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The same guys behindthose cute little Dungeons & Dragons dogs are now running a Kickstarter for modular tabletop scenery, which lets you snap together fantasy and sci-fi environments for your adventures. I’ve messed around with a prototype set and its ridiculously easy/cool to use.
By Luke Plunkett Published August 13, 2019 -
Bungie has a Destiny testing team called Velveeta that tries to find the cheesiest exploits in the game. That’s one of the revelations inDestiny frontman Luke Smith’s latest blog post, part one of a three-part epic looking at the state of the game since Forsaken launched last September. The biggest news? That clunky Pursuits tab…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2019 -
Hundreds Of Players Trying To Cheat At Apex Legends And Counter-Strike Get Their Private Data Stolen
Since February, a number of ne’er-do-well Apex Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players hoping to download cheats have in fact been infecting their computers with credential-stealing malware, security firm Sophos discovered. First-person shooter fans hoping to get an edge over their opponents had their personal and financial information siphoned off and sold for months, according to…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published August 13, 2019 -
Final Fantasy VIII Remaster Addresses A Classic Meme
Later this year, Square Enix will put out a graphical remaster of Final Fantasy VIII for modern consoles. You may be pleased to learn that, thanks to its new high-def character models, this remaster will ruin a classic Final Fantasy meme. It’s hard to tell who came up with this one, but it’s at least…
By Jason Schreier Published August 13, 2019 -
It’s Not Looking Good For Hasbro’s $4.6 Million Transformer Crowdfunding Campaign
In mid-July, Hasbro launched a crowdfunding campaign seeking $575 from 8,000 backers each to produce a two-foot-tall action figure of Transformers: The Movie villain Unicron. With the August 31 deadline rapidly approaching and less than a third of the campaign goal reached, things are looking grim for the planet eater. HasLab is a crowdfunding platform…
By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2019 -
11 bit studios’ chilly survival city-builder Frostpunk arrives on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in October. The digital version of the port will release on October 11 for $29.99, with a $34.99 physical version of the port from Merge Games coming to North America October 24. Port, port, port.
By Mike Fahey Published August 13, 2019 -
Shaved Mario Is Making Me Feel Strange
Here is a very simple, but very effective mod for Super Mario Odyssey that shaves Mario’s moustache for the entirety of the game. Cutscenes, gameplay, everything. It’s gross and I hate it. And yet…I also cannot stop looking at it. At how young it makes him look. Like this is the Young Super Mario Chronicles.…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2019 -
Everyone’s DayZ Is Being Edited Because Of Australia
Last week, zombie shooter DayZ—which has been out in various forms for six years—had first its physical release banned in Australia, and then its digital version as well. In order to get the game cleared, Bohemia Interactive are changing every version across the planet just to comply with Australia’s classification guidelines. Since it’s impractical to…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2019 -
The Division 2 Devs Remove New Mode Weeks After Launch To Make It Better
Adding stuff to a game months after release? That’s usually good news. Removing it a few weeks later? That tends to not go over as well. Members of The Division 2’s community have been expressing confusion and aggravation since late last week following confirmation that the game’s Expedition area, which was released just last month,…
By Stephen Totilo Published August 12, 2019 -
Mario 64 Expert Climbs One Of The Game’s Trickiest Levels Without Jumping
Scott “pannenkoek2012″ Buchanan is a Super Mario 64 expert known best for achieving memetic status thanks to a complex trick that involved “parallel universes” to complete. Buchanan is a master of the “A press challenge,” which involves clearing levels without jumping. He’s back at it again with a new, spellbinding way to climb to the…
By Heather Alexandra Published August 12, 2019 -
I (Tim Rogers) got one of those new 8bitdo SN30 Pro+ controllers. I’m really excited about it, so I’m live-streaming my first impressions of it by testing it with a battery of Switch games (starting with Super Mario Maker 2). Finally! A stream that shows you what it’s like for me to play video games…
By Tim Rogers Published August 12, 2019 -
An improved version of System Shock 2 is in the works. Nightdive Studios, which is currently working on remastering the first System Shock, announced it’s also working on System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition during a Twitch stream last night celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary
By Ethan Gach Published August 12, 2019 -
Man Threatens Square Enix With A Kyoto Animation Repeat, Gets Arrested
Forty-year-old Kenichi Hiratsuka has been arrested after allegedly sending a threatening message to Square Enix. Fuji Network News reports that the message was sent via Square Enix’s inquiry page. “Gimme my money back for your shitty game,” read the message. “Want me to do a repeat of Kyoto Animation?” In July, a suspected arsonist allegedly…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 12, 2019 -
Fortnite’s Teenage World Champ Swatted Live On Stream
Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, the newly-crowned 16 year-old Fortnite World Cup solo champion, was playing the game in a stream last night when his home was “swatted” Because he streaming live on Twitch, we’ve got video recorded at the time the cops arrive, and in the middle of a game we can hear as he’s interrupted…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 12, 2019 -
Ninja Understandably Upset That His Old Twitch Channel Was Promoting A Porn Stream [Update]
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who recently left his 14 million-follower Twitch account behind to go and stream on rival platform Mixer, has issued a statement labelled “disgusted and so sorry” today after that now-dormant account—which he no longer operates—was promoting streams from other users, including one broadcasting pornography. Ninja obviously has no control over that Twitch…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 11, 2019
