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Let’s Make Anime Great Again with Donald Trump! 

Anime isn’t cute enough. It’s not great enough. Presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to change that. Remember. If you vote for Trump, you are voting for anime. That’s a fact. Website Kawaii Trump has been closely following Trump’s pivot to anime. We thank it for that. [Photo: Kawaii Trump] Surely, you can see how qualified…

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R2-D2 Has Been Lifting, Bro

This used to be a Gundam model kit. Not anymore. Now it’s “Hi2-D2 – Enhanced astromech droid”. The work of Italian modeller Lemcat, there’s even room for all of R2’s weird little hidden tools, which seemed impractical in a little astromech droid but look far more natural in the hands of a giant bipedal death…

A Rock Band 4 Death Metal Lullaby For My Children

This magnificent Rock Band 4 vocals performance is brought to you by my children, Seamus and Archer, who made me sing every song on the tracklist alphabetically in order until falling asleep to “Dead Black (Heart of Ice).” Since an early age Archer and Seamus have loved the alphabet. Twenty-six letters in set order. A…

Today Riot revealed the full set of ranked rewards League of Legends players will receive at the end of the 2015 season. The most exciting bit of news is that the heartless mercenary champion Sivirwill get this year’s victorious skin. I’m genuinely bummed that I can’t get that. Congrats to everyone who will!

Fans Keep Working On Cancelled Strategy Game

Last year, Double-Fine pulled the plug on their game Spacebase DF-9. Which was a shame, because the game they were building—The Sims vs Theme Hospital in space—was shaping up to be pretty good! Never fear: fans have stepped in and continued work on the game in Double-Fine’s absence. The “Derelict Games restoration team” have released…

This is the Police, a strategy game about corrupt cops we first wrote about in January, has its first gameplay trailer.

Lost Mario Levels Remade In Super Mario Maker

Super Mario Maker isn’t just for making your own nightmarish creations. It’s also proving useful as a means of preserving (well, recreating then preserving) Nintendo history. In 2002, Nintendo released an accessory for the Game Boy Advance called the e-Reader. A product of what I consider the company’s Golden Age Of Weirdness (GameCube LAN! Four…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games For September

YouTube’s top two trending games from last month should be no surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention: Metal Gear Solid V and Mario Maker, two of the year’s most watchable games, take top honors. This is according to YouTube’s metrics, which take into account both total uploads and watch time. Here’s the full top-ten…

The Journey Down, a very cool adventure game series that’s been running for a few years now, is gearing up for its third chapter on Kickstarter

Heroes of the Storm has finally made its loading screens more like League of Legends—AKA better. Today’s patch makes it so you can actually see who you’re going to play against in the upcoming game, even with quick matches. Hooray!!

How The Witcher 3‘s Developers Ensured Their Open World Didn’t Suck

I played 60 hours of The Witcher 3 earlier this year, and only stopped because I had other games to play. One question always nagged me, though: how did CD Projekt RED put together a sprawling open world game that avoided the genre’s usual preference for meaningless side quests? I called them to find out.…

Need For Speed: No Limits’ Keeps Its Races Short And Sweet

If going fast were all racing was about, Need for Speed: No Limits would be one of the top games in the genre—most races last around 30 seconds. The latest mobile entry in the Need for Speed franchise, now available for free download oniOS and Android devices, comes from developer Firemonkeys of Real Racing fame.…

This Week’s New Dr. Strange Comic Gives Us A Sorcerer Supreme Who’s a Lot More Human

Marvel’s leading super-magician regularly goes to weird dimensions and foreboding soulscapes to protect the Earth. But Stephen Strange hasn’t always felt like a guy who had his feet on the ground. The new Dr. Strange comic changes that. The first thing I noticed when Marvel teased the post-Secret Wars look for Dr. Strange was the…

Successful $73,000 Kickstarter Runs Out Of Money

“I will admit that the amount needed to create this game was largely underestimated for the campaign,” wrote the director of a Kickstarter game called Midora in an update yesterday. “I knew that the game would need more than $60,000 to be made.” This confession comes roughly 14 months after Midora, which promised to be…

Destiny’s PvP Matchmaking Has Been Weirder Than Ever

Along with the new Taken King expansion, Bungie fine-tuned Destiny’s PvP matchmaking. It’s not yet clear whether that has been an improvement. I’ve been playing more and more PvP lately. It’s a logical progression—the PvE stuff has reached a predictable tempo for me, so I’ve been getting ready for Trials of Osiris and Iron Banner…

Heroes Of The Storm Babies Its New Players Too Much

Over the weekend I created a new smurf account for Heroes of the Storm, “smurf” being an alternate account an experienced MOBA player makes, usually to play with friends who are just starting out in the game. What I found to my unpleasant surprise was a far less enjoyable game than the one I’ve been…

Hilariously, Metal Gear Solid V’s wandering Mother Base soldiers will actually recognize you if you’re in a box! This, along with other rumors are tested in DefendTheHouse’s latest mythbusting video.

Here’s A Thing That Happens In Stasis

I don’t think you’re supposed to perform your own spinal surgery, right? If you’re not familiar with Stasis, I wrote about it a little while back. It’s less ambitious than SOMA, but it’s worth playing for any horror (or adventure) fan. Warning: There are spoilers for Stasis ahead! This device isn’t merely a chip hidden…

Heroes Of The Storm Is Nerfing The Overpowered ‘Infernal Shrines’ Map

Heroes of the Storm put out its new patch notes today, and boy is this a big one. In addition to adding the new StarCraft Medic support hero Lt. Morales and completely reworking a number of struggling warriors, they’re finally making some changes to the game’s maps. Most importantly: the ungodly “Infernal Shrines.” Phew! Infernal…