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Traffic Can Kill You In Overwatch‘s New Map

Overwatch’s upcoming map, Oasis, will crush you. Literally—there’s traffic. Now live on the PTR, Oasis features cars that drive around its periphery. Will they actually kill you, you might ask? Yes. And then they’ll drive away, probably laughing, as Overwatch player ElatedAmpleAruanas found. Here’s a full tour of the map, which, bear in mind, could…

10 Cool Player Bases From No Man’s Sky‘s Update

No Man’s Sky’s Foundation update allows players to finally start building bases. With limited tools, players are making beautiful new homes in the game’s refreshed universes. The tools and pieces the game provides you can feel basic until you look to the history of architecture. The composite parts you’re given to make bases all have…

Genital Jousting, As Told By Steam Reviews

Genital Jousting, a game about dick butts penetrating each other, slithered its way onto Steam early access earlier this month. Since then, it has accrued 600 reviews, 93% of which are positive. They’re also pretty funny. It’s dick jokes all the way down. You’ve been NSFW warned. Here are some of the best reviews for…

Pac-Man and Galaga Are Now Playable In Facebook Messenger

Today, Facebook introduced ‘Instant Games’ to its Messenger service. Pac-Man, Galaga, Zookeeper and 14 other titles will be readily available from the controller icon in your Facebook Message box or on your Newsfeed’s “Instant Games” tab. So if you, like me, want all your friends to know you smash at Words with Friends, challenging them…

The relaxing farming sim and role playing game Stardew Valley will make its way to the Xbox One on December 14th. In an additional update, developer Eric Barone has announced release dates for other consoles as well. The game will also release on December 13th for the Playstation 4. A version is planned for the…

How To Get The Airship (Flying Car) In Final Fantasy XV

You may be wondering, when driving along the open roads of Final Fantasy XV, how to transform your boring old car into the Regalia Type-F and fly around the world. The good news: It’s easy to do. The bad news: You have to finish the game first. Final Fantasy XV doesn’t make the process super…

Here’s A Robot-Shooting Game That Looks Rad

I’m a big fan of open world shooters. When all the intersecting parts line up, you can have some amazing stories. For players who want a distinctly sci-fi bent to their emergent narratives, there’s The Signal From Tolva. The Signal From Tolva is an open world science fiction game by Big Robot. Left to solve…

The Tiniest Game Boy

And you thought the Game Boy Micro was small. Jeroen Domburg’s custom lil’ handheld here is small enough to fit on a keychain. It’s so small you can’t even read the text. Domburg spoke about his creation at the 2016 Hackaday SuperConference, explaining that the tiny Game Boy was made using a 3D printer, ESP32…

Some Pokémon Sun and Moon Fans Don’t Believe Hau Is The Real Rival

Hau is a nice, cheerful boy. He gives you presents. When defeated in battle, he is gracious, and tells you that he had fun. Nothing about Hau seems competitive, which might explain why Pokémon players keep theorizing that he’s not your real rival in Sun and Moon at all. Historically, Pokémon fans associate the word…

Ubisoft Makes All Its Multiplayer VR Games Cross-Platform

With three major virtual reality platforms currently splitting up a relatively small player base, finding folks to play multiplayer with on a single platform can be tough. Following Eve: Valkyrie’s lead, Ubisoft making its major multiplayer VR releases cross-platform, starting with the Eagle Flight. One of my only major disappointments with Ubisoft’s Eagle Flight when…

Cities: Skylines—Natural Disasters is available today This DLC adds disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and meteors, as well as a Scenario editor and a radio station with in-game music. My poor road planning is usually all the torment my citizens need, but this looks pretty fun too.

Lego’s answer to the blocky building fun of Minecraft, Lego Worlds is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this February. The game’s been on Steam Early Accesssince mid-2015, and we really dig it.

Nintendo Attractions Coming To Universal Studios Orlando And Hollywood

Announced last year for Universal Studios Japan, Nintendo-themed areas are also in the works for Universal Studios Orlando and Hollywood as well, promising massive areas filled with things to do, eat and buy. Miyamoto seems overjoyed. It’s a good fit, really. Nintendo’s spent decades building fantastic worlds for us to play it, now Universal is…

Essential Fallout 4 Mod Turns The Toilet Paper Around

Immersive Toilet Paper is a mod for Fallout 4 by jet4571 and Elianora which takes the game’s existing toilet paper, which is facing the incorrect way, and turns it the correct way. Thus making the game, as advertised, more immersive. If roll-facing-the-wall was the default position for an entire society’s toilet paper, then they deserved…

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What You Need To Know About Pokémon  Sun and Moon’s First Global Event

Game Freak have issued a challenge to all Pokémon  Sun and Moon players: catch 100,000,000 critters before December 13th. If you pitch in, there’s something good in it for you. Sun and Moon make use of a mechanic known as “global events,” which are limited-time festivities where players try to meet a collective goal. Here’s…

Ultimate General Is A Very Good Strategy Game

Back in 2014 I played Ultimate General: Gettysburg, a short but innovative strategy game set during the Civil War’s most famous battle. Two years later and the same game is back, only now it’s a full singleplayer campaign experience. Ultimate General: Civil War is basically an overblown sequel to the first game, using its success…

Fancy Board Game Will Probably Smash Kickstarter Records

A few years ago, there was a very successful Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Kingdom Death: Monster. This week, a new, improved version of the game hit the crowdfunding service, and in only a few days has raised over five million dollars The original game had two key appeals: it had a neat…

Civilization V Fans Are Playing A Single Game Like An Actual Democracy

A group of Civilization players have banded together and formed something called Democraciv, where a whole bunch of humans work together to operate a single Civilization, some of them actually playing, the rest arguing and giving advice. Just like a real democracy, then. Or at least the old-fashioned ideal of one. Democraciv—currently playing Civilization V…

Overwatch Player Reaches ‘Max’ Level After Six Months Of Non-Stop Play

Overwatch has a max level! Kinda. A Chinese account reached it a little while back, but they made judicious use of account-sharing, allowing a single account to level up for ungodly amounts of time each day. Now, finally, one player has done it all on his own. Per PVP Live, French player TaZzeRK just hit…