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Riot Says They Won’t Sell League Of Legends’ Victorious Character Skins

Despite their lucrative habit of monetizing every conceivable aspect of League of Legends in one way or another, there’s one thing Riot Games won’t put a price tag on: victorious skins. The company assured fans of this after whipping them into a frenzy with the suggestion that they might consider selling the things. Last week,…

Capcom Should Really Bring The New Phoenix Wright West

There’s a new Phoenix Wright game out in Japan today, which would be cause for way more celebration if publisher Capcom would just announce it for English release already. Dai Gyakuten Saiban (The Great Ace Attorney) is a distant prequel to the main Phoenix Wright games, set in the 19th century and starring the ancestors…

Am I crazy, or does Activision’s The Peanuts Movie tie-in game look pretty good? Snoopy’s Grand Adventure, due out this fall on Xbox One, 360, PS4, Wii U and 3DS, sees Charlie Brown’s pup platforming through the worlds of his imagination and taking flight against the Red Baron. It’s even got Woodstock co-op!

Blizzard has weighed in on the two issues players have had with The Butcher since he dropped into Heroes of the Storm last week. They confirmed that his unstoppable charge move is bugged “and will be fixed with an upcoming patch.” As for his gameplay balance, they said he is “nowhere near underpowered or overpowered.”

I Can’t Believe This Is an Archie Comic

No more love triangle. No more cartoony art style with the giant eyes. No more sharing milkshakes. The main Archie comic was rebooted today, and the first issue is damn good. For decades, Archie Andrews has been America’s Favorite Teenager, a likable redhead who lived in a town still tethered to the warm, fuzzy nostalgia…

The sizable expansion to one of last year’s best puzzle games, The Talos Principle, is arrives on July 23, the developer revealed today.It’s divided into four episodes and tells the story of a completely different society within the game’s bizarre complex. The developer also dropped this bombshell: “The original plan was to divide The Talos…

All The Disney Infinity 3.0 You Can Buy Come August 30

Today Disney announced an August 30 release date for the Star Wars-themed Infinity 3.0 starter pack, but anyone who has invested in one of the annual toys-meet-games titles knows that the starter pack is just the beginning. Were it only the $64.99 price tag for the starter, which includes the “Twilight of the Republic Play…

Everyone With Live Gold Can Now Play Smite On Xbox One

Hi-Rez Studios god-powered third-person action MOBA launches into open beta today on Xbox One, meaning everyone with Xbox Live Gold can play for free and no one ever has to ask me for a beta key ever again. Huzzah! With its third-person camera and focus on active aiming rather than cthe click targeting of standard…

Google’s Deep Dream Is Turning Anime into Nightmares

When artificial neurons meet anime characters, the going gets weird. Since Google’s Deep Dream system allow people to upload photos for the AI to enhance, people have been uploading all sorts of pics, many of which are pornography (this is the internet!). But amid the sea of uploaded meme pics and selfies, there are also…

Lizard Squad Member Found Guilty Of 50,700 Charges Of “Computer Crime”

A member of Lizard Squad, the group responsible for numerous attacks on gaming sites and platforms over the past year, has been found guilty in Finland of a comical 50,700 charges “related to computer crimes”. And yet he won’t be going to prison. The Daily Dot reports that Julius “zeekill” Kivimaki, who is only 17,…

How Game Of Thrones’ Badass Zombie Battle Was Made

I don’t want to spoil things for you, but the epic battle at Hardhome, easily the highlight of Game of Thrones’ fifth season, wasn’t filmed using real zombies. Here’s how the scenes were actually shot. SPOILERS BELOW AND IN THE VIDEO Visual effects company El Ranchito, who worked on the episode, have posted a VFX…

Pewdiepie Responds To Haters, Kills It

This is Felix Kjellberg, giving us some major real talk about his success—and it’s wonderful. It’s might seem strange to see Pewdiepie, the king of YouTube, speak so frankly here. But after seeing so many articles floating around in the past week about the reported $7.4 million he allegedly made on YouTube in 2014, he…

League Of Legends’ New Game Mode Lets You Take Monsters Into The Fight

Every so often, League of Legends puts out temporary “featured game modes” that can be so much fun they leave fans begging Riot to keep them in the game permanently. Others just fizzle out. “Black Market Brawl” sounds like it’s going to be in the first group. Played on the main Summoner’s Rift map, Black…

You Should Take A Closer Look At Arkham Knight‘s Billboards

There are hundreds of billboards all over Gotham in Batman: Arkham Knight. You, like me, might have missed how they change over time. What follows could be considered a plot spoiler for Arkham Knight Early on in the game, Batman is exposed to Scarecrow’s hallucinogenic drug. This mostly ends up influencing the game’s cutscenes, but…

Riot’s Latest ‘Fix’ For League Of Legends Created A Monster

Turns out, trying to balance a game with more than 120 unique characters can sometimes end in disaster. At least this latest one in League of Legends was a lot of fun. The jungle in League of Legends has been in a state of relative disarray since Riot revamped the whole thing at the end…

The Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward Song That Gets Me Every Time

It never fails. I teleport back to the Foundation area of the expansion’s new city of Ishgard, it’s nighttime, it’s snowing, and the most achingly bittersweet music plays. Though featuring similar musical themes, the music for entrance The Holy See of Ishgard is powerful and bold, appropriately representing a towering city that’s withstood countless attacks…

Players Spent Over Two Years Trying To Push Halo Reach AI To Its Limit

In 2011, hardcore fans started a video series chronicling tricks and glitches possible during the Halo: Reach campaign. Today, that series draws to a close with a new, over-the-top conclusion that tests how far Halo’s artificial intelligence can go. “The tricks in this video cumulatively took over 150+ hours to complete,” Termacious Trickocity, the group…

The Latest Free Witcher 3 DLC Is Really Good

I gotta say, CD Projekt Red is killing it with all the free stuff they keep adding to The Witcher 3 Not only did they just announce a big new 1.07 patch that promises to address the game’s lingering inventory and control issues (including “various improvements to horse behavior,” hooray), they’ve been steadily releasing free…

Real Cars Are Still Scarier Than GTA V’s 

Back in February, I wrote an essay about how a car accident left me with a stubborn fear of driving—something that GTA V’s unnervingly realistic car crashes reminded me of often. My colleagues at Jalopnik weren’t having it. They eventually convinced me to try driving again, and you can see how it went in their…