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Routine, a first-person sci-fi game that we first wrote about in 2012, will finally be out in March 2017. Fans of Alien Isolation might want to take a look.

Last Year Is A First-Person Game Based On Bad Horror Movies

Last Year is a first-person game where five people play as scared high school kids, and one person gets to play as the villain in an old horror movie, hunting them down one-by-one. The game is set on October 31, 1996. It’s October 31, 2016. So if we’re ever going to watch a trailer for…

86-Year-Old Grandmother Accused Of Pirating PC Game, Liable For $5,000

Christine McMillan, an 86 year-old woman from Ontario, was pretty surprised when she received an email claiming she’d pirated post-apocalyptic FPS Metro 2033. She was even more surprised about the part where she was liable for a fine of up to $5,000. Itsy bitsy problem: she didn’t even know what Metro 2033 was. Grandma Shirley…

Name Of Next Tomb Raider Leaks Because Guy Had It Open On Subway

Some advice for professional game developers and marketers: Don’t open up confidential information in public. Especially don’t do it a on a crowded subway. Take the case of Redditor Tripleh280, who wrote today that he was riding a Montreal subway and saw this: Zoom in a bit and you can just make out the name…

Guy’s Pokémon Go Costume Wins Halloween

Why settle for being a video game character for Halloween when you can be an entire video game? Matt Borgelt’s Pokémon Go costume, posted to his Instagram account yesterday, is not only detailed and ambitious, it allows you to play a truncated version of the game to boot. While some might be worried about allowing…

The Most Nightmarish Peanuts Special Ever Made

The first time I watched the 1978 Peanuts special What A Nightmare, Charlie Brown, I was eight and a little scared. The cartoon made a significant impression on me. It was unnerving to see Snoopy whipped, starved, pelted with produce, and drowned. Dream sequence or not, that’s heavy shit. There have been many Peanuts specials…

Answering Your Best Final Fantasy XV Questions

I have played 10 hours of Final Fantasy XV, a video game about how One Direction spends their days off, and I’m pleased to report that so far, it’s good. Very good. Maybe even excellent. This is an early build, and it only contains the five first chapters of the game, so I can’t yet…

In Memory Of The Guy Who Gets Beheaded At The Beginning Of Skyrim

Patience is a virtue, people. At the start of Skyrim, your character is being carted to execution alongside a few criminals and some members of the Stormcloak rebellion. A dude gives you some exposition on the way into town, then everyone gathers in the square as Imperial General Saul Tigh berates the leader of the…

Deadly Premonition’s Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro is leaving Access Games after a year-long health break In a tweet, Swery told fans that, although his reactive hypoglycemia is getting better, he will be retiring after 12 years at the company:

I Want To Know More About Westworld’s VR Porn Tanks

HBO’s new Red Dead Redemption LARP Westworld has been teasing us with mysteries for weeks. Among them: why doesn’t everyone who pays all this money to visit Westworld just play video games instead? Warning: this post contains a gif with a lady’s nipple in it. It stands to reason that if technology has become advanced…

An Early Look At  D&D’s Newest Monster Bible

Happy Halloween, geeks and freaks. Today, we have a special preview of the new Dungeons & Dragons monster supplement, Volo’s Guide to Monsters, to satisfy your beastly cravings. Volo’s Guide is a whole new take on the nearly 40-year-old Monster Manual. This time, it’s got some story, framing it more as an academic debate than an…

Battlefield Account Posts Dumbass Tweets, Deletes Them [UPDATE]

Earlier this morning, the official Battlefield 1 Twitter account posted a number of tweets using the ridiculous hashtag #justWWIThings. Met with negative feedback, the account soon deleted the tweets. The tweets featured animated gifs of soldiers matching and clearing out bunkers with flamethrowers. They included slogans like “When your squad is looking on point” and…

Latest Sword Art Online Game Lets Twitter ‘Raise’ A Character

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, to be released November 8th, is asking fans for help “raising” one of its protagonists. Premiere, an NPC, will scan and mine Twitter feeds for personality traits and mold her in-game persona in our image, Crunchyroll reports. Premiere is a SAO: Hollow Realization’s protagonist, a teenaged girl who is an…

A Board Game Where Everything Is Permanent 

Gamers are a funny bunch. Board gamers, doubly so. We treasure our board games. We put plastic sleeves on our cards to keep our games immaculate and pristine. We do not tolerate spilled drinks. So writing on the board (in permanent marker!), placing stickers, and ripping up cards is both incredibly disturbing, and therapeutically cathartic.…

A Few Hours With GTA Online’s Halloween Event

The Spooky Season is upon us, and many games are doing special limited-time events to celebrate, including GTA Online. Like last year, the Halloween event adds a new game mode, along with a few other treats. The big new addition is a another Adversary mode, Lost vs Damned. This mode pits a team of “Angels”…

THQ Nordic now owns the rights to all titles and projects from classic military game developer Novalogic. That includes such storied series as Delta Force, Comanche, Joint Operations and F-22. THQ Nordic is open to talks with any developer looking to continue said series. Please.

Skyrim Remaster Makes This Massive Dragons Versus Archers Battle Possible

Cosmic Contrarian, the man behind countless ridiculous custom Fallout 4 battles, tells us that this epic encounter between 100 dragons and 1,000 archers would have been impossible to stage in the original release of Skyrim, especially at 4K resolution. Cosmic punctuated his recent birthday with the release of the first custom battle in a whole new series,…

Grandmother Who Plays Skyrim Has Made Over 300 Videos

Unsurprisingly, Skyrim: Special Edition quickly became one of the most popular games on Steam over the weekend. And given that she had already established herself as a channel for older gamers and Skyrim fans, it made sense that Shirley Curry, aka Grandma Shirley, would return to Skyrim Her 300th video highlights just how prolific the…

Guy Spends Five Years Building A Minecraft Castle

Five years ago, danrharvey wanted to “get stuck into a creative mode build” in Minecraft. Looking back on it today, he’s built something that’s not only original, but beautiful. “It was fairly aimless at first”, he says, “I just started building a castle, with tunnels beneath, then about three or four months in, during an…

Steam Runs Out of Keys For A Game, Keeps Selling It Anyway

The Splinter Cell series for PC went on sale this weekend on Steam. Every game was discounted at 75% off, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the most recent game which Kirk Hamilton called in his review a sort of “greatest hits” collection borrowing the most successful parts from each previous game. There’s only one problem. Apparently…