Nioh‘s Player Battles Are A Laggy Nightmare

Nioh is an astonishing game with fast samurai action. Ninja tools, magic spells, and a variety of weapons should have made for fun player versus player battles. Unfortunately, sloppy connections and overpowered builds drag down the experience. A free addition to the game, Nioh’s new PvP mode drops right as a new DLC, Dragon of…

Seventeen NBA Teams Sign On To Appear In NBA 2K Esports League

Today the NBA and Take-Two Interactive announced the 17 NBA teams that have agreed to participate in the inaugural NBA 2K league. The NBA teams that will let their virtual logos and jerseys appear in the esports league are: Boston Celtics Cleveland Cavaliers Dallas Mavericks Detroit Pistons Golden State Warriors Indiana Pacers Memphis Grizzlies Miami…

Build Your Own Lego Overwatch D.Va Mech

It’s time to stop looking at other people’s awesome Lego Overwatch creations and start building your own . . . versions of their awesome Lego Overwatch creations. Nick Brick’s Legendary B.Va skin mech tutorial is a fine place to start. Let’s face it, Lego is never going to make official Overwatch sets. Their rules against…

Looking For Love As A Dark Souls Character On Tinder

Black Iron Tarkus is one of the most badass characters in Dark Souls, but how would he fare in the modern dating world? We signed him up to Tinder to find out — it would be his toughest challenge to date. There exists a perilous land mortals are ever drawn to, only to experience pain…

Surprise Your Date By Beating Up Fake Bad Guys At Japanese Theme Park 

At Hirakata Park in Osaka, there is an unusual service: You can hire fake bad guys to pretend punch to impress and surprise others. According to website Lmaga, these flashmob performances are akin to quick “threepenny plays,” with you as the star.  It seems you don’t actually walk through the park with the word “shuyaku”…

The Top 30 Selling Games In Japan Are Dominated By Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Last week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was way out in front in the Japanese sales chart, surprising absolutely no one. Some of the entries, however, might catch you off guard. Via Famitsu, here are the top 30 selling games from April 24 to April 30.  30. Final Fantasy XV (PS4): 2,220 copies Total: 975,104 copies…

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CG Artist has Made An Image Every Day For 10 years

That’s over 3600 days in a row. I can’t even write shitty blog posts for five days without needing two days off. As Vice reports, Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann, a professional CG artist who has released a ton of animated shorts and worked with musicians like Flying Lotus and deadmau5, started a project a decade ago…

A Card Game That’ll Help You Freestyle Rap

Vers is a card game designed to feed you words and context so that you—yes you, likely a person who in reality can not write rhymes—can create your own raps that do not suck. It’s kind of like Cards Against Humanity, only in reverse: instead of giving you sentences with words missing, it’s giving you…

Bethesda Asks For Indie Game’s Name To Be Changed Because It Has ‘Prey’ In it

Prey for the Gods, an indie PC game paying homage to Shadow of the Colossus, now has a new name courtesy of some pressure from Bethesda, publishers of the upcoming Prey In a post mostly about updates made to the game following its successful Kickstarter, No Matter Studios also announce that the project will now…

Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code And Returns It To Blizzard, Gets Free Trip To BlizzCon

Last month, Reddit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn’t know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back. Khemist49 first came across the disc in a “box…

Professional Smite Player And Caster Dies Of Cancer At Age 25

David “Allied” Hance, professional Smite player and caster, passed away this afternoon at 25 years old after a year-long battle with cancer, according to a post by LeafreTV, a colleague and friend. One year ago, Allied announced his cancer diagnosis. In response, the Smite developers at Hi-Rez Studios held marathon gaming streams to raise money…

Black Ops II Player Kills 10,000 Zombies While Sitting In a Corner

If you’ve got a spare three hours, you can watch a YouTube streamer set a remarkably high score in Call of Duty: Black Ops II by hanging out in a pool of goop. With the recent addition of Black Ops II to Xbox One backwards compatibility, several players are going back to set new high…

Volta V Wooden PC Review: An Heirloom Gaming Machine

I’ve spent the past few weeks gaming, working and pretending to work on theVolta V, the world’s first commercially-produced handcrafted wooden computer. It feels like it’s part of the family. There was a time when most of our electronic entertainment equipment was either made of wood or, at the very least, stylized to look as…

The Only Five Valve News Stories That You Ever Read

A wise person once defined insanity as “watching Valve do the same thing over and over, and expecting different results.” Once a quiet enigma, popping out an all-time classic video game once every handful of years, Valve now does a bunch of stuff—largely centered around hardware and updating Steam—announcing these efforts without much in the…