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The Big Things That Change When Someone Else Becomes Batman

Batman is Bruce Wayne. Except, of course, when he isn’t. Other folks have worn the pointy ears of Gotham City’s shadowy superhero over the years, too, and every new Batman brings a few changes with them as well. In the comics these days, we’ve got a cop in a robot suit as the Dark Knight.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

Telltale’s next Game of Thrones episode, A Nest of Vipers, arrives next week. It’s the same schedule as before: Tuesday on PC, Mac, PS3, and PS4. On Wednesday, it hits Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Then, on Thursday, those with iOS devices can join in.

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,”…

Deadpool hasn’t been available on Steam since December 2013, but seemingly out of nowhere, the action game has returned Something tells me it’s because the merc with a mouth has a movie coming out in February 2016. Contact the author at [email protected]

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…