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Killer Instinct’s Season Three Saves The Most Exciting Addition For Later

New fighters, balance changes and the launch of the Windows 10 version of Killer Instinct are nice and all, but its the single-player Shadow Lords game mode coming later in the year that excites me most about Killer Instinct season three. Battletoad Rash, barbarian Tusk, former teen fighter Kim Wu and Halo’s Arbiter headline the…

The Game I Played When I Was Scared To Death of Being Deported

Amidst the pushcart vendors selling bacon-wrapped hot-dogs, religious leaders blasting damning sermons over megaphones, and the homeless wandering around the city, there is one San Francisco fixture most people don’t know about—not even the locals. It’s not a bridge or a winding street or anything like that: I’m talking about certain folk who roam San…

Chun-Li’s breast physics are now working as intended. The ridiculous bouncing glitch in Street Fighter V that lasted from beta through to launch has finally been excised in the latest patch. Eurogamer has a video of her newly-repaired chest in inaction.

The New Tomb Raider DLC Looks Like an Homage to Resident Evil 4

So far, Lara Croft has battled mercenaries, wild animals and ancient mystical warriors in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Today, she starts fighting against enemies that used to be human but are now more like feral animals. The Cold Darkness Awakened add-on comes to Rise of the Tomb Raider today, bringing with it bipedal humanoids…

Black Desert‘s Getting An Expansion Less Than A Month After Launch

And I thought Blade & Soul was fast with the updates. Massively multiplayer role-playing game Black Desert Online officially launched in North America and Europe on March 3. Its first expansion arrives tomorrow. The Mediah Expansion, available tomorrow free for all players in North America and Europe, increases the size of Black Desert Online’s world…

Running Around With LEGO Superpowers Would Be Pretty Inconvenient

In an era when LEGO is a better investment than gold or company shares, a superpower that can transform matter into LEGO bricks sound fun. Corridor Digital brought the idea to life in their latest clip. After the initial fun, it would be the story of King Midas all over again, who wanted to turn…

Fans Create StarCraft-Themed Magic: The Gathering Decks

Using Magic: the Gathering and its rules as base, efofecks and his friends made some pretty cool decks based on the StarCraft universe. Their fan-made project consists of three 60-card decks (Terran, Zerg and Protoss, obviously) and it’s meant to be played 1v1 with two different decks. The set has been heavily playtested so that…

On March 31, Nintendo is launching a new webshop for their downloadable games over at Nintendo.com The store, accessible to Nintendo Account holders on both mobile and PC, will display current sales and let you search the catalogue by genre, popularity, or release date, with purchases sent directly to your console.

Miitomo Hits the U.S. This Thursday 

Nintendo’s first social app for smart devices, Miitomo, will be released in North America on March 31. Users need to sign up for a Nintendo Account at Miitomo.com before March 31 to get an email letting them know the Miitomo app is available for download. Those who preregister also receive Platinum Points for the My…

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Valve Found Guilty Of Breaching Australian Consumer Law

After an 18-month back and forth with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian Federal Court has finally ruled that Valve was in breach of Australian Consumer Law. The ACCC’s major issue with Valve was its lack of a refund policy, which ran contrary to Australian Consumer law. Valve has since implemented its…

Blizzard Removing Overwatch Butt Pose After Fan Complaint [UPDATE]

Today’s big Internet controversy involves butts, as these things so often do. An Overwatch player complained about one character’s butt-centric victory pose, prompting the game’s director to say they’re removing it. When Overwatch’s closed beta returned earlier this year, Blizzard added skins, emotes, and poses for characters. Among other things, fast-talking, faster-walking time travel demoness…

Google DeepMind Is Now Analysing Magic And Hearthstone Cards

With retro games and Go well-conquered, where is an artificial intelligence like Google DeepMind meant to turn next? Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone, obviously. Before you get too excited (or maybe insanely depressed as you imagine a toaster holding aloft the Magic World Championship trophy on its ejection lever), there are no plans to set…

Mods Keep Skyrim Looking Shit Hot In 2016

iriarshamposted these screenshots over the weekend, to remind us all that despite its advancing years and creaking engine, Skyrim—with help from fans—continues to look absolutely stunning. A massive part of that has to do with the mods he’s got running, of course (includinga trioof ENBeffects), but then would people bother—or would the results be as…

Giant Bomb’s all-day VR livestream is going to some dark places.

VR Game At A Glance: Leaping And Bounding Through Lucky’s Tale

If you dropped $600 on an Oculus Rift, you’ll get a copy of Lucky’s Tale along with the headset. It’s basically Oculus’s shot at making their own Super Mario 64, and while it doesn’t quite hit those rarified heights, it is pretty cute. Here’s a video of me playing through the game’s first level: What…

We’re Getting Dangerously Close To Photo-Realistic Video Game Landscapes

What you’re seeing here is a process known as “scanning”, or “photogrammetry”. It’s not new, having already been used to generate the landscapes in games like Star Wars: Battlefront, but as you’ll see, as the technology involved (and the skill of artists) advances, so too do the results. Just look at this. That’s not video,…

Tyranny Emerged From The Game That Nearly Sank Obsidian

Once upon a time, Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian was working on a major Xbox One RPG called Stormlands. Then it got canceled, and Obsidian had to lay off 30 people, a large portion of a relatively small staff. Turns out, Tyranny, Obsidian’s new RPG in which evil has already won,…

It Took Time To Get Over Paragon Not Being A Shooter

Paragon looks like a shooter. The characters, the map, the weapons, all designed by a company known for its shooters. But it’s not a shooter, and getting over that fact was my biggest hurdle in beginning to enjoy Epic Games’ latest. Somewhere between traditional MOBAs like League of Legends and the latest craze, character-based objective…

Bunker Punks Is A Cool Steam Early Access Game You Should Try

Bunker Punks is a roguelike first person shooter by Shane Neville’s one-person studio, Ninja Robot Dinosaur. That’s a bunch of cool words all crammed together. Which is appropriate, because Bunker Punks is crammed with a bunch of cool stuff. William Gibson-esque future where you make runs on corporations gone wild? Check. Randomized pixel art levels…