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In Post-Game Interview, Hearthstone Player Calls For The Liberation Of Hong Kong

During the Hearthstone Grandmasters, Hong Kong player Ng “Blitzchung” Wai-chung appeared on an official Taiwanese Hearthstone stream in a gas mask and called for the liberation of his city. The gas mask was similar to that which the protesters in Hong Kong have been wearing. As our colleagues at Gizmodo report, anti-mask measurements have been…

The Best Way To Play Call Of Duty Mobile Is On A PC

Call Of Duty: Mobile was released worldwide earlier this week for Android and iOS devices. It’s a strange mix of different maps, guns, and mechanics from various Call Of Duty games from the past. It also is developed by a company that is owned by Tencent. So I decided to load up CoD: Mobile on…

‘Shop Contest: Frankie Muniz, Winners!

Last week the internet was very confused about a tweet from Malcolm In The Middle star, Frankie Muniz. He asked popular musician Lizzo if he could be her accessory, like a purse. It was weird. So I asked you, folks, to help Mr. Muniz with his request and turn him into various video game accessories,…

Every Bald Eagle Tattoo From Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ranked

I’m here to talk about something odd I discovered in the recently released Ghost Recon Breakpoint. For some reason, players have access to not one, not two, not four, but five different tattoos featuring a Bald eagle and American imagery. The new Ghost Recon game launched earlier this week. I jumped into the game and…

Someone Beat Minecraft Without Mining Any Blocks

Minecraft is a game where you sometimes mine stuff and sometimes craft stuff. But one player decided to skip the whole mining bit of Minecraft and decided to beat the game without ever mining a single block. This isn’t easy and involves a lot of scavenging, some expert bucket skills, some luck and a lot…

The Weird Fish Easter Egg Returns In Borderlands 3

The Borderlands series has always been filled with Easter eggs, references and hidden secrets. For example, you could literally find Creepers from Minecraft in Borderlands 2. But one Easter egg has popped up in every Borderlands game without fail and it involves shooting some barrels and a giant fish. And this classic secret returns in…

A Texas judge has dismissed the final defamation claims in voice actor Vic Mignogna’s lawsuit. The Dragon Ball actor was accused of sexual harassmentearlier this year and subsequently sued studio Funimation, fellow voice actors Monica Rial and Jamie Marchi, and Ronald Toye, Rial’s fiance. Funimation cut ties with Mignogna over the claims.

Sixteen professional Fortnite players have started the Fortnite Professional Players’ Association. In an announcement tweet, they say they are an “independent world-wide collective…meant to provide us a platform to voice our opinions on the future of the competitive scene of Fortnite.”

The Five Best Fishing Mini-Games

Sometimes, between fighting monsters or zombies with swords or guns or whatever, you want to kick back and enjoy a different type of challenge in a video game. Fishing mini-games bring bite-sized blasts of outdoorsmanship to our adventures, and while some players hate them, I’ve found there’s fun to be had when fishing’s done right.…

Tsuyoshi, the 9-year-old Dragon Ball FighterZ player who famously defeated his own father in a tournament match, recently shared a school report he wrote about his trip to Las Vegas to compete at Evo 2019 Check out this Twitter thread from fighting game community commentator Majin Obama for the entire adorable story.

The surprisingly good Iron Man VR game for PlayStation VR launches on February 28. The date was announced during the Marvel Games panel at New York Comic-Con. Hopefully that leaves Sony enough time to make me a limited edition red and gold PSVR bundle.

Battlefield V Finally Has A Metro Map, And I Love The Chaos

If a multiplayer shooter goes on long enough, it’ll develop a signature map. That can be the back-and-forth sniping on Team Fortress’ 2Fort, or the dual bases of Halo’s Blood Gulch. For Battlefield, it’s Metro. The tight, claustrophobic map has appeared under various names in multiple games in the series, and was just added to…

John Kirby, Former Nintendo Lawyer And Kirby’s Namesake, Dies At 79

This week, the man after whom Nintendo’s iconic pink blob Kirby was named passed away. John Kirby, who died on October 2 from a form of blood cancer, represented Nintendo in the company’s 1984 case about whether Donkey Kong violated Universal Studios’ copyright for King Kong. John Kirby helped Nintendo win that case, which is…

A Canadian law firm is requesting to pursue a class action against Fortnite developer Epic for failing to disclose the game’s addictive properties. According to the CBC, the suit is based on a Canadian suit against tobacco companies and “makes note of the World Health Organization’s 2018 decision to classify video game addiction as a disease.”

Red Dead Redemption 2 Is Coming To PCs

Red Dead Redemption 2, a game about rootin’ and tootin’, finally has a PC release date. In an announcement this morning, developer Rockstar revealed that the mega-huge cowboy game will come to PCs on November 5th. Until now, players could only experience the story of gritty outlaw Arthur Morgan on Xbox One and PlayStation 4,…

Who’s up for some Galar region Pokémon spotting? Today’s Pokémon Sword and Shield “livestream” is in full swing, with a camera set in the lush and lyrical Glimwood Tangle, ready to catch any pocket monsters that may wander into view. I’ll have it running in the background all day, slowly driving me insane. Join me!

Kaiserreich, The Mod That Changes The World

I’ve played countless mods for countless games over the years, and few have been as comprehensive or enjoyable as Kaiserreich, a reimagining of the 20th century that takes everything we know about history and politics and throws it right out the window. A long-running mod for Paradox’s Hearts of Iron series, Kaiserreich’s latest iteration (for…

EA Website Leaks Personal Details Of FIFA Players

When players—including many of the world’s best—went to sign up for the FIFA 20 Global Series earlier today and started entering their personal information, they noticed something weird. There was already information on the screen. Someone else’s information. At the point where players registering were asked to confirm their details, they were shown a screen…

Source: Departing ArenaNet Co-Founder Was Working On Potential Guild Wars Sequel

In a heartfelt message on ArenaNet’s webpage this afternoon, its president Mike O’Brien announced that after 19 years, he was leaving the company he co-founded. He noted that he’d been working on a new project at ArenaNet, but was now going to start a new studio with some friends. “The time has come for me…

Epic Hears Fortnite Players’ Concerns About Cross-Platform Matches, Is Doing It Anyway

Fortnite got skill-based matchmaking in a recent patch, a system that intends to put players of similar skill in games together. Players quickly noticed that the new matchmaking queued players up across different platforms, even though this wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes. Today, Epic addressed the issue and said that things are working as…