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Why World of Warcraft Lost So Many Subscribers

World of Warcraft subscriptions are down from 10 million to 7.1 million, Blizzard said during a financial earnings call yesterday. A record amount of people unsubscribed in the first three months of this year. This drop is particularly unusual because it happened right after a huge increase in subscribers. MMO-Champion’s graph shows the timeline well:…

Wasteland 2 is getting a slew of upgrades on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but inXile’s revealed PC, Mac, and Linux owners will get those upgrades for free. The game will be getting updated graphics, new voice overs, gameplay tweaks, and more. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter…

The next project from the man who created SimCity and Spore isn’t a game. Thred launches today from Will Wright’s Syntertainment. It’s a life-sharing “mobile toolkit” app that lets users curate their photos, links and videos into shareable slideshows that can be decorated with stickers, filters and captions. We’ll have an interview with Wright coming…

German Medieval Ruins Recreated In Unreal Engine 4

Using drones and various techniques, mobile developer David Finsterwalder constructed an awesome virtual version of the German castle Hohenrechberg in Unreal Engine 4. It was designed to be a virtual sightseeing experience using VR headsets. But looking at the size of it, something like this would be the perfect map for medieval death matches. Here’s…

Snake is about to infiltrate Camp Omega in pixel artist Catherine’s beautiful giffy recreation of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes’ opening. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art we can find. Send us suggestions if you’ve got them. To contact the author…

Nintendo Is Coming to Universal Studios Theme Parks

Think Nintendo Land, but real. Today, Nintendo announced it is bringing its games and characters to Universal theme parks. “The immersive experiences will include major attractions at Universal’s theme parks and will feature Nintendo’s most famous characters and games,” stated an official release. To be clear, this isn’t a full-on Nintendo theme park. Rather, Universal…

An Unexpected Place Where the Wii U Struggles: Japan

Hey, good news! Wii U sales are up many countries. Bad news, they’re down in Japan. In the financial year starting in April 2013 and ending in March 2014, Nintendo sold 1.29 million Wii Us in the Americas. As Nintendo revealed today, that number increased to 1.85 million during the financial year ending March 2015.…

The Video Games That Come Full Circle

I remember the precise moment when I fell in love with Dark Souls. Prior to this moment I was enjoying the game. I was engaged. Trundling through the world with my shield held high, encountering increasingly difficult enemies, adjusting. Dying. In the process of understanding why Dark Souls was so intoxicating. I was desperate for…

Project CARS Is A Lot Of Fun

I was going to review Project CARS. Ten minutes into staring at the car setup screen, googling terms that I—even as a guy with a casual interest in cars—had never heard of, I thought maybe that wasn’t the best idea. Instead, then, here are some thoughts on Project CARS It’s a pretty video game. You…

Pry Is The Coolest Game I’ve Played In A While

Released earlier this year, Pry is a look at the life of a soldier who is wrestling with demons. I’d go so far as to say that it’s the best look at PTSD in gaming, and one of the most fascinating games released in recent memory. Pry is an iOS take on interactive fiction that…

Civ V’s 44-Player War Has Overrun The Planet, Prepares For Doomsday

After some technical woes, the enormous 44-player, AI-only Civ V battle has resumed, and the rivers of the world are running red. Here’s how everything stands as of turn 318, with a map showing not just Civ borders but the cities of the world as well: Image by SylonL & LacsiraxAriscal With over 300 turns…

Bloodborne Fan Theory: The Doll Is Actually An Alien God

Here’s a fun theory about Bloodborne that comes from someone who actually helped write the official Bloodborne guide. It postulates that maybe the kind, precious doll that takes care of us throughout the game isn’t who we think she is. According to EpicNameBro, there’s good reason to reconsider the motivations behind the doll we find…

Konami Sucks

The Internet’s angry at something new every day. With P.T., there’s a good god damn reason. Look, I don’t give a shit that Konami and Hideo Kojima are having a spat. I care about Konami burying an amazing piece of gaming history, and players not having any way to stop them. Here’s how I feel…

Hacker’s MMO Character Publicly Stripped, Killed & Banned

A hacker terrorized Guild Wars 2 for weeks and weeks. When the game’s creators finally took action, they humiliated the crap out of the dirty cheater. They took control of the hacker’s character, stripped them naked, and made them jump to their death. Then they systematically deleted each of the hacker’s characters and banned them.…

Tough times at the once-mighty Farmville studio Zynga. The company announced $100 million in cuts. CEO Mark Pincus: ”We are reducing our workforce by 364 people or approximately 18%, decreasing our outside services and reducing our central function.” Yikes.

There’s A New Way To Personalize Champions In League Of Legends

League of Legends is rolling out something called “champion mastery” across the game’s many servers this week. It’s an experimental feature that sounds like it could scratch an itch that League players have felt for a long time: the desire to toy with their favorite characters in immediate, tangible ways. Champion mastery adds a fresh…

One Of The Rarest PlayStation One Games Is Now $6 On PSN

As of this writing you can expect to pay between somewhere between $200 and $500 for a copy of Capcom’s delightful PSX Mega Man Legends prequel, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. Or you can just grab it today on PSNfor six bucks. Hooray! Released a little over 15 years ago in North America, back when…

Fans Divided About Whether “Spamming” Is Okay in Mortal Kombat

One of Mortal Kombat’s newest characters is gaining a reputation, at least among casual fans. According to the Internet, Jacqui Briggs is a problem. More specifically, it’s the way people are playing her. There’s recently been a lot of salt directed at players who pick Jacqui Briggs and then proceed to spam the same move…

Cordial Minuet, the slightly-demonic two-player video game you play online for real money, is now available for all to play. Check it out here. Don’t go bankrupt, and please thank us if you strike it rich.

The Start of the Next Marvel Universe Is… What the Hell Is Going On?

Marvel Comics is doing Secret Wars again. That means big drama is about to hit for Iron Man, Hulk, the X-Men and the publisher’s other superheroes. Everything will change in significant ways. You might even understand some of it. First, a warning: Secret Wars #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic is not the kind…