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A Look Inside The Art Of Overwatch 

Coming this fall from Dark Horse, The Art of Overwatch is more than 300 pages of the illustrations and concept art that Blizzard produced while creating its frighteningly popular hero shooter. We’ve got four of those pages, and they’re quite nice. As someone who loves looking at Overwatch much more than actually playing, I’m looking…

From Rebellion, makers ofthe good sniper game, Strange Brigade is “an exotic safari into danger” for one to four players. It’s a co-op supernatural shooter filled with mythological beasts and high adventure. Look for it on PS4, Xbox One and PC “soon.”

Team Ninja’s Final Fantasy Fighting Game Comes To PS4 Early Next Year

Fighting Final Fantasy fans eagerly awaiting the console port of Team Ninja’s arcade brawler now have a better idea of how long they’ll be waiting, as Square Enix announces Dissidia Final Fantasy NT for early 2018 release on PlayStation 4. Japanese arcade goers have been enjoying three-on-three free-roaming battles between popular Final Fantasy characters since…

A $300 Siegmeyer From Dark Souls Statue

Japanese toy company Gecco is releasing this Dark Souls statue as an exclusive for folks attending San Diego Comic Con. It’ll be sold for $299. For anyone not making it to the show, there will be limited quantities of the 1/6 scale (37cm) statue made available for regular retail distribution. Loving the detail on the…

When You Build A Civilization VI Wonder Inside The Actual Building

Here’s Seamang64 playing Civ VI on his laptop, able to claim that he “built Oxford University in Oxford in Oxford University in Oxford”. It’s not the first time this has been done—remember the guy who built Petra at Petra?—but this one sounds a lot cooler when you say it out loud like that. I think…

Fallout Controller Looks Like It Survived The Apocalypse

Devin Smith runs End of Line Design, a lil’ company that makes very custom, very fancy video game controllers. His latest work is this Fallout-inspired piece that goes way beyond just changing the paint scheme Despite the heavy modifications, including new surfaces and an elaborate flipping Pip-Boy cover the whole Dualshock 4 still works as…

The Omega Collection Makes Three Good Wipeout Games Even Better

The Wipeout Omega Collection launches on PlayStation 4 today, combining all the content from Wipeout HD, Wipeout HD Fury and Wipeout 2048 into one gorgeously remastered package. It’s a ridiculous amount of futuristic hover racing for $40. Let’s hit some walls at incredibly high speeds! I’ve played all the Wipeout there is to play, so…

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Movie Trailer Finally Shows Off Stands

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure’s first live action adaptation, directed by Takashi Miike, is set to open in Japan in August. Now, thanks to the film’s newest trailer, fans can see one of the things that makes this series truly unique: Stands. Stands are a staple of JoJo from the third part of the manga and anime…

Heather Alexandra and Chris Person recently sat down to complete some stylish assassination contracts in the Toyko 42. You can watch the livestream archive here

Fable Card Game That Survived Death Of Lionhead Coming Out In July

Last year, to the surprise of many, Microsoft closed down renowned British studio Lionhead. Fable Legends, a multiplayer entry in the fantasy RPG series, went down with the ship. Fable is not, however, entirely done. Fable Fortune, a card game spin-off developed by ex-Lionhead employees, is coming out next month. Fable Fortune is coming to…

Gears of War 4 gets a big Horde mode update today and the addition of Inconceivable and Ironman difficulty modes. More details here. Who’s keeping up with the game? Are you enjoying it? Are the updates what you’re looking for?

That Time Miyamoto Played Mario On My Hacked PSP

While we’re prepping for E3 this week and reminiscing about the great moments from expos past, let me regale you of a tale of the weirdest thing that ever happened to me there. I told this story to people immediately after it happened at the 2005 E3, and then it ended up getting passed around…

The Next Mass Effect Andromeda Patch Will Let Male Characters Romance Jaal

Mass Effect Andromeda’s next patch has the sort of improvements you might expect, like expanded character creation options. It also has something very unusual for a video game patch: it adds another gay romance route for lovesick space adventurers. As we reported earlier this year, there was much controversy within the LGBT Mass Effect fan…

What You Need To Know About Games Vanishing From the iOS App Store

Apple is ending support for 32-bit games with its upcoming iOS 11, launching this Fall. That means developers are rushing to update their games with 64-bit infrastructure and, sadly, several unlucky games will vanish from the iOS App Store. iOS 11 is currently in beta, but even now, some 32-bit games aren’t showing up in…

Breath Of The Wild Cheat Gives Link Deadly Super Speed

When Link’s gotta go fast, Hyrule pays the hilarious price. In the video below, Zelda fan DeliciousTea Gaming uses a modded version of Breath of the Wild to make Link run at mach speed on the Wii U. Thing is, Link’s speeding body triggers BOTW’s physics, meaning he can damage enemies just by slamming into…

The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind Expansion Feels Like Coming Home 

Following a brand new tutorial, The Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind expansion brings us right back to the docks of Seyda Neen on the island of Vvardenfell. It’s like we never left. This post originally appeared 5/23/17. We’ve bumped it up today because Morrowind is out of early access. The biggest question leading into the new…

Chill Soundtrack Makes Tricky Puzzle Game Slightly Less Stressful

The surprisingly complex Yankai’s Peak has some intense puzzles, but it’s pretty relaxing to play. Well, mostly. Yankai’s Peak is another horrifying puzzle game from Kenny Sun. Like Yankai’s Triangles, it takes a simple shape—here, pyramids—and creates a compelling series of puzzles out of manipulating them. The goal of Yankai’s Peak is to push a…

Arms Lets You Fight In A Hoverboard Skate Park, And It Is Dope

The Nintendo Switch’s upcoming fighting game Arms offers much more than battle slinkies. Its wild maps might be its best asset. Right now, I’m obsessed with Arms’ Snake Park map, where you can glide on hoverboards and punch people in the face. It’s the Arms character Kid Cobra’s map (ha ha—get it?). He’s a skateboarder…

Battleborn‘s Competitive Multiplayer Is Now Free-To-Play

Starting today, anyone with an Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or PC can download the free trial of Gearbox Software’s hero shooter Battleborn, gaining instant access to all of the game’s competitive multiplayer content. It’s like it’s gone half free-to-play. Last fall we reported that Battleborn would be going partially free-to-play, with unlimited multiplayer with the…

In 2015 Vanillaware revealed 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, the latest very pretty game from Dragon’s Crown and Odin Sphere director George Kamitani. Today Atlus announced it will be localizing and releasing the PS4/Vita game in the West. The game’s Japanese release date is still TBA, so expect it sometime after that.