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Some NBA Stars Made An Overwatch Hype Video

A media guy for the Dallas Mavericks has been bugging the team for two years to let him do an Overwatch-style hype video, and they finally relented. It was worth the wait. Especially for Luka Doncic’s half-ass Junkrat. Before you give him too much shit, though, his complete lack of enthusiasm might be explained by…

Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Gets His Own (Unofficial) Amiibo

Official Amiibo are restricted to video game characters, but fan-made ones can be whatever the hell they want. Hence this incredible tribute to Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai Based on a his buddy Sean Hicks’ 2D artwork, 3D artist George Crudo built a caricature model of the Nintendo legend, then had it 3D-printed and painted…

Below, Capy Games’ long-awaited dungeon crawler, will finally be out on Xbox One and Steam on December 14.

Bethesda Support Leaks Fallout 76 Customer Names, Addresses & Phone Numbers

Some of the people submitting tickets to get their replacement Fallout 76 canvas baghave encountered a surprise: they’ve been given access to parts of Bethesda’s support system, including the ability to open and close tickets, as well as check out customer’s personal information. The loophole has since been closed, but not before a number of…

Bungie Already Tweaks Newest Destiny 2 Expansion To Reduce Grind

A day after releasing their game’s new Black Armory expansion, the creators of Destiny 2 are lowering the power level requirement to participate in the new content’s marquee feature, a series of weapon-based activities called Lost Forges. They’re also acknowledging that the requirement reduction is small but the best they can do at the moment.…

Battlefield V‘s First Expansion Is A Gamble That Doesn’t Pay Off

Battlefield V’s first post-launch addition, Overture, released today after an initial delay. The expansion moves the game’s timeline forward with new story perspectives and massive, tank-focused multiplayer battles. Overture is a mix of disappointing and exciting elements; it has terrific storytelling, but it also has one of the series’ least interesting maps. Also: Nazis. Overture’s…

Apple Pulls Strategy Game Because It Features The Taliban

Not for the first time, and not for the last either, a strategy game on the App Store has been removed because it featured “people from a specific government or other real entity as the enemies”. In this case, the Taliban. Apple’s long-standing and long-stupid policy has been affecting historically accurate (or at least historically…

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Competitor Lands Sick Combo Just Before Ultimate Drops

Although most players are eagerly anticipating the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this week, tournaments are still being run for the previous installment during what many consider to be its twilight hour. And lucky us, because, otherwise, we wouldn’t have seen this cool moment from an event last weekend where low tier hero…

This Official Star Wars Keycap Set Leans Towards The Dark Side

I find your lack of custom keycaps disturbing? No. These are the keycaps you’re looking for? Only Imperial Stormtroopers type so precise? I’ll figure this out. In the meantime, the first officially-licensed Star Wars keycap set is going up for sale. NovelKeys, home of the giant mechanical keyboard switch, has teamed up with Disney and…

Rapper 2 Milly Sues Epic Games For Stealing His Dance

Rapper 2 Milly is suing the maker of Fortnite, Epic Games, for selling his signature “Milly Rock” dance as an emote called “Swipe It.” Pierce Bainbridge, the law firm representing 2 Milly, filed the complaint in the Central District Court of California today, accusing Epic of, among other things, copyright infringement, and exploiting African American…

Spacewar! Creators Didn’t Know They Were Making History

Long after I’m dead, if the country remains unscathed, there will be a recording with me on it in the Smithsonian. On it, I will be heard asking the developers of Spacewar! if they had any idea what the video game industry was going to become when they made their game in 1962. The recording…

Looks Like A New Far Cry Will Be Announced Tomorrow

In what might be the most revealing teaser in gaming hype history, Ubisoft has just tossed up a trailer that spoils the end of Far Cry 5 (guess I should have finished that by now) and hypes a new Far Cry something or other coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC. “None of us were…

Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw is now working at Ubisoft Quebec, the studio behind Assassin’s Creed Odyssey In a studio blog post, it’s noted that Laidlaw had been consulting with Quebec on an unannounced project for the past nine months. Hmm.

The Swedish Economic Crime Authority have conducted a raid on Starbreeze, the studio behind the Payday 2, on suspicion of insider trading. According to a tweet, translated by Eurogamer, one person has been arrested.

SNK announced The King of Fighters XV for a 2020 release at a recent press conference in South Korea. There are currently no other details about the game. [Thanks, Sang!]

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New Jordans Are Based On Miles Morales’ Spider-Man

Nike’s upcoming Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG “Origin Story” is a mouthful to say out loud, but it’s a beauty to behold. Moreso when you find out it’s based on Miles Morales’ turn as Spider-Man. Made to coincide with the release of the animated film Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, they take the Jordan’s classic…

Destiny 2 Glitch Makes Big Boss 3x Bigger

Protheon, the boss of Destiny 2’s Inverted Spire strike, is a big guy! A glitch earlier this week made him a lot bigger, though. Terrifyingly so. Imagine seeing this immense unit appear out of nowhere. No thank you. Like the tweet says, the issue has now been fixed, so anyone with a fear of over-sized…

Neymar Skipped Soccer’s Most Prestigious Awards To Play Call Of Duty

The Ballon d’Or is the most prestigious award in world football, given each year to the player deemed by journalists to have been the best on the planet. Perhaps sensing that he was nowhere near winning it in 2018, Brazilian superstar Neymar didn’t even show up to this year’s event, instead spending the night playing…

In case you missed it, here’s our own Tim Rogers playing Monster Boy And The Cursed Kingdom on our twitch channel earlier today. You can also read our review of the game here.