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A Good Anime About Bad Girls

When the mood strikes to watch a feel-good show about the glamour and charm of teenaged girl friendship, absolutely do not watch Asobi Asobase. Stay far away from it. If you want a good laugh at the expense of some gruesome brats, it’s entirely ideal. If you want to see three teen girls revealing themselves to…

My Amazing Destiny Helmet Is A Test For Bungie

“They’re totally gonna nerf this,” I said into my headset mic. The words just spilled out before I even realized what I was saying. I added a hasty follow-up: “I mean, I hope they don’t!” With the launch of the Forsaken expansion, weapon balance in Destiny 2 has shifted significantly in favor of making players…

Three Years Later, We Finally Have A New Alphabear

Mobile word game Alphabear 2 is pretty much more of the same as the original. The great news is that it’s a lot more of it. The first Alphabear was like Boggle with bears. You try to make words out of the available tiles on the board to reach a high score. The board featured…

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Metal Gear Retrospective: Snake’s Punishment Begins

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defense mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the game’s world. Neither are…

It’s Nice To Have Destiny Back 

I, like many other hardcore Destiny players, have been lapsed for the past year but returned to the game yesterday for the launch of Forsaken. It’s a weird, wild, and comforting feeling, like slipping into a familiar pair of shoes. Or, more accurately, like getting on a familiar treadmill. Some background: Between September 2014 and…

Days after Fortnite publisher Epic Games started rewarding players for enabling two-factor authentication, Ubisoft began doing the same with tactical shooter Rainbow Six Siege. Ubisoft account-holders can snag a Siege skin after adding that extra layer of security with the game’s big update, Operation Grim Sky.

Random Child In Pokémon Looks Insanely Strong

The above image is from the recently released Pokémon the Movie: Everyone’s Story. Can you see why it would cause a debate? Look closely and you’ll see a young boy holding Larvitar, a Rock/Ground Pocket Monster that weighs 158.7 pounds. As evident on Pokemon Matome, fans have been trying to figure out whether or not…

Famitsu released Switch Japanese retail sales numbers from its March 3, 2017 launch to Sept. 2, 2018. So far, a total of 5,007,368 Switch consoles have been sold at retail in Japan. The top three selling games at Japanese retail are Splatoon 2 (2,621,928 copies), Super Mario Odyssey (1,788,228) and Mario Kart 8 DX (1,738,502).

Meet The Modern-Day Samurai Bringing Ghost of Tsushima To Life

To help bring upcoming action game Ghost of Tsushima to life, game developer Sucker Punch brought in some modern-day samurai. Of course, actual samurai have not existed in Japan since the 19th century, but Ryusetsu Ide and Masakumo Kuwami are among the closest folks we’ll get to them Have a look at both in action:…

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Eminem’s New Album Samples Kingdom Hearts [Update: No It Doesn’t]

Eminem’s surprise album drop over the weekend contains an even bigger surprise for JRPG fans: one of the tracks samples Square’s Kingdom Hearts throughout. UPDATE: Actually, it doesn’t. UPDATE 7pm, Sep 4: The album’s producer Illaproducer originally told Rolling Stone that the track sampled was Simple & Clean by Utada Hikaru, the intro song to…

Zone Of The Enders In VR Is Some Good Mech Action

Zone of the Enders: The Second Runner is one of my favorite mech games. It has downright horrible localization with the voice acting to match, but the combat is fast. A new remaster for the Playstation 4 adds a VR mode that finally gives me the definite mech-nerd experience. Zone of the Enders: The Second…

EVE Online‘s Tiny Stealth Bombers Can Take Down An Army

In EVE Online, size matters. Players covet its massive capital ships, which can cost the equivalent of hundreds or thousands of dollars. The MMO is known for massive battles, with fleets of hundreds of individual players all duking it out in space. But there’s one tiny ship that really punches above its weight class, and…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s new battle royale mode, Blackout, will feature 80 players per match during the beta, Treyarch told Game Informer after months of refusing to say. That’s 20 people less than PUBG and Fortnite, though the studio says the number could go higher for the full game later on.

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Here we go—Destiny 2‘s Forsaken is now live, and I’m returning to the game for the first time in nearly a year. Or, as the kids like to call it, I’m “back on my bullshit.” We’ll have plenty of coverage on all the new stuff in the coming days.

Glitch Wikipedia Makes Article-Hopping Into A Game

Have you ever stayed up late at night, bouncing from article to article on Wikipedia? Perhaps it began as a cursory glance into the history of Power Rangers and, somehow, ended with you bleary eyed at 3 am reading about the Russian Revolution. Now you can still do that, but as a game. Unofficially, the…

Marvel’s Spider-Man Teaches You To Think Like Spidey

Many Spider-Man games have done a great job making you feel like everybody’s favorite webslinger, but Insomniac’s latest game takes it even further by encouraging you to think like him, too. Swinging on webs is crucial to any Spider-Man game, and it’s also a big reason why Spidey makes for such a great character to…

Battlefield V’s “Firestorm” battle royale mode maxes out at 64 players, for sixteen teams of four. A new video gave more details about the mode and outlined further post release plans including expansions set in Greece and France.