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Resident Evil 7, As Told By Steam Reviews

Wanna read about a lot of grown men soiling their pants out of fear? Well, check out the Steam reviews for Resident Evil 7 Resident Evil 7 is scary. Hell, I can hardly stand to look at gifs from it. Players on Steam were quick to note how much this game frightens them, declaring the…

A History Of The Bow & Arrow, Gaming’s Premier Primitive Projectile 

The bow and arrow is one of humanity’s most primitive weapon systems, right up there with stick attached to rock. Stuart Brown of YouTube’s Ahoy channel explores the history of the bow in reality and video games, from prehistoric hunters to modern-day marksmen. The bow and arrow isn’t only one of the earliest projectile weapons…

A Complete Wii Collection Is An Impressive Sight

Including last October’s release of Just Dance 2017, 1,262 games have been released in North America for the Nintendo Wii since its late 2006 launch. NintendoAge forum user NintendoTwizer has collected all of them. Along with the 1,262 games (plus some double packs and variants), NintendoTwizer has also collected all four Wii colors and all…

Hitman gets a third bonus episode, “Landslide,” on January 31st to coincide with the physical release. The mission takes place in Sapienza (yay!) and is free for anyone who owns the complete edition or upgrade pack. It will also be purchasable, along with Hitman’s other two bonus missions, as part of the “Bonus Episode” DLC…

A Cold Path. Germantown, Maryland. By Nate Blank. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Fallout 2 Had A Secret Sex Formula

Sex and sexuality isn’t one size fits all in real life. But in Fallout 2, there’s a literal formula that determines how good your character is at boning. A quest in Fallout 2‘s New Reno requires you to become a porn star, which meant that knowing how good your player character was at sex was…

 Final Fantasy XV’s New Photo Mode Is A Welcome Addition

The most recent Final Fantasy XV update gave us a new camera mode that allows players to take their own pictures. Although Prompto is the best boy and a great photographer, you now won’t have to rely on him for getting all the photos you need. Here’s a few tips on how it works. If…

The Fire Emblem Heroes Fan Vote Could Be Going Better

Now through January 31, Fire Emblem fans are voting to see which hero and heroine from across series history will be featured in the upcoming mobile game, Fire Emblem Heroes. As of yesterday, Ike and Lyn were winning. Surely we can do better than that. Maybe the right people aren’t voting. Maybe they’re put off…

Pokémon Fan Has Genius Way Of Avoiding YouTube’s Copyright Bullshit

Since release, Pokémon YouTubers have had issues uploading any footage utilizing the signature new “Z-Moves” introduced in Sun and Moon. One fan decided to take matters into his own hands, and the workaround for circumventing YouTube’s crap is hilarious. As you may already know, YouTube has something called “Content ID,” which is a system meant…

Former Rockstar North veteran Leslie Benzies and his team have announced development of an online game called calledEverywhere. The vaguely named project will be made using Amazon Lumberyard and attempt to “simulate and fuse the real world with the virtual.” Whatever that means.

An Overwatch Glitch Is Ejecting Dva Into Space

A hilarious glitch made its way into Overwatch with Tuesday’s update. Dvas are getting flung out of their mech suits and into the abyss on the 3v3 mode’s Ecopoint Antarctica map. [Update—12:30 PM, 1/27]: Blizzard software engineer Bill Warnecke commented last night on the Battle.net forums that “Servers are currently being hotfixed for the issue.”…

Meet Some of Your Mass Effect: Andromeda Teammates

Two Mass Effect: Andromeda trailers dropped today, revealing new teammates, aliens, backstory and—gasp—a kissing scene. The game will be released on March 21st. Andromeda follows the Pathfinder Team, whose job is to “find and secure potential golden worlds, identify settlement sites and start the process of building our new home” for 20,000 people marooned in…

Obsidian Announces Pillars Of Eternity II

The original Pillars Of Eternity was an excellent revival of classic-style PC RPGs (think Baldur’s Gate, but shinier). It also made gobs of cash on Kickstarter. Now Obsidian’s making a sequel, and they’re tapping the ol’ crowdfunding well one more time. Instead of going back to Kickstarter, Obsidian’s crowdfunding Pillars Of Eternity II on Fig,…

The offroad racer that started life as Colin McRae: Dirt is getting another sequel this year. Codemasters has officially announced Dirt 4, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Windows in June.

A Playlist Of Songs That Overwatch’s Reaper Would Die For

At Overwatch fan site Kotaku, we have a whole Slack room dedicated to the eponymous first-person shooter/dating sim. In it, we post memes and strategy tips and argue over who to ship Lucio with. One day in Kotaku_Overwatch Slack, Gizmodo writer Bryan Menegus asked whether Reaper would be into the metal band Slipknot. Somebody, and…

Thousands of People Get Banned From Pokémon Sun and Moon For Cheating

Cheating is rampant inPokémon thanks to tools which allow players to create fake monsters with impossible stats from scratch. Well, it looks like some of the people messing around with their save files have gotten the hammer from The Pokémon Company. According to leading Pokémon news site Serebii, 5,954 people have been banned from going online…

Square Enix Is Making The Avengers And More Marvel Games

Marvel’s move back into console gaming takes a huge step today, as the comic book company announces a multi-year, multi-game partnership with Square Enix, beginning with The Avengers Project Developed by Crystal Dynamics in collaboration with Eidos Montreal, The Avengers Project is the working title for the first game to come from the newly-announced partnership.…

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom isn’t just for PlayStation 4. Bandai Namco today announced the RPG sequel is coming PC this year as well. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, also initially announced for the PS4, is also headed to PC, as well as Xbox One.

RIP Xbox One Snap Mode

Snap Mode, that gimmick on the Xbox One that let you “snap” something else onto the side of your screen while you were watching a movie or playing a game, is no more. Microsoft is ditching the feature to make the console’s dash run faster. The Xbox One’s dash has always been a tad sluggish…

Resident Evil 7’s Secret Sneaker Fetish

If an artist is going to model a single shoe to fill a game’s drawers and dark corners with, they may as well make it a good one. lordtrapula opened up a drawer in Resident Evil 7 and found it full of musty shoes. They’re not some random design, though, or jumbled collection of leather…