What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for doing my taxes, because I said here that I’d do them last weekend and then played Titanfall 2 all weekend instead. It was great! (The game, I mean. Not doing my taxes was also great, but now I regret it.) I’ve spent a lot of time playing Fortnite to write my…

Firestorm‘s Terrifying V1 Rocket Makes The Game Stand Out From Other Battle Royale

Firestorm, the gritty battle royale recently added to Battlefield V, can’t quite stand with the competition due to clumsy inventory management and UI. But it does have mass destruction, including the powerfully satisfying V1 rocket. Firestorm’s spectacle could set it apart from the pack. The Battlefield series has always been, in part, about destruction. Crumbling…

Cyber-Attackers Are Making Phony Epic Games Accounts With Other People’s Emails

For months, an unspecified number of users trying to register an account with Epic Games have found that their e-mail addresses were somehow already linked to accounts. Today, Epic Games told Kotaku that the culprit is an ongoing cyber attack and that the company is working to delete those accounts, though they would not say…

Game Developer To Guest Judge On Game-Themed Project Runway Episode

Game developer Robin Hunicke is set to be a guest judge on next week’s Project Runway, where the contestants will be designing video game characters. Project Runway is maybe the perfect reality television competition show, pitting fashion designers against each other for a chance to show at New York Fashion Week and a grand prize…

Oh No, I Think I Might Be Getting Good At Smash Bros.

Lately I’ve been playing more Smash Bros. than I have in my entire life. That sounds like a lot, but it’s really not. I missed out on all the Nintendo consoles after the SNES, so I never owned a version of the game before Smash Ultimate, which came out for the Switch last year. I…

Ubisoft Removes Slur From Artwork In The Division 2

Ubisoft has apologized for the inclusion of street art in The Division 2 which contained a homophobic slur. The artwork was spotted by a player documenting odd and misspelled graffiti within the game. The image has since been removed from the game. As reported by Eurogamer, the artwork in question features an exaggerated portrait of…

Designer Re-Imagines Google’s Stadia Controller In Whimsical Mockup

I can imagine what the responses would have been if Google had unveiled this as the controller for its new video game streaming platform back when it was announced at GDC. No d-pad? No way! I can’t help but appreciate designer Daniel Cheung’s experimental take on the future of gaming peripherals. Prior to GDC, there…

Beloved HQ Trivia Host Scott Rogowsky Leaves The Show

Scott Rogowsky, longtime host of trivia app HQ Trivia, has left the show in favor of hosting a Major League Baseball show, ChangeUp Rogowsky told TMZ, “Nothing in my decade-plus entertainment career has meant more to me personally and professionally than my involvement with HQ.” Rogowsky’s face as host has long been seen as synonymous…

Trading Steam for the Epic Games Store Creates More Problems

The Epic Games Store has a surprising amount of exclusives coming over to their platform that used to be on the default one-stop shop on PC: Steam. And everyone lived happily ever after. Oh wait, actually, it led to Steam users “review-bombing” games like Borderlands 3 and Metro Exodus after they went to the Epic…

Back In The Day, Japanese Gaming Magazine Showed Link As A Girl

In 1986, Japanese magazine Shonen Captain did an article on the newly released Legend of Zelda. Instead of depicting Link as a boy, the article shows the character as a girl. As Yakyusoku points out, Twitter user Kazzycom discovered the article and its accompanying art, which can be seen below. The story behind this art…

University Professor Compared To Final Fantasy Character

Professor Hiroaki Miyata recently appeared on NHK show Close Up. He’s not only on the medical school faculty of the prestigious Keio University, he also looks like a Final Fantasy character. Others thought he looked like a visual kei band member or someone from Ready Player One. He certainly stands out among the rather conservatively…

Virtual Girl Might Be Responsible For Cup Noodle Demand

Yesterday, instant noodle maker Nissin announced it was temporarily halting sales of its miso-flavored Cup Noodle. According to Nari Nari, the reason was that sales of Cup Noodle Miso had gone up drastically and can’t meet demand. It will resume sales once things have stabilized. Nissin is also canceling planned special releases of Seafood and…

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Joanna Kizinska is a freelance concept artist and illustrator working in the games business. You can see more of Joanna’s stuff at her ArtStation page