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From Software’s VR Game Deraciné Is Short And Unsettling

Deraciné, the first PlayStation VR game from Dark Souls maker From Software, definitely isn’t for everyone. It’s a brief, slow-paced, story-heavy game set in a boarding school. You solve puzzles with an inventory of items in classic adventure game fashion, but unlike most classic adventure games, these puzzles are quite easy. Deraciné is more about…

League Of Legends Made A K-Pop Video

And it’s…good? Just because they can, Riot Games has taken four of League of Legends’ champions and put them in a K-Pop band. Then got French studio Fortiche to make a very expensive music video for them. I think it’s an ad for new skins? Whatever it is, if every other major video game/series could…

Kept you waiting, huh? I’m streaming Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake right now on our Twitch channel. Come join the chat and see how far the series has come… and how much has stayed the same.

The WoW Classic Demo Is The Hell We Asked For

Chuck Norris references. Anal jokes. Killing two dozen raptors to harvest ten raptor heads. The Barrens. Shit, after two hours of the World of Warcraft Classic demo, I’m still in the Barrens. It’s an inescapable nightmare, which is to say it’s perfect. We wanted it hard, and Blizzard is giving it to us hard. The…

Fortnite‘s Cube Explodes, Briefly Transports Players To New Dimension

During an in-game event today, Fortnite’s cube (known to fans as Kevin) exploded—and then things got weird. At about 1pm EST today, Fortnite’s cube began to pulse, then glow and spin. When the spinning reached a fever pitch, a burst of white light shot from the cube, transporting players to a white, Matrix-meets-The Good Place-esque…

Blizzard Says It Wasn’t Expecting Fans To Be This Angry About Diablo Immortal

Yesterday, during a BlizzCon Q&A shortly after the announcement of mobile game Diablo Immortal, a fan in a red shirt approached the mic. “Just was wondering,” he said in a deadpan tone, “is this an out-of-season April Fool’s joke?” The audience cheered. It was just the beginning of a very long weekend for Blizzard. The…

Poker Night At The Inventory Is An Awkward Time Capsule

This weekend, my friends are hosting a poker night, and I wanted to brush up on my poker skills. I haven’t played it for a decade, which might be why I thought it would make sense to relearn the ropes via Telltale Games’ 2010 Poker Night At The Inventory, a version of Texas hold ’em…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Epic Mercenary Events Have Been Put On Hold

After a few failed attempts at Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Epic Mercenary Events, Ubisoft announced today that the event will be removed while they work out some issues. “Two weeks ago, when we attempted to launch the first Epic Mercenary Event with Damais the Indifferent, we discovered that the content didn’t properly appear for a majority…

As I rushed to an interview at BlizzCon this morning, I found my path blocked by a procession of murlocs. There were at least 30 of them—likely more. They were walking from the show floor to the convention center’s doors. For what purpose, we will probably never know.

Building A Better Star Wars Action Figure

Picking up an action figure of your favorite character at the store is all well and good, but what if you could spend several hours assembling one from scratch? Putting together these Star Wars character kits from Bandai and Bluefin is a lot more fun than it sounds. When I was a child, my father…

Rainbow 6 Siege Will Remove Sex And Gambling References Globally [UPDATE: Changes Reverted]

In order to prepare Rainbow 6 Siege for “expansion into Asian territories,” Ubisoft announced yesterday that it will be making some global changes to the game’s visuals to remove gore and references to sex and gambling. While the studio says the changes won’t affect gameplay, many fans are still not happy. [Update 11/20, 3:17pm— Ubisoft…

Diablo Immortal Is A Simplified Diablo—Maybe Too Simplified

At first glance, the upcoming mobile game Diablo Immortal looks a lot like Diablo III. Similar classes, similar environments, similar art, similar abilities. In the demo I played at BlizzCon, however, much of the resemblance was only skin deep. After a brief tutorial hosted by the one and only Deckard Cain, the 15-minute multiplayer demo…

World Of Warcraft‘s ‘Rise of Azshara’ Update Will Take Us To The Land Of The Naga

World of Warcraft’s first major post-Battle for Azeroth content update, Tides of Vengeance, launches on December 11, but that’s not important right now. The update after that, Rise of Azshara, will take players to the naga home of Azjatar, the lost gnome city of Mechagon, and beyond. At BlizzCon today, Blizzard gave out some tantalizing…

Behold, BlizzCon’s giant Lego D.Va statue. Yes, she’s made of Lego bricks. No, you probably won’t be able to buy this one in the near future

The Long Journey To The Fantastic Tetris Effect

Tetris Effect is the next game from Enhance, the game studio run by Tetsuya Mizuguchi that created Rez Infinite and Lumines Remastered Mizuguchi has been trying to create his own take on Tetris since the early 2000s. Fortunately for me, he wasn’t able to pull it off in those days, which resulted in the creation…

Today, Nintendo released its new GameCube-style controller for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, out on the Switch December 7. Playing Smash 4 with it today alongside my crappy $15 knockoff GameCube controller, the new official controller has a significantly longer cord and tighter trigger action. Its analog sticks are springy and delightful, too.

Blizzard Announces Diablo Immortal For Phones

If you were hoping for Diablo 4, you’re going to have to wait a while longer. The next Diablo game is Diablo Immortal, announced today at BlizzCon, and it’s a phone game that Blizzard says is “coming soon.” Set during the twenty years between Diablo II and Diablo III, Diablo Immortal will tell stories about Tyrael,…

Hearthstone’s next expansion, Rastakhan’s Rumble, will be out December 4 Here’s a charming musical trailer.

Warcraft 3 Is Getting Remastered

It’s no Warcraft 4, but Warcraft 3 sure looks good remastered in 4K. Warcraft 3: Reforged is coming out next year to remind everyone where World of Warcraft came from. The shiny new version of the 2002 classic will include all content from Reign of Chaos and its expansion, The Frozen Throne. There’s a special…

Overwatch‘s Next Hero Is Ashe, Leader of the Deadlock Gang

At BlizzCon today, Blizzard announced Overwatch’s latest hero, Ashe, a stern and strict gang leader who looks absolutely killer. Introduced in the animated short “Reunion,” Ashe stands off against Overwatch’s bounty hunter Jesse McCree in a fight worthy of Red Dead Redemption 2 (only with robots): She’s the leader of the Deadlock Gang, a group…