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Far Cry Primal Has A Roundabout Storyline Connection To Far Cry 4

There were no easy opportunities for any of the characters in today’s new Stone Age Far Cry Primal game to overlap with those of 2014’s modern-day Far Cry 4, but publisher Ubisoft has found a way to confirm they’re in the same universe. The connection—which isn’t a spoiler for the game, in case you’re wondering—holds…

After Six Years in Development, This Action RPG is Finally Coming Out

Crate Entertainment first announced Grim Dawn, a Diablo-like RPG using Titan Quest’s engine, in January 2010. Two years later, they collected over half a million dollars with a successful Kickstarter campaign, and later put the game on Early Access in 2013. Now, after half a dozen years, Grim Dawn is getting released. Mechanics-wise, Grim Dawn…

Damn it, Franklin! That could have ended much worse. Watch out next time.

LEGO Sushi Bar Has A Working Conveyor Belt

Here’s an awesome custom LEGO sushi-go-round restaurant by Japanese builder peisan, with a rotating conveyor belt, full of tiny plates (and BB-8), in the center. Very detailed and a good minifig selection, as you can see in the close-ups To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Hideo Kojima Hug Pillows Exist

I’m not sure what to say exactly. Okay. Let’s see. Recently, this tweet appeared online: That particular pillow is owned by Twitter user Drool Prince, who brought the pillow to this month’s MagFest. Drool Prince has a wonderful sense of humor about the Kojima hug pillow. Because, really, you’d have to. So, yes, this is…

Overwatch Player Gets Tackled Off A Cliff, Survives

Jellanders brings us this excellent Overwatch moment in which a Genji player makes a brilliant recovery after an attempted suicide kill by Reinhardt. Anybody else getting Smash Bros vibes from this one? Here’s the full thing: To contact the author of this post, write to [email protected] or find him on Twitter @vahn16

Xbox Live Is Down

We’ve been getting emails and tweets all week about this, in increasing volume, but this evening Xbox Live seems to have finally dropped out for pretty much everyone trying to access the paid service. This went out four hours ago (from time of posting): And this went out two hours ago (at time of posting):…

Konami, This Is Sad DLC

PES 2016,last year’s best football game, is getting an update to help tie in with this Summer’s big international tournament, Euro 2016. It is one of the saddest pieces of sports DLC I have ever seen. Before we get into the details, you should know the Euro 2016 update is free. So there’s really nothing…

Whoops, Looks Like Ubisoft Forgot To Give Far Cry Primal A Season Pass

Pop quiz: What makes Far Cry Primal different than all the other games Ubisoft has released over the past year? No, it’s not the mammoths. Not the fake language they made just for this game, either. Give up? The answer: There’s no season pass. It’s 2016, man. Big companies don’t just release games and then…

The Witness‘ Lead Designer Tries To Race Through ‘The Challenge’

A full one hour and 30 seconds into this Giant Bomb video of Witness lead designer Jonathan Blow playing and talking about his team’s new game, he takes onThe Challenge. That’s the hardest puzzle in the game. He struggles, probably because it’s not as easy when people are watching. It’s still illuminating to watch him…

That Time A Zelda Trailer Supposedly Made Grown Men Cry

Few game reveals are more anticipated a brand-new Legend of Zelda game, but nothing touches the intense reaction Twilight Princess generated at E3 2004. It’s common for game companies to stuff their press conferences full of employees. These are the people who are happily clapping for every announcement, big or small. But at Nintendo events,…

Halo’s Arbiter Has Been Holding Back On Us

The Covenant’s best warrior has been a bad ass in the Halo games, but not nearly the bad ass he’s being in his appearance in season three of fighting game Killer Instinct As hinted late last month, the third season of Killer Instinct features a cameo from Microsoft’s storied shooter franchise. Instead of going with…

A Video Game’s Stats For The 2016 Presidential Candidates

There were many bad omens foretelling the demise of Jeb Bush’s laughably ineffectual run for the White House. There was his confusion about his position on the invasion of Iraq, his awkward performances in the debates. “Please clap.” That desperate gun tweet. On top of all those real life failings, he also got thrashed in…

Spider-Woman Just Had a Baby

Jessica Drew ain’t letting a little thing like an emergency C-section in a space station hospital slow her down. Shown as being well into her third trimester after the series’ post-hiatus reboot, last week’s Spider-Woman #4 finally saw the lead character become a mom. It was a pretty dramatic childbirth, coming in the middle of…

The Black Superhero Who Helped Me Navigate a White World

By the time that Power Man and Iron Fist #125 came out in the late summer/early fall of 1986, I’d already learned not to trust comic-book covers. (This essay, originally titled “Steel-Hard Skin,” was written in 2011 and appeared in Hey Kids, Comics!: True-Life Tales from the Spinner Rack, an anthology that collected personal essays…

Carmageddon: Max Damage will be hitting consoles later this year, bringing the series’ signature brand of vehicular combat to Xbox One and PS4 . Contact the author at [email protected]

Daredevil, Remade In Fallout 4

A game set in Marvel’s version of Hell’s Kitchen, featuring Matt Murdock and Frank Castle would be pretty cool. UpIsNotJump’s recreation of the Season 2 trailer of the Netflix series in Fallout 4 proves this perfectly. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Fan Creates Awesome Holographic Pokémon Projections

Great fan project! Kennywdev made a prism of plexiglass and mounted a camera on top for image tracking. Then, he projected some 3D Pokémon scenes that he made in Unity on it. It’s a very smart way to create cool-looking holographic projections. It’s worth watching a tutorial on how these are made, it’s actually not…

Duriel, Scariest of the Lesser Evils

Duriel, with his tiny-ass lair, slow-down aura and incredibly dangerous attacks, is an annoying Diablo II boss to fight. Now, thanks to this piece of fanart, he’s also terrifying to look at. Yay! The one responsible for Duriel’s HD-ification is one Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen, who works as a character artist at Interceptor Entertainment (the…

“Is E.T. really the worst game of all time? Probably not. But the story of the fall of the video game industry needed a face and that was E.T.” Howard Scott Warshaw, the designer behind 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, talks about the game, his career, and his life in an interview…