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Mass Shooting At Madden Tournament In Florida [Updates: Three Confirmed Dead, Suspect Named]

A shooter opened fire today during a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in Jacksonville, FL. Three people are confirmed dead, including the suspected shooter, while a further 11 have been injured. During a press briefing at 4:30 PM EST, Sheriff Mike Williams made some short remarks about the incident. Jacksonville Landing,…

There Is Video Evidence Of Steve Vai Shredding On The Halo 2 Soundtrack

The guitar legend Steve Vai makes a couple appearances on the soundtrack for 2004’s Halo 2, and now we have video to confirm that he did, in fact, absolutely shred in the studio. Posted in a thread by Resetera user jambo, the video is a rip of a DVD made by Halo composer Martin O’Donnell,…

Fantasy Games Are Better When They Don’t Focus On Magic

I’ve been playing through Dust and Salt recently, and I’ve been struck with how much I enjoy a fantasy game when magic isn’t the core focus of the narrative. Dust and Salt is gritty. You start as a ten-year-old who watches his father get murdered by conscripts from the city of Murk, and after rescuing…

Mobile puzzle game Monument Valley is going to be adapted into a movie. Deadline reports that the film will be a “live action/CGI hybrid family franchise.” There’s no word on when it might release. 

2016’s Doom Looks Very Silly In Third Person

There’s a new episode of Boundary Break, a YouTube series all about showing off the things in games we aren’t supposed to see, and it’s about Doom. It reveals how silly everything in that game looks when you’re not in first-person mode. While this episode is ostensibly about just showing off all kinds of strange…

Bloodborne Modder Restores Cut DLC Story Content

Lady Maria is a mysterious figure in Bloodborne. She appears front-and-center on the cover for The Old Hunters DLC, but when you finally meet her, she’s not exactly in the condition you might expect. Data digger Lance McDonald has figured out why. We’re going to spoil the Bloodborne DLC here. I’m spoiling it. You’re warned. Now…

Just Survive, Daybreak Games’s online survival game, is shutting down its servers on October 24, 2018. In a post announcing the shutdown, the team explains that “the current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain.”

This mini-doc about Doom’s cheat codes is fascinating. It’s the first episode of a new YouTube series called Codex, and it delves into how Doom’s particular cheat codes impacted everything from future cheat codes in other games to speedrunning and modding scenes.

Fortnite Is Getting A Competitive Mode

Do you believe yourself to be the very best at surviving in an environment where a) everybody wants to kill you, and b) they’re all reality-bending architecture-mancers? Well, soon you’ll have a chance to prove it. Epic is finally adding a competitive mode to Fortnite this fall. Epic made the announcement in a state of…

Even Star Wars: Battlefront II‘s Developers Were Confused About A Droid In One Of Their Screenshots

It’s been a wild week for eagle-eyed fans of Star Wars Battlefront II. On Wednesday they thought they spotted an unannounced droid in the background of some new official artwork for the game. A rep for the game threw cold water on that theory but then clarified today that, actually, these both were and weren’t…

Popular YouTuber Kills Self, Two Others In Fiery Crash

Eighteen-year-old YouTuber Trevor Heitmann, aka “McSkillet,” caused a massive accident yesterday in San Diego, California when he drove down the wrong side of a freeway and his car collided with another vehicle, killing two people and injuring one other. He also died in the crash. Police confirmed this evening that Heitmann was the driver involved…

Hearthstone’s New Single-Player Mode Is A Surprisingly Solid Puzzle Game

Hearthstone has shifted and bent its shape a handful of times over the years. When its first Naxxramas-themed “Adventure” expansion released in 2014, it took the shape of a single-player strategy game. Most recently, with Kobolds and Catacombs and The Witchwood, it took the form of a dungeon-crawling roguelike. And now, with the launch of…

Battle For Azeroth Level Cap Reached, What Now?

After a week and a half of leisurely quest grinding, my diminutive Warlock has reached World of Warcraft’s new level cap of 120. Now it’s time to explore dungeons, hunt for treasure and power up my equipment. Or I could just wait for the next expansion to come along and render all that extra effort…

The Gamescom Fortnite Pooper Story Didn’t Happen, Epic Says

Yesterday, the German website Playnation.de reported on a rumor that a Gamescom attendee defecated in a bag while waiting to play Fortnite. Today, the rumor circulated further on social media. Despite how badly we may want this to be true, according to Epic, it never happened. Sorry! According to Playnation.de’s article, other attendees stepped in…

Fortnite‘s Rift Is Shooting Lightning And No One Knows Why [Update: Rift Closes, Giant Alien Cube Appears]

During Fornite Battle Royale’s last season, a giant rocket launched and cracked the sky wide open, tearing the game’s space-time apart. When Season Five hit—adding a new desert area to the map—the rift seemed to die down, but now it’s blasting the ground with massive lightning strikes. Update— 5:40pm: After countless lightning strikes, the rift…

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The Original Metroid Has No Map, But Samus Wouldn’t Need One

I’ve played through the first Metroid three times, but I’ve never played it without a map. Yesterday, I was wondering how the game’s original players even coped and what it says about Metroid, and about Samus Aran, that the first game doesn’t have one. The first Metroid game, which came out in 1986 on the…

Mario’s Supposed To Be Cute, Which Is Why His Nipples Grossed People Out

Few pieces of video game news have upset the internet so much as the recent revelations that Luigi has a penis bulge and Mario has nipples On September 13 of last year, in the runup to the release of Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo distributed a screenshot of a bathing-suit-clad Mario, in which its mascot character’s…

Developer Aims To Explore Female Sexuality With A Game That Lets You Bone ISIS To Death

Super Patriotic Dating Simulator, which is now on Kickstarter, is your typical romantic story of an elite spy infiltrating, seducing and then killing members of ISIS. Correction – 10:38am: The original version of this article misstated the beginning of this game’s Kickstarter campaign. Karlee Esmailli, who wrote and is developing the game, is an first…

The extreme version of Monster Hunter: World’s Behemoth boss fight snuck into the game last night. The fight has some unique mechanics grants a layered armor set for the awesome Dragoon armor. Good luck.