EVE Monument Vandals Get Punished With A Lifetime Ban

EVE Online is at least in part a game about space pirates. But it’s also a massive, teeming online ecosystem that often blurs the line between virtual and real-life experiences. So when you mess with EVE, it’s fair to say that you can expect to be met with swift and brutal justice both online and…

3D Video Game Art That Looks Good Even Without Glasses

Look, we know you’re looking at a screen without the benefit of red and blue lenses right now. But don’t let that stop you from admiring that Chun Li artwork. It’s good, isn’t it? Every year, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival mounts a gallery show that has comics artists and professional illustrators creating work that…

Steam’s Community Is Already Trolling The New Call of Duty

Remember Steam’s tag feature, which lets users label games with anything they’d like—provided the tags aren’t abusive or spoilery? They’ve struck again, and this time, their target isCall of Duty. If you look at Call of Duty’s Steam page right now, you’ll come across this (click to expand to see the text clearly): Notice the…

New Unreal Tournament Announced, Will Be Totally Free

Epic Games is making a new Unreal Tournament game, they announced today on their livestream. It’ll be developed in collaboration with fans, and it’ll be free. That’s not free-to-play, Epic promises. Free. No microtransactions here—Epic’s cut will come from the community marketplace, where fans can sell what they make in the new Unreal Tournament, and…

Find Out The Future Of Unreal Tournament Live, Right Here

Are we (finally) getting a new Unreal Tournament game? We’ll find out at 2pm Eastern, when the folks at Epic Games promise they’ll be talking about “the future of Unreal Tournament.” They’re also gonna talk some more about Unreal Engine 4 and virtual reality in general. The whole thing will be streamed live on Twitch—watch…

Refurb Xbox Ones, Peripheral Deal Blowout, Tomb Raider Definitive

We’ve got a slew of great discounted peripherals for you today, starting with the CM Storm Quickfire Rapid for $70. This was one of your six contenders for best gaming keyboard, and it saves significant desk space by going tenkeyless. We’re linking to the brown switches, but you can add $1 to get the blacks,…

Punk Sailor Moon Scouts Could Probably Kick Your Ass

Sailor Scouts are normally tough gals, what with the fighting evil by moonlight thing, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be even more badass. Case in point: this wonderful punk Sailor Moon cosplay. These pictures taken by Vivid Vision show a group of friends at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo—and yes, there are individual…

The PS4 Controller’s Light Bar Won’t Turn Off Because Of Virtual Reality

Are you one of the people that’s been annoyed by the fact that the DualShock 4’s light bar never turns off? Well, Sony has finally clued us in to why the PlayStation 4 developers decided not to allow gamers to conserve battery life and their own sanity by sticking an “off” switch on the thing.…

Everyone in Watch Dogs Is Edgy

Meet the cast of Watch Dogs in this all-new trailer. There are a lot of guns in the clip above, no? The open-world hacking action game comes out this month.

Watch The League of Legends All-Star Tournament Right Here

The League of Legends All-Star tournament runs from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11, and you can watch it all right here. This tournament for Riot’s mega-popular multiplayer game brings the best League of Legend players from across the world to Paris for five-on-five arena battling. You can watch the livestream here: Full schedule,…

Remember Pixel Press, the beautiful sounding app that promises to let you create your own video games by simply drawing them? Well, the thing has successfully completed its metamorphosis from an idealistic Kickstarter project into an actual thing that people can use. Huzzah! Now wouldn’t it be great it that happened more often?

Originally planned for a 2014 release, free-running zombie apocalypse game Dying Light is now being aimed at a February release next year. A post on the game’s official site says that developer Techland is taking more time to make Dying Light live up to their expectations.

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Elder Scrolls Online Delayed On Consoles

If you’re a PS4 or Xbox One owner waiting to play The Elder Scrolls Online on your console, you’re gonna have to wait a few months longer. Bethesda’s just announced a delay of “about six months” for the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, which were originally slated for a June release. Here’s…

Probably Not the New Soul Calibur Game You Were Waiting For

Awesome: a new Soul Calibur game is out today! Not awesome: it’s a collectible card game made for touch-screen devices. Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with CCG titles or touch-screen games. Just look at Hearthstone. But, Soul Calibur: Unbreakable Soul looks like it’s taking the most fun part of the weapon-centric martial art series, namely…

If Disney Characters Were College Students

DeviantART artist Hyung’s extensive Disney University series takes classic Disney characters and puts them in a modern-day college setting. It’s easy to imagine Pocahontas or Hercules in a scenario like this, but it gets a lot funnier when he transforms Simba, Bambi or Pinocchio. Here are some highlights, with a LOT more over at Hyung’s…