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Board Game Kickstarter Cancelled After Plagiarism Scandal

Overturn: Rising Sands has been one of the most hyped board game projects on Kickstarter this past month, blowing past its funding goal and exciting players with its miniatures (and cheap prices). But it’s now dead in the water, having had its funding suspended by Kickstarter after allegations of, among other things, plagiarism. There’s a…

Epic Admits Disastrous Fortnite Tournament ‘Did Not Go As Planned’

Last weekend, Epic kicked off its $8 million Fortnite “Summer Skirmish” series with a $250,000 tournament featuring top-tier players and content creators. Thanks to latency issues and confusing camera work, it was a disaster. Now Epic has put out a postmortem acknowledging that, yeah, between lag and hyper-cautious players, things didn’t go super great. The…

EVE Online Alliances Are Positioning For A Massive War

Over the past week, the overwhelming majority of EVE Online’s player run coalitions have begun to band together and field some of the most powerful fleets that the game has ever seen. The game’s galaxy map is split along its North-South axis, with each side attempting to drive a vanguard strike deep into the heart…

You Can Now Watch U.S. Congresspeople Stream Video Games

The Washington Post is now Twitch streaming politicians beating its reporters at video games, starting today with Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz demolishing reporter David Weigel 26 to 0 in Madden 18. It’s an extremely weird interview format, but one that feels perfectly at home in the absurd media landscape of 2018. Why Madden 18? Apparently…

In Argentina, A Pro-Choice Advocate Protests With A Doom Mod

With Doom Fetito, one game developer is taking Argentinian women’s fight for abortion rights into a new arena: the world of Doom mods. Following a massive, 500,000-person strong march on International Women’s Day, the fight over abortion rights in Argentina heated up this year as the country’s government announced that it would consider legislation to…

Ghost Recon Wildlands’ next free update is out July 24. Special Operations 2 will include a Ghost Mode featuring permadeath, as well as an option to turn off AI companions and travel the world completely alone. Ubisoft is also overhauling the Prestige credit economy so they can be earned in the campaign.

Tetris Effect Is The Game I’ve Always Dreamed Of

Since Tetris Effect’s beautiful reveal trailer was posted last month, I didn’t know that game developers made games for just one person—that person being me. As a lifelong Tetris player and fan of Tetsuya Mizuguchi, lead creator of psychedelic classics like Rez and Lumines, I was beyond excited to get a chance to get my…

We Tried To Uncover The Long-Lost ‘American Sailor Moon‘ And Found Something Incredible

In 1993, before the magical girl anime Sailor Moon was released in the U.S., there was an alternate vision for it. It was an American vision. A total remake of the show with Saturday morning-style animation, intercut with footage of real-life, all-American high school teens. “Politically correct,” in the words of its creators, the proposed…

A Pinball Metroidvania Is One Of The Year’s Most Wonderful Surprises

I’ve just finished a super little game called Yoku’s Island Express on my Switch, a pinball Metroidvania featuring a tiny red dung beetle rolling a lil’ rock around. Yoku’s Island Express came out right before E3 for just about every major platform, but I didn’t have a second to actually play it until last week,…

Gravity Rush 2‘s servers were officially shutdown early this morning. This means things like photo sharing quests can no longer be accessed and a number of rare items and costumes will be almost impossible to get. Sony pushed back the first shutdown date after fans cried out, but this time pushed forward anyway

Top Gaming People Say Streaming That Frees High-End Games From Requiring High-End Hardware Is The Next Big Thing

Whenever I’ve interviewed a games industry executive over the past few months, I’ve asked them what single thing will revolutionize video games in the next five years. I was expecting a range of answers: game development becoming more accessible, perhaps, or games finding bigger markets in the developing world, or a technology innovation like VR/AR…

After briefly getting the world excited over the prospect of a new hardware announcement at Gamescom next month, Microsoft has changed a line in its blog post from promising “all-new Xbox hardware and accessories” to “new Xbox One bundles and accessories.” Whoops!

Anime Super Fan’s House Is Dedicated To Her Favorite Character 

In Japan, robot cat Doraemon is beloved. People adore the character, which is sometimes called “Japan’s Micky Mouse.” But no one in the Doraemon’s homeland or anywhere else on Earth is a bigger fan than Instagram user Reghina Karwur As Karapaia notes, the inside and outside of her house in Indonesia are wall-to-wall Doraemon. This…

Alleged Stalker Claimed He Was Just Playing Pokémon Go

A 51-year-old man in Kobe has been arrested for allegedly violating Japan’s stalking law. The suspect, however, said he wasn’t stalking a 33-year-old woman, but just playing Pokémon Go near her house. “I was playing Pokémon Go and just passed in front of her house,” the suspect, who works at a Kobe school, is quoted…

A New Famicom Cartridge Will Be Released. In 2018. 

This is Battle Kid. It will be released this September in Japan on a Famicom cartridge. It makes sense that the game is available on Famicom cart because homebrew game Battle Kid was originally released on NES cartridge in 2010. And now, years later, the game is finally getting a localized Japan release. On a…

Color Wander Montreal, Canada. By Ben Nicholas | Instagram JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Predictive AI & Comic Artist Make New Friends For Hello Kitty

Beginning with this Verge article on AI-created character bios, comic artist Adam Ellis decided to take the text and finish the job of creating some new—and very cute—Sanrio characters. The bios themselves, made using predictive text, are great on their own. But Ellis’ images take them to another level. Especially Delicious Bradley and his birthdays. There is…

Antonio Brown Is Madden 19’s Cover Star

I am entirely indifferent to the Pittsburgh Steelers, but boy does that gold cover look hot I’m serious, it’s a great cover! We not only get to see All-Pro WR Brown’s face (previous covers have used photos where the player is wearing their helmet), but the stark background is a nice, bright change for a…

Panzer Corps, one of the finest strategy games on the PC, is getting a sequel. Panzer Corps 2 looks to be sticking to the same formula, with changes coming to supply, air combat and the introduction of unit-splitting.

Nintendo Fans Have Created Incredible New Things With Labo

Nintendo’s Labo came with a bunch of stuff you could craft, but fans taking part in a competition have come up with a bunch of new/improved designs, ranging from big red dinosaurs to solar powered accordions to interactive teapots. The Nintendo Labo Creators Contest (one of the prizes was that sweet Labo-themed Switch we posted…