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The long-in-development Gears of War movie has a new writer: Shane Salerno, who’s also penning the four upcoming Avatar sequels for James Cameron. He’s also writing The Cartel for Ridley Scott.

The Top 30 Selling Games In Japan Are Dominated By Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Last week, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was way out in front in the Japanese sales chart, surprising absolutely no one. Some of the entries, however, might catch you off guard. Via Famitsu, here are the top 30 selling games from April 24 to April 30.  30. Final Fantasy XV (PS4): 2,220 copies Total: 975,104 copies…

CG Artist has Made An Image Every Day For 10 years

That’s over 3600 days in a row. I can’t even write shitty blog posts for five days without needing two days off. As Vice reports, Mike “Beeple” Winkelmann, a professional CG artist who has released a ton of animated shorts and worked with musicians like Flying Lotus and deadmau5, started a project a decade ago…

A Card Game That’ll Help You Freestyle Rap

Vers is a card game designed to feed you words and context so that you—yes you, likely a person who in reality can not write rhymes—can create your own raps that do not suck. It’s kind of like Cards Against Humanity, only in reverse: instead of giving you sentences with words missing, it’s giving you…

Bethesda Asks For Indie Game’s Name To Be Changed Because It Has ‘Prey’ In it

Prey for the Gods, an indie PC game paying homage to Shadow of the Colossus, now has a new name courtesy of some pressure from Bethesda, publishers of the upcoming Prey In a post mostly about updates made to the game following its successful Kickstarter, No Matter Studios also announce that the project will now…

Guy Finds StarCraft Source Code And Returns It To Blizzard, Gets Free Trip To BlizzCon

Last month, Reddit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn’t know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back. Khemist49 first came across the disc in a “box…

Black Ops II Player Kills 10,000 Zombies While Sitting In a Corner

If you’ve got a spare three hours, you can watch a YouTube streamer set a remarkably high score in Call of Duty: Black Ops II by hanging out in a pool of goop. With the recent addition of Black Ops II to Xbox One backwards compatibility, several players are going back to set new high…

Nintendo’s Line Of Wario Platformers Ended Far Too Long Ago

There’s a certain strain of Nintendo fan that’s probably wondering, these days: What’s up with Wario platformers? Once a staple of the company’s lineup, action games starring Mario’s bizarro-world clone have been MIA for nearly a decade. By reviewing the history of Wario, we might understand why. So let’s do it. To trace the history…

There’s A Brand New Trails Game Out Today

If you are wondering what the top-selling item on Steam is right now, beating out the likes of Battlegrounds and the Star Wars collection, wonder no further: it’s Trails in the Sky the 3rd, a PC-only JRPG that’s out today. I haven’t yet gotten to play the third Trails in the Sky game—my PC is…

YouTubers Say They Can’t Make Money Covering Call of Duty: WWII

Since March, YouTubers have watched their revenue plummet as advertisers bleed out of the platform. Some videos containing violence, real or fictional, are considered “inappropriate for advertising.” First-person shooter Call of Duty, a massively popular game on YouTube, is no walk in the park. So, the huge community that’s formed around it is getting hit…

According to Arkane’s Raphael Colantonio, via Twitter, the PS4 input lag and audio mix for Prey have been fixed for Friday’s release. Many players reported having issues with these features during the demo. We’ll have a review and tips for Prey next week.

World of Warcraft‘s ‘Running of the Gnomes’ Fan Event Gets Official Blizzard Makeover

Since 2010, World of Warcraft players have been creating hordes of pink-haired level one gnomes and running them across Azeroth to support the fight against breast cancer. This year Blizzard is giving the event a boost with special decorations, a cheering crowd and its own special quest. The tradition of running low-level gnomes across a…

Paladins Free Open Beta Launches On Consoles

Hi-Rez Studio’s hero shooter caught some flak last year for looking and feeling a lot like Overwatch, but it’s still managed to maintain a healthy presence on Steam’smost-played games list. We’ll see if the trend continues as Paladins launches into free open beta on PS4 and Xbox One. The closed beta is over, and now…

Poor Mario Kart 8 Player Gets Forced Out of First In Worst Way

To play Mario Kart is to suffer, especially if you’re in first. Sometimes, though, the Mario Kart doesn’t just take the crown away—it also makes you regret picking up the controller at all. Twitch streamer PREYINGSHARK recently shared an agonizing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe clip where Daisy loses the lead, only to get hit by…

GTA Online’s Store Clerks Have Disappeared And Nobody Knows Why [Update: They’re Back]

Update 1:50 PM: Store clerk NPCs are now being reported as back across all platforms, though there is still no explanation as to why they were gone. Original story as follows: GTA Online players noticed something odd yesterday: all of the convenience store and liquor store cashiers are now gone. 12 hours later, these characters…

Eve Online Scams Aren’t Just Legal, They’re Encouraged

Every MMO has its scammers. But in EVE Online, their scams are allowed. Getting ripped off is all just part of the fun. Scams have existed almost as long as MMO games they take place in, with unscrupulous players trying all manner of trickery to wrest other players’ hard-earned in-game currency away from them. Usually,…

Futuristic Racer Extreme-G 2 Is Back And It’s Not Pretty

Acclaim’s Extreme-G 2 wasn’t an exceptional futurist racing game, but I carry many fond memories of the 1998 Nintendo 64 release. Or I did, until Throwback Entertainment’s Steam re-release broke them. Now Extreme-G 2 is a pretty old game, and this is just a port and not some fancy retro remake, but it’sa pretty atrocious…

Horizon Zero Dawn Patch Will Make Photo Mode Even Better

Horizon Zero Dawn already has one of the most robust photo modes out there, but a patch landing next week is going to expand on its functionality even more. According to the PlayStation blog, Horizon’s patch 1.20 will add more poses, facial expressions, and filters, among other things, to photo mode. Here are the rest…

Haha Here’s The Witcher 3 Running In 8K Haha

This is footage of The Witcher 3 running 60fps at 8k resolution. That’s 7680 x 4320. On max settings. Gulp. If you need to know what kind of monster could run the game like this, here’s how Thirty IR got the footage across two PCs, the first for playing, the second for capture: GPUs: 4x…

Guy Turns His Zelda: Breath of the Wild Photos Into A Book

You can take a lot of nice photos in Breath of the Wild, but really, what can you do with them? Share them with friends, I guess, but they don’t really care, they’ve seen your horse 100 times before. NV/Haru had a better idea: turn them into a book. It’s not big, it’s not glossy…