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People Are Worried About Hackers Taking Down Xbox Live And PSN Again

As many of us get excited to find brand new games under our trees this weekend, it’s worth looking back at what happened last year, when some jerks tried to ruin Christmas for everyone. Many of you might recall the mess that transpired around Christmas 2014, when online services hosting Xbox Live and the PlayStation…

The Controversy Over A Video Game’s Suggestion Of A Crime

Games are usually straightforward. What you think happened is what actually happened. The Beginner’s Guide is different, cloaked in ambiguity. It’s led some people, albeit a small group, to theorize it literally represents a criminal act: stolen property. It’s a grave accusation, one that lives on because its designer remains silent. Over the weekend, parts…

The Most Popular Fallout 4 Mod Right Now Is For…Extreme Weather

For some, weather might just seem like a small detail within Fallout 4. But for PC gamers, this environmental element is pretty damn important. Over at the Nexus Fallout 4 mod portal, “True Storms” by fadingsignal has been the most popular mod for Fallout 4 over the last two weeks. The cool thing about True…

Uncharted 4 Delayed Another Month

Two days before Christmas, Naughty Dog’s dropping a bit of coal in our stockings: they’re delaying Uncharted 4 to April 26, 2016. “This is our largest Uncharted game to date, and the team has been working incredibly hard to meet the challenge of closing out the game’s development in a timely manner,” directors Neil Druckmann…

On The Case With Aviary Attorney

When you’re an innocent anthropomorphic animal accused of murder in 1840s France it doesn’t matter if your defense attorney has an insatiable hunger for worms, as long as he also has a thirst . . . for justice. Developer Sketchy Logic’s successful Aviary Attorney Kickstarter proved that what adventure game fans craved was something like…

Fan Builds Huge 3-Foot Tall Star Wars Ewok Village

Quite a surprising choice for a Star Wars-themed LEGO build. But KW Vauban’s Ewok village is so amazing it almost makes the little furry bastards of Endor lovable. Here are some close-ups (more pics over here), showing memorable moments from Return of the Jedi and some familiar faces hiding under the trees. To contact the…

Dota 2‘s Robust Hero Gets The One-Punch Man Treatment

If there’s one Dota hero that could wear Saitama’s super hero suit, it’s Tusk, the icy warrior with a giant fist and a “Walrus PUNCH” ultimate. So MrPounder’s One-Punch Man intro is spot on. He brilliantly replaced everything with Dota scenes and Tusk as Saitama. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Kylo Ren’s Fake Twitter Account Is The Best

If you haven’t seen Force Awakens yet, SPOILERS AHEAD Seen it? OK, so you know that Kylo Ren is…not your average villain. He’s a villain-in-training, a moody young man with feelings and a lightsaber, which should eventually make for some interesting character development, but for now makes for an excellent parody Twitter account someone has…

Just Cause 3 Gun Mod Fires Air, Destruction

Batshit disaster factory masquerading as a (sometimes disappointing) video game Just Cause 3 is starting to get player-made mods. No one is safe. Case in point: here is a gun that fires air. Air that kills Tristan Miller’s Typhoon Air Gun mod adds a weapon to Just Cause 3 that blows away all the others.…

Not content with Valve’s own timetable for rolling out special events, a bunch of Team Fortress 2 fans have joined forces to make their own, called Workshop Wonderland. It’s pretty neat, but the highlight for me is this glorious Heavy x Gabe Newell pic.

After Years Of Sadness, I’m Digging A Total War Game Again

There was a good chunk of time there when the Total War series was one of the best things on the PC. Its combination of real-time battles and turn-based planning made it a lot of people’s—mine included—perfect strategy game. Then along came Total War: Rome II It wasn’t a bad game by any means. But…

Arkham Knight Gives Players Something Special For 240% Completion

The newest unlockable Batman costume in Arkham Knight doesn’t want your money. It wants your time, Caped Crusader. You don’t just have to complete the game to get it. You have to complete it at 240%. The latest game for DC Comics’ nocturnal crimefighter is positively silly with alternate Batman costumes. Players can don variants…

No, Sega Isn’t Launching A ‘Dreamcast 2’

Today on Facebook, you might have seen an exciting little news nugget in the corner of your homepage. “Dreamcast 2,” it read, “Sega Reportedly to Release New PC-Console Hybrid.” All day, “Dreamcast 2” has been one of the top items on Facebook’s Trending Topics feature, which launched last year and has been particularly awful in…

Monster Boy Looks Like A Solid Old-School Sega Revival 

Old-school Sega fans will undoubtedly remember Wonder Boy, a series of lovely sidescrolling action-RPGs starring heroes with big swords and colorful hair. Two game companies—FDG Entertainment and The Game Atelier—have partnered to bring it back. Well, sort of. Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a sequel in everything but name, and this promising gameplay…

Trails of Cold Steel Is Basically Suikoden Meets Persona

Take a dash of Suikoden’s world-building, add some Grandia-style combat, stir it all in with the setting and social links of Persona, and bam, you’ve got Trails of Cold Steel, which comes out for PS3 and Vita today. I haven’t played too much of Cold Steel—been trying to finish up Trails in the Sky SC…

Battlefield 4’s Latest Secret Easter Egg Is Incredibly Complex

I am in awe that anybody managed to figure this out. Recently, Battlefield 4 received a holiday update patch that included a number of tweaks and bug fixes. It also came with a new map pack, which included an area known as Dragon Valley—veteran players might know this as a locale from Battlefield 2. The…

After a long and emotionally tryingdevelopment process, That Dragon, Cancer comes out on January 12, delivering an interactive biographical portrait of a family’s fight against childhood cancer. Contact the author at [email protected]

A Look At Dream, The Unreleased Predecessor To Banjo-Kazooie

Before Banjo-Kazooie was Banjo-Kazooie, it was Dream, an RPG-adventure hybrid that might have been the best-looking Super Nintendo game ever made. Today on YouTube, Rare released a neat little mini-documentary about Dream, which was pushed from the SNES to the Nintendo 64 before it evolved into the Banjo we all know and love today. You…

Bloodborne‘s Biggest Problems Have Been Fixed

Souls fanatics aren’t done when the credits roll. It’s the beginning of a longer journey—New Game Plus, PVP, different builds. Bloodborne should have followed the same path, but it didn’t take long for people to encounter limitations. Between a new patch and an expansion, The Old Hunters, that’s no longer the case. Bloodborne originally shipped…

Fallout 4 Star Wars Mod Lets You Kill People With Lightsabers

Because your murderous wasteland rampage needs a little extra something, don’t you think? “Lightsaber Renew” is a cool Fallout 4 mod created by invalidfate, and not only does it let you equip a lightsaber, it also comes with the appropriate shoom sound effects whenever you unleash it. You get a few color choices, too, including…