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The Last Months Of Gazillion Entertainment, Maker Of Marvel Heroes

November 22nd should have just been game designer Anthony Gallegos’ birthday. But circumstances were unusual this year. His employer, Marvel Heroes developer Gazillion Entertainment, had put him and the rest of its staff on unpaid furlough earlier that week. He didn’t know when he’d see his next paycheck. His dog Shasta had just been diagnosed…

Destiny 2 Gets Its First Major Balance Patch

And the people rejoiced, for grenades had become more powerful. Except pulse grenades. Because fuck pulse grenades. Along with the new Curse of Osiris expansion, Bungie has released the first major balance patch for Destiny 2. You can read the full 1.1.0 update notes at Bungie’s website. There’s a large collection of “sandbox” tweaks, which…

A Trippy Way To Tap Into Ocarina of Time Nostalgia 

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time came out in 1998. For a certain generation, it represents the peak of electronic entertainment. Link could climb, swim, and swing his sword like never before. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that decades later people are remixing and augmenting the game that defined their childhood in music. Zeldawave…

YouTube is taking a tougher stance against “disturbing content,” the company said in a blog post last night. Its CEO announced the company would boost its manual content moderation workforce next year and boasted of its current algorithms’ effectiveness. It’s a crowd-pleasing move for advertisers, and yet, YouTubers are still crying out for help getting…

The Traditional Games Nintendo Continues To Sell

On Nintendo’s Japanese website, there is a page called “Other Products” (その他の商品). It’s fascinating. This piece originally appeared 8/10/17. At the top of the page, there is an entry for Western-style playing cards: Below that, there is a mahjong set. Look at these pieces. The chips have “Nintendo” emblazoned on them. How cool is that?…

Previously only available in Japanese arcades, Examu’s all-girl fighting game Arcana Heart 3: Love Max Six Stars is coming to Steam on December 12. TheKickstarted English release introduces new character Minori Amanohara to the roster, with more fighters coming in future DLC.

We Played Doom VFR And It Was Sweaty As Heck

I played Doom VFR for an hour while wearing a US Air Force cold-weather flight jacket in a room with poor ventilation. I was deep in the third circle of game heck: I was hot, I had a torture contraption on my face, and I was playing Doom. To cap it all off, the room…

Manga Confronting Homophobia In Japan Getting Live-Action TV Drama

My Brother’s Husband tells the story of Yaichi, a single father raising his daughter, and Mike Flanagan, a Canadian man who was married to Yaichi’s twin brother Ryoji. Mike travels unannounced to Japan after his husband’s recent passing. Yaichi must face his deceased twin’s sexuality and overcome his own preconceptions, and Mike learns what caused…

Is a new Armored Core announcement incoming? A recent From Software tweet says the company is not intending to end the series and asks fans to “wait patiently a bit more.” 

The Japanese Solo: A Star Wars Story Logo Is Being Called “Dorky” Online In Japan

Yesterday, when the Japanese release date for Solo: A Star Wars Story was announced, the official Star Wars Japan Twitter account also revealed the movie’s logo. People online are saying how uncool it looks. The Japanese title is actually different from the English-language one. In katakana, the Japanese writing system used for foreign words among…

Visiting Game Of Thrones‘ Real-Life Locations

While Game of Thrones relies heavily on CG effects, it also uses tons of real-world locations to bring places like King’s Landing to life. Blogger Andrea David of Filmtourismus travels around the globe, taking snaps of locations from a variety of movies and TV shows. Her Game of Thrones comparison photos show how places like…

View From Le Mont-Saint-Michel. Normandy, France. By Patrick Lehrmann 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! 

Nintendo Games Coming To The Nvidia Shield (In China)

In most places, you need to get Nintendo hardware to play Nintendo console games. Not so in China, where the upcoming launch of the Nvidia Shield has seen a number of older Nintendo games—like New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess—made available for the set-top device. There were rumours this would be…

The New Five Nights At Freddy’s Game Is Not What It Seems

Released today on Steam for free by Five Nights at Freddy’s creator Scott Cawthon, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator is an old-school arcade game in which a bear tosses pizzas at hungry children. Or at least that’s how it starts. Cawthon’sbeen teasing the new game on his website, and here it is. Using simple WASD controls,…

Assassin’s Creed IV Is Still Great

There have been many Assassin’s Creed games since it was first released, but never forget: Black Flag is a very good video game, better than many people give it credit for. I mean, yes, people have always known it was good. It reviewed well, it was a lot better than Assassin’s Creed III, and indeed…

EA UFC 3‘s Beta Has Brutal Striking, But Falls Apart On The Ground

Playing as UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson, I walk down Conor McGregor and chop away at his resolve (and face) with a blender of punches and elbows. He tries to move off the fence, but ends up walking right into a cracking blow. He’s practically out on his feet. Then I knock him unconscious…

It’s 2017, Here’s A New Game Boy Game

Tangram Games have released a new title for the Game Boy called Tobu Tobu Girl. You can download it and play it on your PC via an emulatoror, if you’d prefer to do things the old-fashioned way, you can buy a boxed copy that includes a copy on cartridge. The game itself looks cool! Your…

Alien DLC Crash Lands In Darkest Dungeon

Darkest Dungeon, a depression + anxiety simulation platform, is getting some new DLC next year called The Colour Of Madness Here’s the story pitch: Some hateful shard of alien origin has streaked through the night sky, crashing into the old Miller’s farm on the outskirts of the Hamlet! Those unfortunate enough to witness the Comet’s…

Video Game Characters Who Should Go On Mute

While playing through a recently-released role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch, I got to thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of simply turning voice-over on or off, we could selectively mute individual characters? Who would you silence? Aside from Tidus. Some characters are just too damn annoying to speak. Sometimes it’s about bad voice…

New Hearthstone Expansion Could Make Things Harder On New Players

Hearthstone’s treasure and adventure-themed Kobolds and Catacombs expansion will be available December 7, and so far it looks like we’re in for some treats: high-powered cards, exciting new mechanics, and more deck options. But it might also be making Hearthstone more impenetrable for new players. Let’s start with the good. So far, the cards that…