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You Can Use Fortnite‘s Fishing Pole On Land Now, Apparently

In this weekend’s Fortnite Championship Series tournament, player Tfue found a new use for the fishing rod when he used it to grab weapons and materials from afar in the middle of a fight. This appears to be a feature, not a bug. The fishing rod was introduced in Fortnite’s Chapter Two. Its primary use…

Every Luigi, Ranked

Like Spider-Man and Wonder Woman and The Doctor from Doctor Who, there have been many different versions of Luigi. There are the more classical takes on Luigi and then there are some stranger versions of everyone’s favorite brother. So in celebration of Luigi’s Mansion 3, I’m going to rank (almost) every version of Luigi that…

The New Mtn Dew Game Fuel Flavor Is Good (If You Like Orange Soda)

Around these parts, I’ve become an expert on Mountain Dew products. I’m not sure how this happened and some days I regret my new career, but whatever. There’s a new flavor of Game Fuel to drink and review for you fine folks. This new flavor is called Charged Orange Storm and it is being released…

Chinese player Xiaomeng “VKLiooon” Li has won the Hearthstone Global Finals at Blizzcon 2019. She is the first female grand finals winner ever and the first woman to win a major Hearthstone tournament

All The Little Details Hidden In Untitled Goose Game

Untitled Goose Game has quickly become one of the most popular games of 2019. It turns out people love honking and annoying villagers. Makes sense. But the camera in the game is limited and this makes it hard to see what’s inside some buildings or other out of bound secrets. Lucky for us, the YouTube…

Mario Maker Contest: Too Many Thwomps

Thwomps are possibly my favorite enemy in the Mario universe. They look cool and seem tough, but the other thing I love is their name. Thowmps. It is just fun to say. Just fun enemy all around, so let’s make some levels featuring these great enemies. Your Challenge This Week: Create levels featuring Thwomps! Theme:…

GTA Online’s Latest Update Lets Players Become Aliens, Dogs, And Even Bigfoot

The world of Grand Theft Auto Online has gotten a bit stranger after the latest update, released a few days ago on Halloween. Suddenly players now have the opportunity to become aliens and fight off waves of farmers, soldiers and FBI agents or players can turn into different animals, like rabbits and dogs. Or if…

One Man’s Quest To Eradicate Every Goku In Dragon Ball FighterZ

Dragon Ball FighterZ has a lot of characters, and several of them are Goku. Some players see that as a problem, and one streamer in particular has taken it upon himself to eradicate those Gokus, one piledriver at a time. This piece was first published on February 23, 2018. Lee “Lythero” Geary is a fighting…

My Hideous, Comfortable Gamer Chair Fills Me With Existential Dread

For nearly 20 years, I’ve been sitting in the same piece of shit: a gray swivel chair that I got at Target as a teenager. It creaks if you look at it; it’s covered in enormous amounts of my hair. It does not do my body any favors. Very possibly it has been exacerbating my…

The Footsteps In Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Are So Damn Loud

At first, I was sure my opponent was aimbotting. We were in a close game of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s team deathmatch and I was ever so slowly crawling along a wall. The slower, the more quiet, I thought. Something suddenly rustled just ahead. I peeked around the corner and was instantly downed by…

Metal Gear Singer’s Other Gig? The Voice Of The Bullet Train

This is Donna Burke. You may not know her name, but if you’ve played the recent Metal Gear Solid games, you know her voice. If you’ve ridden the bullet train, you know it too. The Australian packs a one-two-three punch of being a talented voice actress and singer, as well as writing her own lyrics.…

Australia Allows Some Fallout 76 Refunds After Consumers Were “Misled”

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission—a government body that basically looks after customer’s rights in the country—announced today that some refunds will be handed out for purchases of Fallout 76 after ruling that Bethesda was “likely to have contravened the Australian Consumer Law”. The ruling—technically against Bethesda’s parent company Zenimax—came after folks buying Fallout 76…

Twitch Plays EVE Online

On February 12, 2014 an 18 year old Game Boy game took the internet by storm and ignited a miniature cultural phenomenon. Over the course of the next 16 days, an estimated 1.16 million people tuned in to the newly rebranded Twitch.tv and watch people from all across the world attempt to collaborate and successfully…

The Witcher Netflix series premieres December 20. You can watch the whole trailer here, but you can also just stare at bathtub Geralt, above.

Sans From Undertale Is A Wrestler Now

Pro wrestler Kenny Omega loves anime and video games. Like most people who love both of those things, he’s also a huge fan of Undertale. During this week’s Halloween-themed All-Elite Wrestling promo, Omega, who is known for incorporating his fandom into his act, went all-in, dressing as Sans Undertale for his big entrance. As you…

Nintendo has updated life-to-date sales numbers for its hardware. The Switch, for example, has sold 41.67 million units worldwide as of September 30. That’s up from the previous total released in June of 36.87 million. The 3DS’s total sales have reached 75.45 million, which is up from the 75.28 million announced in June.

Nioh And Outlast 2 Are November’s PlayStation Plus Games

If you haven’t played Nioh yet, this month’s PlayStation Plus lineup has you covered. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership. November’s PS Plus games are: Nioh Outlast 2 They’ll be available November 5 through December 3.

The latest video for Marvel’s Avengers gives us a much clearer picture of what’s going on in the upcoming game. Players will collect and customize their characters’ skills, abilities, and outfits while playing though story-advancing missions either solo or online with other heroes. Works for me. 

Here’s November 2019’s Xbox Games With Gold

November’s Xbox Live Games with Gold are an interesting mix of new and old. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. November’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter (November 1-30) The Final Station (November 16-December 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with Xbox…

EVE Online Gets More Shakeups At EVE Vegas

The penultimate event of the 2020 EVE Online World Tour concluded on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada. The seventh annual EVE Vegas event brought together players and developers for a weekend of exhibits, charity auctions, presentations and of course lots of partying. During the keynote discussion, CCP Burger, EVE Online’s creative director, gave an overview…