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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.…

It’s Dash Vs. The Shadowbolts In Chapter One Of The Guardians Of Harmony Comic Book

The somewhat more action-oriented My Little Pony: Guardians of Harmory line launches this fall, and it’s getting a matching comic book series from IDW later this year. We’ve got the first chapter of the first issue, in which Rainbow Dash meets up with some old illusionary enemies. The Guardians of Harmony line,revealed at Toy Fair…

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Looks Like Steam’s Store Is Getting An Overhaul

Steam developers were given a heads-up over the weekend that Valve’s online marketplace is about to be getting some much-needed changes to the way it displays games and new content. While the post on Steam itself is private and restricted only to developers, NeoGAF user Nzyme32 has shared its contents on the messageboard, and they…

Remembering The Brutality Of Meridian 59 On Its 20th Anniversary

Before the recent wave of excitement around new virtual reality technology convinced everyone that the future was inside of a headset, people longing to escape the constraints of their everyday lives invested their hopes and dreams in ugly looking worlds housed on distant computer servers. Massively multiplayer online games offered a meaningful substitute to the…

Perfect Rocket League Save Gets Denied By The Plunger

Ever since Psyonix introduced Rumble mode into Rocket League, the nonsense has been taken up a notch. Every few seconds, random power-ups spawn on the field of play giving each car a different special ability for a limited amount of time. For most people, the results are a mess. Regular Rocket League can get sloppy…

Race Into The Wilderness With Dog Sled Saga 

In a genre dominated by games about building cities or tending farms, Dog Sled Saga is a refreshing fusion of unlikely ideas and personal details. In developer Trichotomy’s game, the bustling metropolises are replaced with wintery cabins and side-scrolling tundras. Instead of harvesting crops, you train and nurture snow pups. There are no spreadsheets of…

Destiny’s New Raid Shows What Bungie Can Do By Ditching Last-Gen

Since Destiny launched in 2014, we’ve wondered what the game might look like if it didn’t have to run on PS3/Xbox 360 as well as PS4 and Xbox One. The new Wrath of the Machine raid, which is part of the current-gen only Rise of Iron expansion, gives a pretty good idea. If you want…

Sunless Sea is getting a sequel called Sunless Skies with a Kickstarter for the game launching sometime in February 2017. That’s according to an announcement made by Failbetter Games during an interview at EGX. The game is inspired by C.S. Lewis and Event Horizon, and is currently in pre-production.

Bayonetta Player Humiliates Opponent In Japanese Smash Bros. Tournament

Hiro didn’t win the Shulla-bra VIII Smash 4 tournament in Japan earlier this morning. That honor went to Shuton who, playing as Olimar, was able to come back from an initial loss to convincingly triumph in the grand finals. Hiro did, however, get the consolation prize of completely disrespecting the tournament’s third-place finisher, Chanshu. There…

Destiny Group Beats New Raid With Only Three People

Destiny’s latest raid, Wrath of the Machine, went live yesterday at 1:00PM EST as part of the game’s Rise of Iron expansion. Two hours later, Clan Redeem had already beaten it Now, less than 24 hours after it launched, one group was able to beat the raid with only three people. xDom, Epicookiez, and sc…

There’s a flash sale going on over at the U.S. PlayStation Store for up to 80% off games based around the theme of animation. You can go get some really great games like Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, Day of the Tentacle Remastered, and Mega Man Legends at a huge discount. The sale will go until…

Street Fighter V Update Pulled Because It Made PCs Vulnerable To Malware

Thursday night’s Street Fighter V update added stage KOs, among other things, like Express Men’s bad-ass, Urien, and a little thing called Versus CPU mode. The update also installed some more shocking, however: a rootkit for PC versions of the game. As The Register reported late yesterday, A fresh update for Capcom’s Street Fighter V…

Palmer Luckey Comments On His Political Involvement, Says He’s Voting Libertarian

As Kotaku noted this week, The Daily Beast reported that Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has been “secretly funding” Nimble America, which it called “an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to ‘shitposting.’” Tonight, Palmer has commented on Facebook about his involvement. Here is Palmer’s statement in full: The original article stated, “The 24-year-old told The…

Overwatch Test Patch Adds Tons Of New Voice Lines

Yesterday, Overwatch’s public test server got an update that added new spectator options and tweaked the balance of Ana, Widowmaker, and Junkrat in ways that may or may not make it into the regular game. But that’s not all. Overwatch players have spent the past 24 hours digging up heaps of new voice lines for…

Star Citizen‘s First-Person View Is Based On Birds

Star Citizen’s first-person view isn’t like other games, where you’re essentially in control of a floating camera. That approach is tried and true, but not wholly realistic. In the preposterously ambitious space game, your view and your body are one-in-the-same, just like in a real human body. Problem: turns out, human bodies have a lot…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: One Last Dance

I’d originally planned to run our World of Warcraft: Legion review today, but due to circumstances firmly under my control, it’s now going to run Monday morning. The fact that I’m still playing the game every night probably didn’t help. Yes, three weeks and change later, I’m still pretty heavily invested in World of Warcraft’s…

VR Developers Speak Out About Oculus Founder’s Support Of Trump Trolls [UPDATE]

Following last night’s newsthat Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is helping fund a troll army of Trump supporters, several VR developers have decided to pull Oculus support for their titles. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30 PM: Palmer Luckey posted a statement to Facebook in which he claimed he’s not a Trump supporter and instead plans to vote…

Destiny Team Beats Rise of Iron‘s Raid In Two Hours

Clan Redeem is the world’s first Destiny team to complete the new Rise of Iron raid, Wrath of the Machine. The raid launched at 1pm Eastern, and they completed it a bit past 3pm. Nice work, Clan Redeem.

Twelve Of The Best Gaming Episodes In Cartoons

The worlds of gaming and animation have been living in harmony for over 30 years. There have been plenty of shows based on gaming’s greatest icons and plenty of games based on classic cartoon characters. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. This post originally appeared 9/7/15. Animated programs that were modeled after specific games…