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Later this year, Splatoon will debut as a manga, publisher Viz Media announced today.

Why Console Ark Players Are Celebrating Easter A Week Late

Good news for egg fans playing Ark: Survival Evolved on consoles: Ark’s second annual Easter event, Eggcellent Adventure Part 2, is slated to hit PS4 and Xbox One on Monday, April 24. That’s more than a week later than the PC update, and also a week following actual Easter Delayed updates for time-sensitive events like…

People Are Trying To Find The Truth About A Creepy ‘Unfinished’ Playstation Game

Over the last few weeks, a YouTube channel has been uploading a Let’s Play of a game called Petscop. On the surface, Petscop appears to be a peppy animal collecting game that was never officially released. Hiding underneath that, though, is a dark and fucked up game that references real-life child killings. Nobody can tell…

Street Fighter V‘s Got Some Fierce New Costumes

Yesterday, Capcom revealed some new costumes for Street Fighter V. On April 25th, you’ll be able to dress up Alex, R. Mika and Chun-Li for work. I sat down with Compete’s Maddy Myers, the ultimate Street Fighter fangirl, to talk about what works and what doesn’t. Gita Jackson: Let’s start by talking about Alex’s firefighter…

Activision Announces Call of Duty: WWII

The next Call of Duty is probably set during World War II, as is evidenced pretty strongly by its title, Call of Duty: WWII. Activision announced the game today, adding that there will be an official “reveal” next Wednesday at 1pm ET. We’ve known about Call of Duty: WWII since last month, when it was…

Twitch has announced a new Affiliate Program that allows smaller channels to earn revenue. It will launch later this month, granting fans the ability to donate cheers to affiliated channels and drown streamers in ego-inflating internet kudos. Features including channel subscription will be added in time.

Our Top Four Spring Anime Picks

Spring has sprung, but probably, so have your allergies. Stay inside. Drink some iced tea. Watch our remarkably good picks for this season’s anime. Re:Creators Genre: Magical realism Studio: Troyca Where to Watch: Amazon’s Anime Strike Plot: Re:Creators is an anime that asks: What if anime was real? An everyday otaku is sucked into the world…

Here’s May’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup

May’s Xbox Live Games with Gold lineup features a couple Star Wars games and some Lara Croft. Remember, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. May’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams—Director’s Cut (May 1-31) Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (May 16-June…

TSA Regulations Place World of Warcraft In Dire Peril

According to an exchange with the TSA’s official Q&A Twitter account (via /r/wow), even World of Warcraft Horde Chieftans have to check their weapons on flights. But should that weapon also be a lithium ion power bank, then Azeroth is truly doomed. In the proper hands, Orgrim’s Doomhammer could by one of the keys to…

Cities: Skylines is now available on Xbox One. The Xbox One edition includes the “After Dark” expansion, which is very pretty.

30 Games I’d Put On The N64 Classic, Which Will Never Exist

SNES Classic wishlists? So two thousand and late: I’m gonna scoop everybody and write the 30 games I want to see on the Nintendo 64 Classic, which not only doesn’t exist, it isn’t even rumored to, and probably won’t. Check and mate. The release of Nintendo 64 in 1996 was the culmination of an orgy…

Six-Year-Old RPG Two Worlds II Continues In May

Two Worlds II: Call of the Tenebrae is coming to PC, Mac and Linux on May 25, bringing over ten hours of new adventure and a major game engine upgrade to 2011’s redemptive RPG sequel. The standalone expansion was originally planned for 2016, but the developers got a bit carried away. According to the official…

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Persona 5’s Sexual Relationships Can Get Complicated

Most of the women available for romance in Persona 5 are your fellow high school students. But not all of them. PERSONA 5 STORY & RELATIONSHIP SPOILERS AHEAD Taking the role of a kid in his second year of high school—which in Japan would put the player at roughly 16-17 years old—Persona 5 surrounds you…

Snooker Champion Says Video Game Addiction Hurt His Career

Australian snooker player Neil Robertson (Americans: snooker is kinda like pool, but more British), a former world champion, has admitted that his form has dipped recently after he became addicted to playing games like League of Legends and FIFA Speaking with Eurosport, Robertson—who also won the UK championship in 2013 and 2015—says that despite recently…

Takume is a very short (like, 5 mins) adventure game with some very nice pixel art. You can get it here

Battle Simulator Is Chickens vs Penguins vs Dwarves vs Chuck Norris

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator is not a game that lets you fight battles. It’s a game that asks you to set them up to the man, then press a button, sit back and watch the chaos unfold. Currently in Early Access on Steam, I’ve been messing around with it a bit lately so thought I’d…

New Anime Re:Creators Asks: What If Anime Was Real?

This season’s breakout anime is Re:Creators, a show that asks the question “Should we have empathy for our anime heroes?” Then it asks, “Are we responsible for our fantasies?” and “Why do magical girls love cheeseburgers so much?” Re:Creators is about an otaku high school boy named Sota. His thing is drawing. One day, when…

Ranked Dota 2 Matches Will Soon Require A Phone Number

In an update to the Dota 2 matchmaking services today, Valve announced that players will have to register a unique phone number in order to compete in ranked matches. This move was made to combat players who use multiple accounts to ruin others’ ranked matches. The act of “smurfing,” or creating secondary accounts to play…

Disabled Streamer Receives Hundreds In Donations After Bullies Kick Him From Match

On Monday, a legally blind and deaf Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player was bullied off a match. In response, the CSGO community rallied around him. Adam “Loop” Bahriz is a 17 year-old Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who got hooked on the game in 2013 while he was with his Algerian family overseas. In 2015 he started…