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Riot has revealed the new logo for League of Legends (pictured). The game will celebrate its 10th anniversary on October 15 and, according to Riot, sees about 8 million concurrent players every day. That’s a lot!

Dinosaur Polo Club, the guys behind the excellent Mini Metro, are back with Mini Motorways, which is basically the same deal, only now you’re building roads. It’s on Apple Arcade on September 19, but is also coming to PC next year.

Did You Know Mickey Mouse And Donald Duck Parodies Almost Appeared In Shin Megami Tensei?

Before the arrival of Kingdom Hearts in 2002, it seemed impossible to imagine Disney characters appearing alongside original characters in a Japanese role-playing game. But it apparently came close to happening back in 1992, almost 10 years before the world was introduced to Sora and company. As some longtime fans may already know, two unused…

The latest documentary from fighting game community storytellers Hold Back to Block chronicles the creation of Them’s Fighting Herds, a fighter that started as a My Little Pony fan game before aHasbro cease and desist took it in a new and different direction. It’s one of my favorite fan game stories ever. 

For the first time in 17 years, a totally new Angelique love sim has been announced. According to Koei Tecmo, the game will have a new illustrator and is headed to the Switch in 2020. No word yet about an international release. As ANN points out, the game originally launched in 1994 as “the world’s…

UFC Fighter Plays Smash While His Tesla Drives Itself

Tesla cars have an “Autopilot” feature where the car can, on a long straight drive like a highway, take care of some stuff like lane changes and cruise control. The driver is supposed to still be paying attention, but some people—like UFC fighter Kevin Lee—haven’t got time for that. Lee posted a video of himself…

Detective: City of Angels is a board game inspired by LA Noire. I’m in the middle of my review of it right now, actually, but there’s already a Kickstarter for the game’s second expansion, which adds more expert cases to the game. 

Steam’s Big Discovery Update Is Hurting Some Indie Developers’ Games

Last week, Valvereleased an update as part of a recent push to make it easier for users to find new, under-the-radar games. The update purported to decrease the presence of popular games in Steam’s recommendation algorithms, increase overall variety, and give people a more personalized selection of games. However, the update appears to have produced…

Chris and Riley are streaming the early access roguelike Noita over on our Twitch channel. Join us in the chat and subscribe to us for more streams as they happen.

Gwent’s next expansion, Iron Judgment, arrives October 2. It brings back the armor mechanic and will add over 80 new cards

Sega has slipped a new Sonic the Hedgehog hoverboard racer into its latest Olympic Games game. It’s one of three “Dream” events in Novermber’s Switch exclusive Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, along with third-person shooting and something called “Dream Karate”. 

Over the two business days and the two public days, here’s the total attendance tally for this year’s Tokyo Game Show: 262,076 people. That’s down from the 298,690 people who attended last year but more than the 254,311 people who attended in 2017.

Starting September 20, sixteen Slowpoke themed manholes will be installed at locations across Kagawa Prefecture. This is just one of several spots where Pokémon-manholes can be spotted in Japan 

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Classic Everquest Server Is Going To Party Like It’s 1999-2001

To celebrate the effort’s 10th anniversary—and, somehow, the 20th anniversary of the release of the original game—some very passionate Everquest fans have revealed ambitious plans that are aimed at letting players go through the game’s release journey (including expansions) all over again. The team behind Project 1999, already running a server recreating the vanilla Everquest…

Some Of The Best Games Hidden Inside Other Games

Sometimes when I’m playing a game and it ain’t great or I’m bored, I’ll wish I was playing something else. That usually means exiting the game and loading up a new video game. But there are some devs that have kindly tossed in a whole different game inside another game, letting players take a break…

All The Wonderful Food I Found In Gears 5

When you think of Gears of War, you probably have images of big dudes with chainsaw guns fighting giant creatures and monsters. And that is a part of Gears 5, for sure, but another thing you can find in the latest Gears of War game is not as violent or loud. Hidden throughout Gears 5…

Other Things You Could Buy With The $2.875 Million It Costs To Get The Newest GTA Online Car

Grand Theft Auto Online’s newest car was added this week and it is the most expensive standard supercar in the game. (Technically the Scramjet and Vigilante are more expensive, but those are weird special vehicles.) According to some players, the Kriger, which costs $2.875 million is fast and fun to drive. But is it really…

Someone Built A Working Plane In Minecraft And It Looks Terrifying

Over on the Minecraft subreddit, MrCatFace8885 has created a rather impressive and scary looking plane. Using Redstone, slime blocks and pistons, MrCatFace8885 was able to build a working plane in Minecraft without special mods. Though I’m not sure I would actually want to fly in this loud, convulsing contraption. According to MrCatFace8885, they built this…

Nobody Knows What’s Up With Tomb Raider‘s Eighth DLC

Back in April, players of the most recent Tomb Raider noticed something surprising. An in-game menu that was being used to list new downloadable tomb levels suddenly listed an eighth slot. The game’s publisher had only ever promised seven. At the time, there was still one more of the game’s seven announced bonus tombs to…