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That Time Donald Trump Fired Fake PlayStation Employees In An Xbox Skit

Ah, 2004. It was a simpler time—a time of MySpace and Xanga, a time of American Idol and 7th Heaven. In games, 2004 was the year of World of Warcraft and Half-Life 2. George Bush defeated John Kerry. It was also the year Donald Trump appeared in an Xbox E3 ad spoofing The Apprentice and…

Lego Dimensions Year Two Starts Now

After four months of not having to buy anything, Lego Dimensions players suddenly have a whole new wave of friends to add to their collection. The new Ghostbusters, Adventure Time, Mission Impossible, The A-Team and Harry Potter make their Dimensions debut today. The 2016 Ghostbusters movie scores the game’s first Story Pack, a $49.99 box…

At Least You Didn’t Watch The First Trump-Clinton Debate In VR

The virtual reality “watch party” for the first Trump-Clinton debate was a bust. It was presented by VR hangout app Altspace and NBC News, and just amounted to glorified Second Life, basically. Avatars of people from around the world watching a flat video stream. Not a great experience. I captured the video above while watching…

Game Developer Finds Where Pirates Are Downloading Their Game, Leaves Thank You Note

It’s like somebody always says, probably: If you can’t beat ‘em, convince them to join you. We’ve got a new entry in the increasingly lengthy saga of clever developers realizing that, shit, piracy is never gonna go away, so we’ll make the best of it, I guess. Upon discovering a few pirated versions of their…

You Should Read Head Lopper

On October 5, the first volume of a comic called Head Lopper will be released. If you missed its 2015-16 run, and have any interest whatsoever in cool and interesting things, I suggest you check it out. Set in a fantasy world, the comic is about a big ol’ swordsman nicknamed Head Lopper, who carries…

2K and EA have got it all wrong. The future isn’t in simulations of actual basketball games. It’s in games based on basketball players. Like RPGs. Or, as we see here, platformers.

Stan Bush Creates A Brand-New ’80s Anthem For Shadow Warrior 2

How does one craft a new anthem for a decade some 30 years past? I have no idea, but Stan Bush has done it. The man behind “The Touch” contributed a new track to a special limited edition Shadow Warrior 2 vinyl EP, and it’s so inspirational ‘80s rock it feels awesome. According to Stan,…

Destiny‘s New Raid Has A Chest No One Can Open Yet

With every new Destiny raid comes all sorts of potential new secrets, and Wrath of the Machine, which launched last week alongside Rise of the Iron, follows the trend. Over the past few days, the raid has inspired countless Reddit threads about what might be hidden in the depths of the Cosmodrome. One thing that…

Banned From Twitch, ‘Bikini Streamer’ Finds Success (And Haters) On YouTube

Zoie Burgher knows exactly what you see when you tune into her Call of Duty streams. She knows that viewers judge her and people assume the worst because of how she presents herself. Burgher is currently blowing up on YouTube anyway, thanks to a recent ban on Twitch. Twitch, a popular livestreaming service, has rules…

That’s a lot of D.Va. Blizzard recently gave Overwatch’s D.Va an in-game stream overlay for her sitting emote, which GraphicFeedback recreated for their friend, streamer Hanaday. The result? D.Va streaming D.Va, who is, in turn, also streaming. Perhaps we’re all being streamed by larger, realer versions of ourselves. A chilling thought.

20 Years Later, The N64 Still Amazes Me

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Nintendo 64 in North America. A chiefly innovative console as games made the jump between 2-D and 3-D, the Nintendo 64’s release was one of the most important gaming moments of all time. The Nintendo 64 was originally released on June 23, 1996 in Japan before seeing a…

New WWE Star’s Ring Entrance Is Straight Out Of A Video Game

It looks like WWE cruiserweight champion TJ Perkins is going to give Xavier Woods a challenge for the title of top video-game-crazy pro wrestler. Woods may have a popular YouTube gaming show, but Perkins now has a killer gaming-themed ring entrance. Perkins’ new entrance was part of Sunday night’s Clash of Champions WWE special. Note…

Lil B Talks About Dragon Ball Z

Rap and anime are like salt and caramel—not an intuitive match, but a delightful one. Most referenced among rap superstars like Lupe Fiasco, Soulja Boy and RZA is the classic ‘90s staple Dragon Ball Z, your childhood five o’clock Toonami fixture. “Bitch, I look like Goku”: Soulja Boy “I push ki likeDragon Ball Z”: Lupe…

The Last NBA Player From The 16-Bit Era Has Retired

Kevin Garnett’s retirement from the NBA on the weekend was a sad day for Timberwolves fans, but it’s also a big deal for sports video game trivia nerds, because with KG out of the game there is no longer a link between the 16-bit era and the modern NBA. Having jumped straight out of high…

Indie Game Devs Move Studio To Tropical Island For Three Months

Broforce developer Free Lives Games have stolen away to a tropical island refuge along with other developers for three months. The entire experience is being documented in a series called Game Jam Island The team has moved out to a house on Mauritius, splitting their time between hunching over at their work stations and spreading…

A Look At How Zelda Dungeons Are Designed

Zelda dungeons are, as a general rule, extraordinarily well-designed. Everyone knows that. What you might not know is just why they’re so well-designed. For a few months now, critic Mark Brown has been putting out a great YouTube series called Boss Keys. In it, he digs into Zelda dungeons and tries to figure out what…

Final Fantasy XIV’s Patch 3.4 drops tomorrow with a bouquet of new features, including fresh PvP options, the dungeon Xelphatol and apartments. What really looks exciting is “Wondrous Tails,” which prompts players to inscribe their “heroic feats” into a journal in exchange for rewards. Check out Patch 3.4’s full rundown here.

Sundered Is Hand-Drawn Lovecraftian Horror From the Makers Of Jotun

Following up on the success of Norse mythology action RPG Jotun, Thunder Lotus Games goes back to the drawing board with Sundered, a replayable Metroidvania heavily inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. The hand-drawn art that drew so many eyes to Jotun returns, only what we’re seeing in the first trailer and screens posted…

If abandoned ‘90s Angelfire sites met a Tamagotchi inside surrealist PlayStation title LSD, it would look like upcoming game Hypnospace Outlaw In the PC, Mac and Linux title, currently raising funds on Kickstarter, you are an internet police officer “cruising the Hypnospace Highway.” Its developer, Jay Tholen, also made Dropsy, in which you are a…

The Horrible World Of Video Game Crunch

In February of 2011, fresh off nine months of 80-hour work weeks, Jessica Chavez took a pair of scissors to her hair. She’d been working so hard on a video game—14 hours a day, six days a week—that she hadn’t even had a spare hour to go to the barber. This piece originally appeared 5/15/15.…