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Even Without The Option, Heroes Of The Storm Players Still Surrender 

“Just let them win, it’s over” one of my teammates typed. “Not yet,” I responded. He didn’t listen. Blizzard formally announced that its new MOBA Heroes of the Storm wouldn’t come with a surrender option back in April. While I originally disagreed with their reasoning, I now realize it was fairly sound. “We believe the…

Tips For Playing Fallout Shelter

Being in charge of an entire vault is not easy: you have to manage your population, fend off attackers, and you have to take the time to explore the wasteland. It’s a lot to juggle! But I’m here to help. I’ve been playing the game obsessively over the past week, and have learned a few…

The new Animal Crossing is letting you choose your skin tone People have been asking for the option for years, and Nintendo’s granting their wish with Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. It’s a step in the right direction, albeit a long overdue one. Hopefully it’ll carry over to the next full Animal Crossing game.

We Played Star Wars: Battlefront

And then we talked to you about it live, on Periscope. Here’s an archive of that chat, in which Evan and I discuss our warm feelings towards the roughly 13-minute multiplayer round we played at E3. If you weren’t already aware, Periscope is a Twitter-owned live-streaming service that operates best in landscape mode. And if…

Sony’s VR Headset Turned Me Into a Flying Horse

The future is horse. Horse is future. You sit on a bicycle with a virtual reality headset and you think, “Ok, maybe they’re going to put me in the Olympics or on a paper route.” You don’t think, “I’m about to turn into a four-legged animal and also sprout wings.” At least I didn’t. Yesterday,…

Fallout 4 Devs Have ‘No Plans’ For Paid Mods

When Bethesda and Valve announced paid mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the reaction was negative, and it was quickly retracted. Some have suspected the idea would come back with Fallout 4, but as of right now, that doesn’t appear to be the case. German publication Spiegel Online, the digital version of Der Spiegel,…

How The New Metroid Prime’s Co-Op Works

Nintendo only made the ancillary sports-game component of its perplexing newMetroid Prime game available to demo at E3 this week. But the developer did offer a small slice of how the four-player co-op—intended to be the meat Federation Force’s gameplay—will work in action as well. The developer showed it in action during one of its…

Metal Gear Solid V Dogs Are Useful And Hilarious

Yes, that’s a dog taking a break and relieving themselves in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Goofs aside, your canine friend can do a bunch of really amazing things in Snake’s latest. This year is The Phantom Pain’s last appearance at E3, as the game races towards its September release date. IGN has…

The next League of Legends champion is…a catfish? Riot just put out a CGI trailer about a hoarse-voiced monster named “The River King,” following an apparent leak on the game’s Chinese website. Neat! Also: great music.

Mass Effect 1 Runs Faster, Smoother on Xbox One

The first Mass Effect was a game that sometimes struggled to perform well on Microsoft’s last home console. But, it looks like BioWare’s sci-fi creation is a much better experience on the Xbox One. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that backwards compatibility will be coming to their latest home gaming machine and Mass Effect is…

It’s a tale of two season passes. 2K Games announced a second season pass for Evolve—five new characters, one new monster—while io Interactive told Videogamer its new Hitman will not have a season pass at all, as the game’s extra content is free. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on…

The Seven Most Interesting Games I Played On E3 Day Two, Ranked

I played 30 video games on Wednesday at E3, including at events that were held before and after the show floor was open. These were my favorites, in order of preference. 1. What Remains of Edith Finch. Giant Sparrow’s The Unfinished Swan was both a first-rate children’s fable and one of the better games of…

Today’s Pokémon Anime Special Was Kind of Nuts

In Japan, an hour Pokémon special just aired on TV. It starred Pikachu. Lots of Pikachus. But mostly, even by Pokémon standards, it was bonkers. The special was called Pokémon XY: Pikachu the Movie, and was divided into several parts (more here), but set against the making of a Pikachu movie. How meta. But actually,…

Chrono Trigger Characters In LEGO Form

LEGO builder Matt De Lanoy picked an unexpected theme for his latest creation: Chrono Trigger! He built the classic JRPG’s quest hub “The End of Time” and filled it with all the main characters. Very cool build! You can recognize the place and the characters instantly. The original SNES location for comparison: To contact the…

World of Warcraft Starting Zones as Travel Ads

Artist Dcmjs decided to design a gallery of travel advertisements using World of Warcraft starting zones. They’re the perfect candidates after all: Relatively calm zones with unique themes, and everyone who played WoW visited at least one or two of them and probably thought what it’d be like to visit them in real life. Here…

Our adventures on Draenor continue next week. World of Warcraft’s big 6.2 patch Fury of Hellfire arrives June 23 and includes the Garrison Shipyard, a new raid, and a new max level zone Tanaan Jungle.

The NBA Finals, As Told Through Dragonball Gifs

It’s the new standard in sports commentary. When someone gets excited, someone else makes a Super Saiyan gif of them. With the NBA Finals having just wrapped up, it’s basketball’s turn. These were made by noise_filter. Hats off to you. Early on in the series, when Delly wasn’t stinking up the place and the Cavs…