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The Latest Steam Game To Test Valve’s Laissez-Faire Policy Is Called ‘Rape Day’

An independent developer called Desk Lamp says it has spent over two years working on a game called Rape Day. Now it’s waiting for approval from Valve to sell it on Steam. “Rape Day is a game where you can rape and murder during a zombie apocalypse,” reads its description on Steam. I’m not exaggerating…

Chiquita Evans Could Be The First Woman In NBA 2K‘s Pro League

Chiquita Evans, a 30 year-old professional NBA 2K player who splits her time between Chicago and Mobile, Kentucky, loves winning and really loves basketball. Today, she may become the first woman to be drafted in the NBA 2K league, and she’s more than ready to grab the W. Evans is one of two female NBA…

Mars arrives in Dota 2 today adding another ancient god to the game’s existing pool of over 100 heroes. The melee carry has a giant shield that decreases damage he receives from the front and sides and has a bunch of crowd-control abilities that should make him fun to play.

Red Dead Online Players Are Cloning Hundreds Of Cougars

If you stop by a local butcher in Red Dead Online right now, you might find stacks of dead cougars. This isn’t because of a cougar population explosion. Instead, this is because some players have discovered an easy way to make a lot of money in Red Dead Online that involves spawning hundreds of dead…

Man Beats Mario 64’s First Bowser Fight Without Using The Control Stick

Super Mario 64 expert Pannenkoek2012 has devised a way to defeat Bowser in the game’s Dark World without ever using the N64 controller’s joystick, and the result is incredible to watch. Pannenkoek2012, whom we’ve covered before and who has spent years researching the depths of every little detail and nuance in Mario 64, has most…

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Conan Unconquered is a real-time strategy game being made by Petroglyph, a studio formed by some of the original developers on the Command & Conquer series. It’s also a wave-survival game like They Are Billions, which all sounds great on paper. It’s slated to arrive on PC in the first half of 2019.

While Anthem does occasionally shutdown players’ PS4s, it doesn’t appear to be bricking them after all Instead, players whose consoles become unresponsive have reported being able to get them running again by starting the console in safe mode and rebuilding the data base.

Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Works Too Damn Hard

This is Masahiro Sakurai. He makes Smash Bros. games. At this point in his career, he could probably take things pretty easy. He does not. “My office hours are up to me. So long as I complete the new Smash Bros., I could show up only once a week, or only at night, or even…

Turn Your Cat’s Face Into A Wearable Mask

In Japan, a service called “My Family” is offering to sculpt realistic order-made masks depicting people’s family pets. For example, this is Rui, a Bengal cat that lives in Kyoto. Looking at reference photos, an artist sculpts the feline’s face, adding fur, which it then color to match the original markings. Prices start at 300,000…

The latest episode of toco toco is a big one, as they chat with the directors of both Devil May Cry 5 and Resident Evil 2’s remake.

Giant Mod Is Bringing Us A Dragon Age Strategy Game

Dragon Age, the fantasy RPG series, is now also about to be a sprawling strategy game thanks to a total conversion mod for an old Total War game Via PC Gamer, Dragon Age: Total War is a mod for Medieval II: Total War that completely transforms the 2006 classic into something that looks like EA…

Xbox Live Indie Games Had Some Really Weird Smut

In the summer of 2014, I was working on Official Nintendo Magazine. In the fall of 2014, Official Nintendo Magazine was closed down forever, and I was moved to Official Xbox Magazine. I had never owned an Xbox. NSFW warning: Scantily-clad cartoon women One of my new responsibilities as rapidly-learning Xbox writer was to review…

24-Player Mario Kart Is A Bloodbath

I’ve always wondered why Mario Kart races—in recent years, anyway—have been capped at 12 racers when the hardware could surely handle more. Looking at this madness, it’s probably to preserve everyone’s sanity. After messing around with Mario Kart Wii for a long time, MrBean35000vr has managed to get a modified version of the game running…

This Is Probably The Movie Version Of Sonic The Hedgehog

It sure looks like the agency Hamagami/Carroll Inc., who specialise in entertainment industry art and branding, have given us our first look at how Sonic the Hedgehog appears in his upcoming live-action movie The film’s debut poster only showed a silhouette of the star, leaving fans (and Photoshoppers) to try and fill in the blanks.…

ToeJam & Earl: Back In The Groove Is A Well-Timed Throwback

Rejoice! There’s a new ToeJam & Earl game out and it’s not garbage. Kickstarted back in 2015, ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is a soft reboot of the original game that debuted on the Sega Genesis back in 1991. It’s out now on PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch, and it’s entirely decent.…

Red Dead Online’s Big Update Is Testing The Patience Of Frustrated Players

Red Dead Online received update 1.06 last week that was its biggest since the game launched last year. It added tools to combat griefing, new cosmetics, bounties, and more. Though the update was substantial, many players disliked the changes, leaving Rockstar’s online game in a tough spot. Red Dead Online has been out since late…

Gwent’s new expansion, Crimson Curse, will bring vampires to the Witcher-based card game on March 28. Inspired by the Witcher 3‘s Blood and Wine DLC, the new set, comprised of over 100 cards, will focus on poison, bleeding, deathblow, and berserk effects. In other words: lots of dying.

Mexican Newspaper Prints Graphic Of The New Pokémon Games: Sword, Shield, And Gun

One of the funniest reactions to last week’s reveal of Pokémon Sword and Shield for the Nintendo Switch was Twitter user@Sir5000’s joking addition of Pokémon Gun to the lineup. The mock logo is so convincing, Mexican newspaper La Voz de Michoacán ran with it. On February 27 the La Voz de Michoacán websiteran a story…

Anthem Players Say The Game Is Crashing Their PS4s [UPDATE]

It’s been a rough launch for BioWare’s new loot shooter, and some PlayStation 4 players are now finding that the game occasionally shuts off their system as well. “When encountering a crash or game error, sometimes I get booted to the main menu or out of the game completely to the PS4 dashboard,” a user…