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Sex-Soaked Ace Attorney Fan Game Gives A Whole New Meaning To ‘Penal Law’

I’ve never written smutty fan fiction, but you can bet your butt that if I did, it would be about Phoenix Wright. But I wouldn’t write this hypothetical fanfic about the recognizable, spiky-haired, boyishly handsome version of Wright who appears in most of the games in the series. Oh no. My choice would be, specifically,…

Warhammer Card Game Feels Like A Heavy Metal Hearthstone

Not too long ago I heard about a Warhammer 40k card game on smartphones. I decided, as part of my fool’s errand to try to wrap my head around the new explosion in Warhammer video games, to check it out. What I found was a competent game made irresistible by how unflinchingly metal it is.…

Haunting Ground‘s Daniella Is One Of Gaming’s Most Chilling Horrors

By the mid-2000s, Capcom was rightly considered a formidable creator of horror games thanks to venerable series like Dead Rising, Dino Crisis, Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil. But one of its best horror games never spawned a series and wasn’t a critical or commercial megahit. The 2005 PlayStation 2 game Haunting Ground is a…

Assassin’s Creed Is Skipping 2019

The next big Assassin’s Creed game won’t arrive for at least another two years, Ubisoft has said, confirming that the once-annualized series is annualized no more. “We are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin’s next year,” Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot told Gamespot at Gamescom in Germany this week. “It’s just because the teams were…

Battle For Azeroth Sure Is More World Of Warcraft

2016’s Legion expansion brought bold new features to World of Warcraft, changing the game in exciting ways. So far, the Battle for Azeroth expansion does not. Legion brought us game-changing level scaling and artifact weapons and expanded upon cool ideas like random treasure troves and follower missions from its predecessor, Warlords of Draenor. The demon-infested Broken…

A Peek At The Upcoming Live-Action City Hunter Movie

France’s Philippe Lacheau is directing and starring in a live-action version of the detective manga and anime City Hunter. Let’s have a look at some of the still images floating around online. The original manga debuted in 1985, spawning an anime as well as a live-action film by the same name starring Jackie Chan. Its…

This PS4 Controller’s Color Is Goku

The official name of this color is “Sunset Orange,” but c’mon, let’s get real. That color is Goku. It seems to be the most popular color of the lot. No doubt Dragon Ball fans love it The Sunset Orange DualShock 4 will be out this September. Everyone will call it the Goku controller.

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Overwatch Players Discover New Form Of Psychological Warfare: Singing

In Overwatch, sniper hero Widowmaker requires cold-blooded poise to play at the highest levels. You have to focus if you want your shots to cut through the chaos of battle. During a recent all-Widowmaker tournament, players figured out a hard counter to skillful Widows: loud, bad singing. The tournament was hosted by Overwatch World Cup…

Vaping Congressman, Whose Card Bought Steam Games With Campaign Money, Indicted On Fraud Charges

Rep. Duncan Hunter, who you may remember from a 2016 report alleging he spent campaign money on Steam games, has been indicted on charges of “wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy”, CNN reports Duncan’s charges are related to the filing of false records and the use of $250,000 in campaign funds to…

The Shadow Tactics Team Are Making A Western

The studio responsible for Shadow Tactics, a very good real-time stealth tactics game, are back with a new title: a third entry in the Desperados series. They’re incredibly similar styles of game, so I’m basically expecting Shadow Tactics, only with cowboys. Desperados III will be out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One in 2019.

Bad North Strips RTS Gaming To The Bone

Real-time strategy games have grown into vast, complex affairs over the years, but Bad North isn’t interested in adding to the genre. Instead, it just wants to strip everything back until there’s barely an RTS at all. Out now on the Nintendo Switch, and coming soon to PS4, XB1, PC and mobile, Bad North is…

Streamers Turn Off Ads To Protest Twitch Prime Dropping Its Ad-Free Perk

Compared to other online ads, Twitch ads are relatively unobtrusive. But they’re still obnoxious as hell. You tune in to watch your favorite streamer, and then the same 10-second ad plays three times in a row. Unfortunately, Twitch announced yesterday that Twitch Prime will no longer offer an ad-free viewing experience. Twitch Prime, which is…

Nintendo’s Next Labo Kit Is More Of An Open-World Game

Nintendo Labo is still for kids, and still something that requires you to be excited about cleverly-constructed cardboard contraptions. The new Vehicle Kit coming out in mid-September, however, is also more of a full-fledged video game. The original Labo releases last spring were as neat as they were slight. Called the Variety Kit and the…

Just Like Real Life, EVE Online Wars Are Won With Propaganda

EVE Online wars can go on for months or years, often requiring players to go above and beyond what would normally be expected of people playing a video game as a hobby. They might have to set their alarm clocks to wake up in the middle of the night for a battle, call in sick…

Cyberpunk 2077 Tweets Transphobic Joke, Studio Apologizes ‘To All Those Offended’

The official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account courted controversy today after a tweet that some considered transphobic. This is not the first time that a CD Projekt Red-affiliated Twitter account has needed to apologize for a tweet. Responding to a fan on Twitter earlier today, the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account referenced an internet meme mocking…

No Man’s Sky Players Build Bases In Exchange For Charitable Donations

People have started civilizations, governments and police forces in No Man’s Sky. One player saw a different kind of business opportunity: a contracting company that builds bases for other users. In only a few days, his business has gotten so popular that he’s decided to donate some of the profits to charity. Martin Boid is…

Classic Sega Games On Switch Are Getting Cool New Features

When Sega announced the “Sega Ages” line of classic games for Switch back in April, it said that the new versions of its classics, like Sonic The Hedgehog and Phantasy Star, would get updated features but didn’t talk specifics. It’s now revealing some of the additional elements, and they’re pretty darn cool. Broadly speaking, there…

The next project from Until Dawn’s developer is an anthology of smaller horror games with branching stories. The first entry in The Dark Pictures Anthology will be a South Pacific diving trip gone wrong, called Man Of Medan. It’s out in 2019 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

The Xbox One package of the first four Halo games—Halo: The Master Chief Collection—will be available to Xbox Game Pass members on September 1. The trailer promises several updates, including “improved matchmaking” (good news for those who remember the collection’s initial launch).