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The King Of Fighters XIV Update Makes The Game Less Ugly

On the top left we have a screenshot from the release version of The King of Fighters XIV, a game that transformed beautiful 2D characters into lifeless 3D husks. On the bottom right, a shot from the game’s 1.10 update, which is looking to add a little life back into the game. This is good.…

Craftsmen Forge Genji’s Glowing Sword From Overwatch

Overwatch’s Genji is the annoying buzz in your ear when you know a fly is in the room and can’t damn find it. But you have to admit—his weapon design is awesome. In a video posted today, weapon craftsmen Man At Arms hand-made Genji’s glowing, green katana sword and Shuriken. They’re the same guys who…

Unconscious Dishonored 2 Enemies Who Look Like They Just Had A Sick Party

Ever since I played Metal Gear Solid 2 nearly half my life ago (shudders), my goal in stealth games has been the same: to knock people unconscious and then position their bodies so that they’ll wake up thinking, “What the shit was I even doing?” In Metal Gear Solid 2, that mainly consisted of me…

Pokémon Go’s New Tracking System Still Bad For Rural Players

Pokémon Go will not stop fumbling its tracking system. With each new update has come a slew of problems so damning that it’s a wonder people are still out there, tracking the little beasts with their phones. Last week, Niantic expanded Pokémon Go’s newly-updated “Nearby” feature to areas outside of San Francisco, where the company…

Pokémon Sun And Moon Player Beats Elite Four With Just A Magikarp

It’s an accepted fact that Magikarp is a useless Pokémon until you evolve them into Gyrados. But one player managed to beat Sun and Moon Elite Four with nothing but the flailing fish. How did Japanese twitter user Nanako_Official accomplish this feat? Patience, grinding and a deep knowledge of Pokémon mechanics. While the Magikarp was…

No Man’s Sky‘s New Update Makes The Game Much More Grounded

No Man’s Sky is getting better. The game that left so many people feeling burned back in August may still not live up to the prior months of hype, but yesterday’s patch makes big changes that anchor the game by finally allowing players to build a home among the cosmos. When No Man’s Sky came…

Hearthstone‘s Mean Streets Of Gadgetzan Out Thursday

In a live stream today, Blizzard revealed the release date for Hearthstone’s fourth expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. The new expansion will arrive on Thursday, December 1st. Mean Streets of Gadgetzan will add 132 new cards to the game as players explore the seedy port city of Gadgetzan. Excited fans and collectors can pre-purchase packs…

Final Fantasy VI Once Had A Character Named Angela (And Other Little-Known Facts)

It’s Final Fantasy XV week, which means that it’s the perfect time to talk about Final Fantasy VI—especially in the wake of a bunch of fun trivia that’s been unearthed thanks to old interviews. Did you know, for example, that Cyan was meant to have an older “sister”-type role model named Angela? Over the weekend, the…

A Closer Look At Dishonored 2’s Best Level

Dishonored 2 lives and dies by its level design. Tricky guard patrols and magical abilities don’t mean much without a good playground to sneak around in. Luckily, the game has one of the best levels in recent memory: the transforming Clockwork Mansion. Playing as either Corvo or Emily, the player is tasked with disposing of…

Forza Horizon 3‘s Blizzard Mountain expansion pack brings ice, snow, extreme elevations more to Microsoft’s open-world racing game on December 13. Check out Xbox Wire for more details.

Pokémon Sun and Moon Hide A Big Secret In The Poke Pelago Mini Game

Anyone who has played Pokémon Sun and Moon has probably visited that secluded collection of islands known as Poke Pelago. You can send your monsters to Poke Pelago to train, find items, and just chill out. Poke Pelago is also the place that quietly ties the entire story in Sun and Moon together. Maybe you…

Hitman’s November Update adds the ability to use items you’ve unlocked online in offline mode, as well as some UI changes and other fixes. View all the changes here. The update is available today for all platforms.

All I Know About Fantastic Beasts I Learned From Lego Dimensions

I have not read J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter supplemental, nor have I seen the recently-released movie based on Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. I’ve just played through the Lego Dimensions’ story pack of the film. It’s fun, if a bit disjointed. Watch me play through the first chapter of the story, in…

Battlefield Mod Brings Back The Falklands War

Despite losing many of its core team to the development of Squad, work continues on famous Battlefield 2 mod Project Reality, whose new update lets users fight out the Falklands War. The 1982 conflict, which saw Britain flex a little post-imperial muscle in the South Atlantic, is weirdly underrepresented in video games, despite it being…

When Video Games Get A Little Too Real

TerrBear was minding his own business playing some Watch Dogs 2 when the action inside the house started looking a little too much like the action outside the house. This is the only time it’s OK to film your screen with your phone. Note that the whole game isn’t this accurate; as with any other…

Watch A Dishonored 2 Villain Die In 80 Different Ways

Cosmic Contrarian knows how to kill people in Dishonored 2. The evidence is well documented by this point and fun to watch. But the latest murder clinic put on by the YouTuber shows just how filled to the brim with possibilities Bethesda’s gothic stealth game is. The player crosses paths with Kirin Jindosh toward the…

Smash Bros. Melee Tournaments Are Shrines To Old TVs

At DreamHack Winter 2016 in Sweden this weekend, hundreds prayed at a competitive gaming altar consisting of a few dozen old cathode ray tube televisions. They were participating in a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, and the results were beautiful looking. Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a lot of people are probably buying new…

Street Fighter V Mod Lets You Play As Sombra From Overwatch

It was surely only a matter of time before Overwatch’s latest hacker hero got spliced into Street Fighter V The mash-up comes from THEJAMK, who’s no stranger to messing with the character models in Capcom’s latest fighting game. Using Street Fighter’s Laura as the foundation, THEJAMK tweaked her design here and there to transform her…

San Francisco Hack Feels Straight Out Of Watch Dogs 2

The San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni for short, appears to have been hacked on Saturday after reports surfaced that terminals throughout various stations were displaying “You hacked. All data encrypted.” Payment machines weren’t working as a result, forcing the public transportation service to give passengers free rides. According to the San Francisco Examiner, Muni’s…

No Man’s Sky Gets Big Update Including Survival Mode, Base-Building

No Man’s Sky changed a great deal this morning, getting new modes and a ton of gameplay tweaks thanks to update 1.1, the largest one yet. With this patch, No Man’s Sky is now broken up into three modes: Normal (the original No Man’s Sky), Creative (base-building mode), and Survival (which the developers describe as…