equal amounts of fandom and vitriol as Sega’s premiere platformer, a franchise with a following so irrationally loyal as to…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 17, 2015 - Culture
Fantastic New RPG Lets You Talk Your Way Out Of Every Battle
Undertale made me grin until my face hurt. Then it broke my heart. And that was just the prologue. Undertale is a new RPG that just landed on Steam. It’s cut from the same cloth as stuff like Earthbound; that is to say, it’s charming, weird, wacky, and subversive, but not without substance. It might…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedAfter Many Years, The Witness Is Finally Coming Out
The next game from the creator of Braid will be out on January 26, 2016. Even the repeated numbers of the release date (0126•2016) are like a puzzle. Jonathan Blow’s last game was a bonafide video game classic, one that helped ignite a whole wave of independent, small-studio creations. Braid came out in 2008 and…
By Evan Narcisse Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedIf You’ve Got A Wii U, Play Runbow
With everyone obsessing over Super Mario Maker, you might be ignoring Runbow. The top five games on the eShop right now are Super Mario Maker, Splatoon, The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time, Runbow, and Super Mario World Wait, what was the fourth one? I know most people hit the snooze button the moment another…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Let’s Try To Decipher Activision’s Destiny Puffery
Here is a coded message from Activision, sent via press release this morning: SANTA MONICA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Bungie and Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), announced today that Destiny: The Taken King broke the record for the most downloaded day-one game in PlayStation history and set a new…
By Jason Schreier Published September 17, 2015 - Uncategorized
Just a few months after Bloodborne’s DLC arrives, From Software will deliver Dark Souls III, with the game arriving next April. A specific date hasn’t been announced, and it’s unclear if the PC version will be on the same day as the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions. In the past, it’s been a bit…
By Patrick Klepek Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedDear Lord, Persona 5 Looks Incredible
You know what helps alleviate the pain of Persona 5’s big delay? This ridiculous trailer, which features the characters of Atlus’s upcoming cat RPG climbing things, jumping into paintings, and playing baseball. Looks like the characters will live in a big city this time around, where apparently they’ll go on stealth missions and run screaming…
By Jason Schreier Published September 17, 2015 -
UncategorizedThere’s A Cool Diablo-Themed Easter Egg In Heroes of the Storm
Whether it’s a hidden corner of a StarCraft II campaign map or something mentioned in a WoW quest, Blizzard always finds the weirdest ways to hide easter eggs in their games. This time it’s a Diablo III-themed one in Heroes of the Storm So to unlock this particular one, you need to be on The…
By Gergo Vas Published September 17, 2015