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Heather found a PS3 copy of the magical murder mystery Deadly Premonition and is playing it right now on Twitch. She’ll be streaming most of the day; you’ll come and say hello, right Zach?

Wolfenstein 2 Player Finds Creative Way To Beat Impossible Training Course Record

Wolfenstein 2‘s base, the U-boat Eva’s Hammer, features an obstacle course known as the ‘kill house’ where BJ and pals can compete for the top score. The top time for the kill house seems to be permanently held by Set Roth’s cat/monkey hybrid, but one player found a clever way to get first place. Mild…

SteamWorld Dig 2 Borrowed From Classic American Westerns

SteamWorld Dig 2 takes place in a colorful world inspired by Western movies. “Is there such a thing as something too western-y?” Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson wondered to me over email. If you look at the game, apparently not. The first SteamWorld Dig was not-so-subtly modeled after some of Clint Eastwood’s classic starring…

Crunchyroll Website Currently Down Following Malware Attacks [Update]

Users who attempted to use the anime streaming service Crunchyroll earlier today were greeted by an attempt by the site to download malware. Everyone is currently encouraged to stay away from the site until the problem is fixed. [Update 1 – 1:30PM] The Crunchyroll website is now back up and running, along with the app,…

Here’s Blizzcon 2017’s Hearthstone Tavern band, striking up a tune for the gathered attendees. Watch the video below to hear the song and get a view of the rest of the tavern crowd tonight, shortly after the conclusion of the evening’s Overwatch World Cup matches:

Blizzard Adding More Special Skins To Regular Overwatch Loot Boxes

Today during the Overwatch “What’s Next” panel at BlizzCon, Blizzard announced that from now on, it’ll add more event-style skins to regular, non-event loot boxes. For the past year, the majority of new skins have only been available during timed events, after which they went back into a vault inside Jeff Kaplan’s terror palace. During…

This Week’s Giza Pyramid Discovery Was Already Built Into Assassin’s Creed Origins

Earlier this week, news broke that scientists had discovered a previously undetected open space in Egypt’s 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza. The new Egypt-set adventure game Assassin’s Creed Origins actually won’t need an update adding the chamber, because as the game’s creators explained to me, they already thought to put one in. In Origins, you…

World of Warcraft Will Expand Legion’s Leveling System Across The Whole Game

If you try to level a new WoW character, you’re basically asking for mad deja vu. Ahead of the release of a new expansion, Blizzard is gonna let players change things up. A lot. During the World of Warcraft “What’s Next” panel at BlizzCon, game director Ion Hazzikostas announced that level scaling—which was introduced as…

What Twitch’s New Raiding System Means For Streamers

Twitch’s latest update introduces a tool that lets a streamer instantly transport their viewers to somebody else’s channel. Known as “raiding,” this has been used in the past to harass people. Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to…

Despite Controversy, Counter-Strike Gambling Guy Still Officially Repping Call Of Duty

Trevor “TMartn” Martin, best known for violating FTC regulations by aggressively promoting a Counter-Strike skin gambling site that he didn’t say he owned, has returned to the spotlight alongside today’s release of Call of Duty: WWII—helping publisher Activision market the new game and raise money for veterans. The Race to Prestigeis a long-standing around-the-clock fundraiser…

Overwatch’s D.Va gets her own set of gaming gear. Razer’s decked out its Abyssus Elite gaming mouse and Goliathus mouse mat in pink, blue and black, and created a new MEKA gaming headset to bring it all together. Themouse and pad are available now, with the headset coming later this year.

The Pokémon Show Introduced A Generation To Anime

Next week, the Pokémon anime will air its 1000th episode. The show and game are still capturing the hearts of children around the world, just like they captured mine 20 years ago. When I was eight years old, every day I’d hurry home as fast as possible to catch Pokémon on TV. I didn’t have…

Cuphead Developers Talk Cut Bosses And What’s In The Cups

Designing a game that manages to be both tough and fun is a difficult task, but Cuphead designers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, along with the rest of StudioMDHR, managed to pull it off. I spoke with the two brothers over the phone to learn about boss design, cut concepts, and life after a successful indie…

Call Of Duty: WWII‘s HQ Lets You Socialize, Duel, And… Play Pitfall

I was skeptical about Headquarters before I got my copy of Call of Duty: WWII, but after spending some time in the new social space, it seems like a well-thought out place to kill some time, get some loot, and play some Atari 2600. With today’s release of the latest Call of Duty, developer Sledgehammer…

World Of Warcraft‘s Next Expansion Is Battle For Azeroth

During today’s Blizzcon 2017 keynote, Blizzard announced Battle for Azeroth, the seventh expansion pack for World of Warcraft, rekindling the war between the Alliance and Horde. Now that the Horde and Alliance are finished teaming up against the demon invasion, it’s time to get back to the conflict at the heart of World of Warcraft.…

Blizzard Announces World of Warcraft Classic

Move over, Nostalrius—Blizzard is making its own classic servers for World of Warcraft, called World of Warcraft Classic “We’re committed to making an authentic, Blizzard-quality classic experience,” Blizzard said today during its Blizzcon keynote, promising that these new classic servers will take some time before they’re ready. So, uh, be patient. Fans had been asking…

Overwatch Gets A New Hero: Moira, A Support Healer

Overwatch is getting a new hero and she looks rad as hell. Moira is a powerful support healer that mixes DPS and healing. A geneticist working for the nefarious organization Talon with additional ties to the Overwatch’s spec ops group Blackwatch, Moira (full name Moira O’Deorain) mixes high mobility with support skills. In a trailer shown…

Overwatch‘s Next Map Is Blizzard World, A Tribute To Blizzard Games

Overwatch’s newest upcoming map is a crazy theme park full of World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Starcraft and other Blizzard games’ lore. So Blizzard can advertise its other games to you while you’re playing Overwatch. Yay! Blizzard World will be part assault and part payload and released early next year. This is almost certainly the “Yo…

Hearthstone’s next expansion is Kobolds and Catacombs. The expansion will release next month. It will add new cards to add to your collection and feature a new single player mode called “Dungeon Run.” Just please don’t take candle.

Soon, There Will Be Hanzo Mains In Heroes Of The Storm

Sick of all those Hanzo mains wrecking your Overwatch competitive ranking? Well, now you can’t dodge them in Heroes of the Storm. A new breed of Hanzo main is about to emerge. At BlizzCon today, HOTS’ senior producer Kaeo Milker announced that Overwatch’s Hanzo is coming to the MOBA in December, joining the half dozen…