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2016’s Most Searched Video Games, According To Google

Google has released its annual collection of top search results for the year, and as always there’s some good video game shit to dig through. Like the fact Pokemon Go was the #1 search topic in the world for the year. And that many of you like to follow up your Overwatch Googling with something…

Ex-Crytek Artist Looks To Sue Over Unpaid Salary

A former Crytek artist wants to sue the company for not paying its staff—and he’s crowdfunding a lawyer to make it happen. Ludvig Lindqvist, an FX artist who worked at Crytek’s main studio in Frankfurt, Germany, launched a GoFundMe campaign today in hopes of paying his legal fees against the studio. Crytek, he says, has…

Twitch’s AutoMod Is Already A Game-Changer, Streamers Say

Twitch’s crusade against garbage live chats saw a victory on Monday. The streaming platform released an automated moderation feature called AutoMod that is already, some streamers say, a game-changer. AutoMod filters toxicity and slurs from Twitch chat for human moderators to sift through and judge. It automatically flags any messages that may be considered hate…

Stardew Valley developer, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone says patches for known issues with the PS4 and Xbox One releases will be rolling out, “in the next few weeks.” Among the issues to be addressed are the problems with controller support and a bug that causes a crash between day 3 and day 4 of the game.…

Pro Wrestler Tweet Gets People Talking About ‘Black Excellence’ 

Last night, the pro wrestler Big E tweeted a picture of himself, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Sasha Banks and Rich Swann holding their respective WWE championship belts with the caption, “#BlackExcellence.” While wrestling is staged, having this many black champions at once is still an accomplishment, and marking the occasion with a photo is appropriate.…

The State Of The PlayStation 4 In 2016

The PlayStation 4 evolved this year. Sony’s flagship console got a little bigger and a little more powerful, though its potential is as yet undertapped. It also got its very own VR headset, though that headset noticeably fails to match its PC counterparts. It’s not clear whether Sony has moved their gaming system in all…

The Overwatch Fandom Is Horny For Widowmaker’s New Highlight Animation

Overwatch’s holiday event, Winter Wonderland, started yesterday, and with it came new character skins and emotes. Widowmaker’s addition is a highlight intro in which she holds mistletoe over her head, then punches the viewer in the throat and steps on them. The fandom is having a moment with this. Widowmaker is a character based around…

Lost Odyssey Is Free On Xbox Right Now

If you like free video games, and you want to play a killer RPG that’s worth playing if only for the fantastic short stories that come packaged in interludes throughout the game, go get Lost Odyssey for free on Xbox One and/or Xbox 360 right now. It’ll be free until December 31.

Overwatch‘s Holiday Brawl Is A Bit Of A Letdown

Overwatch’s seasonal brawls, the sporty Lucio Ball and PVE-centric Junkenstein’s Revenge, have been almost universally beloved, taking the game in directions nobody saw coming. Comparatively, the latest one, Mei’s Snowball Offensive, is kind of a buzzkill. A snowball fight was, of course, a natural pick for this season’s brawl, but Mei’s is not all that…

After 20 years, Studio Ghibli’s Ocean Waves will finally be distributed in North America starting December 28th, distributor GKids announced today.

Final Fantasy XV‘s Trailers Gave Away Way Too Much

At E3 earlier this year, I asked Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata if he was worried that Square Enix had showed too much of the game. There had been two different demos and tons of footage, I pointed out, which was leading fans to worry that there were few surprises left. Here’s what he…

Old Arcade Machines On The Factory Floor

Every dusty old arcade cabinet sitting in the corner of a pub or rotting in a warehouse somewhere was once shiny and brand new, assembled by workers on factory floors just like these. The Arcade Blogger has compiled a collection of old photos and videos of these production runs, showing how companies like Nintendo, Atari…

Forza Horizon 3‘s Snow Driving Is Almost Too Real

During my first ten minutes in Forza Horizon 3‘s wintry Blizzard Mountain expansion pack, I found myself in a snowstorm so thick I pulled over to wait it out. It was only a few seconds before I remembered that I was an immortal super driver with an army of tree-devouring vehicles at my command, but…

Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus Lets Players Combine Corvo And Emily’s Abilities

Dishonored 2 is adding a New Game Plus Mode as part of its latest free game update. The mode won’t just let you play a new game with your old powers. It will let you play with every power there is. Game Update 1 is the first of two major free updates. It releases today…

Four Years Later, The Wii U Hasn’t Gotten Any Big Price Drops

The Wii U is in an odd spot. It never found the audience Nintendo was hoping for, and after two or three years it was already being phased out in favor of the Switch. Despite that, it’s yet to receive a significant price drop, even as the more-successful PlayStation 4 and Xbox One take detours…

Torment: Tides of Numenera, the spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment, will be out on February 28, developer inXile announced today. It’ll be on PS4, PC, and Xbox One. I saw a bit at PAX and am pretty damn excited to play it.

Valkyria Revolution Is Coming West

If you’ve been jonesing for a new Valkyria Chronicles game, you’ll be able to get your fix pretty soon: Valkyria Revolution is coming to North America and Europe this spring. It’ll be on PS4, Xbox One, and—believe it or not—Vita. Valkyria Revolution, which comes out January in Japan, is more of a spinoff than a…

Age Of Empires II Is Getting Another Brand New Expansion

Maybe it’s because Age of Empires II is still hugely popular, maybe it’s because Bill Gates wants it done, either way there’s going to be another brand new, original expansion to 1999’s Age of Kings released on the PC soon. This will be the third new expansion released for the HD version of the game…

It’s Christmas In Final Fantasy‘s Midgar, Atop The Plate At Least

The shadow of the Shinra Corporation Headquarters is much less oppressive now that Second Life’s long-running Final Fantasy VII role-playing sim is lit with holiday cheer. But do the residents of Midgar’s slums know it’s Christmas? One of the first places I visited in Second Life when I first logged in back in 2007 was…

Modern Warfare Now Has Female Soldiers

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was first released in 2007, there weren’t any female soldier models in the game’s multiplayer. Now, in the game’s 2016 edition, there is. Raven, developers of Modern Warfare Remastered, have added the characters—which include new voice acting—as part of a free December update to the remade shooter, which includes…