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Monster Hunter But You Smooch The Dragons

Why Is This Dragon So Fucking Cute?? isn’t as graphic or particularly sexual as its title might imply, but it is very sweet. A while back, I reviewed Angels With Scaly Wings, a dragon dating simulator that didn’t have nearly enough actual dating for my taste—although, as it turned out, maybe this is a recurring…

Tracking The Fighting Game Community’s ‘Minor Leagues’

As with most competitive endeavors, major events with big names are given a lion’s share of the public’s attention. This tendency is reflected in Capcom’s official rankings for their Street Fighter V circuit, which only tracks results for the tournaments they deem notable. The fighting game community, however, emphasizes open pools at every level of…

Skateboarder Nyjah Huston Is Amazing (But His Video Game Isn’t)

California skater Nyjah Huston now has his own skateboarding game. For a mobile game, it’s pretty fun, but I wish it were as entertaining as watching him skate. I grew up playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and it gave me an appreciation of skateboarding. I was never coordinated enough to skate for real, so I…

There’s a better type of HDR streaming and Microsoft plans to add support for it to Xbox One S and Xbox One X. The company announced yesterday it’s bringing Dolby Vision to the consoles which allows for better colors and higher contrasts than standard HDR. Netflix has updated its Xbox One app in kind.

A new patch for Hollow Knight on Switch fixes a variety of bugs, including one in which players—especially charming, wonderful players—who killed Brooding Mawlek at the same time he killed them wouldn’t get the mask shard the mini-boss drops. Thanks to the patch, the shard can now be claimed retroactively.

Monster Hunter World’s Final Fantasy crossover event kicks off at 8 PM EDT on August 1st. It adds a fight against the massive Behemoth and armor based on Final Fantasy’s spear-wielding Dragoons.

Fortnite Gets Golf Carts, Portals And A Desert With Season 5

Released this morning, Fortnite’s Season 5 is like a whole new game. With two new locations, toys, an All Terrain Kart and some spooky, weird space-time rifts, today’s Fortnite is in an entirely different universe. Leading up to the patch, publisher Epic Games made some mysterious and intriguing changes to the game to tease the…

An Inside Look At PUBG Arrests In China

Earlier this year, 120 people were arrested in China for alleged connection in either designing or making PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds cheat tools. Then, in late April, another 15 were nabbed. Now the current arrest total is reportedly 141 alleged cheaters. That’s according to Pubg.qq, the game’s official Chinese site, which recently published these photos of suspects…

Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild is a new upcoming 3D animated special that’s slated for 2019. That’s all the official Monster Hunter Twitter account has announced so far.

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Fallout: New Vegas Player Beats Game On Hardest Difficulty Without Killing Anyone Or Dying

There are self-imposed challenges, and then there’s gleeful masochism. This Fallout: New Vegas run looks like the latter. Rhetam, the gleeful masochist in question, played the game without allowing himself to do any direct lasting damage to anybody but himself. It took him more than a year to complete. In March 2017, Rhetam began his…

Giant Mech Fighting Game Will Crush Cities Underfoot

Override: Mech City Brawl is a game with two hooks: one, you’re controlling a huge mech in a fight against other huge mechs, and two, in true Tokusatsu fashion, the buildings underneath those mechs are gonna get trashed There’s both online and local play, as well as a singleplayer campaign. However, the most interesting mode…

In 2018, A PC Game Is Being Made In DOS

MS-DOS, the text-based operating system people used to use before Windows took over the planet, was how PC games were played in ancient times. It’s been dead for decades, but one developer figures 2018 is as good a time as any to make a brand new game for it. Having raised $100,000 in a Kickstarter,…

Fans Are Expanding Portal’s Universe Even If Valve Won’t

Valve released Portal 2 in 2011, and that’s the last time players returned to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, except as a backdrop for demoing new VR tech. The dream of exploring beyond the end of the second game has been kept alive, though, thanks to mods. The latest of them, Destroyed Aperture, has been…

Mapmaker, A Board Game About Gerrymandering And How Terrible It Is

Gerrymandering—“a practice intended to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries”—is a problem in a lot of places, but few are as badly affected as the USA. So a group of young Texans decided to make a board game about it to highlight the issue. The Houston Chronicle…

Overwatch‘s Highest-Level Player Games 12 Hours Per Day On Top Of His Job

Earlier this month, TreeboyDave became the first person to ever hit level 6,000 in Overwatch, a climb to the top of the 40-million-player heap that he estimates has taken him 9,000 hours. Despite that, he says he’s not even close to ready to hang up his keyboard. TreeboyDave is currently level 6,087, having gained more…

No Man’s Sky Malcontent Says He Was Just Role-Playing An Evil Emperor

Three days ago, a No Man’s Sky community leader saw one of her bases erased by a notorious streamer who roleplays as a tyrannical overlord. In response, the community put their foot down. SeriusGamerX, or SGX, is a streamer who mainly plays No Man’s Sky. His whole gimmick is that he’s an evil overlord, playing…

Meet The Controller Mechanic Who Repairs Smash Pros’ Hardware On The Fly

In a poorly-lit corner of a former Polish wedding venue in Brooklyn, New York, Giovanni “ShinG” Nieves took a screwdriver to a GameCube controller as a crowd of customers waited. Nieves, in a red bomber jacket and a fade haircut, was reverse-engineering a Super Smash Bros. 4 competitor’s controller at a tournament called Smash Sounds.…

Why Mafia III’s Developers Cut Its Initial, ‘Shocking’ Opening

Mafia 3’s opening used to be much more intense, the game’s director has revealed. A “cold open” sequence that ended with the main character killing a cop was eventually cut from the game—and apparently deleted from the developer’s servers, so it never gets out. Speaking at the Brighton Develop Conference yesterday, as reported by Eurogamer,…

Twitter Bots Can’t Stop Snarking About No Man’s Sky And Persona 5

Tons of Twitter bots are still just pictures of boobs asking for your credit card information, but programmers have also used the format to make some cool shit. Every Teenager Bot and Gradients are genuinely fun little experiments that brighten up my timeline. But every botmaker struggles with getting flagged as spam, and some bots…