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Smash Community In Shock Over Sudden End To Popular Mod, Project M

The controversial Project M, a fan effort to make Super Smash Bros. Brawl more like Super Smash Bros. Melee, has ceased development after six years. The developers are reportedly turning their focus to a mysterious “new venture.” “We realize that this will come as a shock to many of our fans,” wrote the development team…

The beta for Uncharted 4’s multiplayer starts this week for owners of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. Euro-region players will start getting access tomorrow, followed by a North American start on 12/4. The beta will run through 12/13. Contact the author at [email protected]

Harmonix’s Amplitude revival finally has a release date: January 5. Backers at the $40 or higher tier will gain access a little earlier, however, on December 23. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Playing Rooster Teeth’s RWBY Game With Three Like-Minded Huntresses

Released last year as a fan game for Rooster Teeth’s hit animated webseries, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse returns as an official four-player co-op action game on Steam Early Access, and it’s a blast. Jordan Scott created his original version of RWBY: Grimm Eclipse as a love letter to the late Monty Oum’s fan-favorite animated series, and…

Bloodborne Servers Back Online After Unexplained Downtime

From Software recently shut down Bloodborne’s online servers, only a week after launching The Old Hunters. Dubbed “emergency maintenance,” no explanation was given, but there was evidence players had found a loophole to play the DLC for free. Now, it’s back online, and the DLC exploit has apparently been gutted. Though it’d originally been announced…

Marvel Comics Just Hit the Reset Button on Daredevil

When Marvel revealed that Daredevil would be getting a sidekickin his new comic-book series, it seemed like that’d be the biggest change in the Man Without Fear’s life. Turns out a whole lot more than that has changed. Today’s new Daredevil comic might be the most blatant attempt yet attempt by Marvel to bring a…

Indivisible, the new RPG from the creators of Skullgirls, has been funded on Indiegogo to the tune of $1.5 million. It wasn’t looking good for a stretch—they had to extend their funding period—but 65 hours remain in the campaign. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Fallout 4 Mod Lets You Make Creepy Cartoon Faces

By default, Fallout 4’s faces are a little too stiff for many people’s liking. Naturally, modders took it upon themselves to fix that. FancyPants’ Immersive Facial Expressions mod obviously does exactly what it says and nothing else. I mean, just look at these facial expressions: Those are clearly immersive as fuck and not at all…

Just Cause 3 Tethers And Boosters, Working As Intended

Just Cause 3 has only been out for a few days but people are already getting creative with all the silly unlockable gear mods. Teamcream for example tested the in-game physics with tethers and booster engines and the video below is proof that it just works fine. This is something you might see in Kerbal…

You Can Stream Xbox One Games To Microsoft’s HoloLens Glasses

Varun Mani is a project manager on Microsoft’s augmented reality goggle tech, HoloLens. This is a video he took where he starts playing Halo 5 on a TV, pauses, turns around then resumes playing on a screen that he can put wherever the hell he wants. We’ve been impressed by HoloLens stuff before, but those…

30,000 Deathclaws, Tearing Up Fallout 4

It’s like Starship Troopers. Or Helm’s Deep. Only scarier. Cosmic Contrarian’s modified hellscape here has 300 Brotherhood of Steel soldiers manning the barricades against 30,000 Deathclaws, all piled up through Boston and ready to go Somehow, his PC keeps running the entire time.

Cell Phone Built In Minecraft Can Actually Make Video Calls, Wow

And now for the most impressive thing I’ve seen all day: a Minecraft cell phone that not only works, it can make video calls from inside the game. It’s amazing. Here’s Minecraft YouTuber CaptainSparklez, demoing the build first-hand: You might remember CaptainSparklez as Jordan Maron, the man who recently bought a swank mansion for $4.5…

Marvel’s New Native American Superhero Comic Leans Too Hard on Old Tropes

There’s too much “old” in the Old West of Red Wolf #1. The newest version of Red Wolf, the indigenous superhero that Marvel Comics introduced in the ‘70s, first appeared in 1872, a minseries tying into Marvel’s ongoing Secret Wars crossover. In that title’s alternate reality, time-shifted versions of Steve Rogers, Tony Stark and Bruce…

Puzzle Game Makes You Wave Phone in the Air to Solve Brainteasers

Playing Progress to 100 is a little bit like being at a dinner party where you’re asked to play charades after your fourth drink: you know how make your brain and reflexes work together but it takes a lot of thinking to get your guesses right. Here, watch me play it. Progress to 100 reminded…

Destiny’s first raid “challenge” went live today. It’s in the Warpriest fight near the start of the King’s Fall raid. I won’t explain how to do it here, in case you want to figure it out for yourself, but it sounds pretty straightforward. I haven’t had time to try it yet—if you finished it, what’d…

Fallout 4 Armor Basics

Everything you need to know to wrap your head around Fallout 4’s armor mechanics. The Basics When you look at a piece of armor, you’ll see something like this: While the UI for armor is typically awful, what you care about are the three numbers next to the word “DMG Resist.” In order: the shield…

A Video Game Tour Of The New Star Wars Planet Jakku

Star Wars: Battlefront’s Battle of Jakku downloadable content is now live for preorder customers, giving Star Wars fans their first taste of The Force Awakens. As it turns out, it tastes a lot like Tatooine. Remember when the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens came out and everybody was like “Oh great, another…

Just Cause 3‘s Performance Isn’t Great, Seems Worst On Xbox

Just Cause 3 launched last night, and while Kirk Hamilton enjoyed the open world blow ‘em up, he hesitated to recommend it, due to performance issues. The PC version has problems, but it seems the Xbox One got the short end of the stick. Here’s how Kirk described things in his review yesterday: I’m leaning…

It’s a day of release dates, with word coming down that Steamworld Heist arrives for 3DS on December 10 and the second episode of King’s Quest hitting December 16. Steamworld Heist comes to other platforms “later,” and King’s Quest will actually hit PS4 and PS3 a little earlier in the week—December 15.

Bloodborne Servers Offline For Several Days Due To Mysterious ‘Emergency Maintenance’

While playing Bloodborne last night, the game booted me to the title screen, citing server maintenance. It was annoying, but fortunately, I wasn’t in the middle of a battle. You can play offline, but From Software’s announced online modes will be down for “a few days.” There may be a very good reason for that.…