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Twenty-Five Year Old Charged With Stealing In-Game Items From EA

The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed charges yesterday against a 25-year-old, accusing him of hacking into EA’s servers and stealing in-game currency for FIFA 18 that the publisher says was worth $324,000. Martin Marsich, a Serbian and Italian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco court yesterday after he was arrested at the airport on Wednesday…

Monster Hunter: World NPCs, Ranked

In addition to all those deadly beasts, Monster Hunter: World has loads of colorful non-monster characters. You’ll find them walking in the wild or chilling out at HQ, usually minding their business and occasionally giving you a sidequest. We’ve ranked the monsters, so now let’s rank the rest. Here are 51 of Monster Hunter: World’s…

Doom Eternal Will Let You Invade Other Players’ Campaigns [Update]

Offering the traditional hype of making a sequel that is bigger and more badass than the game it follows, the makers of the forthcoming Doom Eternal today showed the game in action to the public for the first time. And they offered a surprise: Demon’s Souls-style player invasions. The lengthy gameplay demo was part of…

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Fan-Made Olive Garden LARP Has Unlimited Breadsticks And Heart

Role-playing games can take many shapes and forms beyond the dice-rolling of Dungeons and Dragons. One game designer wrote a live-action role-playing game meant to be played specifically at the chain restaurant Olive Garden, and it’s strangely heartfelt. Jeff Stormer, a podcaster and game designer living in Philadelphia, told Kotaku over Twitter DMs that his…

Hello Games has been releasing hotfixes for No Man’s Sky’s big Next update, and today they dropped a huge one. This update fixes issues with crashes on freighters, ships shooting themselves, and reduces the radius where sentinels will check you out, and it’s now live across all platforms.

Bungie has shared a ton of new information about how progression and currencies will change for Destiny 2: Forsaken. Tokens are going away but the ones you have will still work, exotics will always drop above your power level, you’ll be able to pick from one of three nightfalls each week, there’ll be a heroic story…

Despite the closure of Runic Games last year, the studio’s best-known franchise, Torchlight, is slated to return on PC, Xbox One and PS4 in 2019 in the form of Torchlight Frontiers The new development team, which include former Runic co-founder Max Schaefer, describes it as a “shared-world action-RPG.”

Grandpa Has 11 Phones To Play Pokémon Go

Taiwanese feng shui master Chen San-yuan sure likes Pokémon Go. He has nine phones affixed to his bicycle and another two he’s carrying around for catching Pokémon around Taipei. Chen rocketed to fame after a photo of him appeared on Reddit Last month, Youtubers EXP.GG TW (via AsiaOne) interviewed Mr. Chen about his love of…

Official Resident Evil 2 Remake Keyboard Costs Only $675

Capcom is releasing a Lexington typewriter-style keyboard. It costs 75,000 yen ($675) plus tax. The Bluetooth-enabled keyboard is designed after the in-game Lexington typewriter. It’s a nice looking keyboard. You can scroll up and down by turning the knob and use the lever as the Enter key. The Premium Edition is priced at 99,800 yen…

Nintendo Switch Online is slated to launch in the second part of September, Nintendo has announced. For more, check theofficial site

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Japanese Porn’s Most Infamous Vehicle 

In Japan, there one vehicle that if you see it rocking on the Tokyo streets, you should definitely not go a-knocking. Run by a Japanese porn company, it’s called Magic Mirror Unit (マジックミラー号 or Majikku Miraa Gou). Japanese television once explained what it was: a mobile porn studio with a one-way mirror. People inside the…

Converse Releasing Official Hello Kitty Sneakers

WhileAdidas are working with Dragon Ball Z, Converse have teamed up with a more peaceful Japanese property for an upcoming line of sneakers. There’ll be six Hello Kitty shoes released in total across three models (two designs each for the Chuck Taylor All Star, Chuck 70 and One Star), which means prices are going to…

You Can Play Floppy Disk Games On Your Phone

I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port to hook up a drive, get it working and read by the phone and then allowing…

Games In Germany Can Have Nazi Imagery Now

Video games in Germany have always had to censor Nazi imagery, because to display that content would violate the country’s constitution. Now, after pressure from the German Games Industry Association, the government has relaxed its interpretation of some laws and will allow it in certain circumstances. The government has moved from a blanket ban on…

Metal Gear Solid, Only With An Anime Intro

Oh hey, people are still doing this anime intro thing, excellent. This one’s for the original Metal Gear Solid It’s weird, at the time this game looked amazing. Then for a very long time people thought its crude 3D visuals looked like shit. Now it looks amazing once more, and we can rejoice in the…

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 will have a “Heist” mode, Treyarch said today. You’ll fight to steal a bunch of cash and extract it when the mode hits the game’s private beta, running from August 10-12 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Madden NFL 19‘s Story Mode Sequel Lacks The Spark Of The Original

Last year, Madden NFL 18 featured the series’ first-ever story mode, “Longshot.” It took four years to make, featured the acting talents of Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali and Friday Night Lights’ Scott Porter, and broke up its poignant cutscenes with interactive dialogue trees, practice challenges, and football games. One year later, Madden 19 has a sequel…

Overwatch Heroes Are Looking Sporty For Summer

The Overwatch Summer Games event is now live, and as we’ve come to expect, it’s accompanied by a bunch of new skins. This time, all your favorite characters are playing sports ⚾️. The internet already went wild for the latest D.va skin, but the new skins for Roadhog, Reinhardt, Winston, Ana, Moira, Brigitte, Sombra and…