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Wackiness, Not Power, Defines Hearthstone’s New Witchwood Cards

Now that all the cards from Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion have been revealed, most streamers and analysts are doing their best to rate cards and theorycraft about the upcoming meta. Well, dear reader, we’ve been through this enough times to know that once the expansion drops tomorrow, everyone will prove to be slightly wrong in their…

Destiny 2‘s next piece of downloadable content is called Warmind, and will be out on May 8. More details to come via stream, as is Bungie’s way. Bungie also plans to change weapon slots and a whole lot of other stuff. Will this be enough to bring you back?

WarCraft III Is Still Getting Patches

Warcraft III was released over fifteen years ago, but yesterday it got an enormous patch, with a lengthy list of small changes. Warcraft III is the third Warcraft game, a fantasy-flavored real-time strategy game that predates the incredibly popular MMO set in the same world. You’d think that Blizzard was long done tweaking the game,…

Shovel Knight Sold Fewer Copies In 2017 Than Its Best Year But Made More Money 

A new blog post from the makers of the excellent 2D platformer Shovel Knight breaks down the game’s sales in surprising detail. Shovel Knight was released in 2014 on PC, Wii U and 3DS, the year after it was Kickstarted. It was eventually ported to every other console. Of its two million sales to date,…

How Do You Know If a Game Is Worth Finishing?

With many games asking players to spend dozens of hours in them to see their endings, it can be a game in itself deciding which ones are worth finishing. Movies use a more traditional structure to introduce characters and then present a conflict that keeps viewers engaged through the end to see it resolved. But…

Twitch’s Roasting of Mark Zuckerberg Is The Most 2018 Thing

Over ten thousand people watched the second day of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress today on The Washington Post’s Twitch channel. The spammy, fast-moving Twitch chat for this hearing was like seeing the entirety of 2018 collapse into a self-referential black hole. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where it was discovered…

Overwatch‘s New PvE Event Is Its Best Yet

Overwatch got its spring event yesterday, which includes a new player-versus-environment mode where players can take down swarms of killer soldiers in a picturesque, futuristic Venice. Retribution, the new PvE mode, is absolutely the best of its kind yet. It might have players asking why Overwatch can’t get its own story mode already. Retribution is…

Creepy Radio Static Has Far Cry 5 Players Chasing A New Mystery

Drive around long enough in Far Cry 5 and you might stumble into an area where strange static comes out of your radio. Stop and listen for a bit and you might even be able to make out voices on the other end. It’s weird and creepy, and has a few players wondering if it…

Hacker Says It Took Him Two Weeks To Add Save Back-Ups To Switch

One of the biggest flaws in Nintendo’s portable console is that you can’t back up your data: if you lose your system, or somehow get your data corrupted or wiped, that’s it. It’s gone. But thanks to a burgeoning hacking scene, Switch fans are now adding features that the Switch desperately needs. Bernardo Giordano, a…

My Favorite Moment In Nier: Automata Is A Musical Cue

Nier: Automata’s existential story about an endless war between androids and machines has a ton of great moments. My favorite moment of all doesn’t come from an epic sword duel on top of a tower or a difficult, fourth wall-breaking decision, but instead from a perfect musical cue. Early in the game, protagonists 2B and…

I Have More And More Sympathy For My Assassin’s Creed Enemies

I’ve killed many Egyptians and Romans in Assassin’s Creed Origins, a game I’m 96 assassinating hours into. I’m not sure all of them deserved it. I’m feeling particularly bad about this captain I just killed. I’ve figured some of the soldiers standing near treasures could have been nice people, but they must have known what…

Slinky boxing game Arms got a sleek user interface makeover. Its new dashboard makes it easy to find players’ worldwide, regional and Party Crash rankings. Tips, tutorials and tournament clips also feature on the dashboard, so it’ll be handier for Arms players to get a grip.

Drake Says He’ll Rap About Fortnite If Epic Makes A Hotline Bling Emote

Last night, October’s very own hopped back onto Twitch with Fortnite star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins. While the pair didn’t break any records this time around, the subject of Drake’s upcoming album did come up. Apparently, there’s a chance Drake might spit some Fortnite-related fire soon. A clip of the conversation is circulating on social media…

Chrono Trigger PC Looks Way Better Now

Are you ready for the feel-good story of the year? Square Enix did a thing, fans didn’t like the thing, and then Square Enix actually addressed and fixed the thing in a way that will make everybody happy. Here’s what happened. In February, Square released a surprise version of Chrono Trigger on Steam, which briefly…

Looks like classic shooter Ikaruga could be coming to the Switch! Game developer Treasure tweeted out this photo, show the game on the Switch and with Nintendo’s hardware held up by cheap stands.

Cosplay Isn’t Only About Clothes, But Also About Facial Expressions

Cosplayer Mosuke has recently uploaded a comparison in which she’s attempted to recreate the facial expressions of Golden Kamuy’s Asirpa. This proves an important point, I think. Cosplay isn’t about clothes. It’s also about facial expressions. Attitude, even. You need more than accurate threads to bring a character to life, and bravo to Mosuke for…

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It’s 2018, Here’s A New Video Games Magazine

A Profound Waste of Time is a new games magazine that “plays host to a rich variety of voices from inside and outside the videogame industry”. Which means the first issue features pieces by folks like Undertale’s Toby Fox and Life is Strange’s Ashly Burch alongside some very nice illustrations. The mag was actually Kickstarted…

My Quest To Make The Ugliest Possible Call Of Duty Gun

Five months after the launch of Call of Duty: WWII, the game’s long-awaited Paint Job feature is finally available for crafting the tacky camo of your dreams. For my part, I have created the gun of your nightmares, assuming your nightmares largely revolve around fashion disasters. Paint Jobs arrived with the April 10 update, and…

Morrowind, Bioware & Star Wars Classics Coming To Xbox One Backwards Compatibility

Microsoft has just announced a new batch of original Xbox games coming to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility feature, and there are some damn good ones on offer, including KOTOR, Morrowind, Jade Empire and the original Star Wars: Battlefront games. Here’s the full list of original Xbox games on the way: Hey, if you’ve never…