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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”?

Playing Pinball With Marvel Comics’ Women Of Power

Today the pinball wizards at Zen Studios released a pair of new digital tables featuring just about every major female superhero in Marvel Comics’ current continuity. Yes, that includes Squirrel Girl. Yes, I wanted to headline this post SQUIRREL GIRL in all caps. While I show restraint in writing about the new A-Force and Champions…

New Hitman Level Snarks About Donald Trump

Hitman released its fifth episode today, dropping Agent 47 in Colorado to infiltrate a farm compound turned militia training facility. This game has some amazing NPC dialog. But what do these NPCs think about the US presidential election? Hidden in the compound, one militia man talks about a presidential candidate with a “famous hairdo.” The…

Mankind Divided‘s System Rift DLC Is Surprisingly Full Of Character

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s latest DLC, System Rift, has shady corporate dealings, Illuminati conspiracies (and characters saying “Illuminati” with a straight face), and Adam Jensen answering video calls shirtless. But unlike the campaign, where characters have all the affect of conveniently-placed crates, System Rift is full of moments of unexpected personality. The DLC is a…

Sources: Destiny 2 Coming To PC, Aims To Feel Like A Totally New Game

Destiny 2, the currently unannounced 2017 sequel to Destiny, is coming to PC in addition to Xbox One and PS4, according to several sources. The first game was exclusive to consoles, much to the dismay of Destiny fans with beefy computers. We also hear that Bungie aims to make Destiny 2 feel like an entirely…

Figma Makes Good-Looking Twilight Princess Toys

Normally I’d pick fancy dress-wearing Zelda fover plain old green elf any day, but the DX version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ Link, packed with everything from the Ball and Chain to the Hawkeye mask is making it hard to decide. Up for preorder today through October 27 at the Good Smile Shop…

Ubisoft Buys Ketchapp, The Studio Behind Mobile Clone 2048 And Other Games

Mobile game publisher Ketchapp is an absolute force on the App Store. Since 2014, they’ve released a salvo of arcade-y hits like 2048, ZigZag, Stack, Stick Hero, Twist, and Jelly Jump. However, they’ve also been accused of cloning games on a handful of occasions. Ubisoft shelled out for Ketchapp to gain a stronger foothold in…

Ubisoft is one step closer to releasing October’s sweeping 1.4 patch for the promising but faltering The Division For now, PC players can try it on a public test server. Read the lengthy patch notes for the PC PTS version. Or just download it and play (here’s how). Better loot drops in the Underground? Huzzah!

Winston has one cool trick for protecting his team against Dva’s exploding mech. In a feat of extraordinary bravery, /u/VaporTsunami discovered that Winston’s barrier can contain the blast.

Super Mario 64 Fan Is So Hardcore, He Made A Nine Minute Video On Blinking

You might be familiar with Scott “pannenkoek2012″ Buchanan from his work on the A Button challenge and the meme-tastic “Watch For Rolling Rocks” video. He’s a master of Super Mario 64 minutiae. His latest project? Figuring out how characters blink their eyes in the game. Buchanan’s latest video is an incredibly intense look into how…

Celebrated slash-and-dash indie Hyper Light Drifter just added a Boss Rush and Newcomer mode, as well as a frame rate boost. Originally criticizedfor being too difficult, HLD is now offering modes for every level of play on PC.

New Hacking MUD Encourages Players To Screw Each Other Over

It’s 2016 and I’m addicted to a text-based game whose fuel is foul play. Hackmud’s only setting is a terminal; its only gameplay, writing scripts. It’s a cyberpunk multi-user domain (MUD) in the ‘80s style, an MMORPG, in which you are role-playing a hacker. Hackmud’s simple pretense, as the game unravels, feels tremendous with possibility.…

New Trailer Hypes Battlefield 1‘s Campaign

Battlefield games are known for their multiplayer mode, but EA is trying to get fans invested in the campaign for Battlefield 1, too. Battlefield 1 single player’s first trailer, which landed today, is shot like a movie, with gripping, emotional scenes inspired by WWI. Battlefield 1’s single-player campaign slated for release on October 21st for…

Steam Top Seller With ‘Sexy’ Protagonist Has Terrible Breast Physics

Haydee is a hardcore puzzle platformer that’s currently tearing up the Steam charts. It also doesn’t know how breasts work. I’ve played about thirty minutes of the game, during which I struggled with the controls and subsequently died many times, either because I didn’t know what to do or where to go. According to the…

Perhaps the most notorious Super Smash Bros. combo in history—the “Wombo Combo”—has earned itself a mini-doc. The story of how one NorCal rivalry spawned the mythical team Melee combo (which earned 11 million YouTube hits) is at once light-hearted and ruthless.

20 Minutes Of Paper Mario: Color Splash, Which Sure Is Pretty

Prediction: below this article there will be comments lamenting that the new Wii U Paper Mario game isn’t really a role-playing game. Someone will complain that it is similar to Paper Mario Sticker Star. Someone else will lament that it is not very similar to Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. These are sure things…

N64 Emulator Pops Up On Xbox One, Gets Removed

A Nintendo 64 emulator was briefly available on Xbox One earlier this week, but Microsoft yanked it from the store today. Sad news for people who yearn to play Paper Mario on an Xbox. The emulator Win64e10, which has been a Universal Windows App for months now, popped up Sunday on the Xbox One. Microsoft’s…

XCOM 2 is out on PS4 and Xbox One today. While we can’t vouch for how it handles on consoles, we enjoyed it a lot on PC

Destiny Players Find Way To Skip A Third Of The New Raid

In the two years since it launched, Destiny’s greatest tradition has been this: Players will always, always, always find a way to break things. Sometimes this involves hiding on a chandelier; other times it involves pulling LAN cables. And occasionally it means just walking around whatever’s in your way. This new exploit, discovered by Destiny…

Forza Horizon 3 Is A Good Upgrade

Forza Horizon 3 is classified as a racing game, only really it’s not. It’s an open-world adventure game of the (mostly) four-wheeled variety, with a focus on celebrating everything exciting about cars and driving—even racing. This piece originally ran 9/20/16. We’ve added video impressions from the PC version at the bottom. Playground Games’ open-world spin-off…