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A Game About Slapping An Ass Gave Me Embarrassing Flashbacks
Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair. This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most…
By Kate Gray Published January 18, 2019 -
Telling Lies, the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, will have an all-star cast including Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire), and Angela Sarafyan (Westworld). Annapurna Interactive will publish the game this year.
By Chris Kohler Published January 18, 2019 -
Black Ops 4‘s Latest Zombies Update Is A Lurch In The Right Direction
Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode wasn’t a big hit with the community when it arrived last fall, and what’s happened in the months since then hasn’t helped its reputation. But this week’s update is a step in the right direction. In my initial review of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, I professed my frustrations…
By S.E. Doster Published January 18, 2019 -
Atlas Player Gets Into Admin’s Account, Summons Swarm Of Whales And Other Mayhem
A Steam account belonging to an admin of the controversially received survival game Atlas was compromised yesterday, after which point the account thief went on a server-wide rampage that involved spawning countless whales and even tanks. Eventually, the Atlas team stepped in to stop the chaos eventually and perform a rollback on the server. As…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 18, 2019 -
Ace Combat 7 Is A Proper Ace Combat Game
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown delivers the supremely satisfying air combat players crave and the melodramatic narrative we’ve come to expect. There’s nothing quite like shooting down drones while your squadron calls you “murderer.” Ace Combat has been serving the arcade-style dogfight loving public for more than two decades. Since 1995’s Air Combat for the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 18, 2019 -
Former Bandai Employees Allegedly Embezzled Money In Giant Gundam Project
Two former Bandai employees have been arrested on suspicion of swindling the company out of 200 million yen ($1.8 million) between July 2013 and November 2016. According to The Tokyo Reporter and ANN News, the ex-employees, 44-year-old Takashi Udatsu and 66-year-old Takao Kurokawa, have been accused of faking documents. Specifically, Nifty News adds that in…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 18, 2019 -
This Is Not A Human Fashion Model, But A CG Person
Meet Imma. On her Twitter page, she describes herself as a virtual model and proudly declares, “I want to attract humans to the fashion show.” Sounds good to me! Her name Imma is a wordplay on the Japanese word “ima” (今) meaning “now.” According to IT Media, she was created by Tokyo-based CG company Modeling…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 18, 2019 -
Travis Strikes Again‘s Ending Hints At The Future Of No More Heroes
The final sequences of Travis Strikes Again have some interesting twists for fans of Grasshopper Manufacture’s games who might want to know what’s coming next from Goichi Suda’s studio. If you want to experience them for yourself, read no further! If you’d rather get spoiled, this is for you. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, out…
By Chris Kohler Published January 18, 2019 -
The Queen’s Golden Wii Has Been Found
Ten years ago, a THQ marketing stunt sent a gold-plated Nintendo Wii console to Queen Elizabeth II. She obviously never received the gift personally, which led People Make Games’ Chris Bratt to wonder: then where the hell was it? If the Queen never opened it, and THQ are long gone, then it was going to…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 17, 2019 -
Bethesda Says It’s Cracking Down On Cheaters In Fallout 76
Fallout 76 is getting less broken every day. Bethesda said in today’s “Inside the Vault” post that in the last week alone it’s fixed 150 bugs, with more fixes coming in the future. Two problems Bethesda is still working on, it says, are unbalanced end-game weapons and cheating. “We want Fallout 76 to be a…
By Ethan Gach Published January 17, 2019 -
A Gamer’s Guide To Not Getting Hacked
If you play video games, you are an ideal target to get wrecked by hackers. Sure, you’re tech savvy—you know what a hard drive is and have seen an HDMI cable or two in your day. Still, there are some unassailable, totally exploitable truths about gamers: They are very online. They log in to a…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 17, 2019 -
There’s A Power Rangers Fighting Game Coming In April
Coming in April from nWay, the developer and publisher of mobile fighter Power Rangers Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid pits rangers and villains old and new against each other in battles across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch and eventually PC. nWay’s teamed up with Hasbro and Lionsgate to tap 25 years of…
By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2019 -
Everything We Learned At Today’s Mortal Kombat 11 Reveal
It’s got advanced character customization options, some new fight mechanics. time travel and an MMA fighter as Sonya Blade, but so far, Mortal Kombat 11 looks like more Mortal Kombat with the gore dialed up a notch. Great fountains of blood punctuated our first look at NetherRealm Studios’ latest in action. Mortal Kombat is known…
By Mike Fahey Published January 17, 2019 -
Another Wind Waker HD Glitch Is Rewriting The Rules For The Game’s World Records
A trick that lets players finish the third dungeon without collecting the boss key in the Wii U remaster of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, is the latest in a slew of glitch discoveries that have made the game’s speedrunning scene one of the most exciting to follow. Though a new world…
By Ethan Gach Published January 17, 2019 -
Here’s something you don’t usually see in the hype for big budget games: Ubisoft says the PvE/PvP Dark Zone regions in March’s The Division 2 will collectively be a third smaller than they were in the first game and the player count will be halved to 12. The Dark Zone could be desolate in the…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 17, 2019 -
Battlefield V‘s ‘Tides Of War’ Challenges Keep The Game Fresh
Battlefield V moves into the next phase of its Tides of War system today. The latest update brings co-op game modes and smaller, infantry-focused maps. This sequential release of new content and new challenges has breathed continued life into a controversial game, and it’s one of the things that Battlefield V is doing right. Instead…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 17, 2019
