Surprise: There’s A New Nintendo Direct This Morning

After days of hype and feverish anticipation, Nintendo this morning dropped a surprise Nintendo Direct mini. It won’t blow anyone away, but it’s got some unexpected port announcements (The World Ends With You!) and ends with a tease for Dark Souls remastered. We’ll be posting all the news shortly, but if you want all 15…

The New Anime Everyone Is Talking About

Even though it’s only one episode in, this season’s breakout anime looks like it could be Pop Team Epic Originally a web manga, Pop Team Epic follows the surreal adventures of two mouthy schoolgirls. Since the original manga was filled with absurdist humor, pop culture references, and memes, you can bet the anime version is,…

The “Don’t Forgive Nintendo” Hashtag Has Turned Into Shitposting

Nintendo is suing Japanese mobile game company Colopl for $40 million dollars, alleging the game Shiro Neko Project infringes on its patents. Initially, a Twitter hashtag appeared to be supporting the mobile studio, but it’s now turned into Nintendo shitposting. Colopl is a major smart device developer, making titles like TsumTsum Land for Disney. It…

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A couple audience members at the Overwatch League season one debut just got their Pepe sign taken away. They’d been using Pepe, a meme commonly associated with alt-right movements, to cheer on Dallas Fuel. Oddly, the video feed in the arena briefly zoomed in on it at one point. Eventually, the two audience members were…

In The Future, Corporations Still Own Everything

Anyone who’s familiar with my daily Fine Art feature will know ArtStation, the gallery site that’s become the default home to professional artist portfolios around the world. Well ArtStation is now publishing books as well, and the first one is Project 77, featuring art by Ubisoft’s Martin Deschambault. Project 77 is an exercise in universe-building,…

YouTube Removes Logan Paul From Google Preferred, Puts Other Projects On Hold [Updated]

YouTube star Logan Paul, who caused an international controversy last week when he made a film inside Aokigahara, known as Japan’s “suicide forest,” has been removed from the lucrative Google Preferred system, while all of his original YouTube Red deals are now on hold. On January 9, YouTube released a statement acknowledging the outcry, and…

Ambitious No Man’s Sky Mod Wants To Make The Game More Like Its E3 Trailers

RaYRoD’s Overhaul is a No Man’s Sky mod that is trying to take the game we got in 2016and turn it into the game many fans wanted when it was first shown off in 2013. Aside from some visual tweaks to bring everything more in line with those early trailers, the mod’s creator says he…

No Overwatch League Team Signed The Game’s Most Notable Female Pro To Their Roster

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—During yesterday’s Overwatch League media day in Los Angeles, one of the most mentioned names belonged to a player who’s not even on an OWL team. Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon, a top-level Zarya player who overcame a rash of cheating accusations and threats in 2016, was on the tip of everybody’s tongues, but nowhere…

Fan Creates Fallout Version Of Ticket To Ride

Ticket to Ride, a casual board gaming juggernaut, is very light and cheery. Not at all the kind of thing you’d expect to be suited to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but then, maybe that’s why this works. XsimonbelmontX made this last year for his wife’s birthday, and it’s incredible. He hasn’t just reskinned an existing map/copy,he’s…

How Warframe Players Got Taylor Swift Lyrics Etched Permanently Onto Its Map

A joke from years ago has been permanently etched into Warframe. Here’s why players are still faced with the Taylor Swift lyrics that lit up the billboard charts back in 2014 every time they grind for loot on Mars. Warframe’s star map is a lot like the one in Destiny You choose a planet and…

Total War’s Next Big Game Is Set In China

Having made one hell of a detour into the lands of Warhammer, Total War is returning to its historical roots for its next big strategy game. And it’s doing so in a region the series has never visited before: China. Note that this isn’t another expansion or experimental title; this is the next full, new…

When Assassin’s Creed Origins Goes Dark, It Goes Dark

When it gets dark in a video game, it’s usually not all that dark. The cave you’re in may be dim. The forest at night might be shadowy. But video games almost never go pitch black. Assassin’s Creed Origins is a welcome exception. I’ve been replaying Origins on PC, taking a more methodical approach than…

A Shooter Where You Risk Losing Your Gear Forever

Escape From Tarkov is a military shooter currently in closed beta all about shooting other players and stealing their loot. Set in a fictional Eastern European city rife with conflict, Escape From Tarkov feels like a mashup of ARMA and Borderlands Players embark on raids to different locations and scrounge around for guns and loot…

Fighting Game Legend Plays Street Fighter And Vampire Savior At His Wedding

The people who actually get married at a wedding have so much to do—write the vows, master the cadence of the walk to the altar, personally greet everyone in attendance—that it leaves a miniscule amount of time to really take in the whole affair. One iconic fighting game competitor, however, felt it was important to…

No One Knows How To Run An Overwatch League Team Yet

When it launches tonight, Overwatch League will become the biggest undertaking in the history of esports. Backed by massive investments from sports billionaires and tech companies, esports, if you choose to believe the hype, has finally grown up. And yet, despite the fact that Overwatch League is ostensibly a global undertaking with teams “based” on…