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Nintendo-Themed Jordans Are About As 1989 As It Gets

Johnny Barry’s Freaker Sneaks, who earlier this year did a custom run of Jordan IV’s in a SNES colourway, are back with a handful of very expensive NES Jordans. They cost $1250 a pair, and in addition to the NES colour scheme they’ve also got some extra features like Mario labels, a cartridge-shaped Jordan tag…

The Perfect Game Of Thrones Game Is A PC Mod

Forget RPGs, action games or even a broken if decentadventure series. The perfect Game of Thrones video game is a mod for a 2012 strategy game on the PC. I mentioned in my review of Crusader Kings II a few years back that the systems put in place by developers Paradox seemed ideally suited to…

Fatal Fury’s Geese Howard will be Tekken 7‘s newest character. The above trailer dropped after the Tekken 7 grand finals at Evo 2017. The SNK character will be available late in 2017.

Icons: Combat Arena Expands The World Of Platform Fighters

While Dragon Ball FighterZ and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite were being demonstrated in Evo 2017’s raucous convention hall, the folks at Wavedash Games were quietly showing off their first official project, Icons: Combat Arena, in a private hotel room. After two years of development, they were on the verge of finally unveiling their game to…

Street Fighter EX Developer’s New Game Is Coming In 2018

Here’s an official trailer for that new fighting game from Akira Co., the company behind the Street Fighter EX series. Originally teased on April Fools’ day, the game still doesn’t have a name. But it does have Skullomania, the failed businessman who tries to take out his capitalist-fueled frustration on criminals as skeleton suit wearing…

Arc System Works Announces BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle At Evo 2017

The company is working on a new BlazBlue game. Why should you care? Well this one will include Persona 4‘s protagonist, Yu Narukam, from the Persona 4 Arena fighting game in addition to a bunch of other characters. Showing off in-game footage after the BlazBluegrand finals at this year’s Evo, Arc System Works revealed that the…

Artist’s Doodle Captures The Beautiful Absurdity Of Splatfest

Ahead of Splatoon 2‘s release this week, Nintendo hosted a Splatfest event this weekend where players competed on either Team Ice Cream or Team Cake to decide which was best and collect in-game rewards. Team Ice Cream finished with more points, but the real winner was this rad sonic meme. In Splatoon 2 you can…

Jedah will be joining the roster of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite this coming September. The Darkstalkers character was shown off during a showmatch at Evo 2017 and “is bae,” according to Compete contributor Ian Walker.

It’s cake versus ice cream for Splatoon 2’s first Splatfest and we’re streaming all the fun live on our Twitch channel Come and join the mayhem! You can watch a saved recording of the stream below:

Kingdom Hearts III Coming 2018, Has A Toy Story World

In 2012, longtime Kingdom Hearts director Tai Yasue told us his dream world would be Toy Story. Now it’s happening. Buzz Lightyear, meet Sora in Kingdom Hearts III, which finally has a release window: 2018. Of course, knowing series director Tetsuya Nomura, “2018″ could turn into 2024 pretty quickly. Kingdom Hearts III, the third mainline…

Here’s a behind the scenes look at the making of Battlefront II, shown off at Disney’s D23 Expo gaming showcase this afternoon. It’s about the game’s single-player story and the task of humanizing its protagonist, Iden Versio, and her crew of space Nazis.   

Duelyst‘s Latest Expansion Plays To The Card Game’s Unique Strengths 

Unearthed Prophecy, the game’s fourth expansion, came out earlier this week and after spending several hours fiddling around with the latest cards, I’m already in love with it. Duelyst is a collectible card game that deviates from other heavy-weights in the genre by borrowing the grid-based elements of a strategy RPG. Instead of dropping minions…

We’re going live with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds right now on Twitch. Heather got two second place finishes last night but can she earn a chicken dinner today? Tune in to find out.

Tooth and Tail, an RTS by the folks who made Monaco, is coming to computers and PS4 September 12. Here’s a new trailer.

Glitch Creates Unintentional Extra Ending In Sci-Fi Steam Game

Event 0 is a science fiction game that came out last year. Since release, players have discovered four different endings to the game—which is strange, because according to the designer, it only has three. SPOILERS AHEAD The emotional core of Event 0 rest between the player and an AI called Kaizen-85. Throughout the game, players…

Telling Lies is the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, and it will be released by Edith Finch publisher Annapurna Interactive, Variety reported today. The new game will also be an interactive movie, but with more characters and a more complex story. Filming will begin late this year or in early 2018.

Battlegrounds Is Addictive Because There’s No Wrong Way To Play

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is amazingly fun and offers an exciting experience every time you play. But how is it so good? One little sentences from PlayerUnknown himself makes it clear. We take a look in this critical video. Transcript: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a giant battle royale game that’s simple in concept and exciting in execution, asking…

Final Fantasy XIV Besieged By DDoS Attacks

The biggest threat to Eorza isn’t the Garleans, or some other villain that I don’t want to look up because I haven’t even finished Heavensward yet. It’s Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which have been hitting Final Fantasy XIV since June and show no sign of stopping, according to the developers at Square Enix.…

Dating Simulator Lets You Netflix And Chill

In Flix and Chill, your goal is to basically Netflix and chill. The game doesn’t call it that, of course, but you’re still trying to invite people your back to your house to watch movies and have sex. The point-and-click game is divided into five different episodes, and while your goal always remains the same,…

Zynga Tries Charging Random Prices For DLC, Fails

Letty’s Sting Ray from The Fate of the Furious showed up as a premium microtransaction in CSR Racing 2 earlier this week. It cost $4.99 to unlock. Or $14.99. Or $34.99. According to Zynga, prices for the premium vehicle were set to random as part of a feature test. Really. The situation came to our…