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This Week, Destiny Got A Hell Of A Lot Better

Everyone loves a redemption story. On Tuesday, Destiny’s second major expansion, House of Wolves, went live. I’ve been playing all week and, good news: Not only is House of Wolves superior to its preceding expansion The Dark Below, it feels like the wholesale upgrade that Destiny desperately needed. The story so far: In September of…

Bad Lip Reading Assembles The Redneck Avengers

Remember the chilling scene in the first Avengers movie in which Loki tells Black Widow to run to Piggly Wiggly to get him Skittles, cigarettes and Big League Chew? Oh wait, that’s Bad Lip Reading’s Redneck Avengers. Bad doughnuts, spurned incestuous love, bad pig—I know a lot of you were worried by Joss Whedon’s departure…

Five Minutes With The Aperture Science Heuristic Portal Pinball Device

Because Aperture Science would never release something as plebeian as a pinball table. Coming next week to Zen Pinball 2, Pinball FX 2 and whatever other pinball platforms Zen Studios has running about causing trouble, Portal Pinball reunites fans of Valve’s first-person puzzler with the likes of GLaDOS, Wheatley, Atlas, P-Body and the ever talkative…

The Witcher 3 Benchmarked: The New Crysis

Around this time four years ago The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings impressed critics with its opulent and demanding PC graphics, rich environments and storytelling, along with innovative combat mechanics. Selling nearly two million copies in its first year, the game was a great success for CD Projekt Red so it came as no surprise…

Persona 4: Dancing All Night In Women’s Clothing

It’s wouldn’t be a proper Persona 4 spinoff without tons of crazy costumes. Last week Atlus revealed swimwear for the ladies. This week, something much more entertaining. With a little over a month before Dancing All Night’s Japanese Vita release, Atlus demonstrate’s the cast’s amazing ability to make any outfit work, from swimwear… …to Yu,…

Poor Halo Player Gets Lured Into A Six Man Teabagging Trap

…ouch. I’ve played a ton of multiplayer shooters over the years, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen griefing like this clip from Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Condolences, blue player. Red team/Rauppy are huge jerks!

Destiny’s New Secret Area Is Very Exclusive

Destiny’s new mode, Trials of Osiris, went live today. With it comes a new social hub that only the best of the best can visit. Trials of Osiris is a very difficult 3v3 elimination mode where players can revive teammates. Once everyone on a team dies, however, the round is over and the opposing team…

UFC Stars Hate How Much They’re Spending On Clash of Clans

We can hone our bodies and minds until they’re razor sharp—perfect tools of fistic destruction—but in the end we all fall to the same foe: mobile game microtransactions. Just because you spend 8-10 grueling hours every day training to punch other dudes in the face for a living, that doesn’t mean you can’t also find…

Watch A Bloodborne Troll Trick A Ton of People Into a Nightmare Pit

Talk about a devilish prank. Watch as Corps Peau Rate tricks a ton of people into being thrown into a trap in the Nightmare Frontier portion of Bloodborne. First, he gets people to trust him. Then, he deceives them into being pushed off a cliff by Patches the Spider. Below, unexpected terrors await all these…

The 27 Best Batman Artists

Pretty much everybody knows what Batman looks like: pointy ears, menacing cowl, voluminous cape and big bat symbol on his chest. But the Dark Knight’s been around for more than 75 years, with hundreds—maybe even thousands—of people drawing the iconic superhero through the decades. So let’s round up some of the people who’ve been behind…

Worth Reading: The Way Games Are Using Kickstarter Is Changing

The weekend is close, which means it’s time for another installment in Worth Reading, our weekly round up of the best games writing from the past week. Update (4:50 p.m.): Hey, everyone! The headline for Worth Reading has been changed. How come? Previously, it was written as “Some Kickstarters Are Lying About Game Budgets,” which…

GTA Player Says He Hired Cheater To Rescue Him From…Another Cheater

Sometimes, you have no choice but to fight fire with fire. That is essentially what a man called Rev Drucifer has been telling me over the last couple of days. Drucifer only plays one game: Grand Theft Auto. Specifically, GTA Online, the multiplayer version of the extremely popular GTA V. He really loves the game;…

Destiny‘s Newest Helmet Is An Instant Boss-Killer

Meet the Celestial Nighthawk, one of Destiny’s newest helmets and perhaps the most lethal boss-killing device in the game. Nighthawk, an exotic hunter helmet that was added to the game with the House of Wolves expansion earlier this week, offers one very interesting unique perk: BIG GAME: Golden Gun fires one shot, delivering 6x damage,…

As promised, the League of Legends players who are fed up with Riot’s overpriced skin recolorings known as “Chroma Packs” have launched a database for custom fan-made chromas. You can download the custom content, which change the color of a champion’s outfit in-game, here.

Mario Kart, Mad Max Mash Up Works Way Better Than It Should

Oh, what a lovely day. Let’s thank the cinematic genius sundbergkr for YouTubing what we were all thinking: that a Mad Max: Fury Road version of Mario Kart would be spectacular. Still need convincing? Watch the trailer for Mario Kart: Fury Road and try telling me it’s not the greatest thing ever: I hope Nintendo’s…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games Last Month

The people at YouTube have given us a list of their top 10 trending games from April 2015—that is, the games that saw the best improvements in number of videos uploaded and increase in watchtime. Some are upcoming games. You won’t guess the last one. Here’s the “trending” top 10 for April: Mortal Kombat X…

Nasty Witcher 3 Bug Is Corrupting Saves On Xbox One

If you’re playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on Xbox One, you should watch out for this. Players are reporting a couple of ways save games are becoming corrupted. For some, it happens out of nowhere, after dying. Others are convinced it’s related to a specific mission. But for most, it happens after leaving The…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Nintendo’s Zombie Game

This is a Nintendo Mii killing zombies by… making them do math in school. The deadliest maneuver! The dreaded “cram session” is just one of the terrific special attacks in Battleground Z, Nintendo’s zombie game. You knew that Nintendo has a zombie game, right? It’s published by Nintendo, developed by Good-Feel (Wario Land: Shake It,…

The Witcher Was Almost A Diablo Clone

This series sure has come a long way since this early prototype from 2002. Remember, this is what The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which launched this week, looks like. (I love the sunsets in this game!) We’re only learning about the series’ origins because former project lead Ryszard Chojnowski has started publishing videos on YouTube…

Ultra Street Fighter IV will support PlayStation 3 fight sticks, as Sony’s going to include the backwards compatibility drivers created by Skullgirls developer Lab Zero. The game launches next week, on May 26. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek