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I Wish I Liked Legend of Legacy More

Legend of Legacy, a terribly titled new video game that’s out for the 3DS today, is as close as we’ve gotten to a new SaGa game in a very long time. I really wish it was better. Alas, it’s too grindy and boring for me to recommend to anyone. Legend of Legacy starts with a…

A new update that lets Arkham Knight players choose the characters they want to tackle AR challenges with is going live today. It also overhauls the blue walls that hemmed players in during these fights. The update is part of the six-month rollout of underwhelming add-onspromised for this summer’s very good Batman game. Contact the…

Fan Proposes Alternate Gummy Bear Skin For League Of Legends’ Tahm Kench

This is “Gummy King Tahm Kench” by RexSadio. It’s one of the many champion skin concepts that League of Legends fans love to post on the game’s official forums. It’s also a wonderful idea. That’s pretty much all I have to say about it. For comparison’s sake, here’s what the standard in-game Tahm Kench looks…

A Surprise First Look At The New Homeworld Game

Shipbreakers, the first new game in the Homeworld series since the year 2000, has barely been seen since it was first unveiled back in 2011. So it’s both neat—and a little surprising—to finally see some footage of the project. Neat because Homeworld is great! Surprising because we’re not seeing it in a big trailer or…

Someone Made A Kendrick Lamar Super Mario Bros. Mash-Up

Made by an Australian Soundcloud user victorylaptop, it’s the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”, mixed up with the classic 8-bit theme of Super Mario Bros., and it just works perfectly. It’s not a proper mash-up without a pun, so the track is called… Kendrick Lamario Bros. To contact the author of this post, write…

Battlecruiser (PC Case) Operational

Quite an amazing custom PC case. It’s a Behemoth-class Battlecruiser from StarCraft, turned into a giant PC case by German enthusiasts over at Random Design Looks like a huge prop at first, but the water cooling on top reveals that there’s more. There’s plenty of space inside for all the goodies, as you can see…

Star Wars: Battlefront Looks Incredible With Some Screenshot Magic

Star Wars: Battlefront is a very pretty video game, but while everyone else has been running around the beta sticking wangs on Luke Skywalker’s head, Berdu has been working hard to make it look even prettier A screenshot artist, Berdu has created some images of the game that look absolutely stunning. Remember, these aren’t elaborate,…

Minecraft Player’s Pretty Good at Castles

This looks way way way better than my castles, which are basically stone blocks with teeth. It’s why I mostly stick to the tried-and-true Crappy Wooden Rectangle™ houses nowadays. Anyway, this pretty castle. It was built by Xidus933, who’s submitted several castles to r/minecraft in the past—this being the most recent and most well-received. Xidus…

Metal Gear Solid V Looks Beautiful When It Breaks

What you’re seeing here isn’t a mod, or a tweak. It’s a bug, which kingoddball KOB discovered while trying to play Metal Gear Online on PS4, that means most of the game world’s textures simply fail to load. I wish it was a mod, though, or a settings option, because it looks great! Like a…

GTA V Tank Is Like, Nope, Not Gonna Catch Me

Grand Theft Auto V’s tanks are tough, but they’re not invincible. Eventually the cops will bring you down… …unless, that is, you build a ramp. Video is by GTA V hero Blacksmoke Billy

The Guy Who Makes Terrible Video Games (On Purpose)

Bad video game ideas. We all have them. But what if, across the dank expanses of the internet, there existed a man who could make your bad video games a reality Friends, that man exists. He goes by the name of Bonerman_Inc. Bonerman_Inc will make your bad video games. He will actually make them. He…

Watch Me Play This Terrible Mario Maker Stage (For Charity!) [OVER!]

I’m afraid a Super Mario Maker stage is about to crush my soul. The past few weeks, I’ve spent most mornings streaming Super Mario Maker levels. It’s been really fun, and a terrific “excuse” to play a bunch of Mario Things didn’t really move into gear until I played the abomination constructed by the editors…

Extended Betas Shouldn’t Be That Much of a Surprise Anymore

This weekend, fans playing the beta for Star Wars Battlefront got the news that the open beta for the much-anticipated shooter was getting one more day. Seems like a rare, awesome gift from EA to everyone, right? Turns out it’s not all that rare. The Star Wars Battlefront beta was supposed to end on tonight…

Call of Duty Ditches ‘Archaic’ Campaign Unlock System

Most games force you to play things in a certain order—and that gating can be a drag in certain situations. Black Ops 3, however, is trying something very different. As Eurogamer reports, Black Ops 3 will let players go through the campaign in whatever order they’d like. Wanna start the game right at the end?…

The Personal Story Behind The Witcher 3‘s Bloody Baron Quest

If there’s a single story that encompasses the best of The Witcher 3’s narrative ambitions, it’s the Bloody Baron. Messy, emotional, and full of morally compromised individuals, it’s a tale that can end in some truly harrowing ways. To learn more about how it came together, I spoke with the people who made it. Warning:…

The Gamer Who Uses Streaming To Fight Anxiety And Depression

Before we even start talking, General Mittenz asks me if we can stand for the duration of the interview. “For me, right now, I’m having a massive anxiety attack,” he explains while fidgeting nervously. Standing and moving around helps. A little. On Twitch his name is General Mittenz. It’s not his real name of course.…

Indie Dev Co-opts Kate Upton’s Infamous Carl’s Jr. Ad

Independent mobile developer Tom Young couldn’t afford a big budget Kate Upton commercial like the Game of War: Fire Age folks for his puzzle game, so he just took Carl’s Jr.’s ad instead. The results are wonderfully bizarre. Instead of suggestively devouring a Southwest Patty Melt, now Upton is consuming the adorable little creatures from…

Over A Year Later, Cube World Finally Shows Off A Few New Things

It seems that Cube World is still not dead. For those of you that haven’t been following the drama around this: Cube World is a voxel exploration game that released a playable alpha back in 2013. The alpha was pretty damn good! The quality wasn’t the problem—the issue came with Cube World’s $20 price tag.…

Firewatch, the gorgeous-looking debut from Campo Santo, now has a release date: February 9. It’ll hit on PC, Mac, Linux, and PlayStation 4 at the same time. Contact the author at [email protected]

Ubisoft Offers Refunds After Might & Magic CD Debacle

When PC players ordered the limited edition of Might & Magic Heroes VII, they expected a physical copy of the game and soundtrack, as advertised. But for some players, there was a cruel surprise: an empty hole where the DVD and CD should have been. Here’s what it looks like, based on melchior1090’s Imgur post…