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Delayed Battlefront II Fix Leads To Monthlong Fan Fiasco

The makers of Star Wars Battlefront II will restore Emperor Palpatine to the game a little over a month after they removed him. That will cap several weeks of online discussion about how long an announced “hotfix” should take and just what a game studio and a fandom should do when the community manager is…

Breath Of The Wild Gets Official Placement On The Zelda Timeline, But There Are Shenanigans

Since The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild came out in March 2017, fans have been dying to know where it fits on the series’ official timeline. Now, Nintendo has provided an answer—sort of. Breath of the Wild is way at the end, but it’s not connected to the rest of the timeline. In…

GTA Online Data Miners Discover Potentially Game-Ruining New Vehicle

The After Hours update for GTA Online has been mostly well-received. The new nightclubs are fun, the hidden Easter eggs are cool, and the new music is a great way to make GTA Online feel fresh. But some fans seem less excited about—even angry at or afraid of—the future of GTA Online. Specifically, players seem…

Destiny 2’s New Grind For 400-Level Armor Is No Joke

Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes event debuted last week. Until it ends on August 28, you can relive the glories of the past while earning powerful new armor… as long as you have a lot of time to spare. The Solstice is the last of Destiny 2’s timed special events before the much-anticipated Forsaken expansion…

My Obsession With CPU Cooling Is Becoming A Problem

Everyone chases some kind of low-key but elusive white whale, a casual desire or goal that remains forever out of reach. For some, it’s finding the best possible cup of coffee, or the perfect pair of jeans. For me, it’s getting my PC CPU to run below 70 degrees Celsius while under load. This goal…

Releasing Cool New Games On 3DS Is Such A Waste

You have probably been here before. A Japanese company announces an exciting new game. The concept sounds great, the trailer has you hyped, and everything seems perfect… until you see those three words that you’ve grown to loathe in 2018. “Only for 3DS.” Last Friday, Nintendo released a new WarioWare, the first in nearly ten…

We’re streaming Switch puzzle game Picross S2 live on Twitch. Can the world’s top gaming streaming service handle graphics this intense? Find out! And find out what in the world Picross S2‘s story mode is all about, too.

Two Very Different JRPG Approaches To Old-Fashioned English

Sprawling role playing games often come with an abundance of proper nouns and a medieval flavor to their setting. Sometimes games like this try to make their dialogue match the olden times vibe. Getting this antiquated English to sound right is pretty hard, though. I first started thinking about this when I started Octopath Traveler,…

I Am Buying A Silly Number Of Switch Games

In what is supposed to be a slow part of the year, I am filling my Nintendo Switch to bursting with new releases and ports. Last week, I bought the Switch ports of sidescrolling action-adventure games Iconoclasts and Salt & Sanctuary along with the puzzle game Picross S2. I had enough self control to download…

Dota 2 Pros Play Bots, Get Wrecked

A team of three former Dota 2 pros, one current pro, and a commentator played against five artificial intelligence bots last night at an event in San Francisco. The bots defeated the humans, 2-1, talking plenty of smack along the way. The bots came from OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company co-founded by Elon Musk.…

Karaoke Parlor With Official Final Fantasy And Evangelion Themed Rooms 

Karaoke parlor Pasela Akiba Showadorikan in Tokyo’s Akihabara has a handful of seriously cool themed rooms. There are official themed rooms for Neon Genesis Evangelion, Sengoku Basara, Final Fantasy XIV and Hakuoki

Venusaur’s Legs Are Freaking People Out 

Venusaur has been around since Pokémon Red and Blue. Yet, the latest footage from Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Eevee! gives a very good look at how the character gets around. It’s freaking some people out! Have a look for yourself Its legs don’t look that strange in motion but look closely… See? They’re very…

This Yokai Watch Character Seems Kinda NSFW

This is Zundomaru. The character is appearing in the latest Yokai Watch anime series and has been receiving complaints for being lewd and vulgar. According to Infoseek, the character has been causing complaints to Japan’s Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization (BPO). Wonder why! Goodness This is a tweet from Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino. Zundomaru…

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For The First Time, Evo’s Top Street Fighter Player Is From The United Kingdom

The eight Street Fighter V competitors that made it into Evo 2018’s finals today looked very different from last year’s lineup. Aside from last year’s winner, Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi, every single one of the other finalists wasn’t on last year’s stage. Everybody assumed Tokido would win. But Evo 2018 finals have proven assumptions to be…

Sagat Is Coming To Street Fighter V Today

Series stalwart Sagat is coming better-late-than-never to Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, it was announced at EVO tonight. First shown off last year, he’ll finally make his appearance as part of Season 3. Via Capcom: Sagat is available individually for MSRP $5.99 or 100,000 Fight Money OR as part of the Season 3 Character Pass…

Evo 2018’s Dragon Ball FighterZ Finals Played Out Like A Glorious Anime Finale

After Dominique “SonicFox” McLean placed third instead of his usual first in the Injustice 2 finals earlier this weekend at Evo 2018, his fans wondered if the multi-game phenom was slipping. His Injustice 2 skills had only wavered because he was focusing on Dragon Ball FighterZ, right? But then, during a DBFZ exhibition match against…

Frieza’s older brother Cooler will be joining the Dragon Ball FighterZ cast in a future update. The brief teaser shown at Evo 2018 demonstrated some beastly attacks, but a release date wasn’t announced.

Disney Theme Park Designer Imagines Terrific Studio Ghibli Rides

John Ramirez, a Disney artist and theme park designer, has long been working on his own ideas for Studio Ghibli rides. We’ve featured a few of them, but he’s spent the last few years working on a lot more. In addition to his original Totoro and Laputa designs, Ramirez has also dreamt up this incredible…

Youth Trumps Experience In Evo 2018’s Tekken 7 Grand Finals

While it’s typical for Tekken 7 competition to be dominated by South Korean players, the Evo 2018 finals featured a collection of amazing players from across the world. The eventual champion would have to contend with competitors not only from that Asian peninsula, but also the United States, Japan, and Thailand. Sun-woong “LowHigh” Youn proved…