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The Assassin’s Creed Ezio Collection isn’t quite the disaster that a recent viral video made it seem. A new video, by SupJamChan, points out that the broken animations in the remastered version of Assassin’s Creed II are caused by a glitch that was also in the original. And that deformed NPC was the product of…
By Jason Schreier Published November 22, 2016 -
Pokémon Sun and Moon Players Busted After ‘Glitch’ Turns Out To Be A Broken Cheat
Right now there’s a scare going on within the Pokémon community. “Don’t save inside Pokémon centers,” people are warning each other. “Your save file might get borked.” Well, about that… Recently, there have been reports online of a serious Pokémon glitch that renders the game completely unplayable, as the avatar disappears and the second screen…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 22, 2016 -
Welcome To Symmetra Hell
The Symmetra revamp is now live on Overwatch’s PTR. In other news, we all live in hell now, but at least the weather’s alright. Nibel captured the madness from PikaIsCool’s stream. And of course: So there you go. Now you’ve got something to look forward to when you log onto the PTR this evening. Or…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 22, 2016 -
Pre-Order Loophole Allows Bogus User Ratings And Reviews To Proliferate On Xbox One And PS4 Stores
People who pre-order games digitally on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have been earning themselves an unadvertised and easily abused perk: the ability to rate, and sometimes review, video games that they have yet to play and aren’t even out yet. As a result, both online stores are full of star-ratings for games that haven’t…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 22, 2016 -
What Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Mario Kart Tracks
Built for speed and not exploration, racing games like Mario Kart like to keep players confined to a set track. Since developers always know what the player will be looking at, it’s easier to hide things away, until a YouTuber like Shesez starts using camera tricks to explore beyond track borders. In the latest installment…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2016 -
A Horror Game About Finding A Stranger’s Phone
Sara Is Missing is a horror game that takes place entirely on a stranger’s phone. While it never strays too far from horror clichés, it still manages to be pretty frightening, and takes full advantage of its limited format. Horror movies often find fear in granular elements of life—an unclosed door, a barely heard whisper,…
By Gita Jackson Published November 22, 2016 -
How To Capture Shiny Pokémon In Sun and Moon
There is about a 1 in 4,000 chance a unique color variant of a Pokémon will appear in a random encounter, making “shiny Pokémon” the rarest type of monster you can capture. Some people have played Pokémon for decades and have never seen a shiny. Here’s how you can beat those odds and get a…
By Patricia Hernandez Published November 22, 2016 -
King Kaiju Game Lets You Destroy Cities, Godzilla Style
VR is for living out our dreams with no real consequences. And if your dream is to be an enormous, city-destroying monster, you’re in luck: King Kaiju is here. King Kaiju, available on Steam for the HTC Vive, gives you everything you need to go on a shitstorm mayhem spree of indiscriminate chaos. You’ve got giant,…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 22, 2016 -
Blizzard Is Giving Overwatch‘s Symmetra Two Ultimates
For a little while, Blizzard’s acknowledged that Symmetra is too much of a situational hero. Now they’re doing something about that. In a new developer video, Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan explained that a new version of Symmetra will soon be coming to the game’s PTR. Nu-mmetra will be the first Overwatch hero to have…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 22, 2016 -
Some of Watch Dogs 2‘s Multiplayer Features Are Coming Online Today
Watch Dogs 2‘s seamless multiplayer was broken at launch, but some of the features have been brought online today for Playstation 4, with availability for Xbox One soon to follow. Should the update run smoothly “additional elements” to the multiplayer will be phased in, Ubisoft noted in a statement this morning. If you want to…
By Gita Jackson Published November 22, 2016 -
Gifts For Someone Who Plays Board Games
Hopefully, there is a special someone (or at least a someone you’re obligated to buy holiday gifts for) in your life that is into board games. If so, don’t buy them board games! Buy them cool stuff that helps them store or organise their board games, they’ll like that better. Feldherr Storage Inserts & Bags…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 22, 2016 -
Sleeping Dogs, Outlast Headline December’s Xbox Games With Gold
There are some pretty cool games in December’s Xbox Games with Gold. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free;” the two games for the Xbox 360 are backward compatible, so you can play them on your Xbox One as well. Remember, these are only free if you have an Xbox Live…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 22, 2016 -
Japanese Twitch Streamer Briefly Interrupted By Earthquake
Yesterday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Honshu island, Japan, sent waves as far as Tokyo, where it rocked a humble Twitch streamer playing Pokémon Kai Hamano, whose streams as Kaihama, was sorting through his inventory in the new Pokémon game when his bedroom started shaking. “What the fuck?” he asked his viewers. “Oh my god, it’s…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 22, 2016 -
Over at Waypoint, Patrick Klepek (formerly of Kotaku) takes a look inside the big plans for the never-to-be Sleeping Dogs 2. There’s a lot of great insights and excerpts of documents exploring United Front Games’ hopes for a responsive open-world game, as well as some speculation why we never got to play it. Worth a…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 22, 2016 -
Lego Dimensions‘ Sonic Level Is A Mini Sonic Generations
Sonic the Hedgehog made his debut in Lego Dimensions last week with a level pack that sends Sega’s hero through several generations in a quest to find the Chaos Emeralds. We played through a bunch of it on Facebook yesterday. Want to see? The Sonic the Hedgehog level pack for Lego Dimensions comes packaged with…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2016 -
Open-World Conan Survival Game Coming To Xbox One, PC Early Access In January
Funcom’s taking its Conan license to a much harsher environment next year with Conan Exiles, an open-world survival game that challnges players to tame a barbarian wasteland and uncover its secrets. Xbox One players will be able to get in on the action this spring via the preview program. I’m getting a very Ark: Survival…
By Mike Fahey Published November 22, 2016
