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Nazi Gets Punched In The Face, Internet Celebrates

Punching Nazis is something of a time honored tradition in the United States. So is making memes. It seems natural then that the Internet wouldn’t waste any time in making a video of white supremacist and neo-Nazi Richard Spencer getting punched in the face go viral. While the United States was late getting into WWII,…

Bunny Symbol For Overwatch‘s D.Va Shows Up At Women’s March In Seoul

Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably noticed the Women’s Marches going on all over the world this weekend. The political protest is home to all sorts of people, messages, and signage, including from Blizzard’s Overwatch The above image, which came by way of the Twitter account for the Women’s March in Seoul, shows…

Ubisoft Massive has shared yet more information about updates coming to The Division. This time they’re talking about the 1.6 update, which will accompany the next expansion. It’ll increase the size of the Dark Zone, add a new difficulty level, and more.

Here’s A Good Retro Controller For PC Gaming

Many cheap retro controllers look the part, but fall down when it comes down to build quality. Thankfully the iBuffalo classic USB gamepad doesn’t succumb to these issues. It feels every bit as good as an original Super Nintendo pad does. The nice thing is it’ll run on just about anything: Windows, Macs, Raspberry Pis,…

The Sims 4 Celebrity House Update: Tilda Swinton Saves Drake’s Life

The house has fallen into chaos. Thankfully, a savior has emerged: Tilda Swinton. You wouldn’t really think much of Tilda from the looks of her. The past few times I’ve played this house, she’s mostly napped on the couch and played basketball. But today I decided to see what makes her tick. Mainly, it’s alcohol.…

Genesis 4 Has Some Very Beautiful Smash Bros. Melee Cabinets

Any Super Smash Bros. Melee player will tell you that its fans are dedicated and particular. If you play seriously, you will play on a CRT for minimal lag with a brand new GameCube controller. And you will never, ever touch Pichu. At the Genesis 4 Smash tournament, which started today, Red Bull esports installed…

Study Shows Which Video Game Genres Women Play Most

I’ve often told people that about half of gamers are women, citing an Entertainment Software Association report that puts the number at 41%. The invariable response: “But what games are they playing?” Yesterday, Nick Yee, the co-founder of game analytics company Quantic Foundry, published a report that spells out which game genres are dominated by…

How Virtual Console Could Make The Switch A Must-Own

Nintendo has yet to say anything about how the Switch will approach classic games, which means there’s still hope that they won’t screw it up. Very slight hope. But we’ll take what we can get. Historically, Nintendo’s Virtual Console—a service for buying and playing games from older platforms—has been disappointing. On Wii, 3DS, and Wii…

Meanwhile, At The Second Life Trump Inauguration Party . . .

Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States was an appropriately staid and stately affair. The inauguration party in virtual world Second Life was much more colorful. The biggest inauguration party in Second Life took place in the London City sim, oddly enough, where avatars of all sizes and shapes from around…

Twitch Stream Follows Five GTA V NPCs Wherever They Go, No Matter What They Do

Artist Brent Watanabe debuts the San Andreas Community Cam today, a Twitch stream that follows the lives of five Grand Theft Auto V NPCs. Watch as they traverse GTA V’s Los Santos, accompanied by the sounds of crying. The San Andreas Community Cam follows five NPCs as they go about their day. In the words…

What Made Toonami So Good

An entire generation’s fondness for anime can be traced back to one programming block on Cartoon Network called Toonami. Toonami is a well of nostalgia for millennials whose introduction to anime included Dragon Ball Z, Gundam Wing, Sailor Moon and other classics. I’d never really thought about what made Toonami so special until yesterday, when…

Kellyanne Conway is dressed like a bad Assassin’s Creed character. The former campaign manager for and current Counselor to the President is dressed in a $3,600 Gucci ensemble and it’s just a whole lot.

The Pedestrian, A Game About Signs, Looks Great

The Pedestrian’s pitch begins: “What’s it like inside the world of public restroom signs?” It’s a game about signs. Caution signs, street signs, any kind of sign that would feature a little human icon. And the aim of the game is to arrange a bunch of the signs together so you can get that little…

Inside publisher Playdead announced today that they’ve been working on a new game. The image they posted appears to show a kid who had landed in a desert with a parachute. Last year, one of Playdead’s co-founders split from the company with a $7 million payout.

Final Fantasy XV Gets Its Own Gold Saucer

Next week, Noctis will adorn his finest chocobo outfit for a trip to the Moogle Chocobo Carnival, which starts on January 24 and transforms the city of Altissia into a theme park full of minigames. There’s dancing, fishing, photography, and of course, machine-gun firing. New trailer above. In other news, turns out Final Fantasy XV…

The Injustice 2 Prequel Comic Launches April 11, And It’s Gonna Be Great

One of thebest evil Superman stories ever told continues on April 11, when DC Comics reunites writer Tom Taylor and lead artist Bruno Redondo to explore what happened between Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2. Normally a prequel comic book wouldn’t be big news, but the three-year run of DC’s original Injustice comic was…

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What Borderlands & Fallout 4 Look Like Without All The Color

If you visualize the depth buffer of a game (stay with me), you can make it look like the game is running in black & white, ala Limbo It’s not a very practical thing to do, but it does look very nice, as kidaXV shows/explains here Here’s Borderlands 2: Here’s Fallout 4: And here, most…

Nintendo Answers (And Avoids) Our Switch Questions

The Switch won’t have Netflix or any other video apps at launch, but it will have a Mii Maker app. No video capture, sad to say. Last week, just after the Switch event, we sent Nintendo a bunch of questions about their new hardware, which launches on March 3. Today, Nintendo sent back responses. Here’s…

Ubisoft Massive has shared a bunch of new details about The Division’s upcoming Last Stand expansion, which adds a structured new PvP game mode to the Dark Zone. They’ll be announcing a simultaneous release date for all platforms “soon,” and season pass holders will get to test it out early on a public test server.