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Oh Hey, Star Citizen Is Still Out There

Star Citizen has been in development since 2012. It’s still not out yet, of course, not in the traditional sense, but this trailer for the game’s big singleplayer campaign Squadron 42 has just been released, and if nothing else there sure are a lot of Hollywood faces in it. Gary Oldman! Gillian Anderson! Henry Cavill!…

LEGO Pip-Boy Will Not Survive The Apocalypse

LEGOParadise has built this replica of Fallout 76’s Pip-Boy 2000 MK VI, which looks just like the “real” thing, even if it isn’t quite as sturdy. It’s got everything the in-game version has, from a holotape player to a radio, and the moving screen comes courtesy of an iPhone. via The Brothers Brick

NBA Rookie Looks Just Like Brock From Pokémon

This is Jerome Robinson, the 13th pick in the 2018 NBA draft. Or, as he’ll now forever be known, “Brock from Pokémon.” Writer Tomer Azarly was in the Clippers’ locker room earlier today and pointed out the similarity. Please get this mana cameo in the Detective Pikachu movie as a live-action Pokémon doctor

One GoldenEye Fan Wants To Recreate The Entire Game In Unreal

People are always recreating things in Unreal Engine: Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Diddy Kong Racing. Often, though not always, these projects result in short videos or barely playable mods that serve as a cool “What if?” but don’t lead to anything more. The creator of GoldenEye 25 says he is dead set on beating the…

Cat Sucks At Elite Dangerous

Among Elite Dangerous’ many player groups, there may be none better known than the unerringly altruistic Fuel Rats. The leaderless collective has one mission and one mission only: to rescue pilots stranded in the ever-ravenous vacuum of space. Recently, one of them completely screwed that up. Because of a cat. Yesterday, the Fuel Rats released…

Free Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Comics Are Pretty Great

In the run-up to Friday’s release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Activision has been releasing free downloadable comics introducing the game’s Specialists, and they’re surprisingly good. There are currently five issues available to read, either directly on the Call of Duty site or to download for your convenience. Five more are on the…

Lucas Pope, developer of Papers, Please, has been working on a new game called Return of the Obra Dinn for four and a half years. It’s about insurance and murders on 19th century ships and today he announced it will finally release on October 18 for PC and Mac

Switch Online Now Lets You Cheat At The Legend Of Zelda

Today, Nintendo continued to build out the NES library in its Switch Online app with the previously-announced addition of NES Open Tournament Golf, Solomon’s Key, and Super Dodge Ball. But it also had a surprise: “Living the life of luxury!,” a hacked save file for The Legend of Zelda that starts players out with a…

Bungie has shared details on Destiny 2‘s upcoming Festival of the Lost, which starts October 16. Among other things, there’ll be a new timed mode in Mercury’s Infinite Forest that sounds like it could be cool. We’ll also get a quest to avenge the death of Master Ives, a character I’m sure you totally remember…

Official Lego Overwatch begins with Bastion. Standing five inches tall with the included stand, the $25 Omnic Bastion set is not a giant Lego D.Va mech, but it’s a good start.It’s available now via the Blizzard store, and will also be on sale at BlizzCon next month. 

Video Game Collecting Tips For Beginners

Almost nobody wakes up one morning and decides out of the blue that they want to be a video game collector. In my experience, it’s more of a gradual thing: You start out by buying some old games you want to have around, then you get a few more, and the next thing you know,…

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I’m Considering Restarting New Games After An Hour Or Two

If I had more time, I’d begin playing games a little differently than I have for the last 30 years. I’d start them, but then I’d stop a couple of hours in and start again. I’ve been thinking about what it would be like to play games this way because I just had this experience…

Top YouTubers Are Taking Heat For Their Deals With A Controversial Mental Health App

Over the last week, some of YouTube’s biggest personalities have become embroiled in a controversy surrounding an app that connects people to mental health counselors. The mental health app has sponsored top YouTubers like Philip DeFranco, Boogie2988 and Shane Dawson and reportedly offers these video makers referral fees when fans sign up to get help.…

Runescape Developer Cuts Ties With Twitch Streamers After Allegations Of Sexual Harassment, Violence

RuneFest, a convention run by the creators of RuneScape, is supposed to be an annual celebration of the fantasy MMO that came out in 2001 and has stayed improbably relevant in 2018 due to updates, iterations, and an active streaming community. This year, some attendees raised concerns about one streamer in particular, Ali “Gross Gore”…

The Overwatch League’s second season is starting a little later than expected. On February 14, the league’s 20 teams—eight of which are new—will begin facing off at Blizzard Arena in Los Angeles, Blizzard announced this morning. Last year, the season started in January. It’s going to be a weird Valentine’s Day.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Cultist System Is One Of The Game’s Best Features

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey balloons the further you get into it, adding layers of complex systems from nation-conquest battles to mercenary bounties. These help give a sense of how fragile and war-torn Greece has become in the game’s storyline. But a later system is more devious, and an important addition to the franchise as a whole.…

PSN Name Changes Are Officially Coming

Last week, we told you that game developers were preparing for PlayStation Network name changes to arrive. Now, the news is official, with Sony announcing this morning that users will be able to change their old PSN IDs starting in early 2019. Thefirst change will be free, Sony says, and subsequent changes will cost $10…

Jesse Jackson’s 1988 Presidential Campaign Lives On In South Korea

Jesse Jackson might have lost his 1988 bid, but his campaign lives on in South Korea as youth fashion. If you’ve spent any time in Asia, you’ll know that it’s not uncommon to see interesting English slogans and expressions on t-shirts and sweatshirts. (Likewise, the English speaking world does the same with foreign languages!) Earlier…