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Epic Yanks Guided Missiles From Fortnite, At Least For Now

Imagine if you could produce a missile that would instantly do your bidding. Would you use it to sail across the sky like a combustion-powered witch? Or would you mostly just be a dick to people? It seems that Epic has decided that the latter is a big enough concern to shelve Fortnite’s guided missile.…

Mansions Of Madness Is Being Turned Into A Video Game

Fantasy Flight’s excellent Arkham board game Mansions of Madness is getting the video game treatment, and interestingly, it’s not a direct adaptation. Instead it’s a more hands-on take, maintaining the same basic premise while making everything more video gamey While you’ll still be taking a team of investigators inside a very haunted house, the video…

Sources: Next Call Of Duty Won’t Have A Solo Campaign, May Have Battle Royale

This fall’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will essentially be multiplayer-only, lacking the kind of single-player campaign that has been a key component of the annual series for over a decade, two sources familiar with the game tell Kotaku, corroborating a report published earlier today at Polygon One of those sources also echoed a…

Overwatch Fans Are Drawing McCree As A Waiter Thanks To The New Event

Thanks to some new voice lines, the Overwatch fandom is geeking out over the idea of the surly cowboy McCree dressed as a waiter. I am here for it. Overwatch’s Retribution event expands a part of lore players have been wanting to explore. The event takes place during a mission where Blackwatch, the Overwatch team’s…

Playing The NPC In Someone Else’s Dating Sim

Kindness Coins is a dating sim, released on itch.io in 2013, that asks the question: What is it like to be on the receiving end of the protagonist’s flirting in a dating game? On the surface, it would seem like dating sims are not like other video games. In a sea of experiences that prioritize…

Modders Are Still Working On The Never-Released Halo Online Game

Halo Online is a free-to-play version of the popular shooter series that was only ever offered in a closed beta test in Russia in 2015. After years on ice, a mod that makes it playable the world over is getting a brand new version on April 20. A new trailer, first spotted by PC Gamer,…

You can now win Overwatch’s Retribution mission even if your teammates won’t get in the dang dropship. Blizzard released a small update today that, among other tweaks, causes the dropship to “leave incapacitated players behind to complete the mission.” Sorry, bloodthirsty Rambo wannabes. You deserve this.

I Love Unfinished and Broken Games

I’ve been playing a lot of incomplete and glitchy games lately, from Radical Heights to Far Cry 2. Their messy imperfections often annoy players looking for sleek and polished experiences where everything runs smoothly but I find unfinished textures and falling out of bounds is strangely beautiful. When Final Fantasy XV’s demo Episode Duscae released…

The Pros and Cons of Playing As A Man Or Woman In Games

Far Cry 5 lets you play as a man or woman. I was surprised to find that option when I started the game. And it got several of us on staff thinking: when presented with the option, do you play as a man or a woman in video games? And are there any series where…

It Took A Year, But Ghost Recon: Wildlands Finally Got Splinter Cell’s Goggles Right

Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a massive game, filled to the brim with high-tech military weapons and gadgetry. One thing the game did not have, however, was a set of properly functioning night-vision goggles. Until now. Last May, I publishedan extremely important and not at all silly post in which I pointed out that if you…

FCB Chicago, the marketing firm behind the failed Bully Hunters campaign, has apologized for it. We’ve added the apology to our story on the program, in which “a vigilante hit squad of elite female gamers” were to hunt down harassers. The program is, at this point, effectively over.

Overwatch Devs Accidentally Buff Hanzo’s Most Hated Ability

Yesterday, Hanzo mains the world over discovered a pleasant surprise while using their one ability that actually does damage: scatter arrow now has a shorter cooldown, meaning it can be used more often. Blizzard admits this buff was accidental, but for the time being, may not revert it. Scatter arrow fires an arrow that fragments…

At EVE Fanfest, A Wedding Officiated By The ‘Space Pope’

Last week, two EVE Online players chose to share their life’s happiest moments with the community at EVE Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland, where they were joined in holy matrimony by the Space Pope. Tairon Usaro and Irma Amatin, dressed in formal Amaarian cosplay, tied the knot on stage during the Fanfest livestream. The couple met…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Spring 2018

Spring is here, the perfect time to come out of that backlog hibernation and play some new video games. Here are the biggest ones coming out this season. March 22 Ark Park |PSVR , Oculus, Vive, Windows Mixed Reality March 23 A Way Out | PS4, Xbox One, PC Detective Pikachu | 3DS Ni No…

Nintendo Has Added Loot Boxes To Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp just got loot boxes in its latest update. Thanks, I hate it! The mobile Animal Crossing game is no stranger to dodgy, predatory mobile game mechanics. This latest updates introduces the scummiest of all: loot boxes, in the form of the new Fortune Cookies. These items, available to buy at the…

Guild Wars 2 Developers Criticized For Technique Used To Suspend More Than 1,500 Accounts

Late last week, ArenaNet, makers of the MMO Guild Wars 2, suspended over 1,500 player accounts it suspected of cheating. According to one of the players caught in the sweep, the studio accomplished this using what some users and experts are calling spyware to monitor people’s computers for known cheat programs. “Today, ArenaNet suspended 1583…

PUBG Players Are Turning The Start of Matches Into A Loud Door Hellscape

PlayerUnknown Battleground’s upcoming map, Savage, returned to experimental test servers yesterday with a new coat of paint. In addition to adding more buildings and new textures, the update brings incredibly loud and annoying doors to the starting area. I played the new Savage test period last night and immediately took note of some loud iron…

Monster Hunter: World’s latest free update adds a new a new elder dragon, the Kulve Taroth and tons of amazing armor and weapons. You can fight the beast as part of a new “siege” mode involving everyone in your online session. The event starts April 18 at 5pm PT.

I Played Crusader Kings 2 Until The Sun Came Up

After work yesterday, I had a hankering to play some Crusader Kings 2. I set aside a couple hours in the evening, ordered some Indian food and cracked a beer, thinking I’d get to bed around midnight. By the time I closed the game and went to bed, I heard birds chirping. This is not…

Nobody Understands The People Who Use Discord’s ‘Light’ Theme

The long, contentious list of things that divide us—dogs vs. cats, Democrat vs. Republication, ketchup vs. mayo—has an entry just for gamer aesthetes. There’s a war among Discord users over whether people who use the gaming chat app’s “light” theme are wicked, infernal hellbeasts or normal humans who like white backgrounds. Discord’s signature look is…