The Sims 4 Gets Goddamn Wizards

Meet Lucretia Sand, witch. She’s the Sim I made for The Sims 4’s latest magic-centric expansion. Puns aside, she’s the perfect character to explore the latest game pack, Realm of Magic. Realm of Magic, which comes out tomorrow, is the latest game pack for The Sims 4. It adds a new area, new clothes, and…

Mortal Kombat 11 Rookie Steamrolls Evo Champion SonicFox To Win Major Tournament

The ongoing Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition made its first and only stop in Canada last weekend, bringing players to the Great White North to compete for a chunk of points towards qualifying for the finals next year. Even with some of the world’s greatest players in attendance, the Mortal Kombat 11 tournament at DreamHack…

Borderlands 3‘s Review Situation Sure Is Strange

Borderlands 3 reviews hit the internet this morning, but only at a select few websites, thanks to a bizarre scenario that publisher 2K says is in place because of security concerns. Typically, video game reviewers work off early retail copies of games provided by publishers. They can be either digital or physical, and they function…

The Scariest Thing In P.T. Was Following You All Along

This summer marked the fifth anniversary of P.T., 2014’s landmark “Playable Teaser” for Silent Hills, an exciting but ultimately doomed reboot of the Silent HIll franchise led by Hideo Kojima and film director Guillermo Del Toro. It became an obsession for streamers and data-minersalike, its allure only increasing after Konami removed P.T. from the PlayStation…

A Series Of Sweet Luigi And Gooigi Comics Comes To A Touching Close

When I first saw Gooigi, a puzzle-solving Luigi clone made of goo who first appeared in the 3DS remaster of Luigi’s Mansion and will also be in Luigi’s Mansion 3, I had a few questions about him. Namely: Is this a fetish thing? Perhaps I was being a little too adult and cynical at the…

Somebody Forgot To Update NBA 2K20’s Taskbar Icon

Annual sports video games can often seem like barely updated versions of the previous year’s installment. That’s certainly the case with the PC version of NBA 2K20, which shows up on the Windows taskbar as NBA 2K19. NBA 2K20 is under fire from fans for many reasons. Its microtransactions are atrocious. Its long loading times…

The Sega Dreamcast Changed My Life

Today is the 20th anniversary of the U.S. release of the Dreamcast, so we thought it was appropriate to reshare this piece on the console’s legacy that originally ran September 9th, 2016. The Sega Dreamcast was released 17 years ago today in the United States. A console defined by experimental games and features far ahead…

Fire Emblem‘s ‘Lost Items’ Mechanic Is So Annoying

Even in the fantasy world of Fire Emblem, there is no way the students of Garreg Mach Monastery are so forgetful that I, as their teacher, need to ferry 100 of their lost items around a school campus at all times in hopes of finding their owners. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a mechanic for that,…

‘Attack Bastion’ Stops Being A Joke When Overwatch Pros Use It

For a solid three years, “attack Bastion” was a meme in Overwatch, referring to the idea of using the semi-stationary hero on an offensive play. Now, it’s a serious strategy for serious pro players for when some serious money is on the line. The turret hero Bastion is not very mobile and does the most…

The Week In Games: Loot And Shoot With Your Friends

After a long wait, the new Borderlands is finally coming out this week. Borderlands 3 is releasing Friday for PS4, Xbox One, and PC and bringing with it some ridiculous number of guns. Maybe too much loot, really? Some folks call games like Borderlands 3 “shlooters.” This is a silly word, but it’s particularly strange…

Inside South Korea’s Unofficial But Totally Cute Godzilla Cafe

Bae Tae Hyun is a big Godzilla fan—so much so that he has opened a cafe to show off his collection. Besides coffee, the cafe also serves up Godzilla cookies! According to Lexi from Seoul Searching, Bae began collecting Godzilla goods in 2014 after seeing the Hollywood version that was released that year. He started…

Man Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Osaka Game Company With Arson

A 25-year-old man has been arrested after sending threatening messages to Osaka-based visual novel company Visual Arts. One of the company’s brands, Key, had its visual novels adapted into anime by Kyoto Animation. According to FNN and MBS (via ANN), suspect Toshiki Benikawa, from Shizuoka Prefecture, allegedly sent messages threatening arson and murder to the company…

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A Basic Version Of Civilization, Running As An Excel Spreadsheet

As part of a coding jam, s0lly decided to build a version of Civilization…a version based on the original 1991 video game, and which was made and runs inside a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet Here’s the game in action: As you can see, it’s really just approximating the very early days of Civilization, with a handful…

The Pokémon Anime Is Now Old Enough To Drink

On September 7, 1998, the first episode of the Pokémon anime aired in the United States. That was 21 years ago. Oh God. The show’s first-ever episode, Pokémon – I Choose You!, is the beginning of the whole Pokémon universe, showing Ash’s first meeting with Pikachu. It’s all fairly pedestrian when you just watch this…