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Oh Man This Persona 5 Figure

Good Smile Co., having already released a Figma based on Joker, have now moved onto Ann Takamaki. The extremely poseable figure includes three different faces, a whip, a machine gun and a fan. Out in November, she’ll be around $55

New Nintendo 2DS Is Very Legend Of Zelda

This is the Hylian Shield edition of the Nintendo 2DS XL. It’s out in July. I can see what they’re going for with the design, but…it kinda looks like a $5 cover you’d buy from a basket in GameStop. There’s a long history of very nice Zelda handhelds and consoles, from the golden GBA to…

Star Citizen Has a $27,000 Ship Pack

Star Citizen, a game that has been forever playable but has yet to be officially released, now has an in-game purchase that looks designed solely for the kind of person who would be betting entire planets in a sci-fi casino. It’s called The Legatus Pack, and costs USD$27,000. In real money. For all that cash…

E3 Bans Backpacks, Adds Bag Checks

Despite a sizable surge in attendance last year after selling tickets to 15,000 members of the general public, E3 2017 had some worrisome security blind spots. This year, the annual trade show-turned-circus is cracking down. The security section of E3’s website is now replete with all sorts of regulations that will hopefully make the show…

New EVE Online Expansion Offers Serious Risks With Big Rewards

EVE Online players have been officially invited to dive Into the Abyss. The game’s latest expansion revolves around newly-discovered Abyssal Deadspace, which claims to be beautiful and deadly new space to explore. Players can expect to find rich rewards and deadly new foes in this largely PvE-centric new expansion. Abyssal Deadspace offers a brand new…

Maker Of Game About Fleeing Syrian Civil War Denied Entry Into The UK 

Abdullah Karam, co-creator of an autobiographical game about leaving Syria in 2014, has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. Karam’s visa application was rejected just days before he was supposed to attend the Casual Connect Europe games conference in London where his game, Path Out, was nominated for the Indie Prize award Karam currently…

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Our Favorite Video Game Controllers

Ever since video games showed up in the living room, there have been weird ways to interact with them. From the joystick to the Joy-Con, hardware manufacturers are always trying to cook up the best version of the video game controller. Sometimes, those offerings can feel a cheap and plasticky. Other times, they’re masterpieces. I…

Over 140,000 People Are Watching A Fallout Bobblehead On Twitch

It’s announcement-of-an-announcement season! Bethesda, the company behind several huge franchises, is teasing a new Fallout game, and as fans eagerly wait to see what it might be, they’ve spent hours watching a Twitch stream that shows nothing but a television and a Vault-Tec bobblehead. Well, occasionally other things are happening. But it’s safe to say…

Moonlighter Lets You Run A Shop By Day And Kill Monsters By Night

Many people wouldn’t consider their job to be what they “really do.” Even in the best of circumstances, who hasn’t dreamed of leaving their daily life behind for a new adventure? Moonlighter is a new action RPG that imagines a video game character having this real-world conflict. Moonlighter, released today for PC, Xbox One, and…

Fortnite Players Split On Whether The Game Needs Vehicles

It looks like Fortnite is finally getting vehicles. Sure, they’re not 4×4 trucks, cars or even bicycles. If you logged onto the game this morning, you learned that, in proper Fortnite style, developer Epic Games is adding dinky shopping carts for players to wheel around in. It’s a cute, but controversial inclusion riding on a…

Prosecutor: Father Of Kid Rescued By ‘Real-Life Spider-Man’ Was Playing Pokémon Go

A Malian immigrant heroically rescued a four-year-old Parisian child dangling from a balcony on Monday with Spider-Man-like nimbleness. Today, we got an answer to the million-dollar question, “Where were his parents?” According to authorities, the parent he lives with, his father, was out catching Pokémon. Over the last day, the video of rescuer-slash-IRL superhero Mamoudou…

Exodus Crash, a.k.a. the most hated strike in Destiny 2, has been removed from the heroic strike playlist as of today’s game update. Bungie has said they’re planning to rework it in some way; it’ll be interesting to see how. Update 11:26AM: According to numerous players on Reddit and Twitter, Exodus Crash hasn’t actually been…

DMing A Roleplaying Game Wasn’t As Scary As I Feared

This weekend I DMed my first tabletop RPG. I was really nervous about it, but it was actually way easier than I thought it would be. Our tradition in my Dungeons & Dragons group is whenever someone has a birthday, someone else will run them a one-off in the system of their choice. Our current…

Mega Man 11 arrives October 2 on PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC. It ditches the 8-bit art style for modern 3D sprites and includes a new ability to slow down time. But don’t worry, you’ll still be fighting Dr. Wily and robots with names like Block Man. A new Mega Man Amiibo is also…

Here’s June’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

There’s a range of genres in June’s Xbox Live Games with Gold, from racing to stealth to a MOBA. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an Xbox Live Games with Gold subscription. June’s Xbox Live Games With Gold are: Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia (June 1-30) Smite Gold Bundle (June…

Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, the PSP port of the classic PS1 game, just launched for iOS and Android. It’ll cost you $16.

Splatoon 2‘s ‘Octo Expansion’ Is Full Of Short, Challenging Single-Player Levels

Fans of single-player Splatoon should know that a whole lot more of it will be landing on Switch very soon in this summer’s “Octo Expansion.” The $19.99 DLC will finally let you play as an Octoling, a species previously encountered in the games as enemies (or as a TV show host), in online multiplayer matches.…

Professor Layton and the Curious Village, originally released on the Nintendo DS in 2007, is getting an HD remaster for smartphones in Japan. Tilted Professor Layton and the Curious Village EXHD for Smartphone, the app’s release date is TBA. No word yet if it will be out internationally.

Sailor Moon Wedding Ring Only $1,486

In Sailor Moon, when Usagi finally married her beloved Mamoru, she wore a pink heart-shaped stone offset by jewels. Now, Bandai is making real-life versions of that ring. Priced at 162,000 yen ($1,486), the ring is made from platinum and made in Japan. The heart-shaped jewel is synthetic corundum, while the smaller stones are 0.13ct…