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Heroes Of The Storm Streamer Reports Entire Team, Prompts Blizzard To Investigate 

Heroes of the Storm’s game director says Blizzard is looking into one of the game’s streamers frivolously reporting teammates after losing a match. While broadcasting earlier this week, streamer Alexander “Stalk” Melder appeared to issue reports against the other four members of his Heroes of the Storm team after losing. Melder was a pro player…

Another World is coming to the Nintendo Switch this spring. The French studio DotEmu, which previously ported it to Android and iOS, will be bringing it over. As random as the announcement seems, Switch is currently the only platform you can’t play Éric Chahi’s amazing cinematic adventure on, so it’s about time.

This Tiny Tokyo Apartment Isn’t So Bad

There are some things going for it: the building is still new, clean and convenient. Big, however, it’s not. Japan’s ANN News visited the building, which is a year and a half old and located in Shibuya. The apartment is tiny, even by Japanese standards. The featured one-room measures 3-jo (畳), which means “three tatami…

Coca-Cola Will Sell Booze In Japan

No longer content with merely being a mixer, Coca-Cola is moving into Japan’s highly competitive canned spirits market. Besides its cola namesake (which actress Haruka Ayase is promoting in the top image), Coca-Cola Japan also sells various types of bottled Japanese tea under different brand names. The move into the country’s lucrative canned chu-hai segment…

A $750 Pokémon Plushie You Will Want To Ride

That’s actually what it’s called in Japanese “Zettai ni Noritai Rapurasu” (絶対にのりたいラプラス) or “A Lapras You’ll Definitely Want To Ride.” While not one-to-one scale (that would be enormous!), this large-sized plush toy from Bandai has a width of over six and a half feet and a height of nearly four feet. It costs 79,400 yen…

VR Sex Devices Continue To Progress

This is called the “V1″ and claims to be a fully-automatic VR self-pleasuring device. The V1 is “hands-free.” Of course, it is. Warning: Not safe for work content to follow. YouTuber M-Fumi uploaded the clip below, which has also racked up nearly two-million views on Twitter Besides allowing for speed and pressure control, the device…

Behold, Square Enix’s Idol Fantasy The boy band smartphone sim is headed to iOS and Android this summer in Japan. It features character designs from Tetsuya Nomura, among others. No word yet about an international release.

You Cannot Separate Dragon Ball‘s Voices From Masako Nozawa

At 81 years of age, Masako Nozawa has been voice acting since the 1960s but is perhaps best known for her Dragon Ball work. She does the Japanese voices of Goku, Gohan and Goten. But how much of her regular voice finds its way into these characters? A lot, apparently! The Japanese TV clip below…

Fun Farm. Luzon, Philippines. By Martin Tan. 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! 

Tally ho and what-not! We’re checking out The Order 1886 live now on Twitch. Was is really as bad as people say or can we find a silver lining?

Final Fantasy XV Is Great In First Person, Unless You’re Fighting

Final Fantasy XV’s Royal Edition update introduces a new first-person mode to the game, allowing players to witness the world of Eos from Noctis’ point of view. Just don’t try fighting with it turned on unless you’ve got a strong stomach. Pressing down the L3 and R3 buttons on the controller (or the N key…

Black Ops III‘s Surprise DLC Is Beautiful

Black Ops III is still receiving new content, and coming back to Treyarch’s 2015 title is a lot of fun. An update on March 5 has added a snowy variant of the Redwood map and the addition of the popular Infected game mode, which became available to play on March 6. I’ve been pretty devoted…

Rainbow Six: Siege’s New Zombie Update Is So Good, Players Are Coming Back In Droves

When Rainbow Six: Siege first launched in 2015 I had no idea that it would eventually ask me to fight alien zombies in New Mexico. But here we are, three years later, with a beefy free update that adds a great new game mode, as well as more weapons, characters, skins and balance tweaks. Operation…

The Sims’ Insane Trait Sucks

Starting with The Sims 3, sims have traits to help shape their personalities. Sims can be Romantics, more prone to flirting, or they can be Evil and want to have mean interactions with other sims. In both The Sims 3 and The Sims 4, you can also have sims that are Insane. I hate this…

Top Game Creators Remember Their Earliest Gaming Memories

What’s your first gaming memory? Is it your dad’s Atari 2600? Struggling to figure out how to use the controller on your older sister’s Nintendo 64? Or just staring and watching your grandma play Windows Solitaire? We can all remember an early experience with seeing a video game, maybe the very first time we ever…

Devil May Cry HD Collection Has Some Issues On PC

The first game in the Devil May Cry HD Collection is out early for Amazon Prime subscribers via Twitch. Unfortunately, it’s arrived with some minor issues, including a bug that makes the game run like it’s got an unofficial, never before seen turbo mode. The new version of the original Devil May Cry, which originally…

Battlerite’s 1.4 update is live, bringing with it plenty of gameplay tweaks and a new champion. Jamila is a Shadowblade assassin with situational abilties including counters, dashes, and long range attacks. In addition, Stunlock Studios has buffed and nerfed existing champions and rolled out its plans for Season 1.

Widespread Bug Causes Oculus Rifts To Stop Working [Update]

Virtual reality has gone dark for Oculus Rift users across the globe today, as what seems to be an expired security certificate in the Oculus Runtime service has temporarily rendered their headsets inoperable. Where were you the day the Oculus Rifts died? Reports of failing Oculus Rift headsets are everywhere this morning, from Twitterto Reddit…

Trump Vs. Video Games: What To Expect From Tomorrow’s White House Meeting [UPDATE: Full List Of Attendees]

On Thursday, March 8, the White House will hold a meeting with members of the video game industry to talk about gun violence. Few people know who will be at that meeting or why it is taking place, but one thing is clear: Like all things involving the Donald Trump administration, the process has been…

New Mod Lets You Play Breath Of The Wild As Linkle

Link’s great and all, but The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s world is too beautiful to explore as him alone. That’s why players have modded other characters into the game, ranging from Sonic to Goku. Now there’s a mod adding one of the most obvious choices of all: Hyrule Warriors’ Linkle. Created by…