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Spawn Camped Overwatch Player Sneaks Away, Wins Match

Overwatch’s quick play mode can be the pits, especially when your team is hopelessly outmatched. Sometimes the other team rolls you so hard that you end up stuck in spawn, barely even able to play the game, let alone win. Faced with such a situation, one player took matters into their own hands. After a…

We’re going live and drinking coffee in the offbeat crime thriller Deadly Premonition right now on Twitch. It’s about time we shaved York’s beard.

EVE Players Are Poised For A Million-Dollar Battle

EVE Online has once again been plunged into a major battle—possibly its biggest one ever, depending on how it all goes. At around 3 PM Eastern today, Keepstar-class Citadel (the single largest object that can be owned by a player in EVE) held by the Pandemic Horde alliance has come under attack, and is poised…

Rhythm Games Don’t Get Much Cooler Than Cytus II

No one makes rhythm games that are quite as cool as independent Taiwanese studio Rayark, creator ofDeemoand Voez. With outstanding music, sleek visuals and a unique instant message-based story system, mobile game Cytus II is Rayark’s coolest rhythm game yet. In a future where the internet has progressed to the point that it can easily…

Despite Its Glamour, Overwatch‘s Latest Map Feels Familiar

Today, Blizzard dropped Overwatch’s latest map, a literal carnival of Blizzard references. “Blizzard World” is a theme park about Hearthstone, Starcraft, Heroes of the Storm and Warcraft. Playing it feels a lot like being invited to loud, garish party that you leave feeling just okay. Putting aside cute easter eggs, like a spawn point designed…

The Division’s fourth week-long global event, Ambush, is live. Like its predecessors, it changes basic rules governing combat. This time, you do more damage in firefights if you’re stationary, losing the buff if you move outside of cover. The event is part of this game’s post-release elevation from flawed to fantastic.

Bayek gets a really good new outfit in Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Hidden Ones DLC. I’ve played a few hours, and it’s a straightforward expansion so far. There’s a bit more armor to upgrade, three new regions to unlock, some new loot to chase, and a few new levels to earn. I’ll share some more thoughts once…

WW2 Submarine Board Game Looks Ridiculously Complicated

UBOOT is an upcoming board game from Phalanx. It’s played in real-time with 1-4 people joining up co-operatively to manage everything about a German U-Boat, from the crew to the tactics. It’s also got an app, and a giant cardboard model of a submarine. Goodness me. Players have to team up to do everything. Stuff…

The Great Graphics Card Shortage Of 2018

If you were inspired by my PC building adventures and decided to take your own stab at piecing together a computer, I hope you don’t mind waiting. Good graphics cards have been nearly impossible to find at decent prices for the past few weeks, and the shortage doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon.…

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enjoy Mobile Game Grinding

Fate: Grand Order is a mobile game about amassing an army of ridiculous heroesbased on historical figures like King Arthur and Thomas Alva Edison. Powering up these heroes takes countless hours of grinding for experience and rare materials that might seem like busy work but have a meditative appeal if approached with the right mindset.…

The New OK K.O. Game Is Really Good

Cartoon Network’s ongoing quest to make video games based on animated television that do not suck reaches a new level with OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes, a sweet little beat ‘em up developed by the makers of Super Time Force and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. It does not suck at all. Announced around the…

Here’s What Nintendo’s HQ Looked Like In 1889

It’s well-known that Nintendo was originally founded in Kyoto, Japan as a maker of playing cards in 1889. But a recent historical project by the city of Kyoto has turned up, for the first time, a photograph of what the company’s headquarters looked like in that year. The photo, and an accompanying blog post, were…

Darkest Dungeon Bug Makes DLC Unbeatable, But A Fix Is Coming [Update: Fixed]

Crimson Court, a piece of DLC for Darkest Dungeon, has a bug on the Switch version that makes it impossible to complete. The game’s development studio has said they are working on a solution. [Update-4:44, 2/14: The issue has been patched] One of the features of Crimson Court is a location called The Courtyard. The Courtyard…

Square Enix’s Lost Sphear Feels Like It Was Made In A Factory

One of the first things you see in Lost Sphear, a new role-playing game from the aptly named Tokyo RPG Factory, is an inn. For most RPGs this would be par for the course, but in Lost Sphear it’s a symbol. “Hey look,” the game is saying. “We have inns this time.” Lost Sphear, like…

The new God of War game comes out on April 20, Sony said today. New trailer above. Insert all 4/20 jokes below.

We Talk With The Creator Of Iconoclasts About His Painstaking Love Letter To Metroid And Metal Slug

Joakim Sandberg spent seven years making the huge, colorful, beautiful, 2D action-adventure game Iconoclasts. I played it. He watched and reacted. We had a good time. Usually, when someone makes a Metroid-like game these days, they channel Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Sandberg’s influences are more unconventional. He prefers the action-packed Metroid…

The Outline just published an insightful article on how video games can demonize fat people. The feature, which quotes gaming professionals like motion actors and writers, takes a hard look at why fat bodies in games sometimes signal vices.

Xbox Game Pass Now Gets New Microsoft Games On Day One

Microsoft’s $9.99 a month Xbox game subscription service just got a bit more attractive. Starting with the March 20 release of Sea of Thieves, all new Microsoft Studios games will be available on the service on launch day. TheXbox Game Passoffers subscribers access to more than 100 games from throughout Xbox history, allowing them to…

If You Loved Devilman Crybaby, You’ll Love These Anime, Too

Anime fans are still grappling with this season’s breakout show Devilman Crybaby, one of the most “extra” anime to have ever been made. It’s a rare masterpiece, grabby with its demon-filled story and brash, sometimes shocking sexuality. It’s also the most recent in a long line of masterpieces by director Masaaki Yuasa. Masaaki Yuasa has…

If There Was A StarCraft II Anime

There isn’t a StarCraft anime, but if there were, perhaps it would look like this? Created by illustrator AnimatorYu, these StarCraft II inspired images were uploaded on the Inven boards. “Blizzard has a lot of characters I want to draw,” writes AnimatorYu, who is thinking about doing illustrations for the company’s other games. Since Blizzard…