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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…

The Modders Bringing A Bunch Of Rockstar’s Cities Into GTA San Andreas

The Grand Theft Auto games’ massive cities are separate from one another. You can’t fly west from the Florida-based Vice City to the LA-inspired Los Santos. But one fan and his small team of modders are trying to make this possible, in GTA: San Andreas. There are a bunch of fan projects and mods focused…

The first day of this month’s Overwatch League finals will be broadcast on ESPN, with finals highlights airing on ABC. That’s part of a multi-year deal announced by ESPN/Disney today that’ll put other finals games on Disney XD and ESPN2/3 as well. OWL’s Twitch deal remains intact, according to the report.

Namco Bandai’s upcoming RPG Code Vein was supposed to be out this September, but it has been delayed to 2019. According to an official Namco Bandai statement, the game was pushed back “to further refine its gameplay.” Code Vein will be out on the PS4, Xbox One and Steam sometime next year.

This Year’s Banned Pokémon Anime Episode

Earlier this spring, the 64th episode of the Sun & Moon anime aired in Japan. Since then, the episode’s English dub has not been broadcasted in the U.S. Rather, it was skipped entirely. As Bulbapedia and Gamerant (via Yurukuyaru) explain, Ash dresses up like a Passimian in the episode. However, it’s not merely that he…

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This is Roof Rage, a platform fighter (see: Smash Bros.) that supports up to eight players battling each other locally. There’s also 1v1 online play, and fights against bots. It’s currently in Early Access

Fortnite is fun, but Forge Labs figured it’d be funner if they added some Halo to the game. So they went and built Halo 2’s classic Lockout map in Playground.

Wasteland 2 is coming to the Switch next month. The post-apocalyptic CRPG throwback originally came out on PC in 2014, and it’ll be arriving on Switch in the form of a director’s cut with new perks and quirks, a precision strike mechanic, and expanded voice acting.

We’re playing Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII right now on Twitch. Come and watch us shoot our way through the sequel nobody talks about.

Red Faction: Guerrilla Deserved Better

Red Faction: Guerilla was released in 2009. Now, in 2018, it’s back with a re-release, and playing through it again has been a melancholy experience. I first played the game at release on an Xbox 360, because that’s how I played games back then before everything was released on Steam. At the time, I remember…

The Crew 2 Players Are At Least Happy With The Game’s Car Customization Options

On paper there’s a lot to do in The Crew 2. Ten hours in, my map is full of icons. Various races, skill tests, and other points of interest are sprinkled generously from Maine to Washington. Most of it gets boring pretty quickly, and the world itself feels barren and incomplete. That’s probably why so…

Battlefront II‘s Emperor Palpatine Was Quietly Removed From The Game

The Empire is without an emperor. Last week, a Star Wars Battlefront II update apparently brought back the evil Emperor Palpatine’s game-breaking ability to shoot lightning through walls. An emergency fix completely removed him from the game, and it’s unclear when he’ll return. Star Wars Battlefront II allows players to fight as iconic heroes and…

The WWE 2K Series Is Skipping The Switch This Year

Exactly one year ago, publisher Take Two announced that WWE 2K18 would be coming to the Switch, the first WWE game on a Nintendo platform since 2012’s WWE 13 for the Wii. The return was as disastrous as it was brief. WWE 2K19 won’t be on Nintendo’s console. “The game will not be available on…

BioShock‘s Jewish Roots Run Deep

The iconic lighthouse that players encounter in BioShock’s opening moments stands like a beacon, ushering lost souls to Rapture’s doors. Symbolically, It’s like an art-deco Statue of Liberty. Except instead of inviting the huddled masses with words of welcome, Rapture’s opening sonnet poses a question: “In what country is there a place for people like…

20XX Is A Procedural Mega Man X And It Feels Perfect

Batterystaple Games and Fire Hose Games must agree with me that Mega Man X is the best Mega Man game, because their 20xx is an obvious tribute. 20XX perfectly recreates the feeling of Mega Man X, and generously adds all the procedural elements (scheduled challenges, permadeath, a progression system, loot) that players want out of…

Top PUBG Streamer Says He Was Banned After Playing With Hacker [Updated]

During a livestream last night Twitch streamer Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek stated that he received a one month ban from PUBG following an incident where he played alongside a hacker. The ban comes on the heels of lengthy community speculation as to whether or not the game’s developers would actually discipline one of their game’s most…

Very good roguelike Metroidvania Dead Cells is leaving early access on August 7. It’ll launch on PC/Mac as well as Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One. 

Overwatch Fans Can’t Stop Talking About Hanzo’s Dainty Ankles

For over a year, Blizzard has insisted that Hanzo Shimada does not have prosthetic legs. Nevertheless, Overwatch fans have their doubts. Let me be frank—Hanzo Shimada has impossibly tiny ankles. Observe: As a result of this undeniable truth, Overwatch fanfiction writers have been operating under the assumption that Hanzo has prosthetic legs. The understanding was…

Far Cry 5‘s second DLC expansion, Lost on Mars, hits next week on July 17. It’ll feature side-characters Nick Rye and Hurk trying to prevent an alien invasion by shooting stuff on the red planet with some new space-themed weapons and aircraft. The third DLC, Dead Living Zombies, arrives in August.