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Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Papyrus Mysteries Are Some Of The Series’ Best Sidequests

Ubisoft games are understandably knocked for having a lot of filler content. Often, though, one of their gargantuan open-world epics will hide a wonderful line of sidequests. It’s taken me some time to appreciate an extraordinary set of them in Assassin’s Creed Origins, a set that helps show off areas of the game players might…

Lindsay Lohan Loses Yet Again In Grand Theft Auto V Lawsuit

Actress-slash-burnout Lindsay Lohan’s drawn-outsuit against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive fizzled out yesterday after a New York court rejected her appeal. Lohan brought thelawsuit four years ago, taking issue with GTA V featuring a young woman named Lacey Jonas whom, I’ll admit, does look the tiniest bit like Lohan. Jonas is a white woman…

Monster Hunter: World’s new event quests are live and the loot is absurd. Players completing the “Egg Lovers United” quest can unlock a head piece that turns their head into that of the goofy Kulu-Ya-Ku.

Sure, It’s Made Of The Corpses Of Your Victims. But Is It Art?

One of the most enduring character archetypes, one that adds a zesty burst of horror to any game, is the psychotic artist. You know the type: the dapper, urbane, well-spoken aesthete who values art above life and moans about critics who simply don’t understand their brilliant work. No one truly appreciates their genius, therefore they…

The Reason Why Detective Pikachu Loves Coffee

While Ash’s Pikachu adores ketchup, Detective Pikachu loves coffee. In a recent interview, the game’s creators explained why. Famitsu asked why Detective Pikachu has an old man voice, and producer Hiroyuki Jinnai explained that Ikue Otani’s cute Pikachu voice work is exceedingly well-known. “That’s why, as this is an adventure game, we wanted to bring…

What’s going on with the Hollywood live-action adaptation of Naruto? Director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) tells Collider, “…we’re still working on the script. Because until that script is at a level that I’m excited about, I have no interest in destroying an amazing franchise, as has happened before.”

Fetish Cosplay Comes To The Nintendo Switch 

Today, Shin Den Ai: Nani ga Hoshii no? will be released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan. The download stars fetish cosplayer and model Eri Kitami. The app was apparently denied release on iOS, but it looks like Nintendo is happy to take it! The title could be translated as “True Electric Love: What Do…

Luminous Producitons, the newly announced Square Enix studio headed up by Hajime Tabata, isn’t only doing big-time games. As you can see on this preview of an NHK program, it’s also doing CG for television. Here, the CG is used to show how humans evolved.

Mirror Lake and Mt Hood. USA, Oregon. By Zack N. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Not Tonight is a “dark comedy RPG” set in a Britain on the verge of collapse. You play as a bouncer exiled due to his heritage after Brexit talks fell apart. You can opt to join the resistance or keep your head down. There are elements of time management too, invoking Papers Please. It’ll be…

Sea of Thieves Player Becomes First To Reach Max Rank But Not Everyone Is Impressed

Sea of Thieves is a grindy game where even high level quests can grant only a pittance of gold and reputation. One dedicated streamer has reached maximum reputation with the game’s three factions to become a pirate legend and unlock a secret hideout. There are three major factions in Sea of Thieves: the covetous Gold…

Fortnite Players Are Rocket-Riding New Guided Missiles For Absurd Kills

Fortnite Battle Royale’s new guided missile is absolute mayhem. Thank God it’s so rare, or Fortnite’s sky would be a buzzing death hive. Introduced this morning, the new Fortnite hotness is a drivable missile that does a whopping 105 damage to whomever’s on the other end of it. It stays alive for 18 seconds, just…

EVE Online Trolls Raided An Accordion Player’s Twitch Stream And It Was Awesome

EVE Online players have a bit of a reputation in the broader online gaming community: Whether deserved or not, they are often seen as villains, bullies, and backstabbers. The rep of the Goonswarm Federation is like that times a hundred—even to the general population of EVE, they are seen as dishonorable scammers and griefers. It’s…

How Far Cry 5’s Microtransactions Work

Like many modern video games, Far Cry 5 has microtransactions. Hate the concept? You can easily ignore them. Note: This is part of what we expect to be an ongoing series of posts explaining how the microtransactions in major games work. How much does this game cost up front? Far Cry 5 sells for $60.…

Fortnite Has A Shotgun Problem

If you play Fortnite, chances are extremely good that by the end of any given match, you will have at least two items in your inventory: a long-ranged weapon and a shotgun. Maybe you’ve even suffered a totally bullshit shotgun death at some point, or landed a kill that wasn’t entirely fair. While Fortnite has…

Sea of Thieves Gets Its First Wave Of Hackers

Being a pirate in Sea of Thieves sometimes means being an asshole, using whatever methods you can to kill your foes and plunder their loot. Some Sea of Thieves players are taking this to the next level by relying on hacks to conquer the high seas. As first noted by WIndows Central, Sea of Thieves…

Real Guns, Virtual Guns, And Me

Sometimes I imagine my brain is a collection of baskets that contain everything I know. There’s a basket for the English language, and a basket for music stuff. There’s one for Lord of the Rings lore, and another for Bloodborne monsters. Right alongside those is a worn but sizable basket that contains all my accumulated…

April’s Xbox Live Games with Gold include The Witness and Dead Space 2. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Games with Gold subscription.

Players Are Obsessed With Far Cry 5‘s Shovels

Far Cry 5 has lots of weapons, ranging from throwing knives to heavy machine guns, but none have captured players’ imaginations quite like its shovels. Can you dig it? Just a few days after release, Far Cry 5 has managed to elevate the handling of a gardening tool from a chore into an Olympic sport…

Twitch streamer Ninja has posted an apology for rapping the n-word earlier this week, stating that “I promise that I understand how much pain that word causes.” You can read his remarks in full here, in an update to our original article.