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Japan’s Best Gundam Models Of 2018
Here are the winners and finalists that will represent Japan in the 2018 Gunpa Builders World Cup These are expertly built and painted Gundam models. Via 2ch, here is third place. Second place. And first place. The images originally appeared on 2ch under a thread that called the level of this year’s winners “so awful.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 23, 2018 -
Chinese Game Site Censors Winnie The Pooh in Kingdom Hearts III
When Chinese game site A9VG recently covered Kingdom Hearts III, it decided to remove one thing: Winnie the Pooh. Below is a screenshot of the A9VG coverage that was posted on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. According to Buzz Plus, to get around censors, it seems, the site decided to edit out Pooh bear. What…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 23, 2018 -
Gnomes Are Part Of The Weirdest Sims 4’s Thanksgiving
The Sims 4‘s holidays, introduced in the Seasons expansion, do a good job of mimicking their real life counterparts. In order to complete holidays successfully, you have to achieve certain goals before the day is over. On Love Day, you’re expected to give flowers and go on a date. During Winterfest, you give gifts and…
By Gita Jackson Published November 22, 2018 -
Goku Is In The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade For The First Time
Dragon Ball’s Goku will make his premiere (in balloon form, and also Super Saiyan Blue form) at the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade today. According to Macy’s, Goku is 56 feet tall and as wide as seven taxis, an enjoyably specific unit of measurement I’d like to see used for other things. Earlier this week Macy’s…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 22, 2018 -
May you all have as enjoyable and challenging a holiday as Lady Gaga is having playing Bayonetta
By Luke Plunkett Published November 21, 2018 -
Here’s The Actual Basketball From The Cover Of NBA Jam
The iconic cover to NBA Jam, with its image of a logo-adorned basketball smashing through some paper, is not an illustration. It’s a photo, and this is the model, 25 years later. As trivial as this sounds, I had never even considered this possibility, so excuse my amazement at the wonders of early-90s promotional bootstrapping.…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 21, 2018 -
What Makes Ocarina Of Time Great, 20 Years Later
The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time turned 20 years old today. Link’s first 3-D adventure, for the content-starved Nintendo 64, captivated a whole new generation of players, setting a standard for adventure games and laying a foundation for today’s massive open world journeys. In spite of this, Ocarina of Time remains a unique…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 21, 2018 -
Popular Overwatch Fan Song Has Turned Into An Excuse To Mock Female Gamers
TikTok is a lip-synching app that’s popular among teenagers. If you’re not a teenager, you might be more familiar with this app through “cringe” compilations, which are videos that string together several TIkTok videos, often for the purposes of mockery. Every single “cringe” compilation that I’ve watched contains at least one instance of the Overwatch-themed…
By Gita Jackson Published November 21, 2018 -
Fallout 76’s Multiplayer: The Promise Vs. The Reality
In the week since Fallout 76‘s release, it since has become one of 2018’s more divisive games. Its Metacritic page is a horrorshow; its official forum and subreddits are battlegrounds between those who have found something to love in the buggy online survival game and those who think Bethesda has taken the series off a…
By Ethan Gach Published November 21, 2018 -
The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo
On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applause, a Diablo game for phones. It was a baffling marketing decision that immediately set off controversy, as fans of Blizzard’s iconic action-role-playing game franchise loudly accused the company of neglecting its PC players Perhaps Blizzard’s marketing department had expected Diablo…
By Jason Schreier Published November 21, 2018 -
WWE Star Spends Precious Airtime On Very Relatable PS4 Storage Issue
“I’m thankful for my two terabyte hard drive, so that I don’t have to delete Spider-Man in order to download Red Dead 2,” WWE wrestler Xavier Woods said during a Thanksgiving segment on the Smackdown wrestling TV show last night. You can see him make that statement, which garnered an “amen” from one of the…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 21, 2018 -
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s First Epic Mercenary Isn’t Very Epic
It’s been over a month since epic mercenaries were originally planned to arrive in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the game has finally received its first one. These unique battles, which grant special rewards and in-game currency, could be a chance to highlight Odyssey’s combat system and challenge players to adopt new tactics. Unfortunately, the first…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 21, 2018 -
I’m jumping back into some Battlefield V on our Twitch channel. Come hang out with me in the chat!
By Paul Tamayo Published November 21, 2018 -
No Man’s Sky To Roll Out Thanksgiving Update With New Biomes And Bizarre Creatures
Count your blessings, interlopers. No Man’s Sky is getting a surprise update, called Visions, for Thanksgiving. This update doesn’t appear to be quite as hefty as previous ones, but it’s still introducing new biomes, outer space creatures, and more community events. The update will launch tomorrow while many Americans are chowing down on turkey and…
By Gita Jackson Published November 21, 2018