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Capcom Says They’ll Start Locking Out Rage Quitters in Street Fighter V 

Capcom’s finally beginning to detail a system that penalizes players who quit out of online play after losing. Oh, and Guile will be April’s DLC character. The latest update on Capcom Unity details the first steps that the publisher will be using to punish rage-quitters: We’re also happy to announce that we will be implementing…

Game Industry Veteran Writes Horrifying Article In Defense Of Poor Working Conditions [UPDATE]

This weekend on Venturebeat, game industry veteran Alex St. John published a hot new contender for worst article of the decade, arguing that today’s game developers should stop whining about nonsensical ideas like, oh, “fair wages.” St. John, who co-created DirectX for Microsoft and founded the game company WildTangent, writes that “making games is not…

BioShock director Ken Levine is working on an “interactive live-action film based on Twilight Zone,” writes Wired. Levine’s partnered with media company Interlude for the project, whose technology will “allow viewers to determine what the characters do” in the film.

Fallout: New Vegas as an Interactive YouTube Adventure

Here’s a very cool concept with a great execution by the YouTubers at Many A True Nerd. They’ve created a Choose Your Own Adventure-style series following the story of Fallout: New Vegas, but instead of turning the pages of a book, you progress by clicking through annotations at the end of each clip. The goal…

Insomniac also has some non-VR games this year. Song of the Deep, the studio’s GameStop-published underwater Metroidvania about a girl piloting a submarine to rescue her dad, now has a release date: July 12 for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Insomniac Now ‘True Believers’ In VR, Releasing Three Oculus Games In 2016

A first-person magic dueling game. A third-person, Altered Beast-style brawler. An Antarctic horror adventure. The developers at Insomniac Games, one of the most reliable console studios of the past decade, plan to release a trio of virtual reality games this year, all published by Oculus Rift and exclusive to the PC platform. “We’re very much…

God of War 4, and Why It’s Time To Kill Off Kratos

You must have heard by now. Word on the grapevine is that God of War is swapping out a loin cloth for hide trousers, sandals for boots, and the Blades of Chaos for axes, and heading north to desecrate the world of Norse mythology. It sounds like a great idea, and potentially the perfect way…

The First Pokémon Games Took So Long To Make Because of EarthBound

The first Pokémon Game Boy games Pocket Monsters Red and Green were released in 1996. But as Shigeru Miyamoto points out, they were held up. The reason? EarthBound. In a newly released video to celebrate Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, Shigeru Miyamoto talked about the franchise’s early years, working for six years testing what would become Red…

You Can Now Play Counter-Strike 1.6 On Android Phones

This is Counter-Strike 1.6 running just fine on a mobile telephone. Servers and everything. Is it the ideal way to play the game? No. But it’s a lot more practical than folks trying to get Doom running on calculators and ATMs. The touch controls look like a pain, but this being Android, it’s not going…

What A Retro Street Fighter V Would Look Like

Street Fighter V’s visuals are fine, but Street Fighter III’s? Those were perfect. So yes, let’s all take a look at the cast of Street Fighter V, redrawn as characters in Street Fighter III They’re the work of RieyTails (via Eventhubs), and while many of these are older characters, these sprites are still based off…

The Band Game Crash Saved Us From A Guitar Hero MMO

After the release of some 20 games and spin-offs between 2005 and 2010 made everybody completely sick of games with “Hero” at the end, Activisionkilled the series in 2011. Game historianLiam Robertson gives us a look at the massively multiplayer online Hero World that died with it. According to Roberton’s Unseen 64 video (via Gamasutra),…

Watch A Three-Hour Supercut Of Every Mortal Kombat Fatality Ever

Youtube’s Deathmule squeezes just a little under three hours of brutal murder from Mortal Kombat’s 24 year history, from 1992’s arcade debut to the latest update to Mortal Kombat X. Does that include Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero? Yes it does. What about the relatively tame fatalities from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe? They’re in there…

Collecting All The Stories: The Path Of Destinies Endings Is An Obsession

I’ve played through Stories: The Path of Destinies a dozen times over the past few days, and I won’t stop until I’ve explored every narrative branch of this choose your own action-adventure. The power of choice compels me. Evan covered the basics in his review of Spearhead Games’ colorful action role-playing game. My plan was…

The Perfect Way To Play Original PlayStation Games

You can keep your crisp clear emulators or your PlayStation 2 backward compatibility. The best way to enjoy original PlayStation classics is with the tiny PSone and Sony’s plucky little LCD attachment. I was cleaning one of my cable drawers the other day, pulling out the massive tangle of wires and sighing sadly before stuffing…

Proof That Commissioner Gordon Is Not An Idiot

I was waiting a long time for one little exchange between the current versions of Batman and Jim Gordon, because Gotham City’s top police officer gets to show that he’s not a complete dumb-ass. Originally published 4/14/16 From the viewpoint of the average person in Gotham, Batman’s secret identity is probably tough to figure out.…

It Took 20 Pounds Of LEGO To Make Doom‘s BFG 9000

The gloriously-namedZaziNombies YouTube channel creates LEGO versions of video game weapons, among other things. Somehow they’ve gone five years without building Doom’s famous BFG 9000. Maybe it just took them a while to gather the 5,000+ bricks. With the multiplayer beta for the latest Doom in full swing, ZaziNombies (almost as fun to type as…

New Official Transformers Album Gathers Music From The Strangest Places

On Thursday Hasbro and Sony released Transformers Roll Out, an album featuring transforming robot inspired tracks from ten very different artists, including Danish alt rock band Mew and Gavin Rossdale’s Bush. Let’s give it a listen! While it will never supplant the soundtrack to 1986’s Transformers: The Movie as the official album of fandom’s collective…

Dark Souls III PC Benchmarks: Mind The Frame Rate Cap

Dark Souls III is arguably the biggest game to launch this month and with few other major releases there probably isn’t much of an argument to be had, especially since the main competition wound up being a steaming pile (Quantum Break). As with Dark Souls II, the third iteration has made its way to PC…

Sailor Moon And The Curse Of The Candy Crush Saga

Released this week for iOS and Android, Sailor Moon Drops is everything you every wanted in a Sailor Moon game, as long as everything you wanted was a Candy Crush Saga clone. Sailor Moon holds a special place in my heart, having been one of the things my wife and I bonded over when we…

Monstress Has the Best Cat in Comics Right Now

Monstress is a comic-book series where incredibly messed-up things happen. We’re talking child slavery, lynchings and cannibalism. Thank the poets it’s also got a magical, two-tailed talking cat named Master Ren. Spoilers follow. The lead character in Monstress is a 17-year-old girl named Maika, a survivor of horrible atrocities rippling out of a long-running, cross-cultural…