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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…

Rare Pokémon Card Just Sold For $54,970

At an auction in Beverly Hills, a Pokémon Illustrator card fetched an eye-watering $54,970, setting a new record for Pokémon card prices. According to Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for Comics at Heritage Auctions, a Pokémon Illustrator card went for around $23,000 during the early 2000s. As noted on Go Nintendo, this latest auction smashed…

First Details On Hollywood’s Monster Hunter Movie 

You might know Paul W.S. Anderson as the guy who made the Mortal Kombat movie or the guy who makes the Resident Evil movies. Soon you’ll know him as the guy who makes the Monster Hunter movies. That’s right, Capcom is turning Monster Hunter into a feature film, and Anderson has the movie rights and…

Dating 101

If you don’t like Yakuza games then…look, I don’t know how or where you can get the help that you need, I just know that you need it. This is Yakuza 0, a game that’s out in the West in January 2017 (it’s been out in Japan since 2015). Don’t let the fact that it’s…

Microsoft Apologizes For Perceived Racial Slur In Xbox Email

Earlier today, Microsoft sent out a promotional email for Dead Rising 4. The pitch was some zombies singing Christmas Carols, and the email had the subject line “NNNNGGGHHHAAAA”. The intent was obviously to put into text the kind of noise a zombie makes, but when you arrange those letters together and say them out loud,…

Someone Got Doom Running In The Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar

I get the fun of making Doom run on everything from a potato to a toaster, but come on. If you’re confused by my incredulation, then that’s because you haven’t seen Doom running in the not-even-a-thumbnail-wide touch bar that comes with the new Apple Macbook Pro laptops. This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where…

An Overwatch Player Called For A Ceasefire Just When I Needed It

Normally when I’m feeling down, I steer clear of multiplayer games. Competition is rad, but it can turn even kindhearted people into massive bags of Flaming Hot Cheetos, only all the Cheetos are dicks. Or at least, that used to be my policy. Then Overwatch happened. The world has not been a kind place lately.…

New Dishonored 2 PC Patch Is A Step In The Right Direction

For the last week and a half, a good number of PC gamers have been (im)patiently awaiting a patch to fix the myriad performance issues Dishonored 2 had at launch. Friday’s 1.1 beta patch was a mouse-fixing appetizer, but today’s 1.2 patch is more of a main course. You can now download a beta of…

Teen Game Has The Best Video Game Ads Of 2016

If you use Facebook or Tumblr, you’ve probably seen ads for Episode. It’s a story-telling app that currently sits at #12 in the iTunes chart for games and has been downloaded over ten million times on Google Play. That popularity is not explained at all by its advertising, which frequently centers on pregnant women. The…

Former Conan Rep Calls Out Hit Board Game’s Depiction Of Women

A woman who helped market a wildly popular upcoming Conan board game, which raised over $3 million on Kickstarter in 2015, is speaking out against its portrayal of women. In a November 12 essay titled “Grab ‘Em By The Board Game,” Cynthia Hornbeck, who marketed the game for Asmodee, the company that is distributing the…

Video Games Also Have A Fake News Problem

In the wake of the 2016 election, one of this month’s biggest stories is the rise of fake news, as passed from uncle to uncle via Facebook and Google. And while fake video game articles may not be as dangerous as stories about Hillary Clinton assassinating her aides, it’s still worth noting: Video games have…

Game Awards Show Mysteriously Removes Two Nintendo Fan Games

The Game Awardswill be held next week, celebrating AAA gaming as well as smaller projects. Two fan games based on Nintendo IPs, AM2R and Pokemon Uranium, have disappeared from the “Best Fan Creation” nominees. AM2R is afan remastering of Metroid 2: The Return of Samus. Released earlier this year, the project was hit with a…

Dear Nintendo, Please Actually Make This Mini-SNES/Super Famicom 

Love, everyone. I like the idea of the Mini-NES! But not the idea of playing many of its games. Load up something like this with Link to the Past, Super Mario World, F-Zero and maybe Street Fighter II and/or Super Star Wars, though, and oh boy Especially since this box is for the timeless JP/PAL…

Pokemon Sun and Moon‘s Wonder Trade Is Full of Monsters Named Donald Trump

The Wonder Trade feature in Pokémon Sun and Moon is dice roll: you put a Pokémon in, get a random Pokémon from somewhere else in the world in return. Out of 700+ possibilities, players keep spotting Yungooses named Donald Trump circulating on Wonder Trade. Fans have thought the reality tv star and the Alolan Pokémon…

Smash Bros. Melee Is Worth Celebrating On Its 15th Birthday

Today is the 15th birthday of a game that just will not go away. Super Smash Bros. Melee will just not go away. There’s a reason for its stubborn popularity. Melee builds. Without post-release balance adjustments, the game actually seasoned instead of growing dry. Time only gave it depth, and players who grew up with…

GTA V Has A Big YouTube Scene Dedicated To The Most Brutal Kills

While fans would argue there’s more to the series than endless murder, GTA is still infamous for being violent. Appropriately, YouTube has spawned an enormous subculture of GTA Online videos documenting the most vicious ways to kill NPCs, and that footage is enjoyed by millions. Typically, videos in this genre include the words “Brutal Kills”…

A Tribute To Titanfall 2‘s Saddest Robot

Titanfall 2 is an exciting romp full of amazing guns and giant mechs. But it also harbors a tragic tale of deprivation, theft, and heartbreak. This is the story of a sad little robot who just wanted to do their job. Having rendezvoused with a unit of militia troops, our ever-generic protagonist Jack Cooper and…

Uncharted 4 Is Getting A Co-Op Horde Mode

Keeping in step with themultiplayer roadmap released back in the spring, Uncharted 4‘s co-op multiplayer survival mode is coming in mid-December, pitting Nathan Drake and friends against 50 waves of enemies from merc fodder to flaming pirates. Visitors to next week’s PlayStation Experience event will be the first to try their hands at Uncharted 4:…

Console Overwatch Player Hilariously Proves PC Elitists Wrong

Two months ago, YouTuber DSPStanky uploaded a video where they wrecked everyone as Lucio. We’re talking, literal dancing around opponents. One of the most common responses at the time was basically “you’d never be able to do this on PC.” DSPStanky took this response as a challenge, and started playing Overwatch on PC seriously. DSPStanky…

Pokémon Go is giving thanks for obsessed players everywhere with a special Thanksgiving event. From November 23 to November 30, XP and Stardust gains will be doubled. Sounds like a lovely excuse to wander away from the dinner table before the fighting starts.