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An Unexpected Pocket Of Warmth And Kindness In The Division

The Division is a bleak game for the most part. There’s a nice pocket of coziness and kindness in the game, however, though it can be easy to miss. If you’re go into your base of operations and turn left, you’ll eventually find a living area that city employees and refugees have begun to spruce…

10 Famous Characters, Recreated In Fallout 4’s DLC

Players who try Automatron will be delighted to find the DLC’s has a staggering number of options for building robots. Naturally, people are taking advantage of this and recreating bots and characters that everybody knows and loves. Below, you’ll find some of the best recreations Fallout players are making right now. Bender from Futurama Claptrap…

Microsoft Releases AI Twitter Bot That Immediately Learns How To Be Racist

“Hellooooooo world!!!” wrote Microsoft’s new AI bot in its first tweet yesterday morning. By the end of the day, it had declared that Hitler did nothing wrong Tay, launched yesterday, is an artificially intelligent bot that’s designed to appeal to teens and younger 20-somethings. Its Twitter bio reads “Microsoft’s A.I. fam from the internet that’s…

Players Find the Closest Approximation to Wavedashing in Smash Bros. 4

Melee players have been complaining about Smash 4’s limited movement options for years, but now a whole new slew of techniques called “bidou” have been discovered to make Smash 4 a whole lot faster. Although I haven’t had the opportunity to test it for myself yet, players like cayiikaSmash, KidUncommon, and Tarou Tanaka have posted…

The Problem With Streaming Dark Souls 3 So Early

A Japanese game like Dark Souls 3 being released a few weeks early in its native country isn’t usually a big deal. But if you’ve looked at YouTube or Twitch, you might think Dark Souls 3 is already out in the US; there are streams of the game everywhere, and it’s rubbing some fans the…

The Internet Has Fallen In Love With Fallout 4’s ‘Sexy Codsworth’

Fallout 4’s new DLC, Automatron, lets players customize robot companions however they’d like. Some people are using this ability to make monstrous mech creations. Others, however, are finding hilarious ways to make Fallout 4 sexier. So, you know about Codsworth, your Fallout 4’s trusty robot butler, right? Normally, he looks like this. Note the thrusters,…

The Man Who Wrote Earthbound

A few weeks ago, Marcus Lindblom logged onto TwitchTV. He found someone playing Earthbound, and he watched them stream for a while. Every time they smiled in the right place or laughed at the right joke, he felt a jolt of vindication. Validation. Eighteen years later, he could finally see people enjoying his work. This…

Sunset Overdrive, Dead Space Headline Xbox’s Games With Gold For April

Xbox fans are getting one hell of a lineup next month. As with PlayStation Plus, these games aren’t exactly “free,” since you need to have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription to renew them. Xbox One owners are technically getting access to four games, as everything added to Games With Gold is backwards compatible. Here’s…

Six months after the release of SOMA, developer Frictional Games has revealed its changing up its future plans in a big way by developing two games at once. It was five years between Amnesia and SOMA. They revealed one of the games may downplay horror, but things seems in flux right now.

The Robots In Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC Have A Messed Up Story

Robobrains have been a staple of the Fallout universe for ages. Ever wonder where the brains sitting atop those mech noggins actually come from, though? Fallout 4’s first DLC, Automatron, is all about the player’s quest to stop the robotic underlings unleashed by the Mechanist (pictured above.) In the process of infiltrating the Mechanist’s lair,…

Intense Paintball Match Edited To Look Like The Division

Playing paintball and throwing smoke grenades in a snowy Canadian forest sounds like serious fun, but AlabasterSlim and his friends didn’t stop there. They dressed up as characters from The Division, added some UI elements from the game to the footage, and captured the whole thing in first-person. To contact the author of this post,…

The Definitive 80s Cartoon Intro

The 80s had quite a few cartoons with the same formulaic opening scene, where only one thing could stop the forces of evil. YouTuber Jared mixed some of these together into one big intro and, well, a fake show like this would still make sense. It’d be confusing but who wouldn’t watch a cheesy cartoon…

Dragon Ball Fans Must Always Wonder, “Why, Spain?”

In Japan, the Dragon Ball energy attack is called “Kamehameha.” In the U.S., it’s Kamehameha. In Germany, it’s Kamehameha. In Latin America, it’s Kamehameha and sounds fucking badass in Spanish. But in Spain? Heh. In Spain, “Kamehameha” is “Onda Vital.” In Dragon Ball, “Kamehameha” (かめはめ波) literally means “Turtle Devastation Wave,” while “Onda Vital” means “Vital…

NBA 2K16 Players Furious Over Deal Gone Wrong

In 2014, 2K Sports promised that if their NBA2K Twitter account ever reached one million followers that players would receive a sweet bonus. Well, that day has finally arrived, and the bonus is…not sweet. The original promise, dated May 30, 2014, was: The account ticked over one million this week, and 2K did indeed make…

Over 250,000 People Have Pirated A Leaked Copy Of The Force Awakens

If you were wondering why you’ve suddenly started seeing lots of very high quality Force Awakens gifs over the last day or so, you’ve got your answer. As TorrentFreak report, the REPLiCA pirate group have gotten hold of a Force Awakens Blu-Ray a few weeks early and uploaded HD versions of the film on torrent…

Dark Souls 3 Can Be Played Right Now On Xbox One (Using A Region Trick)

Dark Souls 3 is out in Japan, but it doesn’t arrive in the United States until April 12. If you’re an Xbox One owner, however, there’s a way to start playing it right now, so long as you’re willing to jump through a few hoops. In short, if you buy the Japanese version, you can…

Somebody Made An Entire Game About Trying To Get Into The Overwatch Beta

Overwatch finally has a release date, but the closed beta is still humming along, with frequent updates tweaking balance and adding new maps and modes. Everybody wants in. Some, uh, more than others. Darkust#6214‘s Overwatch Beta: The RPG is a surprisingly robust text game about the process of watching, waiting, and hoping beyond hope for…

Game Studios Enter Legal Battle Over The Making Of Ark: Survival Evolved

Who really designed Ark: Survival Evolved? A lawsuit, filed late last year, alleges that there’s a messy story behind the development of one of Steam’s biggest hits. The players involved are Trendy Entertainment, the company behind Dungeon Defenders, and Studio Wildcard, the start-up game dev behind Ark, which launched in Early Access last year on…

1979 Revolution: Black Friday, the ambitious long-brewing game set during Iran’s bloody regime change more than 35 years ago, finally comes out on April 5. It’ll be landing on Steam, GOG and Humble Store

Nintendo Finally Fixed Mario Maker‘s 100 Mario Challenge

I’ve been trying to beat Mario Maker’s 100 Mario Challenge on Expert ever since the game came out last September. It’s brutal. But only today was I able to pull it off, and there’s a reason for that: Nintendo’s made it easier. Starting with the most recent patch, Nintendo introduced super expert, another difficulty tier…