Aerial Dogfights And The Sphinx Add Some Fun Flavor To COD: WWII

The second DLC pack for Call of Duty: WWII is now available, taking players to historic Dunkirk, to Egypt, and even up into the sky for some aerial dogfighting—a first for the Call of Duty series, believe it or not. “The War Machine” arrived on April 10 for PlayStation 4, and the new content brings…

Fortnite Is Down [Update: It’s Back, Plus Rewards]

If you tried to log into Fortnite last night and couldn’t get past the start screen, you’re not alone. The wildly popular battle royale game has had server issues for over a day now. Sixteen hours ago, Epic, the developer, announced that Fortnite was having login issues. A few hours later, the game came down:…

Sega Arcade Employee Admits To Making Up Robbery Story 

Yesterday, a 33-year-old employee at High-Tec Sega Kasai game center in Tokyo phoned the police, saying there was a robbery. The man later admitted this was a lie. According to Sankei Shimbun, the Sega arcade employee told the police, “A group of three men broke into the office and stole 2 million yen.” (That’s $18,721.)…

Japan Is Getting Two Cowboy Bebop Cafes

Cowboy Bebop is coming back! In cafe form, that is. This May, Cowboy Bebop cafes will open for a limited time in Tokyo and Osaka. The original Cowboy Bebop manga ran from 1997 to 1998, and the anime was broadcasted in 1998. It’s great. According to Anime Anime, the Cowboy Bebop Cafe will open May…

If You Still Miss Dragon Ball Super, You Are Not Alone

It was a weekly ritual. Every Sunday morning in Japan, a new Dragon Ball Super episode would air. Not anymore. Now, it’s the latest GeGeGe no Kitaro series, but some fans still miss Dragon Ball Super. Do you? I know I do! My kids miss it, too, and so do these fans: But on the…

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Oh Man Look At This Witcher 3 Figure

I am not normally a man to be wooed by the giant heads of a Nendoroid figure, but holy crap, this one is Geralt. And he comes with the bathtub Out in September, it’ll cost around $45. It includes two heads, both his regular and silver sword, some Gwent cards and, yeah, that bathtub. Maybe…

Great Cosplay From The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo

The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, or C2E2, was held between April 6-8 and The Portrait Dude was in attendance taking shots of some of the best cosplay. You can see more of The Portrait Dude’s photography at his Facebook page

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Doom, Now With Some 2K Textures

Hoover1979is working on a texture pack for Doom (and Doom II) that takes the original game’s blurry surfaces and brings them into the 2K generation. He’s re-doing everything. Not just the walls, but terminals, windows, skies, the works. Even at this early stage, the results are a lot better than the whole idea sounds on…

Battlestar Galactica Is Getting A Tabletop Miniatures Game

It’s like the excellent X-Wing, basically, only you get to yell “launch alert fighters” a lot. The game is called Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles, and while there’s no release date yet, it will be present at Gen Con for people to get an early look at. Before anyone accuses this of being an X-Wing…

The Best Clips And Screenshots From Fortnite‘s New Replay Mode

Like PUBG before it, Fortnite now has a suite of replay tools that allow you to pan around gameplay moments you’ve captured, position cameras, mess with colors, and, if you want, create elaborate clips. Players have already used them to churn out some quality stuff. You can find replays by opening your career menu and…

Tekken 7 Competitor Gets So Mad He Has To Spike Someone Else’s Controller

A recent Tekken 7 exhibition ended in carnage as the match’s loser trashed multiple peripherals in a hilariously childish display of anger. Body Count Fighting is a Southern California-based operation that brings together some of the best fighting game players in the competitive community for slick show matches at the Machinima studios. Last week, competitors…

Wackiness, Not Power, Defines Hearthstone’s New Witchwood Cards

Now that all the cards from Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion have been revealed, most streamers and analysts are doing their best to rate cards and theorycraft about the upcoming meta. Well, dear reader, we’ve been through this enough times to know that once the expansion drops tomorrow, everyone will prove to be slightly wrong in their…

WarCraft III Is Still Getting Patches

Warcraft III was released over fifteen years ago, but yesterday it got an enormous patch, with a lengthy list of small changes. Warcraft III is the third Warcraft game, a fantasy-flavored real-time strategy game that predates the incredibly popular MMO set in the same world. You’d think that Blizzard was long done tweaking the game,…