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It’s High Noon On Westworld

It wouldn’t be the Wild West—even a fake one full of robots—if there wasn’t some fancy gun-slingin’ to be had. SPOILERS AHEAD While Kirk’s most pressing thoughts from this week’s episode revolved around tanks and computer sex, mine were with Dolores and her alt outfit, which seems to have unlocked some “stone cold killer” abilities.…

Facebook Stashes All Its Games In One App

One of the biggest problems with social games on Facebook is finding the damn things. Facebook Gameroom is a standalone app that gathers them all together in one place. Announced today during the Unity developers conference in Los Angeles, Gameroom acts as a hub for any game that’s playable on Facebook, from match three puzzlers…

Popular YouTuber’s Horror Game Sparks Lawsuit Between Creators

Beloved YouTuber Criken is being sued for allegedly backstabbing the co-creator of his upcoming horror game, I.C.U. The suit was filed last Friday, three days before the game closed out its successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised over $82,000. Keenan “Criken” Mosimann’s popular YouTube channel features funny moments from games like Left 4 Dead and Dark…

Five Nights At Freddy’s Creator Says The Fandom Isn’t “Toxic”

Once a fandom gets big enough, it starts to develop a reputation. In the case of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the reputation isn’t necessarily a good one—and the creator of the series knows it. Yesterday, developer Scott Cawthon took to the Steam forums of Sister Location,and he explained why he takes umbrage with people who…

The Weird Things Sims Players Do To Get The Perfect Baby

In real life, if you crave sweets during pregnancy, you’re supposedly due for a girl, but if you crave savory things it’ll be a boy. Another belief: carrying high leads to a girl, while carrying low is a boy. Surprisingly, superstitions like these can be found within games like The Sims, too. Sims players have…

Standalone Gwent Makes Some Big Changes To The Witcher 3 Version

My Gwent awakening has taken place entirely within the last couple of months. In that time I went from never playing, to becoming mildly obsessed with the Witcher 3 minigame version, to playing and enjoying the beta of the standalone game. It’s been a lot to digest. The closed beta for Gwent: The Witcher Card…

I Can’t Stop Watching This Destiny Player Wreck Trials All By Himself

Each weekend, Destiny’s Trials of Osiris gives competitive players a chance to team up with two friends and take on the toughest PvP competition out there. Or, if you’re extremely good at Destiny, you can skip the teaming up part and play solo. I chatted some with Destiny streamer/YouTuber SirDimetrious last week for a story…

Overwatch Pharah Cosplay Is Fully Operational

Czech cosplayer Germia describes her cosplay of Overwatch rocket queen Pharah as “the most challenging costume I’ve ever done.” It’s not hard to see why. Over the course of many months, Germia crafted a costume of Pharah’s Anubis skin that’s fully operational. Well, minus real rockets (I hope). Among other neat tricks, the propulsion wings…

Four years after the release of Journey, thatgamecompany has begun taking the wraps off their next project. On Twitter, creative director Jenova Chen revealed that thatgamecompany’s next game—which they’re currently calling “thatnextgame”—will be “a game about giving.” It will involve candles, unless it doesn’t.

Habitat Is A Cool Comic Book

You know how the space stations you see in things like Mass Effect and Elysium are always bright and shiny and full of fancy futuristic tech? Habitat takes place on one of those stations, only everything has gone to shit. Set decades after an event that somehow isolated them from the outside world/universe, it depicts…

Nobody Asked For This, But Cruis’n Is Back

The long running Cruis’n racing game series is making its triumphant return with a new arcade game, Cruis’n Blast. While there was a lackluster Cruis’n game that made it to the Wii in 2007, it was a port of a 2004 The Fast and the Furious arcade game. That makes this the first real Cruis’n…

Winter is coming to Forza Horizon 3. Developer Turn 10 slipped a teaser image for the first expansion into a post onXbox Wire. The currently unnamed addition is slated for release before the end of the year.

An Interview With A ‘Boring’ Gamer

Alex McCabe isn’t the kind of person who usually gets profiled on a video game website. He doesn’t make games, doesn’t play them competitively, and doesn’t make many videos about them. He hasn’t even found a wild new way to play Fallout or Super Mario 64. He did make himself a multi-colored PlayStation 2 when…

Every Big Video Game Coming Out This Fall

Autumn, when the only things falling faster than the leaves are the big game releases. Check out the pile of big titles we’ll be jumping into as the season progresses. Update November 1: Some of the season’s best games are behind us, but there are still plenty of big name games on the way. September…

Katamari Creator Announces Whimsical AR Game [UPDATE]

Katamari creator Keita Takahashi just announced a fanciful new AR game called Woorld. In proper Takahashi style, Woorld is all charm, full of whimsical little items that make me giggle like an idiot. In Woorld, your phone will map the room you’re in and place cartoonish items, from mushrooms to tiny houses, around the space…

Now Way More People Can Play The Zero Escape Series

If you’ve always wanted to play 999 and Virtue’s Last Reward but don’t have a handheld, you’re now in luck. Both visual novels are coming to PS4, Vita, and PC this spring. Developer Spike Chunsoft is packaging the two in a compilation they’re calling Zero Escape: The Nonary Games. Aksys, the publisher behind the PlayStation…

BlazBlue Isn’t As Fun Without English Voices

BlazBlue: Central Fiction arrives in North America today, bringing fresh mechanics and a host of new fighters to Arc System Works’ unique fighting game series. What’s it’s not bringing, for the first time ever, is an English voice cast, and that’s very unfortunate. When the first BlazBlue game, Calamity Trigger, came to the States back…

Our Favorite Games From October

We had some major AAA releases this month, as well as some exciting indie games. Here are our favorite games from October. Titanfall 2 We came for the multiplayer, but the true standout is the single player campaign, as well as Titanfall 2’s interesting UI. You can check out our tips here You can get…

Nintendo will have a Direct on November 2 for Animal Crossing. Right after announcing this, Nintendo sent out a Japanese tweet explicitly stating that it won’t have info about the smartphone app or the Switch. Noted!

Deadpool’s Director Wants To Make A “Hybrid” Live-Action Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

According to a story on The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Miller—director of Deadpool—is going to be “developing an adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony Pictures”. Which is a “a hybrid CG-animated/live-action family film”. Miller wouldn’t be directing; that honour would go to Jeff Fowler, the director and co-founder of Blur Studios, aka the trailer guys…