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Mystery Man Is Donating Thousands In Cash To Twitch Streamers

It’s tough – as it should be, given the amount of competition – making any kind of money off streaming service Twitch. Unless, that is, your tip jar is paid a visit by a mysterious figure known only as “Amhai”. Over the past year or so, several streamers – many of them playing World of…

Decorating NY’s Subways With Lord Of The Rings-Themed Warnings

For months, Puck Works has been decorating New York’s subways with Lord of the Rings-themed warnings, advertisements, and invitations: Gondor Career Day. Troll Warning. The High Fells. Mount Doom Service Notice. You can see many more of Puck Works’ guerilla postings here Via Lev Grossman You are now looking at Screenburn, a Kotaku blog dedicated…

I’m Glad They’re Still Making Games Like Divinity: Original Sin

A common line of thinking among modern video game fans goes something like this: Games have gotten dumber. Simpler. Game developers are sanding off the weird edges, dialing back the stats, making everything controller-friendly and aiming for the lowest common denominator. But if that’s true, how do games like Divinity: Original Sin exist? Check the…

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Sources: Crytek UK’s Staff No Longer Going To Work

There’s still trouble at Crytek, the independent game developer behind games like Crysis and Ryse. And as of yesterday, the bulk of employees at Crytek’s UK office are no longer going to work, according to people familiar with the situation. This comes in the wake of numerous reports that Crytek, which has studios across the…

​What It’s Like to Be a Frustrated Video Game Creator

“Perhaps we’re not putting enough skulls on things… we could license celebrity skulls.” Fair warning: this is a bit of a ramble. A bit of a rant, too, but mostly a polite one. Nevertheless, it’s worth watching all of game designer David Hayward‘s talk about how thinking of video games as industry stifles video games…

Throwback: How To Wavedash In Super Smash Bros.

Here’s a new trick for those of you that never learned how to do the famous technique in Melee: a GIF that clearly shows the inputs necessary to perform a “wavedash.” Wavedashing, as you might know, is when someone performs a sliding motion while still being capable of doing ground attacks available to you while…

​Simulator Games Are Getting Out Of Hand

I’m sure, at some point, folks made jokes about making a simulator game where you played a simulator game. It’s not a joke. It exists. Used to be simulator games were about painstakingly recreating the details of a particular experience. But nowadays seeing the word simulator in a game means that you’re going to controlling…

Nintendo’s Big New Multiplayer Shooter Is Very…Nintendo

“We didn’t make this game with the idea that we wanted to make a simplified shooter or a dumbed-down shooter or anything like that,” Tsubasa Sakaguchi, a developer at Nintendo recently told me. I wasn’t expecting to be having this conversation. I wasn’t expecting to ever be talking to Nintendo about an online-focused multiplayer shooter…

Rob Pardo Leaves Blizzard

Longtime game designer and Blizzard executive Rob Pardo is leaving the company, he announced today. Pardo, who has been at Blizzard for 17 years and has worked on a number of games in the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft series, said he is leaving to “pursue the next chapter” in his career. Pardo’s full message: Every…

Nintendo Keeps Guilt-Tripping Me For Not Playing Their Games

It’s hard to keep up with sim games. All those little virtual pets demand your attention constantly, crying out from behind the screen to make sure you know they’re hungry or tired or lonely or bored or whatever. “Hey,” you just want to say sometimes. “I have a life too, you know. What about my…

​GTA Online Music Video Is About Getting Rich. Of Course.

What else is there to do in Los Santos, really? A hit Pet Shop Boys song gets the GTA Online treatment in this machinima music video from YouTubers Vader2K and TK7554. Something about the long shots of suited-up dudes walking and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-style glamour pans reads as very 1980s to me.…

Deals: Mario Kart 8, Endangered Plasmas, Smart Power, Free Dino D-Day

The very successful .gif machine that is Mario Kart 8 has dropped to new low of $45. Luigi, take the wheel. [Mario Kart 8] The folks at Humble have put together a nice little Independence Day Eve sale featuring discounts on BroForce and lots more. [Humble] Plasma TVs are set to go extinct, but don’t…

October Is Going To Be An Insane Month For Video Games

Civilization: Beyond Earth will come out on October 24, publisher 2K Games announced today. And if your immediate reaction to that news is to wonder why everything is coming out in October, you’re not alone. The full schedule for October 2014 is insane. INSANE. Take a look (h/t Wikipedia): October 3: Super Smash Bros. (3DS)…

Yep, Shovel Knight Has A ‘Butt Mode’

Well now this is just the best. Shovel Knight, one of the year’s best games, has a secret Butt Mode that replaces most of the proper nouns with “Butt.” To access it, just enter your name as WSWWAEAW. Here’s video of the game’s intro in Butt Mode: (via Castle Geekskull)

The season finale of The Wolf Among Us comes out next week. The fifth episode of Telltale’s adaptation of DC Comics’ Fables series hits Steam and North American PSN on Tuesday July 8. It lands on European PSN and Xbox Live on Wednesday July 9, with the iOS version following on Thursday July 10.

Video Games Didn’t Make Me Gay, But They Did Make Me Proud

I wish that the first time I had sex with a man had been in a video game. Instead, it was the second. And he really wasn’t a man at all, so much as a bundle of pixels and sprites. That’s why I wish I could’ve done things differently, though. Because the first man I…

The World of Watch Dogs is More Plausible Than You’d Think

Watch Dogs! It’s a virtual version of an automated American city where everything is hackable. Total fantasy, right? Well… The always-fantastic Jake over at Vsauce3 has an breakdown of how the connected technology we are becoming dependent on is gradually making us weak and exploitable. The world imagined in Watch Dogs is getting more and…

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Blizzard Adds Silly Mount Descriptions In Warlords of Draenor Beta

Still no news on when we can finally name our mounts in World of Warcraft, but that doesn’t mean there can be no cool additions to the UI. One of these are some pretty cool brief descriptions of all the mounts in the game. Here are some of the best ones, collected by Redditor tenthousandthousand:…