What You Need To Know About The Sims 4 Vampires

The Sims 4 Vampires releases tomorrow, and with it the ability to live out your nightwalker dreams. But Vampire sims work a little different from regular sims. Here’s a few tips on how to make the most of being undead. Consider an outdoors-y type. You don’t need to drink from other sims to get your…

Cosplay’s Unlikely Anime Bondage Stars

There’s always been a bit of a stigma attached to hentai, a highly sexualised form of Japanese anime and manga. Ditto for any associated cosplay, which can often be explicitly pornographic. Despite this, a German couple is finding some surprising mainstream (for the cosplay world, at least) success combining the two. Because I run our…

10 Awesome Experiments GTA Online Players Are Pulling Off With The New Update

Last month’s GTA Online update, Import/Export, added a slew of wacky vehicles.Since then, fans have used the update to do all sorts of outlandish things that must be seen to be believed. Stunt-wise, the most popular car appears to be The Ruiner 2000, an expensive car that can jump, fire missiles, and deploy its own…

Smash Bros. Match From Weekend’s Tournament Is Some Epic Anime Shit

Super Smash Bros. Melee players Mango and Leffen clashed on Sunday in a match that will make you cry big, anime tears. Fans are already calling it 2017’s “set of the year”—despite the fact it’s only January. Cloud 9’s Mango (Joseph Marquez) and Team SoloMid’s Leffen (William Hjelte) have vied for Melee supremacy for years…

How The Last Guardian Makes You Care About A Bird Dog

The Last Guardian is a story about a boy and his giant monster friend, Trico. Using space, the game communicates a growing bond. How close are the two characters? When are they allowed to enter personal space? We examine how this relationship is crated in this video. Transcript: Figuring out exactly how The Last Guardian…

I Appreciate That Final Fantasy XV Lets Us Troll Its Ending

Final Fantasy XV’s ending is a trainwreck, so it’s fitting that the game lets us choose to make it even goofier. Spoilers for the ending of Final Fantasy XV follow. Really, I shouldn’t say ending. Like many a JRPG before it, Final Fantasy XV ends in waves, some of which are good, some of which…

Smash Bros. Players Infuriated Over Surprise Setting Tweak At Big Tournament

Although Super Smash Bros Melee closed out this weekend’s Genesis 4 with a bang, a cloud of controversy hangs over the tournament due to rule complications during the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U finals. The competitors most affected are looking for answers and, perhaps most surprisingly, compensation for the match errors they encountered. The…

A Year Later, Yandere Simulator‘s Dev Says Twitch Still Hasn’t Explained Ban

The developer of Yandere Simulator, a game about a sociopathic high school girl who murders her classmates, is demanding answers from Twitch, which banned the game exactly one year ago. Today, he posted a YouTube video describing his year of begging Twitch for a reason, which he says has led to nothing. Still in development,…

What Games Are You Playing To Cope With Stress?

You know what sucks? Everything. This weekend, instead of engaging with the world, I crawled under the covers like an enormous baby and played some puzzle games on my phone. Being politically engaged and reading the news is pretty important, but it’s just as important to recognize that sometimes you need a break. After Friday,…

PS4 Fans Are Baffled As To Why Sony Is Promoting Crappy-Looking Games

Earlier this month, the official PlayStation YouTube account uploaded a trailer for a game called “Life of Black Tiger.” The mature adventure game, which appears to be a port of a free mobile title, looks like crap—but it has sparked a discussion over the quality of games that players expect to see on consoles. Now,…

Well, That’s Settled

It’s pretty common for some people to ask for less politics in games. Turns out, that’s not really possible, even if you’re just here to kill some zombies. This tweet from Naughty Dog creative director and The Last of Us Part II writer Neil Druckmann reaches the heart of the matter. It was in reply…

Miitopia Is Nintendo’s Wonderfully Strange Take On JRPGs

Think Tomodachi Life meets JRPG. That’s Miitopia, for you. Released last December, Miitopia is a very Nintendo spin on the role-playing genre. There are traditional RPG classes like Knight and Mage, but untraditional ones like Flower and, well, Pop Idol. As with Tomodachi Life, you create Miis and set their personalities. You then go on…

The Dragon Ball Anime Might Have Its First Super Saiyan Woman 

A teaser for the upcoming episode of Dragon Ball Super shows off what certainly looks to be a female version of the character Broly. This might be the first Super Saiyan woman in any Dragon Ball anime or manga. Broly, of course, is a male Super Saiyan. Check out the upcoming episode’s transformation scene below.…

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Sean Spicer Is A Fan Of Cosplay Conventions

Katsucon, one of the biggest anime and cosplay conventions in the United States, has a surprise fan and former attendee (at least outside the resort): embattled White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Given his recent rise to infamy, folks have been digging through Spicer’s old tweets, and found these from 2013 (if you’re wondering about…