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Better Stealth Can’t Save Far Cry 5‘s Disappointing Vietnam DLC

The only part of my two-and-a-half-hour jaunt through Far Cry 5’s new Hours of Darkness DLC that really stuck out to me was when a Vietnamese woman taunted me over loudspeakers telling me the jungle was not my friend and would swallow me up whole. I was supposed to be destroying the propaganda machines playing…

The Mario 64 Trick That Takes Three Days To Complete

The Super Mario 64 A Button Challenge asks players to collect stars without ever pressing the A button, meaning Mario can’t jump. Instead, challengers use a variety of glitches and tricks. One recently discovered glitch involves waiting for three days to get a platform to the right height, allowing players to complete the game without…

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Pushing A Pull Door, And Other Ridiculous Tabletop Game Deaths

Last week I asked on Twitter about your dumbest tabletop roleplaying deaths, and boy, did you all deliver. An exciting and terrifying aspect of each new gameplay session for my tabletop games is that I’m just one or two bad dice rolls from completely eating shit. Once, when playing a dragonborn bard, I almost got…

Buying Video Games Should Not Always Be Such A Mind Game

The problem is bigger than just GameStop, but let’s start with GameStop. On a sweltering early evening last Friday, as I finished up work, I went to a GameStop to buy an extra PlayStation 4 controller. Few gaming purchases should be as simple. Just pay for the piece of plastic and be done. Yet as…

The anime monster slaying game Code Vein will release on September 28th. It’s a bit like Dark Souls if every character was from that Crunchyroll show your friend is watching and I’m totally okay with that.

Destiny 2‘s Next Expansion Is Changing A Lot

The next expansion to Destiny 2 is Forsaken, out September 4 and bringing a bunch of stuff to Bungie’s space shooter, including a wild new mode and an overhaul of how weapons work. Perhaps the biggest change is the new gun system, which Bungie says will allow you the flexibility to equip just about any…

The Nintendo Switch eShop just got easier to use with the 5.1.0 firmware update. The Best Sellers page now lists 30 games instead of just 20 with an additional option for download-only games. It’s also now possible to click on developers’ names to find other games they’ve made. Now if only there was voice chat.

One Year Later, Did Microsoft Keep Its E3 2017 Promises?

E3 fast approaches, and you know what that means: New game announcements and all the gaming news you can handle are headed our way. It also means it’s time to rewind to 2017, when the three console makers made a plethora of promises during last year’s E3 festivities. Did they keep them? Let’s find out.…

Find Tattoo-Friendly Hot Springs, Gyms And Hotels In Japan

In Japan, many hot springs, public pools, sports clubs and hotels will not allow guests with permanent ink. A new website helps those with tattoos find welcoming establishments. Other sites like this already exist, but what makes Tattoo-Friendly.jp worth mentioning is that it also has an English language search option. The site lists onsen (hot…

Here’s a small Pikachu voice recognition toy that will look in your direction and babble “Pika Pika.” According to Takara Tomy’s YouTube description, everyone from small kids to foreigners can play with it. No word of an international release.

This week, the English language version of Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc was not published in Viz Media’s digital edition. Previously, it was simultaneously published when the Japanese version was released. Creator Nobuhiro Watsuki was fined for child pornography possession earlier this year.

Clear Coca-Cola Will Be Released In Japan 

This month in Japan, Coca-Cola is releasing a clear version of their soda with the clever name of, wait for it, Coca-Cola Clear. According to My Navi, Coca-Cola Japan came up with the concept, and the company’s US headquarters spent a year developing it. Ditching the caramel ingredient, Coca-Cola had to tune the drink to…

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Fortnite Pro Kills 30 Players, Gets Cocky, Pays For It

It’s not over until it’s over. And even then, it might not actually be over, so you probably shouldn’t bust out your victory dance moves until you’re absolutely 100 percent positive that it’s over. Fortnite streamer Teeqzy recently found this out the hard way. Teeqzy is a professional Fortnite player for French organization Millennium. He…

Wait, There Are Splatoon Dress-Up Figures?

Combining the two best things about Splatoon—its character design and fashion sense—this second series of action figures let you mix and match each little guy’s shoes, shirts and hats. Which leads me to wonder, how the hell did I miss the first series? This second line is out in Japan this week, and joins the…

An Enormous Upgrade For A Game Boy Camera

Bastiaan Ekeler is the founder of Ekeler Design, and to date his professional work has been with equipment well beyond the capabilities of the Game Boy Camera. But inspired by Tim Binnion, who recently shot an F1 race on the Nintendo camera, Ekeler wanted to “get some serious glass involved”. Using an available 3D printer,…

David Cage Games Keep Treating Women Like Shit

David Cage’s Detroit: Become Human wants to talk about difficult questions. The game from Cage’s studio Quantic Dream, is a story of android prejudice and rebellion touches upon questions of the soul and the nature of being. But Detroit is also a bloated action movie romp. One sequence, a series in a pattern for Cage,…

Modders Keep Finding Ways To Make GTA V‘s Violence More Intense

Even without mods, Grand Theft Auto V is a violent game. You can run over human beings and animals, shoot people with powerful long range rifles, burn police officers alive with molotovs or even beat someone to death with a baseball bat. But some players desire more realistic and sometimes gory details. GTA V modders…

What I Learned From A Year’s Worth Of Overwatch Coaching

One year ago, I dropped from Platinum rank to Gold in Overwatch’s competitive mode. Even though it was just a number, it felt like a huge defeat. Since then, over the last year, I’ve been working with a coach to improve my game. I thought I was just chasing after my old rank, but I…