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The Mess That Came After Nintendo Fired An Employee

The twisting controversies about the translation of Nintendo games, harassment, and the firing of one of its employees got even messier this week. Two weeks ago,word spread through social media and sites like ours that Nintendo had fired product marketing specialist Alison Rapp, the target of a months-long campaign to initially blame her for perceived…

Player-Made Subnautica Base Is Extremely Impressive

Base-building in single-player games can be a lonely job. You deck out a massive palace only to wander its empty halls admiring your own handiwork. Personally I enjoy exploring for materials in crafting games more than building, but Early Access underwater survival game Subnautica might just change my mind. Redditor KrankenwagenKolya recently shared an album…

HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift: The Virtual Reality Comparison We Had To Make

Three weeks ago, the future arrived. A week later, the future arrived again. Two hotly anticipated virtual reality headsets came out in the space of seven days. That’s a lot of future! I’ve been using the Oculus Rift for almost a month now, and the HTC Vive for a couple of weeks. I’ve played a…

Ark: Survival Evolved Developers Settle Ugly Lawsuit 

Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard came to a settlement agreement this week with Trendy Entertainment, putting an end to an ugly legal battle that had been raging for months. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Wildcard co-founder Susan Stieglitz wrote on Twitter earlier this week that Trendy was looking for $600 million.…

New Mirror’s Edge Game Locks Some Basic Skills Behind Upgrades

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst seemed like one of those games that was never going to happen, a sequel to a beloved game that wasn’t exactly a best-selling hit. Fans who’ve been waiting for more beautiful free-running are happy that it’s coming out soon but some don’t like how it’s handling its upgrades. The original Mirror’s Edge…

Ten Hours With The Excellent New JRPG Bravely Second

Bravely Second, the appropriately titled sequel to Bravely Default, is out in North America for 3DS today. Like its predecessor, Bravely Second is a smart, lighthearted role-playing game with killer combat and enough customization to keep curious players occupied for quite some time. I’ve spent around ten hours with Bravely Second, and I like it…

Overwatch‘s Silliest New Strategy: Kill Rooms

Whether you’re an itsy bitsy baby Overwatch player or that Junkrat who keeps using his exploding tire to hunt me and only me (I WILL FIND YOUR HOME), you’ll fare about the same against a room plastered with death lasers: poorly. Popular Team Fortress 2 YouTuber Muselk has been branching out into Overwatch’s beta recently,…

Street Fighter V Mod Hits The Light Switch On All Stages

Street Fighter V might not have weather effects or time of day changes during battles, but this is something modders can fix quickly. Moddah played around with lighting and gave all the daytime stages a darker, nighttime look. Great stuff, it gives a whole new atmosphere to the locations, especially Union Station, Hillside Plaza and…

Star Wars’ Giant Medical Frigate, In LEGO Form

LEGO veteran mortesv decided to build the EF76 Nebulon-B frigate, the well-known Rebel medical ship from the Star Wars movies. It’s a 980 feet long ship, so the LEGO model had to be a giant one as well, with everything carefully revised to get the proportions and details as accurate as possible. Here’s the frigate…

Microsoft’s Caption A.I. Is Sometimes Right, Sometimes Stupid

Microsoft has launched a new CaptionBot, and the results range from impressively spot on to bwah. Simply by uploading a photo to CaptionBot, it will describe what it sees. Keep in mind, the A.I. is still learning, but damn, there’s so much it doesn’t know. It does know this guy. Good. He’s important. Amazing! It…

Hot Ryu Can Be Yours for Only $900

You know him, you love him, Hot Ryu. And now, for a mere $900, you can own a 1:3 scale version of the hunkiest version of Ryu around. The statue measure about 2.41 feet tall and 1,000 points hottie. This is the latest statue from Pop Culture Shock Toys. They do fine work, and you…

Mai Shiranui is joining the newest King of Fighters. While it might seem like Mai Shiranui’s addition to the fray is a given no-brainer, seeing as she is one of KoF’s most popular fighters, SNK actually refrained from putting her in 2009’s The King of Fighters XII release.

Yokai Watch 3 will be released in Japan on July 16. There will be two versions of the 3DS title: Yokai Watch 3 Sushi and Yokai Watch 3 Tempura.

Well Here’s A Fun New Destiny Conspiracy Theory

Just how did someone find a secret in the newest Destiny update 17 minutes after it went live? And did that same magical sleuth tease some actual news about the future of Bungie’s space treadmill? Here’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up this week on r/DestinyTheGame, my favorite subreddit and a wonderful place for…

Dying Retailer Somehow Selling “New” PlayStation 1 Relics

Dick Smith, formerly a major electronics retailer in Australia, recently decided to close every single one of its bricks-and-mortar stores. They’re selling off everything in their warehouses that can be sold, and I mean everything Up to and including these tattered, dog-eared, old-ass PS1 link cables, whose presence on a retail shelf in 2016 is…

Minecraft Sells 10,000 Copies A Day

Today in the New York Times Magazine there’s a pretty great storyabout the Minecraft phenomenon, approached deftly by Clive Thompson in a way that offers new insight into a story we’ve all heard thousands of times before. Among the revelations, for example: Minecraft sells 10,000 copies a day—10,000 a day!—which is an astronomically ridiculous number…

Facebook Shows Off How They Might Use Virtual Reality

Back in 2014, Facebook raised some eyebrows when they bought the virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion. This week at Facebook’s F8 developers conference, we got a look at some of their ideas for VR. The above video, uploaded by Marketing Land, shows Facebook chief technical officer Mike Schroepfer demonstrating some in-development ideas for…

Slitherio, YouTube’s Hottest New Game, Is More Fun Than It Has Any Right To Be

As the name implies, Slitherio is pretty much a clone of Agario. The goal is to eat dots and get bigger. Simple, really. Silly, even. And yet, I can’t stop playing it. I’ve been playing Slitherio non-stop for the past week, and I am not alone in my obsession. Right now, Slitherio is the number…

Crash Bandicoot, My Love, Come Back to Me 

“14-Year Anniversary of Crash Bandicoot Passes By Largely Unnoticed” is an Onion headline from 2010, and it’s true: Naughty Dog’s version of Sonic and Mario was an unofficial PlayStation mascot, but Crash Bandicoot didn’t achieve the iconic status of his forebears. Still, when rumors of a Bandicoot reboot circulated in February, I was pumped. My…

A Tragic Story Of Two Best Friends Who Loved Dark Souls

When Dark Souls makes adults weep into their hands, it’s usually because of the game’s brutal difficulty. But reddit user TartarusRex0707_ recently lost his best friend, and shared a touching story of their bonding over Dark Souls (Again, you can read the whole post here, if you’d like.) “My best friend and I were Dark…