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Watch Me Die Four Times In The First Five Minutes Of Steredenn

A lovely pixelized combination of shoot-em-up and roguelike, Steredenn changes every time you play, which is the excuse I’m using for all the deaths. Oh come on, it’s hard enough playing a shmup when you aren’t trying to talk about it at the same time. At least if this glorious beast were a standard shooter…

Blizzard Took Out Tychus’ Cigar In Heroes Of The Storm

StarCraft fans have long known Terran (read: human) hero Tychus Findlay as a cigar-chomping lovable grump. Sadly, Heroes of the Storm players will only get to know him as a lovable grump. That’s right: they put out the guy’s smoke. Heroes of the Storm fans first discovered this glaring omission last night when Blizzard released…

The Witcher 3’s Tiny Text Is A Nightmare To Read

I have perfect vision and a huge TV, yet I’m constantly leaning in while playing The Witcher 3. Here’s what I’m talking about—check the bottom left. (Click on the image to see it at full scale!) (OK, we’ll go back to regular sized text now.) You spend a whole lot of time messing with your…

This is Doug Bowser, Nintendo’s new VP of Sales. Yes, Nintendo hired a guy named Doug BOWSER. They claim he has “no relation to the King Koopa and Mario’s nemesis.” Uh huh. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Doc Brown Comes Back To The Future To Hype LEGO Dimensions

Christopher Lloyd is a man who’ll jump at any chance to don a Hawaiian shirt, stand in front of a wind machine and shout “Great Scott!” A new LEGO Dimensions trailer is as good a reason as any. Good old Doc Brown is getting his own Fun Pack when LEGO Dimensions launches this September, adding…

If Players Were In Charge Of World of Warcraft

With the recent three million drop in subscription numbers, World of Warcraft forums are full of people thinking what could save the game from further decline. TheLazyPeon is one of them, and he compiled a list full of interesting ideas that’d fill the game with life again. Some of these idea always come up in…

There’s a Castle Hidden in the LEGO Autumn Foliage

It’s not the 80,000 pieces and the roughly 17 days of build time that makes Blufiji’s fantasy LEGO diorama awesome, but the beautiful autumn scenery. Everything just flows with the trees and colors. There are even purple leaved ones in there, and it completely fits! Blufiji created a small background story for his build to…

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Kid Arrested For DDOSing Entire School District

An unnamed 17 year-old kid has been arrested, and may face felony charges, after being caught organising a DDOS attack against the West Ada School District in Idaho, which has 52 schools and 32,000 students. The attacks took place earlier this month, reports KTVB (via Daily Dot), and resulted in the schools being unable to…

Retro Console Promises To Play ALL The Games

This is the Retro Freak. It’s promising to play games from the Famicom. SNES. Genesis. PC Engine. TurboGrafx-16. Game Boy. Game Boy Advance. Game Boy Color. And even the Supergrafx. Holy shit. It comes in two parts; there’s the actual console, which is a small box that takes care of all the actual work, then…

4 Big Mad Max Easter Eggs You Can Find In Fallout Games

There would be no Fallout franchise without Mad Max: the post-apocalyptic series by George Miller is probably the biggest single influence the games have. If you’re familiar with both Mad Max and Fallout, you have probably already noticed some of the similarities. Fallout is full of references and easter eggs that nod to Mad Max,…

The Best Maps Help You Get Lost

Loads of video games (and movies, and TV shows, and comics, and books) have maps in them. You might think they’re there to stop you getting lost, but no. They’ve got a much more important role than that. There’s a scene in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where Faramir and his ranger buddies…

There Are Way Too Many People In This Bloodborne Fight

That GIF looks like total madness because that’s the only way to describe it. Fights in Bloodborne were never meant to involve six characters at once, but YouTuber legendsofevil turned the game’s first boss battle into an a sprawling brawl by getting himself, two other players, an aggravated NPC, a summoned friendly NPC, and the…

See Which Heroes Get the Biggest Changes in the Remixed Marvel Universe

The Marvel Universe we knew is dead. In its place is a new gestalt planet, stitched together from pieces of the preceding multiverse by the all-powerful will of Dr. Doom. This week, we’ll get our first real glimpses of the realms that make up Battleworld. Secret Wars is the summer publishing event that promises to…

Good Lord, Mortal Kombat 4’s Endings Were Terrible

We’re lucky that the latest Mortal Kombat games have turned out to beso excellent. There was a stretch during the 90s when the series wasn’t as good—and it’s hilarious to look back on all of it now. In the last month, a particular Mortal Kombat clip has been floating around on the internet. In it,…

Puzzle Quest And Adventure Time, Together At Last

Coming this summer to a mobile device near you, two lovely things in a colorful free-to-play sandwich. Developed by the fine folks at WayForward in cooperation with the okay folks at Cartoon Network, Adventure Time Puzzle Quest sends Finn, Jake and friends on an adventure across the Land of Ooo, taking on enemies in fierce…

A Player Turned Trials Fusion Into A First-Person Parkour Game

This isn’t Mirror’s Edge. It’s a first-person parkour game built using the tools for Trials Fusion. Seriously! This is what Trials Fusion normally looks like, by the way. It’s a racing game! Fans have pulled impressive things off with Trials Fusion in the past year, but Bubbakhar Tower, where you jump and slide up a…

The Witcher 3 Has A Heartfelt Thank You Note Inside

When you open up a physical copy of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it comes with a surprise from the game’s developer, CD Projekt RED. As part of his unboxing process, here’s a photo shared by Imgur user ChestPaddles: CD Projekt RED has always been known as a studio that closely listens to its fans,…

Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX for 3DS gets a special launch edition—and a four month delay. Originally due out next f***ing week, the game will now arrive on September 8 in North America and three days later in Europe, packed in a retail box full of stupid crap to try and make fans feel better.…

Disney Infinity 3.0 Does Away With Blind-Bagged Power Discs

The most frustrating aspect of Disney Infinity has been trying to collect all the game-enhancing Power Discs randomly packed in stupid blind bags. Almost as exciting as adding Star Wars characters, Infinity 3.0 is selling its Power Discs in a far less shady way. Power Discs themselves are a cool idea—augmentations that unlock textures, items…