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Marvel Heroes Players Are Demanding Refunds For In-Game Purchases [UPDATE]

A Marvel Heroes player who goes by EITTurtle bought the game on Xbox in July. Since then, he says he’s sunk $400 in microtransactions, unlocking characters like Spider Man, Storm, and Captain America. Earlier this week, Marvel announced that the game’s servers will be shut down in December. And EITTurtle, like many other players, is…

14 Things That Are New In Ultra Pokémon Sun and Moon

A third version of 2016’s Pokémon Sun and Moon drops today for the 3DS, so you may be wondering what, exactly, has been changed this time around. Should you play Ultra Sun and Moon if you already enjoyed the original games? If you’ve never played any version before, is this the best game to get?…

Players Are Creating Amazing Avatars For Final Fantasy XV‘s Multiplayer 

Final Fantasy XV’s multiplayer expansion, Comrades, launched this week, and players have been putting its ridiculously detailed character creator to good use. Because four pretty people wandering the countryside fighting monsters is never enough, Comrades gives players the chance to create their very own Glaives, elite soldiers tasked with looking pretty damn good. The character…

A Hot New Strategy For Speedrunning Ocarina Of Time: Don’t Press The A Button

The world record for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is 17 minutes and 9 seconds… but what if you pressed the A button as little as possible? Limiting Link’s ability to jump, talk, and open chests creates a new challenge for speedrunners to race through. The “A Button Challenge” restricts speedrunners into completing…

Hitman’s Elusive Targets are reactivated, beginning today with The Forger. You can’t replay targets you’ve completed or failed, which means I’ll never get a do-over on my Forger run

NCSoft’s all-star arena combat game Master X Master (MXM) will shut down on January 31 after only seven months in operation. The developer says the game “failed to connect with players.” Recent in-game purchases will be refunded, and all content will be unlocked until the lights go out.

It’s Fall And The Nintendo Switch Is Still Selling Out In Japan

When will the Nintendo Switch sellouts end in Japan? Who knows. It’s autumn, and the console is still hard to get in many places. Last week, the Nintendo Switch topped the Japanese sales charts, moving 84,593 units (in comparison, the PS4 was the second-best seller at 23,613 units).  This was earlier today at the Yodobashi…

Bulma’s Voice Actress Hiromi Tsuru Has Died

Yesterday evening, Hiromi Tsuru was discovered unconscious in a car on along the Shuto Expressway in Tokyo. The vehicle was stopped, the hazard lights were on, and Tsuru was still wearing her seatbelt. According to Asahi News, the famed voice actress was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Tsuru was only 57…

The New Anime Godzilla Movie Is Pretty Good

Since 1954, Godzilla has been brought to life by a man in a kaiju suit, animation, computer graphics, motion capture, and now, 3D anime. And you know what, the monster’s latest incarnation ain’t half bad. Note: This review has some spoilers. Opening today in Japan, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters depicts a world invaded by…

Castle Stalker. Loch Laich, Scotland, UK. By Jerad Raines. 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! 

We’ve updated our post about the ‘EA game dev’ who said he received death threats, with new information including photos he shared from the EA office (some of which were taken from the Visceral Games Twitter feed) and the fact that his full name was not in EA’s current employee database.

EA Temporarily Removes Microtransactions From Star Wars Battlefront II

EA is temporarily pulling the microtransactions from Star Wars Battlefront II, a shocking move that comes after days of zealous fan anger and just hours before the official launch of the game. “We hear you loud and clear, so we’re turning off all in-game purchases,” wrote Oskar Gabrielson, GM of Battlefront II developer DICE, in…

There’s now a tribute to Dennis “Internethulk” Hawelka in Overwatch. Spotted by player panqakee, it’s in the attacker spawn on Eichenwalde and takes the form of a poster with

Elite: Dangerous Player Creates His Own Way To ‘Talk’ To Aliens

Aliens have shown up on Elite: Dangerous’ doorstep, and they have zero chill. This has provoked, among other things, an anti-alien arms race, as well as heated debates over whether or not wholesale slaughter is the right call. Amidst all that, one player is trying to communicate with the Thargoids, and he won’t let silly…

The Rock Is Making A Rampage Movie, And It Looks Nice And Silly

Remember Rampage, the old arcade game about giant monsters/aliens trashing cities? Well Dwayne Johnson is starring in a Rampage movie, and the trailer is exactly what you’d expect given that information. It’s out on 04.20 in 2018, if you needed any further guidance on the movie’s target market.

If The NES Had A Screensaver, It Might Look Like This

Alter Dark is a new project that lets you create your own screensavers out of NES ROMs. It was put together by Rachel Weil, an NES homebrew expert and glitch enthusiast, and recently shown off at NodeConf EU in Dublin. For Weil, it combines two of her favorite things: messing around with NES software and…

Outcast’s HD Remake Was A Mistake

Playing Outcast in 1999 was a revelation. Playing Outcast in 2017 makes me think it should have stayed there. An absolute cult classic, revered for its pioneering work in the field of open world adventures, Outcast was a game that dropped you on a vast alien world and left you to your own devices. You…

There are some great new Street Fighter II music remixes. They were put together by DJ Ryan Hemsworth, Knxwledge, Wavves and ASMARA for Red Bull’s Music Academy. They’re worth checking out and you can also download the song to make your own for a fan Street Fighter II remix contest.

The L.A. Noire Remaster’s New Dialogue System Isn’t Specific Enough

L.A. Noire’s remaster brings the cult detective story back for another round of sleuthing. A change to the dialog system meant to fix the original game’s flaws makes interrogations more difficult than before. In L.A. Noire, Detective Cole Phelps investigates various crimes before getting swept up in a city-wide conspiracy. A major component of the…

Battlefront II’s Starfighter Assault Mode Should Be Its Own Game

I have no need for the petty foot-based battles of filthy rebels and shiny Stormtroopers, adorable prequel droids and Order 66-awaiting clones. My star wars take place in the heavens of Battlefront II’s Starfighter Assault mode, so good it should be its own game. Star Wars has a history of producing very good games focused…