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Riot Says It’s Fixing League Of Legends’ Crippling Teleportation Bug
League of Legends took a big hit last night thanks to a bug affecting a standard teleporting move that every playable character regularly uses. While Riot still hasn’t gotten its hugely popular multiplayer game back up to full speed quite yet, the developer said that it’s now found a fix. The bug was first discovered…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 16, 2015 -
A Horror Game That Stops Working When Too Many People Die
There aren’t usually “endings” for mulitplayer games—it keeps going until people stop being interested. But the developers behind multiplayer horror game The Flock have different plans. The community has a finite number of lives burn through, and when they’re gone, it’s all over. Here’s the game’s setup: Set in the year 3000, an unrecognizable Earth…
By Patrick Klepek Published July 16, 2015 -
There’s DLC coming for Never Alone, the touching indie adventure produced by an Alaskan Native community. The Foxtales add-onis due on July 28 and will feature all-new springtime environments for Nuna and Fox to romp through. In addition to the DLC, Never Alone is also coming to PS3 and Vita too. Contact the author at…
By Evan Narcisse Published July 16, 2015 -
Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection: The Basics
What it is: Why, it’s a PS3 game ported to PS4! Make that three of them, three excellent PS3 action-adventure games, Uncharted 1-3 (just the singleplayer), ported by development studio Bluepoint, coming out in lieu of the delayed-out-of-2015 Uncharted 4 on October 9. What’s been changed: I saw it at a PlayStation demo event yesterday,…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2015 -
Adventure Time In 3D Is Uncomfortable
I know change in general can be immediately off-putting just by virtue of it being a change, but, Adventure Time as a 3D animation is… D: Maybe it’s the loss of exaggerated eyeball motions and facial expressions, or the pronounced boyishness in Finn. Whatever it is, this rendition of season 2’s episode, “Go With Me,”…
By Tina Amini Published July 16, 2015 -
Satoru Iwata Memorial At The Nintendo World Store In NYC
This was the scene just inside the Nintendo World Store near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. A touching tribute—especially those bananas—to the passing of the Nintendo’s well-regarded president: While the big line of Nintendo fans outside was for Amiibos, there were several people inside waiting to write messages honoring Nintendo’s late president and…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 16, 2015 -
Guy Beats Ocarina of Time With DDR Pad
You’ve probably seen people glitch the hell out of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and you may have seen people beat it with blindfolds on. But have you ever seen anyone beat it with a dancepad? Video-maker ATwerkinYoshi—who also has one of the greatest handles on the internet—has spent the past few months recording video of…
By Jason Schreier Published July 16, 2015 -
World of Warcraft‘s PvP Is Getting a Big Change
Doing all the Tanaan Jungle dailies and raiding Hellfire Citadel are pretty fun in Warlords of Draenor, but even after patch 6.2, there’s one thing that’s just not shaping up as intended: the large PvP island Ashran. In an upcoming patch, a new feature called “Mercenary Mode” that allows players to join the battle for…
By Gergo Vas Published July 16, 2015 -
If Pokémon Evolutions Were Realistic
Bad news Bulbasaur. You might be one of the most popular Pokémon out there, with the ability to evolve into Ivysaur and Venusaur, but in the real world, things would be a bit different, and natural selection would settle things really quickly. Darwinism has a word with Pokémon evolution in Dorkly’s latest video: To contact…
By Gergo Vas Published July 16, 2015 -
Angry Birds 2 Will Be Released This Month
Never mind that there are already fifteen Angry Birds games, Finnish developer Roviojust announced a sequel to Angry Birds. It’s called Angry Birds 2. To date, Rovio has made twelve games in the main series (including a sequel to Angry Birds Star Wars called, wait for it, Angry Birds Star Wars II) and three spin-offs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 16, 2015 -
Pluto Probe Is Powered By The Same CPU As A PlayStation
This week, the world has looked on with aweas the New Horizons probe sent back the first ever detailed pictures of Pluto. Those images weren’t taken using the latest technology, though; New Horizons launched in January 2006, and was obviously designed and built even earlier. So the gear inside is a little more primitive than…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 16, 2015 -
Football Game That Is Not Madden Appears Suddenly On Steam
Just when you think EA and Madden have squeezed the life out of football games, along comes Axis Football, a scrappy little effort that is the anti-Madden It has no production values. Terrible commentary. Few options. No fancy moves for your players. And if they had to create fictional franchises, EA would never be dumb…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2015 -
Massive Bug Forces Riot To Disable All League Of Legends Ranked Games
It takes a lot for Riot to put even part of its hugely popular multiplayer game League of Legends on hold, but tonight the developer faced a technical problem it wasn’t able to promptly handle. A bug affecting every playable character in League of Legends’ ginormous champion pool began to surface in the game earlier…
By Yannick LeJacq Published July 15, 2015 -
One Of The Most Brutal UFC Fights I’ve Seen In Ages
I never cringe at UFC fights. One fight on last weekend’s UFC 189 card made me cringe hard (Warning: some of the photos in this post are a little nasty.) Robbie Lawler vs Rory MacDonald II is one of the greatest fights I’ve ever seen. The welterweight championship battle was that rare occasion where I…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 15, 2015 -
Commodore Is Back. Again. Kind Of.
Commodore, a company most famous for their C64 and Amiga computers, went bust in 1994. The brand, however (much like Atari’s) lives on, and it’s this week been resuscitated in a strange and curious place: the mobile phone market. This is the Commodore PET, an Android phone that leverages the grand old brand name by…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 15, 2015 -
I’m Not Sure What To Make Of Skyforge
Maybe it’s the fact that original science fiction based MMORPG games come along so rarely, or maybe it’s just that Skyforge is pretty damn strange. Either way it’s keeping me on my toes. Developed by Russia’s Allods Team in conjunction with Obsidian Entertainment, Skyforge is a free-to-play MMO that’s not quite like anything I’ve played…
By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2015 -
Check Out StarCraft II‘s Zeratul’s New Abilities
Today, Blizzard released Whispers of Oblivion, a free prologue to StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void that you can get now if you want to pre-purchase the game. (If you don’t feel like shelling out $40 for a game that won’t be out for at least another few months, don’t worry: Oblivion will be free…
By Jason Schreier Published July 15, 2015 -
Bombshells Drop In DC Universe Online
DC Comics Bombshells started out as a series of pinup-style variant covers. This summer it’s growing into a statue line, a comic book series, another wave of special covers and starring role in a brand new adventure in DC Universe Online. Bombshell versions of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Talia al Ghul make…
By Mike Fahey Published July 15, 2015