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Warring EVE Online Factions Declare Peace, For Money

The latest all-out EVE Online war has come to an end, and there’s a clear winner and loser. The Guardians of the Galaxy coalition has agreed to surrender a vast amount of in-game assets to its foes The Imperium in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. The massive war between the Northern Alliances and the…

PlayStation Experience Is Skipping 2018, Sony Says

For a while now PlayStation fans have been wondering what’s up with 2018’s PlayStation Experience, PlayStation’s annual fan event, since Sony still hadn’t announced dates for it. Today, Shawn Layden, the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios, explained that it’s not happening this year. “For 2018, I know this is going to be a…

CBS Shuts Down Ambitious Fan Effort To Make A Virtual Starship Enterprise

Before there was Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s game about piloting the original Enterprise, there was Star Trek Stage-9, a fan project recreating the Enterprise-D from The Next Generation in Unreal Engine. This week the project is no more, following a cease and desist demand by CBS. One of the leads on the project, who…

Sims 4 Staffer Urges Fans To Stop ‘Attacking/Insulting Our Dev Team’

Once again, Sims fans have brought up old grievances to the game’s developers, leading one to take repeated Twitter breaks and a community manager to issue a plea for decency and patience on the part of the fans. The Sims 4 got off to a rocky start, and its reputation among fans has not quite…

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Bungie says it’s planning to tweak Masterwork Cores and Exotic engrams in Destiny 2: Forsaken Masterwork cores are being renamed and there will soon be “more reliable and plentiful Core sources” to make infusing a bit easier. Exotic engrams will soon be more likely to drop something you don’t have, which sure sounds familiar. Also, for the…

Japanese Crime Recreated With CG, Hilarity Ensues 

TV Asahi, one of Japan’s largest television networks, has a sporadic program called Rettou Keisatsu Sousamou: The Tsuiseki (Archipelago Police Investigation: The Pursuit). The show’s recent CG recreations of actual crimes are excellent. Granted, these are not violent crimes, but the way they are recreated is pretty great. Don’t believe me? Have a look! Via…

No, This Isn’t A Trailer For A Berserk Live-Action Movie

This isn’t a trailer for a live-action Berserk movie, but one for volume 40 of the manga. If you like Berserk or, better yet, if you are a fan of Sony’s greatest PlayStation commercial in years, then this is relevant to your interests. Here is the live-action Berserk manga commercial Yes, that’s Shigeru Matsuzaki, star…

Utada Hikaru And Skrillex Team Up For Kingdom Hearts III Music

Originally, Skrillex was going to remix Hikaru Utada’s Kingdom Hearts III theme, “Don’t Think Twice.” However, that developed into a new, original collaboration. The resulting track is called “Face My Fears.” The Skrillex collaboration, which was produced along with Poo Bear of Justin Bieber’s What Do You Mean? fame, will be released on January 18,…

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Art house Cook & Becker are trying something a little different with a new line of art books. They’re art notebooks, which leave space for your own sketches and notes while also featuring those from the game they’re featuring (Horizon and Witcher 3 are available now, with The Last Of Us coming soon).

Play As Bowsette In Super Mario 64

Someone paid modding mastermind Kaze Emanuar to build a playable Bowsette in Super Mario 64, and he duly obliged. It’s not just a visual gag, she’s also got a permanent fire-throwing ability. His indifferent “Someone paid me to do this shit” is almost as good as the mod itself. While the creation of the mod…

Fortnite‘s ‘Shadow Stone’ Disabled After Players Become Invisible Forever [UPDATE]

Fortnite is a game about receding into the woods and trying to avoid humanity for the entirety of your natural lifespan. Oh wait, no, that’s just what I’m planning to do after today’s events. But Fortnite is a game where staying hidden and getting the drop on other players can be a huge advantage. You…

FIFA 19 vs PES 2019: Which Is Better?

Will somebody please put Pro Evolution Soccer out of its misery. I started reviewing these two games together all the way back in 2012 because I felt that this rivalry, the last remaining true contest in all of sports gaming, deserved its own unique look at how each title shaped up. It was also because…

Streamers Have Concerns About Twitch’s New Tag System

Unless you’re doing some kind of performance art piece or are—not that I would know anything about this one—looking for an excuse to make your habit of constantly talking to yourself seem less weird, you probably want viewers when you stream. Twitch just added a new tag system that’s supposed to help facilitate that, but…

One Fan’s Criticism Of D&D App Roll20 Sends Its Subreddit Into A Meltdown

Roll20, a popular website with tools for pen-and-paper RPG players, has found itself on the bad side of many of its fans after a bungled moderation incident that has led to its entire moderation staff stepping down from its subreddit—and the fourth most-downvoted Reddit post of all time. Yesterday, a Roll20 user named Cory, known…

Club Penguin Island To Shut Down, Marking Final End Of The Beloved Children’s MMO

Club Penguin is shutting down for good. Disney, which owns the long-running franchise, confirmed the news today. On Tuesday, dozens of employees at the game’s Kelowna, British Columbia studio were informed that Club Penguin Island, the mobile continuation of the long-running browser-based children’s MMO Club Penguin, is shutting down and they would be let go.…

Epic Games Says Fortnite‘s New Breast Physics Were ‘Unintended, Embarrassing, Careless’

Fortnite players noticed something unusual about the new Calamity skin in the season six update: her breasts have an undeniable jiggle when she performs the “Jubilation” emote. According to Epic, that was unintentional and a fix is on the way. The Calamity cowgirl skin is one of the two main new character skins in the…

PS3 Game With Great Music May Be Pulled From Sale Because Of Its Music

The 2011 PlayStation 3 game PixelJunk Sidescroller’s excellent soundtrack may be its downfall. The game may be removed from the PlayStation store by the end of the week because of a music licensing issue that the game developers and musicians both are hoping gets resolved That news came in a tweet on Sunday from Dylan…

The sci-fi MMO WildStar will shutdown on November 28. This announcement follows the news earlier this month that the game’s makers, Carbine Studios, would be shutting down. Refunds for recent purchases will go out on October 3 but there are still a few events planned over the next several weeks.