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A Very Satisfying Comeback Win

I think I finally understand what people love about competitive gaming. I’ve finally played a PvP game with enough dedication to get skilled, to relish victory, to learn from defeat and to make a comeback like the one here. The game I’m playing is Clash Royale, the extremely popular competitive multiplayer game that involves players…

Why It’s So Hard To Make Games In China

It’s tough making games in China. Not only do you have to fight against the stereotypes of Chinese culture surrounding Kung Fu, gang warfare, and illegal street racing, you have to do so under the rule of one of the strictest governments in the world. All media consumed and produced within China’s borders is vetted…

Remember Gill’s faithful companion from Street Fighter III? She’s Street Fighter V’s second season two character Kolin wields the power of ice in concert with the Russian martial art Systema. Also, her hair looks like Cheez Whiz. You can play her on February 28.

The PS4 Pro Will Soon Improve All Games, Not Just The Patched Ones

Games built or patched to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 Pro’s extra power run significantly better on the newer console. Boost Mode is an upcoming feature that puts that power to work on non-optimized PS4 games, and as Digital Foundry discovered, it works pretty well. Coming in PlayStation 4 firmware update 4.50, Boost Mode…

The NBA Is Launching Its Own Esports League 

Today, the National Basketball Association announced plans to partner with publisher Take-Two Interactive for an official NBA 2K esports league, which led NBA commissioner Adam Silver to deliver this fantastic quote to the Wall Street Journal: “Think of eBulls against the eKnicks.” The league, Silver explained, will operate just like the NBA: It’ll have a…

Hitman’s next Elusive Target, The Warlord, will be available in Bangkok for seven days starting on February 10. I just got my roommate into this game and she’s excited to try her first target. I am excited to backseat drive so it isn’t my fault if I mess it up.

It Just Got A Bit Easier To Earn Feathers In Fire Emblem Heroes

The reward for Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes tweet promotion—10,000 hero feathers—is now live. The game has also added additional quests for arena duels that can earn you a few more feathers. Two days ago, Nintendo promised 10,000 feathers to all Fire Emblem Heroes players if a tweet of theirs reached 10,000 retweets. That promotion reached…

It’s about damn time. Iconic Hot Wheels street machines Twin Mill III and Bone race into Rocket League on February 21. I guess I have to play Rocket League now.

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Old Man’s Journey is an adventure game about shifting painterly landscapes to solve puzzles. Its story focuses on themes of life, loss, and hope, and it’s being developed by a studio that helped make games like And Yet it Moves, Secrets of Raetikon, and Guacamelee. It’ll be out sometime this year.

A Game Where Everyone You’re Trying To Kill Is Invisible

Invisigun Heroes is very similar to Bomberman. Only there’s more shooting. Oh, and everyone is invisible I first wrote about the game last year, but it was finally released this week, so I jumped into the launch build to take a look. It’s pretty good! It works like this: four players face off on a…

Obama Is Now Free To Dunk All Over NBA 2K17

Now that his term is up and he’s off into the sunset, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, has enough spare time to pursue the NBA career he’s always dreamed of. This vid, by NykeFaller, made Obama as NBA 2K17’s MyCareer player, meaning that you get to play the game’s singleplayer…

Adventures In Elder Scrolls Online House Hunting

Between the recently announced Morrowind expansion and this week’s release of the free player housing update, I decided it was time to venture back into The Elder Scrolls Online. I might be a little out of practice. To be honest, I’ve not played much of The Elder Scrolls Online since the first couple of months…

The Seven Stages Of Spending Too Much Money In Games

“I was like you once,” says an old man with a beard down to his belt, sitting in the corner of a bar. You think he’s talking to you, but maybe he’s shouting in hopes that someone will listen. “I told myself I’d never buy loot boxes or heroes or none of that,” he whimpers.…

The Toy Story Shorts Are Awesome, And You Should Watch Them

The Toy Story movies have been very good. But it’s Pixar’s five short films in the series—many of which have never been seen by the main trilogy’s adult fans—where some of the real magic lies. This piece originally appeared 1/7/16. If you’re a grown-up who hasn’t seen Small Fry or Partysaurus, that’s OK. Unlike the…

Why Overwatch Players Are Excited About A Character Named ‘Doomfist’

Doomfist, the name of a long-lost Disturbed album and probably also a villain in season 57 of Power Rangers, is today’s big Overwatch discussion topic. Some suspect that he’s gonna be a playable hero soon, but he’s technically been present in the game since day one. In Overwatch lore, Doomfist is actually a title, rather…

Craig “NepentheZ” Douglas pled guilty this week in a UK court after being charged with promoting gambling with FIFA coins. The court ordered him to pay £91,000. He talks about the case in this new video

Nioh Devs Say They Changed Co-Op So It Wouldn’t Be ‘Too Easy’

The PS4’s new action game Nioh gets a whole lot right, but a change to co-op between the most recent demo and the full game has some fans rankled. In a statement to Kotaku, the game’s creative director says the change was made to keep the game from being too easy. Nioh, a Team Ninja-developed…

Long-Awaited Adventure Sequel Syberia III Arrives April 25

Adventure fans have been waiting for the third game in Benoît Sokal’s classic point-and-click adventure series for so long that I’m not sure I can take the April 25 release date announced today at face value, but that’s when Syberia III is supposed to be out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. The story…

New Pokémon Red and Blue Exploit Lets Players Delete Opponents’ Save File

“I battled a Mew and it deleted my save file” almost sounds like a creepypasta and yet, it is completely real. Welcome to the wild world of Pokémon Red and Blue glitches, where terrifying corruptions are possible. For years now, hardcore players have known about the “Cooltrainer” glitch, an exploit that is “meant to represent the…