The Latest Sims Expansion Lets You Get Famous (By Streaming, Of Course)

When Electronic Arts producer David Miotke showed me the new Sims 4 expansion Get Famous last week, he wanted to make sure I saw a new animation they’d created for it: the money phone. “Every Soundcloud rapper has to talk on the money phone in their first video,” he said. He directed a rich Sim…

Thunderlord Is Back In Destiny, And It Owns

This week, Destiny 2 got a big machine gun that chews through aliens while summoning lightning from the sky. It’s easy to get, and it rules. The gun in question is called “Thunderlord,” and is the latest in a long line of exotic gear from the first Destiny to make its way over to Destiny…

Fortnite’s New Food Fight Mode Allows For Some Sneaky Sabotage

Fortnite’s latest patch brings a new limited-time mode, Food Fight, in which two teams defend one of the game’s restaurant mascots while destroying the opposing team’s. It’s chaotic, but it provides plenty of opportunities for backstabbing fun. In Food Fight, released today as part of patch 6.30, teams are assigned to protect either the tomato…

SonicFox Is Still The Best Injustice 2 Player In The World

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean won the biggest Injustice 2 tournament of the year. Again. Last night, the Injustice 2 Pro Series wrapped up months of competition in Chicago, Illinois, bringing together some of the most accomplished competitors in the world to play for a $100,000 prize pool. Competition began early on Tuesday morning in order to…

The Controversy Over Bethesda’s ‘Game Engine’ Is Misguided

This morning, news headlines and YouTube videos across the internet declared that Bethesda will not change engines for the upcoming games Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI, setting off a wave of outrage that’s become oh-so-common in the world of video games. This story, however, is misleading, based mostly on speculation and widespread lack understanding…

Sometimes you have to go to extreme measures to hang out with the popular crowd. As seen on the Switch’s eshop today.

Fatal Call Of Duty Swatter Pleads Guilty To 51 Charges [UPDATE]

Swatter Tyler Barriss, 26, pled guilty yesterday to the crimes that led police to forcibly enter the home of Wichita resident Andrew Finch, who diedfrom an officer’s gunshot wound. Barriss originally pled not guilty to this fatal instance of swatting, which occurred over a dispute in Call of Duty in 2017. The Associated Press reportsthat…

Today Was A Big Victory For Japanese Tattooing

Last fall, the Osaka High Court ruled that tattooer Taiki Masuda broke the law by tattooing without a medical license. Today, the court issued a ruling on his appeal. According to Asahi, the Osaka High Court ruled in Masuda’s favor, overturning the previous guilty verdict. Masuda’s lawyers argued that his intention wasn’t a medical procedure,…

The Silly Theory About Ash’s Dad In Pokémon 

It’s been called Pokémon’s greatest mystery. Where is Ash’s father? There is one theory that Professor Oak is Ash’s dad. If you think that’s bonkers, then this theory is even more out there. What if Mr. Mime is really Mr. Ketchum? Silly, I know! With Mr. Mime freaking out everyone with its Hollywood movie version,…

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Battle Princess Madelyn is a Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts-inspired action-platformer whose “honorary assistant creative director” is a 7-year-old girl. Madelyn Obritsch wanted to be in Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts, so her dad, game designer Christopher Obritsch, decided to grant her wish—and involve her in the creative process. The resulting game, which smashed its Kickstarter goals last year,…