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Chinese Players Review-Bomb Battlegrounds For Server Lag [UPDATE]

Battlegrounds’ Steam reviews tanked over the weekend after over 20,000 negative reviews, many from China, flooded the blockbuster survival-shooter’s page. Chinese players appear to be suffering from the worst connectivity to Battlegrounds in the world and these players are furious that, now, Battlegrounds is advertising a paid, third-party “internet accelerator” right on its menu. After…

Developer Used Fake Secrets To Sneak Games Through Sega’s Certification Process

Getting a game through a publisher’s certification process can be difficult. Games are tested in extreme conditions and fail for the slightest error. In the 90s, one developer snuck their games through Sega’s certification with a few clever tricks that disguised glitches as part of the game. Traveler’s Tale founder Jon Burton describes his secretsin…

New Album Turns Video Game Battle Music Into Jazzy Lullabies

Due out on October 10, Prescription for Sleep: Fight For Your Dreams turns pulse-pounding battle themes from Final Fantasy XV, Undertale, Mega Man, Transformers: The Movie and more into the musical equivalent of sleepytime tea. Battle music in games (and animated features) is generally crafted excite players, preparing them for a life-or-death struggle against the…

The PS4’s “5.00″ firmware update hit today, and for something called 5.00, it sure is flimsy. With tweaks to messages and a new feature called Team Tournaments, this feels more like an incremental patch than a big update.

What Video Game Levels Look Like Before They’re Finished

Ever wanted a glimpse at what games like Uncharted 4 and Titanfall look like before they’re finished? During production on a video game, level designers work with what they call “greyboxes,” or rough layouts that use ugly geometric models to determine the outlines of each level before they make everything pretty. To celebrate these greyboxes…

Tower defense/shooter Fortnite is getting a horde bash event on October 5th. With unlimited time and limited resources, players will build forts, party up and then defend their bases against waves of husks.

PlayStation Management Shake Up 

Starting today, Andrew House is no longer the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Interactive Entertainment. He is being replaced by Deputy President John Kodera. House joined Sony Computer Corporation twenty-seven years ago, before SIE (then Sony Computer Entertainment) was founded. House worked on the PlayStation 1’s launch and by 2002, he was Executive…

Former Square Enix Employee Arrested For Allegedly Stocking Up Game Consoles For Resale

Koji Takada made his name at Square Enix as a sales manager, with his name in the credits for games like Dragon Quest IX. Earlier last month, he was arrested for allegedly improperly ordering game consoles for resale, a violation of Japanese trust law. According to Jiji Press, the 56-year-old Takada allegedly would deceptively buy…

Anime Fan Shaves Head After Director’s Abrupt Removal From Show 

The biggest anime controversy of 2017 is director Tatsuki’s sudden removal from surprise hit anime Kemono Friends. People were not happy! One fan even shaved his head in hopes of changing the decision. Originally a mobile game, Kemono Friends follows of the adventures of animals anthropomorphized into anime girls. Since it’s January 2017 debut, the…

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Elite: Dangerous Players Split On Whether They Should Kill Aliens

Last week, Elite: Dangerous’ mysterious aliensfinally went on the offensive after months of poking and probing. Now, players have figured out how to fight back, but not everybody’s feeling super rah-rah-rah gung-ho about it. Over the weekend, notorious Elite player Joshua “Harry Potter” Chamberlain and his Smiling Dog Crew managed to down a Thargoid by…

Fans Are Trying To Map Out Red Dead Redemption 2 Before It’s Released

It’s been nearly a year since GTAForums member RedDagger started a thread dedicated to “landmark analysis” of Red Dead Redemption 2—a game that, at the time, was still nowhere close to coming out. “The aim is to get an idea of real-world locations within the game, and hopefully recreate the in-game map, using official trailers…

The Good And Bad Of GTA Online, Four Years Later

Four years after release, Grand Theft Auto V is still a massive hit that continues to appear on best-selling charts month after month. During that time, GTA Online, the multiplayer component, has gone on to overshadow the main game—to the dismay of some fans. More overtly, GTA Online’s updates have transformed the down-to-earth open-world game…

Final Fantasy VII‘s Excellent Pizza Joke Did Not Translate To English

I’ve been playing through Final Fantasy VII in Japanese, and I’m having a good time pointing out little nuances that I didn’t notice when I originally played the game in English 20 years ago. Last time, we accompanied Aeris as she dressed Cloud up like a girl so they could trick a guy. This time,…

SNES Classics Cost Less On Ebay Than NES Classics Did At Launch

The bad news is the chances of snagging a Super Nintendo Classic at retailsare pretty slim right now, and auction site eBay is probably your best bet if you want it ‘right now.’ The good news? The average price of a SNES Classic on eBay is only $164, $80 less than the NES Classic in…

Stardew Valley is coming to Switch on October 5, developer Eric Barone said today. It’ll be $15 and give you a healthy dose of farming on the go. Next up, Animal Crossing?

Overwatch Director Says Speaking To Fans Is ‘Intimidating’ For His Team

How many of the people who make games fear some of the people who play them? That question drove conversations last week among quite a few game developers, and over the weekend, Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan offered his own take: Lots. On the Blizzard forums last Wednesday, a fan wondered if the team behind the…

Smash 4 Characters, Ranked By How Annoying They Are

What makes a Super Smash Bros. character annoying? It’s a very specific cocktail of repetitive, invulnerabile, low-effort or spammy moves that, together, make you want to throw your controller at the television Everybody has that one Smash fighter they hate playing against. But one thing I realized after setting out to list the top ten…

In 1997, a Polish studio named Metropolis Software almost made a Witcher game. You can look at it using your Witcher sense by watching (witching?) the video above.

Nioh Is Coming To PC

Nioh, a beloved samurai action game that came out earlier this year for PS4, is coming to PC this November complete with all the downloadable content that publisher Koei Tecmo has released so far. The PC version will also have “enhanced graphical modes,” Koei Tecmo says. Nioh came out on February 7 for PS4, and…