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When Capcom Does Persona 5, It’s Strange
Persona 5 characters and costumes look cool in, well, Persona 5. But how do they look in Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma Online? Kinda strange! Famitsu and 4Gamer report that Capcom is collaborating with Atlus to bring four P5 outfits (the Phantom Suit, the Panther Rubber, the Trickster Suit, and Trickster Rubber) to its free-to-play title Dragon’s…
By Brian Ashcraft Published September 29, 2016 -
Zapp Brannigan’s Voice Actor Reading Stupid Donald Trump Quotes [Updated]
There is nothing funny about the real Donald Trump, a raisin company mascot channelling the spirit of an internet commenter. What is funny is the voice actor behind Futurama’s Zapp Brannigan reading some of Trump’s dumbest quotes in character. UPDATE, SEP 28: Now featuring snippets from the first Presidential debate. ORIGINAL POST, AUGUST 11: Billy…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2016 -
Tribes Is Dead Again
Tribes Ascend, a 2012 game which in 2015 made a surprising comeback from the dead, is now dead once more, with developers Hi-Rez today issuing the game’s final patch to a community that’s understandably upset, if also accepting of the game’s fate. There’s a sad poetry to the fact I wrote about the game’s update…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2016 -
Harambe Lives On, In NBA 2K16
Cincinnati doesn’t have a team, so Cleveland it is. Bleacher Report likes to simulate basketball hypotheticals using the NBA 2K series, and while most of them are real and actual things/rumours, others are more fanciful. Like this, in which a dead gorilla/dead meme is used to try and match Golden State’s new superteam.
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2016 -
The first volume of the comic Steve Lichman is very good. There’s now a second volume up on Kickstarter
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2016 -
FFXIV Might Finally Solve Its Spam Bot Problem
Over the last few years, Final Fantasy XIV has suffered from a public spam problem. In every major zone, bots would flood general chat with “MONEY FOR GIL” ads, prompting players to switch their statuses to “busy.” FFXIV’s Tuesday patch made some necessary changes that allows players to more easily report real money transfer (“RMT”)…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published September 28, 2016 -
Resident Evil, Transformers Headline Playstation Plus Lineup For October
Playstation Plus users are looking at a powerhouse month for games in October. If you’ve never played Resident Evil, there’s officially no excuse for missing out on its wonderful remaster. Remember, these games might be “free” but still require an active Playstation Plus membership to download and play. Here’s the lineup for October: Playstation 4…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 28, 2016 -
Here’s the first 20 minutes of Gears of War 4‘s campaign. It’s got scripted action, roadie running, Lancers, grunting, and very detailed explosions. Looks like the Gears of yesteryear(s), but with more hardware muscle behind it. If that’s what you were hoping for, this video will probably make you pretty happy.
By Nathan Grayson Published September 28, 2016 -
Doom Bot Learns To Play Better Than Humans
Two Carnegie Mellon University students have programmed the ultimate killing machine. If you face off against their AI in Doom’s deathmatch, that is. As originally reported by NextBigFuture, this new bot (affectionately named Arnold) uses a host of complex mechanisms to play Doom better than any human possibly can. Created by Guillaume Lample and Devendra…
By Heather Alexandra Published September 28, 2016 -
Two Wild Nights In GTA Online Finally Made Me A Fan
I’m finally into Grand Theft Auto Online. It took me a while. The game launched in late 2013, though I’m not sure I could have been excited for it sooner. What’d it take? Two nights of chaos and a revelation about what Rockstar’s multiplayer game actually is. For some time I have been a GTA…
By Stephen Totilo Published September 28, 2016 -
Wasteland 3 Announced, Will Have Co-Op
Fresh off the success of Wasteland 2, developer inXile is making a direct sequel, announcing today plans to release Wasteland 3 for PC, Mac, Linux, PS4, and Xbox One. In the announcement for Wasteland 3, inXile said they’d be helping fund the game via crowdfunding on Fig, where they hope to raise $2.75 million. The…
By Jason Schreier Published September 28, 2016 -
Destiny Players Solve Ridiculously Complicated Secret Weapon Quest
Destiny, a video game in which players travel through space wondering why the hell they can’t get new artifacts, has a brand new quest that might be the most complicated thing we’ve seen in the game to date. It involves completing the new raid, finding a whole bunch of secrets, and… converting binary numbers to…
By Jason Schreier Published September 28, 2016 -
Gal*Gun Has A Panic Button, For When Mom Walks In
Gal*Gun: Double Peace, thePlayStation game about shooting your love at schoolgirls is now on Steam, and it’s even managed to crack the top-sellers list. The more people playing, the bigger chance someone gets caught in mid-play. Luckily there’s a button just for that. Available on both the PlayStation 4 and Steam versions of Inti Create’s…
By Mike Fahey Published September 28, 2016 -
Overwatch’s Zarya Translates Nicely Into Heroes Of The Storm
The great thing about bringing Overwatch characters into Heroes of the Storm is that their shooter skills are perfect for Blizzard’s MOBA. Zarya’s damage absorption and gravity manipulation skills make her a pink-haired point-and-click powerhouse. Absorbing attacks to up her own is Zarya’s thing, kind of like Bishop from the X-Men, only with a gravity…
By Mike Fahey Published September 28, 2016 -
When Lovecraft Meets Anime
This is a trailer for Force of Will, an anime adaptation of a card game (of the same name) that’ll be out in 2018. An anthology of six short films (think The Animatrix), Shuhei Morita (Possessions) is directing this Cthulu one that the trailer below focuses on, which is pretty neat. Other shorts (also based…
By Luke Plunkett Published September 28, 2016 -
Weapons Nerfed After Elite: Dangerous Players Protest With In-Game ‘Terrorism’
“This game deserves a better class of criminal,” a member of Elite: Dangerous’ player-run Smiling Dog Crew wrote in a plea for a nerf of the game’s heat weapons. “We hope to fix that with this operation,” they added, calling their plan “terrorism.” The plan’s name? Operation SpicyBois. Heat weapons were introduced as part of…
By Nathan Grayson Published September 27, 2016 -
Overwatch characters, re-imagined as off-brand Halloween costumes. Artist Nina Matsumoto has been drawing characters like Tracer, Genji, and Reaper in the grand tradition of costume manufacturers trying to get around copyright laws. Who doesn’t love characters like “Futuristic Tea Time Cop” and “Blue Balls Zen Lover”?
By Nathan Grayson Published September 27, 2016