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Conan Exiles Devs Want To Add A Castration Mechanic

Conan Exiles’ gleefully dangling unmentionables could one day become a hot in-game collectible. During a Reddit AMA session held over the weekend, developer Funcom put ritual castration on the table. Along with promising to continue to tweak performance and working to make combat in the open-world survival game more enjoyable in the early access game,…

Nintendo Literally Switched The Super Bowl

Nine minutes and 40 seconds before the end of Super Bowl 51, the Atlanta Falcons were about to cap off what had until then been a snoozer. Leading 28-12, the Falcons had a 99.9% win probability and had just gotten the ball back, giving them the chance to truly heal America by defeating the New…

Rainbow Six: Siege Revamping Competitive Play, Deemphasizing Pesky Microtransactions

In a new dev diary, Ubisoft Montreal outlined changes for Rainbow Six: Siege’s second year. Alongside plans to revamp the roster of operators, competitive leagues will be restructured and cash-free loot provided to all players. Years in Siege have four seasons that add eight new operators and at least four new maps. However, some of…

The Mods That Are Keeping Quake Alive In 2017

Not only is Quake alive and well in 2017, its modding scene is making a comeback. For the uninitiated, Quake is a faster, twitchier experience than most modern shooters. While Quake’s protagonist isn’t as inhumanly fast as the protagonist in Doom, your agility allows for bunnyhopping and rocket-jumping tricks that still awe crowds at regular…

David Jaffe’s sketchy hero shooter Drawn to Death launches for PS4 on April 4 as a $19.99 download. The multiplayer arena game set inside a teenager’s doodle-laden notebook was first revealed back in December of 2014. It looks really neat

You Can’t Kill A Good Star Wars Game

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, known by regular humans just as Jedi Academy, is a shooter that was released back in 2003. Part of a series that originated with the best Star Wars game of all time, it’s being kept alive by mods like Movie Battles, which “lets players play and fight in the…

This year is the 30th anniversary of the Jake Hunter detective game series. To mark it, Arc System Works just announced a new Jake Hunter for the Nintendo 3DS. No word about a release date. 

Report: Denuvo Website Leaks Private, Company Emails

Theft protection company Denuvo is not having a good week. First Resident Evil 7, which employs Denuvo’s once-unassailable anti-tamper tech, was cracked in just five days. Now folks have discovered a bunch of unprotected content on the company’s website, including what are reportedly emails from companies like Capcom and Google. TorrentFreak reports that the company…

Star Wars: Battlefront III Lives On In Battlefront II Mod 

While we wait forthe full fan-made remake of the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront III, another team is already releasing betas for a similar project. Only theirs is about modding Battlefront II and adding in a bunch of Battlefront III stuff in over the top of it. Star Wars Battlefront III Legacy is a mod for…

Making Minecraft Maps Beautiful

Minecraft may be practical, but its simple visuals can also be, for some folks, a bit gross. Which is why things like Chunkyexist, to help make blocky maps beautiful. Here’s what a “realistic” map looks like in vanilla Minecraft: It looks like Civilization II with the UI turned off. Here, though, Darastlix has shared an…

Another Game Based On An Old WarCraft III Mod

DOTA might be the most high profile WarCraft III mod to be turned into an actual video game, but it’s not the only one. There’s also Ruin, a “top-down arcade style arena brawler” based on apopular old WCIII mod called Warlock Brawl It’s kind of like DOTA (as you’d expect, given their shared lineage), only…

Katana Zero has a new trailer that shows off some of the game’s story in addition to fast-paced “neo-noir” action shown previously. Being developed by Askiisoft with a release targeted for sometime later this year, the game features time-dilation and a synth-80s vibe that still feels fresh.

Mod Builds An Entire Pokemon Game In Minecraft

Pokémon Cobalt and Amethyst is a new Minecraft mod that takes the intersection of the two gaming worlds to an entirely new level. If a game allows mods, you can be sure a fair share of them will be Pokémon-inspired. And while there are no shortage of similar projects created using Minecraft, Cobalt and Amethyst…

Here’s What One Gym Class Looks Like In 2017

The Interactive Gym, the latest project from the Canadian tech company SAGA, takes the traditional idea of gym class and adds a layer of augmented reality, turning the walls into giant games of skee-ball. Videos of the collaboration recently posted on Youtube give a basic demonstration of how it works. Images of floating shapes are…

Hideo Kojima Calls The Nintendo Switch An ‘Extension’ Of ‘Transfarring’

It’s 2017 and Hideo Kojima is still talking about “Transfarring.” Speaking at RTX Sydney, a two-day video game convention hosted by Rooster Teeth!, the creator of the Metal Gear series told IGN that he sees Nintendo’s upcoming Switch gaming console as the next step in an evolution he imagined years ago with the feature known…

Angela Hill, an MMA fighter I interviewed about cosplay and video games, returns to the UFC this weekend. While the UFC’s weigh-in dress code doesn’t allow for as elaborate of cosplay as Invicta, Hill made up for it by doing a great impersonation of Street Fighter’s Sagat.

What It’s Like To Be An Iranian Game Developer In Trump’s America

Navid Khonsari has been a legal resident of the United States for 17 years. He’s worked on games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Resident Evil 7, and an interactive story about the Iranian Revolution called 1979 Revolution: Black Friday. These days, though, he doesn’t feel entirely welcome in the US or Iran, and he’s…

Scum’s Wish Is A Disturbing Anime About Lovers Who Love Other People

In media, teenagers often possess a delicate balance of callousness and narcissism. In CW dramas like Gossip Girl, producers lean into their more sociopathic tendencies, not considering the emotional debates that lead them to cheat, steal or hurt others, all well-trod stereotypes of teenagers discovering themselves. Often, in real life, it is self-preservation driving these…

The third Pokémon Sun and Moon Global Mission reached its goal today. Players successfully completed one million trades, and are now heading to the second milestone of two million trades. Good luck!

What’s The Best D&D Character You’ve Ever Made?

Rare are the opportunities for Dungeons & Dragons fans to geek out about their favorite character. It’s like explaining your dream to someone. A few seconds in, your poor non-D&D-playing friend’s eyes glaze over in a bored daze. Really, who can blame them? Unlike Fire Emblem’s cast, your character is yours from top to bottom.…