‘Swatter’ Gets Five Years Jailtime

Jason Allen Neff, who last year pleaded guilty to a variety of crimes related to his role in a group who thought “swatting” was a fun time, has this month been sentenced for his crimes. He’ll be spending five years in a federal prison. Neff was arrested back in 2011 (for crimes dating back a…

Hotline Miami 2 Has Been Basically Banned In Australia [Update]

Well, not banned, more like refused classification, and…hey, wait a minute, weren’t we supposed to be over this shit? Turns out that, nope, despite the Australian government nominally approving the creation of a strictly adults-only classification rating for video games, some titles are still being deemed by officials as being too much. The latest example…

Hearthstone Master Loses To Low Rank Player With Starter Deck

OK, time for a game of fill in the blank: “Pride goes before a ____.” Jason “Amaz” Chan is not a Hearthstone player to be trifled with. In addition to being one of the online collectible card game’s most popular streamers, he’s won multiple tournaments including last year’s Numericable Millennium Cup and IEM Shenzhen. He…

Pro StarCraft Player Suspended After Longest Match Ever

There are many ways to win a StarCraft II match. Countless tactics, schemes, and ways of naming each of your beautiful baby zerglings that you love dearly I mean what no that’s crazy nobody does that. This, however, is probably not a strategy you should ever employ. No, that time stamp is not wrong. The…

It’s All Fun And Games Until Mom Shows Up

The comments on this False vs. Keitaro matchup and the ensuing Reddit thread make it clear that nobody’s suggesting that the “Gamer” stage from Smash Bros. should make it in to serious tournaments. I know. But at the same time…why the hell not?? Crazy random events are what make the casual Smash game so much…

Dying Light is supposed to be a big game. But just how big? This new PlayStation Access video shows what it’ll be like to walk from one end of the map all the way to the other. Needless to say, there are plenty of zombies in-between. We’ll have more on Dying Light closer to release,…

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Xenoblade Chronicles X Sure Looks Impressive

Oh hey there, new trailer for Xenoblade Chronicles X. You’re looking oh so fine. I’m still not sure how the folks at Monolith Soft are managing to eke so much out of the frustratingly underpowered Wii U, but hey, I’ll take it. I mean, just check out that video footage. It looks wonderful. Hopefully they…

Our First Look At Majora’s Mask 3D In Action

We haven’t seen much of The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask for 3DS, but with the release date only a few weeks away, that’s changing. A new 16-minute video provides our best look yet at the remake, which includes a number of gameplay changes to make it more approachable. Unfortunately, the video is in Japanese,…

Far Cry 4’s New DLC Forces You to Grind Until You Die For No Good Reason

Far Cry 4‘s post-release stuff kicked off this week with Escape From Durgesh Prison, a new timed challenge mode that’s now available for purchase either individually or as part of the game’s season pass. Sadly, it doesn’t get things off to a great start. The pre-release hype for the Escape from Durgesh Prison—which was released…

I Picked The Perfect Time To Get Back Into Final Fantasy XIV

After spending the better part of 2014 exploring other MMO avenues, in 2015 I’m getting back into Final Fantasy XIV, just in time for the massive two-part pre-expansion patch 2.5, “Before the Fall.” Yesterday Square Enix released a lengthy trailer detailing the new content coming in patch 2.5, an update so large it’s coming in…

The White House Is Now Taking Steps To Fight DDoS Attacks

Last month, attackers took down the PlayStation Network for several days, embarrassing Sony and leaving tons and tons of gamers unable to feed their Destiny addictions for almost a week. This is all thanks to what’s called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, where a person or a group of people send an inflated amount…

Nintendo (Sorta) Explains Why The Smaller New 3DS Is MIA

When Nintendo officially announced the New 3DS XL this morning, fans across North America had one big question: where’s the smaller one? In Japan, where the New 3DS launched last year, there were two versions of the system: regular and XL. The regular one, a smaller model that’s around the same size as the original…

Yeah, I Cheated In A Puzzle Game, Don’t Judge Me

January is a great month for catching up on last year’s games, and I’ve been using the lack of new releases to make my way through Croteam’s fiendish puzzler, The Talos Principle. Everything is not what it seems in The Talos Principle, but if there’s one constant, it’s how difficult the puzzles become as you…

There’s Also a Limited Edition Monster Hunter New 3DS XL

In addition to the Major’s Mask 3DS and a slew of other Nintendo announcements today, there’s also a Gamestop exclusive New Nintendo 3DS XL with Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate pre-installed. [Gamestop] The Majora’s Mask 3DS is already sold out, so we’ll do our best to keep you up to date if/when it comes back in…

Hatsune Miku Charms Western 3DS Owners This May

Drunk on the success of its virtual idol rhythm games on North American and European PlayStation 3 and Vita, Sega prepares to conquer Western 3DS owners in May with Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX. The result of a partnership between Sega and Good Smile Company’s Nendoroid line of figures, the Project Mirai series offers all…