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EA Sports, It’s Outside The Game

Welcome to 2016, an age in which Nike and EA Sports collaborate on an actual pair of FIFA series football boots (soccer cleats, Americans). Weirdest part is: in a world where crazy/garish boot design is now the norm in this sport, these are really good. The idea with the pixels on one side and a…

Yono is a game in the style of classic, top-down Legend of Zeldas, but also it stars an elephant. It’s got combat, puzzles, and treasure hunts, as well as “delicate cultural and political situations” among humans, zombies, and robots. It’ll be out on PC at… some point. Definitely worth keeping an eye on until then.

The New Death Star DLC Makes Star Wars Battlefront More Interesting

The new paid Death Star expansion for Star Wars Battlefront won’t significantly alter the game’s reputation as a fairly casual shooter designed for quick, chaotic fun. But it does add an interesting three-stage mode that culminates with the possible destruction of the Death Star. That new mode at least makes a session with the game…

Zelda vs Studio Ghibli: A Trailer

So, Nintendo wants to get back in the business of letting other people make movies based on their stuff. The Zelda series is obviously a prime candidate, but before anyone goes committing millions to a mute live-action film, perhaps consider an alternative: a Studio Ghibli-style animated feature. Like this. This fan-made trailer is the work…

Stunning New GTA V Mod Beset With Claim That Some Of Its Code Was Stolen

A few days ago, we covered GTA 5 Redux. It is an intense overhaul mod that rebuilds Los Santos with new textures and effects. It is the work of modder Josh Romito but now the makers of another mod are claiming it uses stolen files and code. The issue in question rests around the files…

Awesome X-Wing Miniatures Game Now Has A Campaign

The X-Wing miniatures game is very, very good. If there’s a complaint I have about it, though, it’s that there isn’t a campaign mode for more long-term play and…oh, wait, thanks to a very dedicated fan, now there is. Wonderful. First released in 2015, and created by Josh Derksen, Heroes of the Aturi Cluster is…

Rise of Iron‘s Last Story Mission Is One Of Destiny‘s Best

A small team at Bungie developed Rise of Iron in just nine months, so it shouldn’t be a surprise to hear that the main campaign is very short. What’s more of a surprise is that the final mission is one of Destiny’s best to date. Rise of Iron, like The Taken King before it, has…

Mob Psycho 100 Finally Gets Its Own Dank Meme

Mob Psycho 100 is definitively the shit. It’s true. One tablespoon psychic kid, a quarter cup charlatan exorcist, strained, pressurized and mixed by One-Punch Man creator ONE is the recipe for an irresistible manga. But when baked by Studio BONES, it’s essential sustenance for your anime diet. It’s also the perfect set of ingredients for…

The Dear Esther: Landmark Edition launched today, bringing the game to PS4 and Xbox One along with commentary and some tweaks. People who own the game on PC will receive the added content as a future free update.

Pokémon CEO Adds More Fuel To NX Console-Handheld Hybrid Speculation

Articles from reputable sources, numerous rumors and many educated guesses have all pointed to Nintendo’s next gaming machine, NX, being some sort of combo console and handheld. And now we’ve got this quote from Tsunekazu Ishihara in today’s Wall Street Journal: “The NX is trying to change the concept of what it means to be…

Mobius Final Fantasy Saved My Day

Last night sucked. The real world was a confusing pile of rotten politics and horrible tragedy. I needed to find some strength. As it turns out, it was right at my finger tips. Mobius Final Fantasy’s multiplayer let me stare down a monster and, with others by my side, fight back and win. Mobius Final…

The most recent Black Ops III DLC added more Gobblegum power-ups to the game’s Zombies mode. Here’s a snippet of a match we played with the Newtownian Negation Gobblegum activated: “Zombies killed fall straight up.” We’re still divided on whether Gobblegum is worth focusing on in Zombies. Thoughts?

Atlus Accidentally Left Unlocalized Dialogue In SMTIV: Apocalypse Because The QA Team Was ‘Too Good’

The new RPG Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse has two lines of unlocalized Japanese dialogue thanks to an oversight that occurred because the QA team played the game too well Atlus PR maestro John Hardin explains on the company website that the two lines, which occur during an endgame battle, are only triggered by very…

Body-Bending Video Game Perfect Woman Critiques Female Stereotypes

Womanhood can be a contortion act. Prospering is often a matter of stretching, compressing and jaggedly code-switching like artists’ jointed wood mannequins—the kind girls buy in middle school when a Cosmopolitan quiz augurs the life of a painter. Perfect Woman, a Kinect game released last Wednesday, is about those contortions and uses physical posturing to…

Dress Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Character Up And Do The Pikachu Dance

The latest Pokémon Sun and Moon update video shows off character customization, pet grooming and some version-specific Pokémon, but Pikachu’s Z-Move dance steals the show. You know what Yo-Kai Watch has that Pokémon didn’t? Dancing with your pet monsters. But with the super-powerful Z-Moves in Pokémon Sun and Moon, there’ll be plenty of opportunities to…

Battlefield 1 Trailer Remade With Beta Glitches

Earlier this month, we saw a remake of the Battlefield 1 trailer that was very professional. This collection of beta glitches and bugs, set to the original trailer’s score and sound effects, is anything but.

How Final Fantasy XV‘s Heroine Changed Since Last Year

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, we got a new Final Fantasy XV trailer. Just like we did last year! Know what that means? Comparisons, that’s what. Via 2ch, here is how Lunafreya Nox Fleuret stacks up in the 2015 and 2016 trailers. She’s changed considerably over the course of the game’s development, but with…

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Today in weird video game casting: Matt Walsh (Veep, The Hangover) as a very serious college basketball coach in NBA 2K17’s MyCareer mode.

Quick Thoughts On Eldritch Horror, An Appropriately Stressful Board Game

Last night a buddy and I made the possibly ill-advised decision to learn and play a game of Eldritch Horror in a single evening. Once we finally figured out how to play, we had a lot of fun. We even managed to stop the coming of Azathoth and save the world. Eldritch Horror is a…