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Smite Launches Its First-Ever PVE Event

Smite, Hi-Rez Studios’ deity-based MOBA, is normally all about putting the hurt on a team of opposing players. In the special Xing Tian’s Mountain mode, launched this week as part of the 201 Odyssey event, players go on an MMO-style raid encounter. Weird, but good. In Xing Tian’s Mountain, players form teams of five and…

Destiny Private Matches Are Finally Here, And They’re Really Fun

I hadn’t realized just how badly Destiny needed private competitive matches until today, when Bungie added them to the game. I also hadn’t realized how much fun I’d have going up against my friends. As of today—almost two full years after Destiny launched—it’s finally possible to put together a private match with your friends. As…

Final Fantasy X Mod Replaces Almost All Audio With Tidus’ Laugh

“My story,” says Tidus. “My ears,” I reply. Johnny Mac created what is perhaps the most diabolical Final Fantasy mod ever conceived. It replaces large portions of Final Fantasy X’s soundtrack and dialogue with Tidus’ infamously forced laugh. Here’s a video: Now try to hear the game’s main theme in your head without Tidus’ laugh.…

Star Wars Galaxies Is Dead, But These People Are Keeping It Alive

The ambitious MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies shut down servers in 2011 but the fan run servers of SWGEmu keeps an old version of the game alive. There are countless players still enjoying a game that officially died years ago. What brings people back to the galaxy far, far away after all this time? The emulated…

Overwatch just got a new patch that reduces Mercy PotGs (boooo), speeds up the payload on Eichenwalde, and corrects egregious ranking glitches. The new map can be tough on attackers, so hopefully the payload change helps. The patch also fixes some bugs and adds a new match complete screen. You can read the patch notes…

Let’s Judge The New Limited Edition Pokémon 3DS XL

Earlier today, Nintendo announced a new limited edition Pokémon Sun and Moon 3DS XL arriving next month. Is this a must-have, or is it ugly, but not ugly-ugly? We’re conflicted. Nintendo’s not been having a great run of limited edition 3DS systems lately. Partial blame can be cast at the eagerly sought-after Majora’s Mask 3DS…

YouTuber Arrested For Allegedly Intending To Have Sexual Relations With Minor

Federal investigators arrested popular YouTuber Starlit “JinBop” Zhao last month for allegedly engaging in sexually predatory behavior toward a 15-year-old female fan of his channel. The news of Zhao’s arrest first spread over the weekend through a YouTube news channel, and he remains in custody today. Zhao’s YouTube channel, popular among young teens, features him…

Koei Tecmo Takes All The Characters They Have And Drops Them Into A Dynasty Warriors Game

After tossing together several successful all-star Dynasty Warriors-type games based on other people’s properties like Dragon Quest Heroes and Hyrule Warriors, Tecmo Koei gives its own famous characters a shot a killing many things at the same time in Musuo Stars. The last time Koei Tecmo let their characters out to play in such a…

Dungeons & Dragons’ ranger class received a buff yesterday. For over a year, players have expressed dissatisfaction with rangers’ high-level play, inspiring publisher Wizards of the Coast to revise the class’s features. “Favored enemy” and terrain navigation are now more effective. Here are all of the changes, which WoTC stresses are “draft” changes and not…

Well of course there’s an Assassin’s Creed coming this fall—a compilation, called The Ezio Collection, that will include ACII, AC Brotherhood, and AC Revelations, minus the multiplayer. It’ll be out for Xbox One and PS4 on November 15.

Pokémon Red and Blue Hack Lets You Play As A Girl

Fun fact: the concept art for Pokémon Red and Blue games showcased a female character that never actually made it into the final game. Actually, gender options for the main character didn’t appear until Pokémon Crystal, in 2001. While the option is now present in modern Pokémon games (including the remakes), it’s the O.G. games…

Maybe This Is Why Dragon Quest Never Took Off In The West

I’ve always had a soft spot for Dragon Quest, a turn-based RPG series full of silly names and adorable slime monsters. In Japan, the series is a cultural phenomenon. But for some reason it’s never found the same popularity in other countries. Here’s a theory: It’s too obsessed with tradition. For three decades, Dragon Quest…

The Gleefully Stupid Alien Invasion Continues In Earth Defense Force 5

Will the Earth ever be free of the giant insect alien menace of the purposefully-schlock Earth Defense Force series? God, I hope not. D3Publisher just made Earth Defense Force 5 for the PlayStation 4 official. It has a giant frog soldier in it. A guilty pleasure to those who play it and an ugly mess…

Loading times for ReCore are indeed much shorter on a decent PC than they are on Xbox One. Just 26 seconds to respawn instead of up to two minutes. We’ve updated yesterday’s post about with results of our PC loading tests. Short version: they’re reasonable. A purchase of the game gets you access on PC…

The Galaxy’s Most Addictive Game Is Hidden In Star Trek: Timelines

In a season five episode Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Enterprise crew falls under the spell of a dangerously addictive augmented reality game. That same game lies buried within mobile game Star Trek: Timelines, an easter egg so well-hidden only one player has uncovered it, and they don’t even know it yet. Next Generation’s…

The Weird Things People Do While Playing The Witness

I’ve done some weird things whilst playing The Witness. I’ve drawn on paper, I’ve taken pictures on my phone, I stole my wife’s graph paper. At one point I swear to God I actually drew on my television. This piece originally appeared 2/24/16. So last night I put a shout out for pictures of all…

Death Stranding Has Open World And Online Elements 

Hideo Kojima hasn’t talked much about the actual gameplay in his upcoming title Death Stranding. Today in Tokyo, he shed a tiny bit of light on what to expect. According to Kojima, it’s an action game with an open world, giving the player a degree of freedom, but it also has the story elements you’d…

After a decade or so in development, hack-and-slash ninja game Nioh finally has a release date: February 9, 2017. That release date is global.

The PS Vita lives! Well, in Japan at least. On December 1, two new PS Vita colors will be released in the country.

Final Fantasy XV Gets A Special PS4 In Japan

Sony is releasing a special Final Fantasy XV-emblazoned “Luna Edition” PlayStation 4. It’s priced at 39,980 yen, comes with Final Fantasy XV, and will be out November 29 in Japan. No word yet on a Western release.