Good news and bad news, Skullgirls fans: the 2D fighting game’s third DLC character, the Egyptian-inspired sorta-blood-mage Eliza, is out now on PC and PS3, free for the next three months. The game’s Vita and PS4 versions, however, have been postponed to early 2015. Look above for a taste of Eliza’s fighting style.

Can Game Characters Die?

“This cart is now a coffin”, posted UK games writer Richard Stanton, adding “RIP Hamlet the best Labrador in the world :’(“. I can’t help but wonder what’s happened to Hamlet, trapped inside that little plastic bit. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK In the case of a Nintendog cartridge the end is probably swift…

Gamers Wonder When Fatal Frame Got This “Erotic”

The Fatal Frame games have always been scary. They’ve been kind of sexy, too. But the latest entry is, flat out, being called an erotic game by Japanese Wii U owners. Warning: This article contains spoilers as well as content some readers might find objectionable. The latest Fatal Frame game, Fatal Frame: Oracle of the…

Death Stars It’d Really Take to Destroy a Planet

Ever since I learned how inaccurate Star Wars battles really were, I’ve been thinking about how off the entire Star Wars universe is. I get it, in a place where people have telekinetic powers and can shoot lightning from their fingers; you can’t exactly expect things to line up with… well, physics. When I started…

I Hope Bear Senpai Notices Me…

Hatoful Boyfriend – a game in which you, a human, tries to get down with birds – has a lot to answer for. This is a new Kickstarter for a very similar project. It’s called Bear Senpai: Date The Bear of Your Dreams. Creator Toni Rocca says “My goal for Bear Senpai is to make…

The next Hearthstone expansion will have over 100 cards, according to an interview on Polygon. If you’re curious, Blizzard talks about some of its thinking when it comes to future expansions here.

Why Yes, I Would Like A Gritty Cyberpunk Grand Theft Auto

I very much like the look of Metrocide Metrocide is a top-down open-world-ish game in the vein of a classic (read: pre-GTA 3) Grand Theft Auto. Difference is, instead of grandly thieving autos or sticking to other small-time crimes, you’re a contract killer. Your goal? To hunt down various targets using an ever-expanding array of…

Battlefield 4 May Have Just Fixed That Thing You Hate

Deagle is OP? Fixed. Movement was better in BF3? Fixed. Something about netcode? Fixed. The latest patch for Battlefield 4 lists almost 200 fixes and tweaks, including some of the biggest complaints that have come from players in the past year. Battlefield 4 has had an abundance of problems since it was launched last year,…

In Destiny’s Old Russia, Computer Teabags You

Sorry. If there was ever a time to use that joke, it’s now.* Previously, we documented the fact that enemies in Destiny (seem to) glitch out and crouch repeatedly—making it seem as if they were, y’know, teabagging. It was only a matter of time before this started to actually happen to people after they died.…

One Way To Make Some YouTube Videos Way Creepier

The code that puts a first-person-shooter avatar and reticule on top of random uploaded videos doesn’t appear to be publicly available. That’s probably a good thing because it makes everything much more stomach-churning. YouTube Shooter is the work of intermedia artist Kent Sheely, who’s also swapped the old-school Nintendo Zapper for actual guns in a…

Three-Year-Old Crushes Fools In Dark Souls II

Oh kids — one day they’re screaming at you, the next they’re demolishing invaders in PvP. How time flies! YouTuber ZOMBIEHEADZoCOM let his 3-year-old daughter try her hand at PvP in Dark Souls II. And while she didn’t pull off a parry or a backstab, she did vanquish two invaders and almost polished off a…