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The Division’s ‘Dark Zone’ Is Definitely A Work In Progress [UPDATE]

The new online shooter The Division is meant to be played for months if not years. Just days after release, however, it’s drawing heated criticism for how its endgame works, and the developers are already making changes. The Division emulates the likes of Destiny and Diablo—your first time through the game is really an appetizer…

That Time The Postal Service Sued The Developers of Postal

If people remember 1997’s overhead shooter Postal for anything, it’s the controversies that always seemed to surrounded it. Postal was at the heart of a huge debate over violent video games in the 90s. The game might look quaint in 2016, but at the time, it was raising lots questions about whether the increasingly realistic…

The Surprising Success Of Xavier Woods, The WWE’s Ultimate Gamer

WWE tag team champion Xavier Woods does not fit people’s stereotypical preconceptions of what a professional wrestler is. He’s got a Master’s degree in psychology and is currently working towards earning his PhD. He’s really into comic books and cosplay. And he spends hours playing video games on the road, in hotel rooms and at…

A Real Martial Artist’s Take On Video Game Fighting Moves

Sometimes you see a cool fight scene in a game and think, “I could do that.” Let’s be honest: you probably couldn’t. But thanks to YouTube, you can at least learn about some badass moves from someone who can. Martial Gameris a YouTuber who reenacts and analyzes martial arts moves from video games. Inspired by…

Popcap’s Latest Game Is Plants Vs. Zombies Vs. Hearthstone

Popcap is taking Plants Vs. Zombies back to its roots with a new mobile strategy game, Plants. Vs. Zombies Heroes: The Lawn of a New Battle, only this time it’s turn-based and plays a lot like Hearthstone. Watch me play. Instead of gathering sunshine from the field as an ever-advancing horde of zombies closes on…

Genital Jousting Is A Multiplayer Game About Dick Penetration

And now a contender for funniest game of 2016: Genital Jousting, an experience that lets you play as a literal dick butt. I’m serious. NSFW warning, obviously. The goal is simple: get the dick into a butt. Up to 8 players can participate, and anytime penetration occurs, everybody involved gets points. Genital Jousting may be…

Rocket League players on Xbox One will soon be able to play against PC players, as well. Microsoft said it’s now possible for developers to connect with “other console and PC networks,” potentially opening up true cross-platform play. Whether Sony would play ball, however, is an open question. Contact the author at [email protected]

A Few Hours With Adrift, The Astronaut Survival Game Born From Trauma

“Everyone has done something and disappointed someone–or hurt someone–whether it’s a small thing or a big thing,” the game designer Adam Orth was telling me a couple of Fridays ago, after I played a few hours of his newest game. “And recovering from that, everyone has had that. It’s a universal truth. It’s a universal…

My PC Upgraded To Windows 10 Without Asking, Then Immediately Broke

I was on a much-needed staycation last week, a chance to recharge my batteries. What I didn’t anticipate was spending half a day trying to figure out how Windows 10 got installed on my PC and why it broke everything. I’ve been putzing around on Windows 7 for years now, dodging the Windows 8 bullet…

Even Square Enix Has Given Up On Vita In The West

This morning, Square Enix announced some new information for the western release of I Am Setsuna, the gorgeous RPG they announced last year at E3. The good news: it’ll be out this summer. The bad news: no Vita. Setsuna, which came out last month for PS4 and Vita in Japan, is a Chrono Trigger-inspired role-playing…

We’re finally getting a new Oddworld game with Oddworld: Soulstorm, which “picks up from Abe’s genesis and directly follows on from the overthrow of RuptureFarms and the liberation of his blighted workmates,” according to the press release. It’s coming in the second half of 2017. Contact the author at [email protected]

Fallout 4‘s First DLC Is Full Of Giant Robot Battles

Fallout 4‘s first downloadable content pack, Automatron, is basically post-apocalyptic Battlebots. You’ll be able to build and customize your own robots and pit them against the less friendly machines built by the nasty Mechanist—who might sound familiar to anyone who’s done the Silver Shroud sidequest (or The Superhuman Gambit in Fallout 3). The DLC will…

Custom Batmobile Is A PC Case In Disguise

No free space for seats in this mini Batmobile. It’s a PC case and every inch is needed for the motherboard, CPU, memory and cooling. Thechoozen and his friends’ entry for a Batman v Superman casemod challenge on the MSI forums was a little bit more than just a Bat-signal carved into a PC case.…

“Once Upon a Climb”, the third episode of the new King’s Quest series will alight onto Steam, PlayStation and Xbox platforms on April 26th. We dug the first episode of The Odd Gentlemen’s the revival of the classic adventure series. Contact the author at [email protected]

The next episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne miniseries will be out on March 29 for multiple platforms. Check out our thoughts on episode one here Contact the author at [email protected]

Super Metroid As a 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon

Super Metroid boss Phantoon steps into Ridley’s shoes by surprising Samus in artist Elianai dos Santos’ fan-art (via TheOmegaNerd). It’s a superb, colorful piece, in the silly style of 90s cartoons. Here’s the full pic with Ridley crawling in the background. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Not Even Unreal Engine 4 Can Tame The Fiery Depths of Death Mountain

Link first passed the Death Mountain Crater on his way to the Fire Temple in Ocarina of Time, but it was a lot more blocky and a lot less particle effect-y back then. The creator of this map is of course none other than CryZENx, whose shiny Unreal Engine 4 recreations have entertained us many…

Danganronpa 2, Spike Chunsoft’s murderous visual novel, is coming to Steam on April 18. D2: Goodbye Despair is the second game of the PSP/PS Vita series to come to PC, so you may want to check out our impressions of the first game’s port for an idea what this one might be like. There’s an…

Hey, There’s A New Frozen Synapse!

2011’s Frozen Synapse was a very good turn-based tactics game, one of the pioneers of the genre’s current Golden Age. Now we’re getting a very big sequel. While it’s retaining the core point of the original—you plan our moves in advance then watch them resolve in real-time—everything else about Frozen Synapse 2 sounds way more…

Not The Pokémon You’re Looking For

Or are they? Japanese Pokémon Centers and Amazon Japan (viaSiliconera) will begin taking preorders for stuffed pocket monsters featuring the tell-tale smile ofDitto duplication on March 26. Cutest body snatchers ever.