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League Of Legends Is Psych Testing Players With Questions About Anger, Fighting

Riot Games is locked in an eternal struggle against what it calls “toxicity”. As League of Legends gets bigger, so too does the number of assholes playing the game. And while the company’s previous attempts to combat this have been interesting, this latest step is much more direct. As Motherboard reports, this new system is…

Destiny‘s Trials of Osiris Delayed Because Of Exploit

Bungie is delaying the much-anticipated return of Destiny’s Trials of Osiris while they address a recently discovered exploit that can totally ruin competitive matches. The announcement is part of the latest Destiny weekly update, which also includes a release date for the King’s Fall raid’s upcoming hard mode. Trials of Osiris no longer has a…

If you’d like, you can now digitally pre-order Black Ops 3 for Xbox One. For still unspecified reasons, it had been removed from the service, and neither Activision nor Microsoft had a decent explanation why. Either way, it’s back. Contact the author at [email protected]

Brand New League Of Legends Team Rides Easy Schedule Into Brick Wall

Origen has only been a bona fide League of Legends pro team for a year now. And today they just won themselves a spot in the 2015 World Championship semifinals. Talk about beginner’s luck! Origen secured a spot in the semifinals today after beating Taiwanese League team Flash Wolves (FW) in a best-of-five match-up. This…

Zelda: Tri Force Heroes Lets You ‘Blacklist’ Internet Jerks

Did you know that there’s a new Zelda coming out next week? And that it’s totally adorable? Now you know. Tri Force Heroes, which is out on October 23 for 3DS, is a multiplayer Zelda game that looks and feels like 2013’s Link Between Worlds, but plays more like Four Swords. You and a party…

Shocktober, Week Two: Hey, M. Night Shyamalan’s New Movie Doesn’t Suck!

Thanks for the help, grandma. We’re two weeks into October, which means you should have 14 horror films under your belt by now, right!? Okay, fine, even I haven’t watched that many. In last week’s Shocktober check-in, I shared thoughts on Goodnight Mommy, Unfriended, Cooties, Westworld, and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Not…

Mushroom 11 Is the Weirdest, Coolest Platformer I’ve Ever Played

Mushroom 11 deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Portal, World of Goo and super-clever, mechanically-driven games. There’s nothing else like it. It’s hard to even imagine how such a wonderfully bizarre idea came into existence. Like all good physics games. Mushroom 11 challenges players to solve the Rube Goldberg-ian logic of its…

A New Cheat Is Wrecking Competitive Destiny Matches [Update]

A new exploit has turned up in competitive Destiny, and it sucks. Update 7:15 PM: Bungie has addressed the cheat in their latest Weekly Update, saying that they’re working on disabling the bug. They’ve delayed Trials of Osiris until they’ve got it cleared up. Earlier this week, someone figured out a way for people playing…

Here’s Nolan North, attempting a Eurogamer challenge where he does as many of his video game voices as he can in 60 seconds. A fun watch!

Steam’s Big Dinosaur Game Is Becoming More Like Pokémon

In Pokémon, capturing and battling monsters was only a part of the experience. Serious training often meant breeding creatures that could create more formidable beasts. Soon, you’ll be able to do something very similar in Ark: Survival Evolved…but with dinosaurs. According to the developers on the Steam forums, dinosaur breeding has been pushed live to…

Some players were able to accidentally download the Dark Souls 3 stress test last week, but that won’t mean you’re playing it this weekend. Fans on the Dark Souls 3 subreddit are reporting From Software isn’t opening the floodgates, and you’ll still need to be selected from a random lottery. I didn’t get in, sadly.…

This Week’s New Chewbacca Comic Is Great

Nobody’s letting Han Solo’s co-pilot win in the first issue of his new comic book series. Chewbacca attains victory all by his own furry self. Chewbacca #1 is the latest addition to Marvel Comics’ growing line of Star Wars comics. Like Darth Vader, Star Wars, Lando and the others, it takes place between Star Wars…

Witcher 3 Sends Taxman After Players Who Used Exploit

There were some exploits in The Witcher 3 that let people harvest hides and pearls for gold. If you used them to make a quick buck, well, the game’s developers know. And they’re sending someone after you. WhatsMyGame posted this video today from his playthrough of the new expansion, Hearts of Stone, and it shows…

Badass World of Warcraft Mount is Totally Worth Running Old Dungeons

The tiny patch 6.2.3 is about to hit the World of Warcraft test realms soon, and while there won’t be any dramatic changes to the game, Timewalking Dungeons will get a pretty cool-looking reward. Timewalking, a feature that let us revisit old 5-man dungeons at level 100, was introduced in patch 6.2, and while running…

Enthusiasts Created A Giant Roman Empire Display From LEGO

British collective Brick to the Past built a historical LEGO display that’s probably one of the largest ever made. It’s a recreation of Hadrian’s famous wall at Rome’s northern frontier. The display has two sides. A Roman side behind the wall with a temple, a bathhouse, milecastles and a beautiful town. And there’s a Celtic…

Patient Man Walks Across Every Grand Theft Auto Game

Driving is for the weak. Reader Conor decided the other day to traverse Grand Theft Auto the hard way: by walking. Across not one of the games, but all of them He walked “the longest distance corner to corner” across each of the game’s maps, recording the entire journey along the way (which you can…

Darkest Dungeon, Red Hook’s unique (and dark) dungeon crawler, one of the most popular (and darkest) Early Access games on Steam, finally got a release date for its full version: January 19, 2016 To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Charmander is Bigger Than I Remembered

Looking at Pokémon on a tiny handheld screen messes with your perception, I guess. Maybe watching the anime would’ve helped. In any case, this lifesize (ie. 22 inches tall) Charmander was lovingly handcrafted by Nazegoreng, a plushie maker from Australia. It’s not the first Pokémon she’s made. Before we look at a few more, here’s…

Smash Bros. Card Game Uses Amiibo, Looks Awesome

BattleCON is a card game based on the mechanics of 2D fighting video games. This is a fan-made mod for BattleCON that turns it into a Smash Bros. card game. Complete with Amiibo. Hell yeah. Designed by Zoql, it currently features four fighters: Mario, Bowser, Rosalina and Link. Players have cards in their hand that…

Here’s Fallout 4 Streaming On a PS Vita

Tweeted out today by Bethesda, the above image shows off the PlayStation Vita’s ability to run Fallout 4, streamed from a PS4. Not a bad perk, if you’ve got the gear. Bethesda also noted that the controls for Vita—which has fewer shoulder buttons than a PS4 controller but more options for touch input—were handled by…