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What Happens When Sony Doesn’t Renew Some Domain Names

When you don’t pay for your domain names, you lose your website. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mommy blogger or Sony Online Entertainment. Because the company’s payment notices had been “sent to [the] wrong email” over a number of weeks, early on July 15 the websites – and even forums – of Sony Online…

​Excellent D&D Tips From A Veteran Dungeon Master

If you’ve ever been a Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master, you know that it’s a weighty responsibility. The dice may help decide who wins and who loses, but you and you alone are responsible for everyone’s fun. In a great post over on reddit, writer/game designer Matt Colville, a DM of 28 years, has shared…

Doom 4 Is A Reboot. And It’s Not Called Doom 4.

The game’s been in development… hellfor years now, but today at QuakeCon, id is showing off the first actual footage of Doom 4. Here’s the catch, though: the people in attendance at QuakeCon are the only people who are going to see it. There is no streaming, no trailers, nothing. All those of us in…

The Evil Within will drop a bit early: Today at QuakeCon, Bethesda announced that Shinji Mikami’s latest horrorfest The Evil Within will be out on October 14, a week earlier than its previously announced October 21 release date.

It’s Like Playing Assassin’s Creed In Real Life (Without The Stabbing)

Ubisoft has created an official Assassin’s Creed obstacle course minus any bales of hay or annoying guards. You can run through it at San Diego Comic-Con next week (location info here). Cool or not? What do you think? Let the game’s Chief Parkour Officer (!?!) walk you through it:

What’s Your Favorite Mario Kart 8 Vehicle Combination?

Mario Kart 8 has been out long enough for players to put every possible vehicle combination through the wringer. So now that we’ve all taken a few laps around Rainbow Road, I have to ask: what do you think the best build is? There’s no one answer to this question, of course, any more than…

Dope Shoes, Dawg​

Stylin’ kicks bro. via r/videos

​The 10 Worst Things About Building A New Gaming PC

Building a gaming PC can be difficult and stressful. There are a thousand things that could go wrong, and any one of them could wind up costing hundreds of dollars. And yet we do it anyway. Why? Lord only knows. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve finished building and fine-tuning a new gaming PC.…

Earlier this week we published an opinion piece regarding a rape accusation made against the co-creator of Cards Against Humanity. We’ve taken the unusual step of publishing a revised version of the article here that I think better expresses the piece’s original intent and hopefully provokes valuable discussion. A note in that new version explains…

Nathan Drake Has Some Serious Objections

The hero of Sony’s Uncharted games isn’t the stoic type. He’s a chatterbox when all the jumping, shooting and punching is going down. It’s not all quips and punchlines, though. One thing he says a whole damn lot? “No.” This supercut of Nathan Drake saying the opposite of yes mostly has him panicking when stuff…

It’s Games, Games, Games As Microsoft Plans To Close Xbox TV Division

Less than three months after Microsoft had a big splashy debut for their Xbox Entertainment Studios division, the company is shutting down the unit tasked with making original TV shows for their game console. Re/Code reports that the shutdown comes as part of a massive restructuring that will see Microsoft eliminating 18,000 jobs over the…

​Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Jedi Battle For Charity

Who is the biggest Star Wars nerd: Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert? I guess there’s only one way to find out — Jedi battle! The production might not be top notch as far as Star Wars YouTube videos go, but it’s for a good cause and at least we get to see Stewart in a…

Peter ​Dinklage’s Infamous ‘Moon Wizard’ Line Cut From Destiny Beta

Destiny was in alpha a few weeks ago. Now, starting today on PS4, Bungie’s upcoming shooter is in beta, with a few changes awaiting players. One of those changes has cut the most notoriously goofy line of dialogue from Destiny. That’s right: Peter Dinklage’s bored-sounding exposition about moon wizards is no more. Kotaku UK spotted…

Hearthstone‘s big single-player expansion, Curse of Naxxramas, will start rolling out on July 22 for Mac, PC and iOS players, with new parts of it opening up each week for five weeks, Blizzard revealed today. The first part, or “wing”, is free if you get in right away, but the pricing is more complicated after…

What Those Items In Mario Kart 8 Are Really For

Mario Kart 8 is a great game. But like many great Nintendo games, there are certain things in it that seem to exist for no good reason. Or any reason, really. They’re just sort of…there. For something? Maybe? I have no idea. But man, those splashes of squid ink can really be irritating sometimes. Dorkly…

Kirk’s TwitchBizkit Log

I wanted to do this, but luckily someone else did. [<a href=” ” target=”_blank”>View the story “Chronicles of TwitchBizkit” on Storify</a>]

This Is The Stupidest Dark Souls II Video Ever And I Love It

I love the Dark Souls community, in part because of their unwavering commitment to really stupid jokes. The video above is a brilliant example of that. I can’t believe I watched that whole damn thing. Like, twice. THANK YOU Poblanster Poblanster via r/DarkSouls2 To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find…

Deals: Wolfenstein, Last of Us Remastered, Whole Lotta Logitech, LEGO

PC gamers can grab the surprisingly good Wolfenstein: The New Order on the cheap today. $24 with code P36EYA-K5JYKT-ABO7X9. [Wolfenstein: The New Order] We’re experimenting with a new format today that still front loads the deals endemic to each site’s audience, while bringing everyone more deals and giving us more flexibility in updating. If you…

Marvel Superheroes, Recreated As Custom LEGO Minifigures

Marvel and LEGO enthusiast autorazr has a mission: To recreate as many custom Marvel superheroes in LEGO form as possible. This includes characters from different timelines and universes, characters wearing their old and their new costumes. Villains that will probably never get their own set. So basically everyone. He shared most of his work in…

What It’s Like To Play Games When You’re Colorblind

The first time I realized my color blindness was affecting how I played games was back in 2004. EA was fresh off of MVP Baseball 2004 and was looking to improve on a game that I still hold as one of the best sports titles of all time. Their big addition for MVP Baseball 2005…