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Overwatch‘s Rankings Feel Weird This Season Because Tiers Are More Accurate

Last week, Overwatch’s third competitive season kicked off. Approximately five nanoseconds later, forums flooded with everything from furtive questions to irate rants about placement. The short version is, some people didn’t feel like their initial ranks corresponded with their performance in placement matches or their ranking tier last season or, well… anything. Some high-tier players…

Eight Rare Games That Are Worth A Lot Of Money

If you’re into video games, you’re probably aware of the white whales. Earthbound for the Super Nintendo, Stadium Events for the NES, that impossible-to-find Nintendo World Championship cartridge that sold for $100,000 on eBay a couple years ago despite a torn label. All of those make sense. They’re either great games or carry enough historical…

Final Fantasy‘s Best Bromances

As we cruise down the highway with our bros in Final Fantasy XV, it’s worth reflecting on the notable bromances and friendships throughout the series. Final Fantasy has a strong lineage of bros and I’ve collected some of the best of the bunch so you can learn what it means to be a real bro.…

The fifth episode of Telltale’s Batman, “City of Light,” will be available on all platforms December 13th. “City of Light” is the season finale.

Battlefront‘s New Update Made Lando Calrissian Unstoppable 

Star Wars: Battlefront just released its Rogue One: Scarif DLC. It adds new heroes, an additional game mode, and also managed to turn Lando into the toughest hero in the galaxy. Step aside, Jedi and Sith. Billy Dee Williams is here to save the day. The key to Lando’s newfound success isn’t a deal with…

Pokémon Go Makes Sending Monsters To The Meat Grinder Easier

Pokémon Go’s much-requested “mass transfer” feature is dropping shortly. Players can now “transfer” Pokémon to Professor Willow in batches. So you won’t be sending your little pocket monsters to the meat grinder one by one anymore. Seriously, where did you think “Pokémon candy” even came from? To do this, press and hold a Pokémon. The…

You Can Get Assassin’s Creed III For Free On PC This Month

Ubisoft has been giving away games this year as part of a celebration of their 30th anniversary, and for the month of December,Assassin’s Creed III is free on PC. Assassin’s Creed III is, as reported on Kotaku, “the best tree-climbing simulator in history.” If that sounds up your alley, you can follow this link and…

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Final Fantasy XV Patch Will Add More Story, Improve Chapter 13

Why buy games on day one anymore? A newly planned set of updates for Final Fantasy XV won’t just fix bugs, they’ll add story cutscenes and improve the game’s slow-paced thirteenth chapter by adding more powers to Noctis’s repertoire. “We want you to enjoy Final Fantasy XV for a long time to come,” writes director…

Besides the RPG reboots, Sony also announced that Hot Shots Golf, What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord?, and PaRappaTheRapper were all getting mobile games. Plus, Yomawari and Disgaea mobile titles are also in development! No word about Western releases.

Two classic RPGS franchises return! Both Wild Arms and Arc the Lad are getting new titles for mobile as part of Sony’s reboot project, both made by the original staffers. No word yet on international releases.

Dude Recreates 28 Of The World’s Best Roller Coasters In Planet Coaster

In the real world, Joey Designs works as an architect. In Planet Coaster, though, he’s busy recreating some of the world’s biggest/best actual roller coasters for anyone who wants to use them in their park. As Motherboard report, while the game’s Steam Workshop is full of building homages to Disney, Star Wars and Universal Studios,…

YouTuber Builds Working Atari Emulator In Minecraft

SethBlingis a master at making games do amazing things. He’s managed to inject the code for Flappy Bird into Super Mario World and created a bot that learned how to play Mario. Now, he’s built a working Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft. And he’s done it all without any mods. The emulator runs Atari 2600…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Flying Car Can Do Some Incredible Things

Behold, my adventures with Final Fantasy XV’s flying car, the Regalia Type-F, which Noctis and crew can really have a good time using, as you’ll see in the video above.

Mads Mikkelsen, After Kojima Explained Death Stranding: ‘I Only Understood Some Of It’

Don’t know what’s going on in the new trailer for Death Stranding? No worries: neither does Mads Mikkelsen, and he’s starring in it. In an interview with Birth.Movies.Death, Mikkelsen told the outlet that he only joined the project after checking out the first trailer with Norman Reedus. “I thought that was spectacular just from the…

The No Man’s Sky Subreddit Is Happier Now

On October 5th, the No Man’s Sky subreddit temporarily shut down due to being what then moderator R0ugeW0lf called “a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion.” If you checked the community today, you see none of that. For reference, this is a smattering of topics that reached the front page of the sub on…

Brutal Pokémon Sun and Moon Hack Makes The Game Way Harder

Pokémon Sun and Moon are among hardest games in franchise, meaning that for some, fainting is a real danger. Others, however, don’t think the challenge is enough. Enter ROM hacks. GTA Temp user Kobazco has developed an edit of Pokémon Sun and Moon that amps the difficulty nearly to the extreme.Dubbed Pokémon Rising Sun and…

Overwatch Players Hit Lowest Possible Rank In Record Time

Remember Dale Brown, aka Hanjo, aka the guy who got the lowest possible rank in season one of Overwatch? Well, he’s still around, and this time, he and a friend pulled off a world first. On the first day of Overwatch season three, Brown and his friend Jon “WrstReaperNA” Kingham hit rank one, with Kingham…

Nintendo’s Luigi Miiverse Keeps Getting Hacked In Funny Ways

If you’ve visited the New Super Luigi U Community recently, you might have noticed something was a little different. Instead of prominently displaying the green-overalled plumber, the social media community has seen a number of banner changes that definitely didn’t come from Nintendo. Someone appears to be messing with Nintendo’s infamous community, as there are…

Nintendo Offers Cash Bounties To People Who Find 3DS Exploits

You know all those stories about people who hack into tech companies in such impressive fashion that those companies immediately offer them jobs? Nintendo won’t do that. But they will offer you cash. Partnering with the HackerOne group, Nintendo is offering bounties ranging from $100 to $20,000 to anyone who can find security vulnerabilities in…