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Rock Band Is Finally Dying

Long gone from the retail side of things, Harmonix’s Rock Band has nevertheless lived on for the past few years thanks to the studio’s maintenance of the Rock Band Network, the online community where people could buy, create and share music. Sadly, that service is now winding down. In a post on its community forums,…

League Of Legends’ World Champs Commercial Is A Missed Opportunity

The League of Legends World Championship is one of the biggest prizes in esports. Given the field’s strugglesto be taken more seriously – even as it draws in bigger crowds and bigger bucks – this trailer for the event seems a bit out of place. While it’s a slick piece of production, it also plays…

The Sims 4 Mods Are Officially Starting To Become Amazing

Despite being so new, The Sims 4 has relatively robust mod offerings. Some mods are sort of saucy. Some are useful. And some, well, some are just sort of amazing. Enter the Babies For Everyone Mod, an alteration to The Sims 4 which allows nearly everyone to ‘try for baby’ while having sex. This means…

Microsoft Explains Lack Of Halo On PC

Halo: Master Chief Collection would—in theory—be a perfect point of entry for PC gamers who’ve missed out on the series over the years. So why is it, for now, Xbox One-only? And could that change? Halo is Microsoft’s flagship game series on the Xbox, but they’ve also got that whole Windows thing going on. You…

A Cooler Way To Use Your Phone To Play Video Games

Playing video games on your phone is all fine and good, but using your phone to control what happens on another screen? Now that’s really cool. Oh sure, the Wii U and various other devices have tried similar-ish things to the THAW interface, but its always nice to see somebody throw their hat in the…

Neal Stephenson’s Kickstarter Game Is Dead

Two years ago, beloved science-fiction writer Neal Stephenson launched a crowdfunding campaign to start making a realistic swordfighting game. The Clang Kickstarter notched more than $500,000 towards that end. But a game never materialized and, as announced today, people who backed Clang are starting to get their money back. The game, it seems, won’t be…

Some ​Destiny Owners Say Bungie Can’t Address Customer Service Problems

“I’ve Given Up on Destiny and Got My Refund” “ERRORS ERRORS ERRORS” “Server problems. Worse then ever now -.-“ These are some of the top trending posts on Bungie’s official help forums. As you can probably guess, they’re filled with angry people. The users in those threads are mad at the lack of a support…

Retro Gaming Parkour On A Moving Train

We all wanna parkour like Super Mario or Ryu Hayabusa, but only a few people ever get to actually do it — like freerunner Jason Paul. The people at Red Bull made a giant retro gaming free running course and had Jason Paul run through the whole damn thing. The logistics of how they pulled…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Combat, Broken Down

Final Fantasy XV is actually a video game that is actually happening, and new footage released by Square Enix last night shows that it’s looking damn good, too. The one big question—other than “why is the steering wheel on the right?”—is “just how does that combat work?” We don’t have the answers to that question…

What Would You Like To See In A New PC Gamepad?

Back in 2013, Lifehacker asked its readers what the Best PC Gamepad was, and predictably, console controllers took over 80% of the vote, with the Xbox 360 Controller getting the lion’s share. If we ran the same poll now, the DualShock 4 and Xbox One Controller would take a chunk of the votes, but the…

From Games You Purchased Went To Charity Learn More on Numbers Since its launch in 2010, Humble Bundle has been one of those unambiguous forces for good. The model is a simple, but powerful one: pull a few games together after they’re past the launch rush, allow customers to pay what they want, and donate…