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We’re At PAX Prime 2015

A couple of us are floating the showfloor in Seattle, prepared to bring you news, impressions, and more silly Vines featuring Patrick in his natural habitat. Come say hi if you see myself, Kirk, Jason or Patrick!

One Player Beat Divinity: Original Sin’s Final Boss In An ‘Impossible’ Way

Players could exploit the crap out of Divinity: Original Sin, and that’s why it rocked. During a recent demonstration of Divinity: Original Sin 2, I asked Larian co-founder and creative director Swen Vincke about his favorite player stories from the original Original Sin, a fantasy RPG designed to let players get creative with a broad…

League Of Legends’ New Ping Times Are Amazing

When it comes to lag, League of Legends developer Riot has been talking a real big game lately—saying they’re building ahuge lag-killing network, and improving North American players’ experience by relocating League’s servers. They made good on the latter promise this week, and holy cow has it made the game better. Earlier this month, Riot…

Sony has apologized for “unintentionally” disabling a feature that would let players of nifty new PS4 horror game Until Dawn archive streams of the game on Twitch. They say they’re “working on a fix” and will provide an update once they get it working. Currently, after you stream the game on Twitch via PS4, your…

Jimmy Kimmel’s Jab At YouTube Gaming Backfired

Earlier this week, television host Jimmy Kimmel aired a skit that made fun of YouTube’s big new gaming-centric service. This clip then got uploaded to YouTube…and the results are not pretty. The footage, which you can see above, is not surprising in the least. There are (bad) jokes about people who like watching other people…

Excellent PC Strategy Game Dungeon of the Endless Runs Great on iPad

People with iPads, here’s your new “what should I play on my next airplane flight/long car ride?” game. It’s part roguelike. It’s part tower defense. It was born on PC. It survived its port to tablets. It requires brains and reflexes. And it’s also really good. Check out 17 minutes of Dungeon of the Endless…

XCOM 2 Delayed To February

PC strategy game XCOM 2 has been delayed from November to February 5 of next year, according to dev studio Firaxis and their publisher Take Two. Hello XCOM fans, We want to give you an update on the release date for XCOM 2. We’ve set a high bar for the sequel and the entire team…

And That’s Why You Don’t Taunt People In Heroes Of The Storm 

Karma’s OP. The most recent episode of the silly YouTube series “Heroes of the Storm WTF moments” begins with a cautionary tale of when it’s acceptable to troll an opponent in-game. Since you can’t chat directly with your enemies in HOTS (League of Legends and Dota 2 both have cross-team chat functionality, for a point…

You’re a Disembodied Head in Double Fine’s Next Game

See that head with the jetflame coming out of it? Yep, that’s you. Aptly enough, the game is called Headlander In Headlander, you, as a head, land on various bodies, taking them over—thus netting you all kinds of new abilities, be that new weapons, new methods of locomotion, or dance moves. The game itself is…

Custom Dreamcast Is A Tribute To One Of Its Most Iconic Games

Belgian graphic artist Vadu Amka redesigned a Sega Dreamcast, turning it into a memento of one of the most iconic games for the system: Skies of Arcadia The main idea was to make the system look like a heavily damaged spacecraft. Just like something from the classic, Jules Verne-inspired JRPG. I used lime wood I…

Cute Metal Gear Solid Animation Solves All The Conspiracies

With just a couple of days left till Metal Gear Solid V’s launch, fan theories about the game’s plot and potential twists are already out of control. What’s the true identity of Chico? And Quiet? Is the doctor a real life surgeon? Yong and Bal’s superbly made short animation answers everything, and their revelation is…

In case you’re looking for a way to express your love for WoW, redditor revenger96 recently put together several wallpapers starring the game’s major bosses/villains. There are quite a few variations on the main wallpaper at the top—seventeen in total—which you can find below. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some…

Meet the latest Amiibo: Shovel Knight. An indie game character! Nice move, Nintendo. He’ll unlock extra stuff in the Wii U and 3DS versions of Shovel Knight.

Netflix on the Wii U now finally has the same UI as every other version of the service. Which means TV episodes will auto-play!

Curiosity Killed The Solid Snake

Everyone: “Hey, Snake, why do you ask so many questions?” Snake: “QUESTIONS?”

Here, Learn How To Swordfight Like A Witcher

Alan Padziński, a professional instructor and sword performer from Poland, has (like me) been playing too much Witcher 3. Instead of endlessly writing about it on a website, though, he’s hit the woods and started working through his addiction with swords This video shows how to do Geralt’s special fast attack move, the “whirl”. Note…

The Most Beautiful Consoles Are Made By Hand

When a company like Sony or Nintendo or Microsoft designs a console (or handheld), they have a few things to worry about, like keeping prices as low as possible while ensuring everything still works. But what if that wasn’t an obstacle for games hardware? What if they could be as beautiful as any other piece…

What Smash Bros. Pros Are Doing With Their Fingers When They Play

This is what it looks like when expert Smash Bros. players are at the helm. There’s a lot going on when someone’s playing a game at a high level, and it’s unlikely that you’re going to spend much time watching everything that’s happening with their hands. YouTube channel Beefy Smash Doods, however, has made visualizing…

Destiny Nightfalls Are Getting A Total Overhaul

Destiny, a video game about crushing the hopes and dreams of Peter Dinklage, is changing in just about every possible way when the next expansion launches this September. Even Nightfall strikes will be totally different. When The Taken King comes out on September 15, dying in a Nightfall will no longer kick your party back…

Player Tweaks Graphics, Makes Black Ops 3 Look Like A PS1 Game

Ah, the magic of config files. TheCircuitChaser wasn’t able to run the beta for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 very well on his PC because it’s lacking the tweakable video settings that should be in the final game, so he decided to see how crappy he could make the game look. By digging into…