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Media critic Anita Sarkeesian, in collaboration with other activists, has published Speak Up & Stay Safe, a guide to navigating harassment on the Internet. Even if you’ve been lucky enough to never deal with harassment, it’s a great reference guide to avoid sharing too much about yourself on the Internet, and to determine how much…

The Vive, Valve and HTC’s VR headset collaboration, will be out in April 2016. Like, for consumers to actually buy. Here’s the statement from HTC’s blog, since the site is having trouble staying up: In an effort to clear up speculation and misinformation surrounding the launch of HTC Vive this month we are excited to…

The First Shadow Of The Colossus Fight Is A Masterpiece

The opening cinematic ends as the camera transitions into live gameplay, and I’m given control for the first time. Moving Wander around is a joy, both in execution and for the fact that there’s no particular rush or threat as I prepare myself for this world and its as-yet unseen battles. The shrine is empty,…

Watch Me Take A Crack At Destiny’s New Sparrow Racing

Today marks the start of Destiny’s Sparrow Racing League, a league in which you can race sparrows. Wanna watch me try it? YEAH YOU DO. Here’s video of me testing out the newest Destiny event, complete with ups, downs, and a thrilling finish: In addition to the SRL—which comes attached to a new quest and…

Sci-Fi Game Wants You To Romance Holograms

Alone With You is a spooky sci-fi adventure with a heaping helping of romance. Wanna feel Feelings for AI holograms of your dead colleagues? Wanna feel exceedingly weird about that? Here you go. The game is coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita sometime next year. Here’s what it’s about: “You play the sole remaining…

The State Of The PlayStation 4 In 2015

The PlayStation 4 is an unexciting video game console, all things considered. It’s a box that you put under your TV, and it plays video games. Slowly but surely, it’s getting better at doing that. The games it plays are also getting better and more numerous. Slowly, but surely. This is part of our 2015…

Earth Defense Force 4.1 Is The Best Kind Of Stupid

They don’t always need to be thoughtful big-budget blockbusters. As Sandlot’s Earth Defense Force series has proven multiple times over the past decade, sometimes all we need is some mindless fun, and a heaping helping just landed on the PlayStation 4. “It’s so bad it’s good” is the phrase that immediately comes to mind when…

Here’s an interesting League of Legends statistic: Riot’s lead social systems designer Jeffrey “Lyte” Lin toldPolygon in a story posted today that games that had a “role conflict or a position conflict in champion select” were 15% more toxic “no matter what happened in the game itself.” Glad they’re addressing that!

Heads up: that cool-sounding Sims 4 expansion that was supposed to come out last month finally released today. “Get Together” adds a new European-style setting to the game as well as nifty new features like a “clubs” system for you and your Sims’ friends. It costs $39.99.

The Ugliest Version Of Final Fantasy VI Is Coming To Steam

The good news: Final Fantasy VI will be out on Steam next week, publisher Square Enix just announced. The bad news: It’s hideous. This new PC version, to be released on December 16, uses the same sprites and interface as the atrocious-looking mobile version. This makes me very sad. It’s not just the sprites that…

Missing Assassin’s Creed Sidescrollers Finally Coming Out In Early 2016

A pair of Assassin’s Creed sidescrollers set in 19th century India and early 20th century Russia will be released on January 12 and February 9, respectively, according to a Ubisoft press release, months after the publisher had all but stopped talking about them. The games, Assassin’s Creed Chronicles India and Assassin’s Creed Chronicles Russia, will…

Three Minutes of Ridiculous Trick Jumps In Halo 5 

Watch as these players defy the laws of physics and turn jumping into an art form in Halo 5. Using the help of carefully placed grenades, geometry, and sometimes even vehicle crashes, Termacious Trickocity perform all manner of impossible jumps in Halo 5—and it’s a joy to watch. So zen!

Bungie Confirms That They’re Not Doing Big Destiny DLC For Taken King

In October, we reported that Destiny would be ditching the DLC plan for year two, replacing big downloadable content packs with cosmetic microtransactions and free missions. Two months later, Bungie’s finally confirmed it. Speaking with Eurogamer at the PlayStation Experience last weekend, Bungie designer Derek Carroll said that free events like the Sparrow Racing League…

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ is coming sometime in 2016, according to the game’s publisher, bringing official mod support, a bestiary, and more. The game’s latest expansion, Afterbirth, only launched a few weeks back. It’s unclear if this update will cost any money, but the game’s gotten lots of free updates. You can reach the…

Riot Delays League Of Legends Statue Because Fans Hate Its Face

Three days after unveiling a sizable new figurine based on the popular League of Legends character, Riot Games decided to cancel the statue’s release in the face of strong criticism from fans. The problem? People were upset by the statue’s face, which barely resembles the character it’s meant to portray. Ahri is one of the…

Nova’s free week in Heroes of the Storm has come to an end! That means we can finally say goodbye to embarrassing deaths like this one. Ok: not really.

System Shock 3 could be happening, if a new teaser by the studio Otherside is any evidence. Otherside, founded by veteran designer Paul Neurath, is also working on the Kickstarted Underworld Ascendant. Here’s guessing System Shock will be a Kickstarter, too.

Map Mod Turns Grand Theft Auto V Into Mario Kart

Mod-master MrVicho13 basically took the entire N64 Yoshi Valley course from Mario Kart 8 and dropped it into Grand Theft Auto V, because he could. Those iconic textures? They were ripped from Mario Kart 8 by a Mr. Ray Koopa (probably his real name). MrVicho13 then converted, optimized and tweaked them. Then he wrapped them…

If Fallout 4 Looked Like Fallout 1

While messing around with a save game trying to take some nice screenshots, yttriumtyclief stumbled upon a perspective that looked…familiar. Having accidentally recreated the camera view from the first two Fallout games, he went and took a series of screenshots that have me thinking maybe I should try and play Fallout 4 like this from…

And Then There Was That Time Han Solo Double-Faked a Man to Death

Never forget.