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Anime’s Fan Service Can Be A Minefield

Today, how you feel about panty shots can determine how you feel about anime as a whole. And it’s not just panty shots. In the blockbuster anime Food Wars, women’s clothes burst off their bodies when they taste an exquisite bite of steak. Skirts often don’t cover the bottom halves of women’s butts in Prison…

10 Hours In, Dead Rising 4 Misses What Made The Earlier Games Great

Dead Rising 4 offers a fun zombie-bashing playground, but is not a good Dead Rising game. Dead Rising 4 is a sandbox survival game where you explore and fight against massive waves of zombies. You move from case to case, trying to solve a giant conspiracy. You’ll cut down zombies, try to take the best…

A Painful Shot-By-Shot Breakdown Of The Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer

The first trailer for Transformers: The Last Knight went up last night, giving fans a first look at the flashy nonsense that will make Michael Bay, Hasbro and Paramount a ton of money next year. Let’s see what knowledge we can glean from those explosive 140 seconds. First off, let’s watch the trailer for Transformers…

New Hotline Lets You Pay $3/Minute To Talk To Game Developers

If you have ever wanted to pay $3/minute to talk to game developers on the phone—and who hasn’t?—today is your lucky day, thanks to the launch of Callvention, a wild new website that will no doubt be used by many people. Over at Callvention, you can pay varying amounts of money to get some quality…

Hitman gets a new Paris mission, “Holiday Hoarders,” on December 13. The mission will be available for all players and is part of the game’s December Update.

Even Dunkey Likes Final Fantasy XV

“All they do is kill shit and eat spaghetti” – perhaps the most fitting description of Final Fantasy XV, as described by YouTube funnyman videogamedunkey. The usually negative dunkey was charmed by Square Enix’s latest, mostly because of Gilgamesh. For another take:

Paragon Is A Much Different Game Today

Multiplayer arena game Paragon has been in a weird place since it debuted last year. Harnessing the full power of the Unreal Engine, it looked like an action game, but played like a slow and plodding MOBA. Today’s Monolith update speeds things up a great deal. I’ve been feeling the disconnect between Paragon’s look and…

Upcoming action RPG Indivisible, from the creators of Skullgirls, announced today that anime studio Trigger (Little Witch Academia, Kill la Kill) will direct its opening animation. Last year, Indivisible received nearly $2 million on IndieGoGo.

Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Find Cut Walking Feature That Fans Have Wanted For Years

For years, Pokémon fans have begged developers Game Freak to let monsters follow the player around in the overworld, as Heart Gold and Soul Silver once did. Well, it looks like that feature is actually contained within the files of Pokémon Sun and Moon. Hacker @KazoWAR discovered the latest Pokémon games hide something very interesting:…

No Army Has Ever Breached The Deeping Wall

As I said in my review, Civ VI is a game that allows for a nice degree of urban planning. Or, with the use of a wonder and an army of archers, one hell of a stronghold.

BoxBoy 3 is Coming In 2017 (Also AMIIBO)

BoxBoy, the hero Nintendo’s 2016 needed and star of our “best games of the year” list, will return on the 3DS in February (at least in Japan) with a third game in the series, called Goodbye! BoxBoy! And, more importantly, with BoxBoy Amiibo Above is the Amiibo. Below is the box that includes the game,…

Overwatch Players Create Their Own Version Of Hide-And-Seek

Overwatch’s new 3v3 elimination mode is much more tense than your average match. If you wanna make it downright frightening, though, try playing hide-and-seek. Muselk and friends decided to create their own objective in 3v3: hide (and, you know, don’t die) until the timer runs out, rendering the match a draw. Their results were… mixed.…

Russian MPs Say FIFA 17 Is “Gay Propaganda”

Some members of Russia’s parliament have sent a letter to the state communications oversight agency, alleging FIFA 17’s support of a recent LGBT-friendly initiative in England breaks Russia’s “gay propaganda law”. And it’s not about dudes kissing. Well, not explicitly. As The Guardian reports, last month England’s Premier League ran a weekend campaign called “Rainbow…

Modders Adding Missing Sharing Features To Mario Maker 3DS

One of the defining features of Super Mario Maker on the Wii U is the ability to share your creations with the world via the internet. The recently released 3DS version lacks online sharing for some stupid reason, so the homebrew scene is working to do what Nintendo didn’t. They’re getting there. Released last week,…

Westworld Fans Think They’ve Already Figured Out A Season 2 Twist

It hasn’t even been 24 hours since the finale of Westworld season one, but already, fans are speculating about what will happen in season two. So far, the theories are compelling. Obviously, if you haven’t caught up with Westworld yet, you should stop reading now. Back in episode 7, Theresa is lured into a secret…

Undertale just got a nice new musical tribute This one’s called “Prescription for Sleep,” and it’s a collection of chilled-out, jazzy duets from saxophonist Norihiko Hibino and pianist AYAKI. It’s a mellow, pleasant addition to the other cool musical tributes the game has gotten.

Free PS4 Game Let It Die Is Fun, But Clunky 

Goichi Suda, known better as Suda 51, has made some bizarre games. From the political thriller Killer7 to the highly satirical No More Heroes. His games are vibrant and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek. What happens when he makes a free to play dungeon crawler? Pure chaos. Let It Die feels like it came out of nowhere. It…

A Self Care Game For The Trashfire That Was 2016

Self care can seem like an unnecessary indulgence when you’ve got a million things to accomplish. Who has time for a manicure when there’s bills and deadlines? But it turns out being good to yourself, especially when you feel like you can’t or don’t deserve to, can make a huge difference in your outlook. Twine…

Bungie’s Cult Classic Oni Almost Had A Sequel

Oni was an action title released in 2001. It was the only game made by the short lived Bungie West studio. In spite of mixed reception, it turns out they were working on a sequel. Thanks to an intrepid archivist, we finally can see what it was like. Andrew Borman has a knack for getting…

Rural And Urban Pokémon Go Players Are Playing Different Games

Pokémon Go’s latest tracking update did not please everyone. Urban and rural players have access one of two Pokémon tracking features, but neither has both—what players say is the ideal solution. Fans have some theories why. Players near PokéStops can only trackPokémon around those PokéStops with the “Nearby” feature, which players far from PokéStops cannot…