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Latest GTA Online Money Glitch Has Giant Stunt Tracks Sprouting From The Ground [Update: Patched]

Money glitches found by GTA Online players are often patched quickly, and if they remain active, the exploits don’t typically affect other players. A new exploit on the PS4, however, turns public lobbies into landfills for cheaters who dump massive structures onto the map. Thethis exploitinvolves multiple logins and logouts, suspending the game, accepting invites,…

PUBG‘s New Blue Zone Makes The Game More Tactical

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ latest patch gives the meditative survival shooter a big, welcome change of pace. Battlegrounds’ blue circle, which progressively makes the playable area smaller, got tweaks to its speed and damage. Now, players who survive longer in Battlegrounds’ death blender will face more interesting survival conditions as they pursue the number one spot. Battlegrounds…

EVE Publisher Details New Expansion And FPS Spinoff

EVE Online’s annual FanFest event is in full swing in Reykjavik, Iceland, hometown of publisher CCP Games. This year’s event marks the 15th anniversary of EVE Online, and CCP took the opportunity to detail the game’s 37th free expansion, Into the Abyss, during a keynote presentation today. It also delivered updates on the mysterious “Project…

Nicki Minaj Seems Confused About Chun Li In Her New Track

Nicki Minaj just dropped her new track “Chun-Li,” during an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1. It’s not bad, although I am concerned that she thinks Chun-Li is the villain. Nicki hasn’t recorded much solo music recently, and a lot of her features on other people’s tracks have sounded like she’s been asleep. While…

Twin Galaxies Removes Former Donkey Kong Champ Billy Mitchell’s High Scores

Controversial arcade game player Billy Mitchell’s record scores have been removed from the Twin Galaxies leaderboards following a dispute earlier this year that many were performed using an arcade emulator. The ruling, which comes after a lengthy arbitration process, also bans Mitchell from further participation on the leaderboards, bringing an end to the King of…

I’m Feeling Good About Not Starting Destiny 2 Yet

I often like to play new video games when they’re new, but I am forever grateful for whatever part of my gut kept me from diving into the first Destiny until it was nearly a year old. I skipped playing the game when it was more boring, more barren and more hostile to its players.…

Thousands Of Modders Are Re-Inventing The Game Boy

The Game Boy is so iconic it’s transcended the limitations of its hardware to become something more than just an old handheld for playing old video games. Chiptune artists make music with Game Boys. Clothing manufacturers plaster them onto t-shirts and hoodies. More eccentric designers have inserted them into the soles of platform shoes. And…

Aerial Dogfights And The Sphinx Add Some Fun Flavor To COD: WWII

The second DLC pack for Call of Duty: WWII is now available, taking players to historic Dunkirk, to Egypt, and even up into the sky for some aerial dogfighting—a first for the Call of Duty series, believe it or not. “The War Machine” arrived on April 10 for PlayStation 4, and the new content brings…

Fortnite Is Down [Update: It’s Back, Plus Rewards]

If you tried to log into Fortnite last night and couldn’t get past the start screen, you’re not alone. The wildly popular battle royale game has had server issues for over a day now. Sixteen hours ago, Epic, the developer, announced that Fortnite was having login issues. A few hours later, the game came down:…

Sega Arcade Employee Admits To Making Up Robbery Story 

Yesterday, a 33-year-old employee at High-Tec Sega Kasai game center in Tokyo phoned the police, saying there was a robbery. The man later admitted this was a lie. According to Sankei Shimbun, the Sega arcade employee told the police, “A group of three men broke into the office and stole 2 million yen.” (That’s $18,721.)…

Japan Is Getting Two Cowboy Bebop Cafes

Cowboy Bebop is coming back! In cafe form, that is. This May, Cowboy Bebop cafes will open for a limited time in Tokyo and Osaka. The original Cowboy Bebop manga ran from 1997 to 1998, and the anime was broadcasted in 1998. It’s great. According to Anime Anime, the Cowboy Bebop Cafe will open May…

Yokai Watch 4 has been announced for Nintendo Switch in Japan. The game features a new hero and is slated for a summer release. No word yet on an international release.

If You Still Miss Dragon Ball Super, You Are Not Alone

It was a weekly ritual. Every Sunday morning in Japan, a new Dragon Ball Super episode would air. Not anymore. Now, it’s the latest GeGeGe no Kitaro series, but some fans still miss Dragon Ball Super. Do you? I know I do! My kids miss it, too, and so do these fans: But on the…

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Oh Man Look At This Witcher 3 Figure

I am not normally a man to be wooed by the giant heads of a Nendoroid figure, but holy crap, this one is Geralt. And he comes with the bathtub Out in September, it’ll cost around $45. It includes two heads, both his regular and silver sword, some Gwent cards and, yeah, that bathtub. Maybe…

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Doom, Now With Some 2K Textures

Hoover1979is working on a texture pack for Doom (and Doom II) that takes the original game’s blurry surfaces and brings them into the 2K generation. He’s re-doing everything. Not just the walls, but terminals, windows, skies, the works. Even at this early stage, the results are a lot better than the whole idea sounds on…

Battlestar Galactica Is Getting A Tabletop Miniatures Game

It’s like the excellent X-Wing, basically, only you get to yell “launch alert fighters” a lot. The game is called Battlestar Galactica – Starship Battles, and while there’s no release date yet, it will be present at Gen Con for people to get an early look at. Before anyone accuses this of being an X-Wing…

Far Cry 5‘s Helicopters Do Not Suck

Video game helicopters are usually difficult to control and not half as enjoyable to fly as they look in real life (or in the movies!). So I want to give a special shout-out to Far Cry 5, which for the first time I can think of in the 3D era has made flying a helicopter…

The Best Clips And Screenshots From Fortnite‘s New Replay Mode

Like PUBG before it, Fortnite now has a suite of replay tools that allow you to pan around gameplay moments you’ve captured, position cameras, mess with colors, and, if you want, create elaborate clips. Players have already used them to churn out some quality stuff. You can find replays by opening your career menu and…