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Dark Souls Mod Makes It Way Easier To Play With Friends

There’s no way to simply join a specific game in Dark Souls—it’s all random matchmaking. The randomization is part of the charm, but for fans still playing the game more than five years after its release, it’s a little wonky. Fortunately, modders on the PC have come up with a pretty clever solution. Dark Souls…

This X-Men Comic Might Be the Bleakest Dark Phoenix Story Ever

Unless some other series winds up pulling off something unexpected, E Is for Extinction is going to wind up my favorite Secret Wars tie-in book. And that’s because the X-Men-in- twilight story has nothing to do with Dr. Doom or any crossover nonsense. It’s all about the right way for old superheroes to die. (This…

Capcom Says It’s Fixing Street Fighter V’s Rage Quitting Problem

There’s no punishment for being a rage quitter in Street Fighter V right now. The game doesn’t interpret leaving mid-match as a win or a loss for either side, and it’s made a bunch of players furious. Capcom has told Eurogamer it’ll be fixed, though it’s unclear how or when. “I can confirm that it…

Pokémon’s Creators Pick The Best Starters

The age-old question for many Pokémon fans has always been: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle? Everyone has an opinion on this, and we’ve even used science to answer the question of who the best starter is. Still, the debate is far from settled. [This post originally appeared on October 14th, 2014.] For the longest time, I…

Just Cause 3 is getting all sci-fi on us with a robotic new DLC, Sky Fortress, that’ll be out next month. Announced last month by developer Avalanche Studios, Sky Fortress is the first part of a season pass they’re calling “Air, Land & Sea.”

The Division’s open beta is now live on Xbox One, a day before PC and PS4 Several of you had asked if your progress from the closed beta carried over. Not for me. The game had me start a new character. The beta adds a new mission involving flamethrower enemies and makes several other tweaks

Hearthstone As Classic Handheld Game

Porting a fan-made version of Hearthstone, such as Roflstone’s, to phones and tablets would be quite difficult. It’s a demake of Blizzard’s trading card game, mostly inspired by the classic Pokémon TCG on the Game Boy Color. So no touchscreen or drag & drop gameplay, but hey, there are a few more emotes. To contact…

A classic science-fiction video game will have a cast chock full of classic sci-fi voice actors. Mark Hamill, Michael Dorn, Alan Tudyk and John De Lancie will all be voicing characters in Wargaming’s reboot of Master of Orion, which hits Steam Early Access next week. Contact the author at [email protected]

Two Players Unlocked All 2,511 of World of Warcraft‘s Achievements

Two Alliance players, a human priest from Russia and a night elf druid from the U.S., have already unlocked every achievement currently in the game, 2,511 of them. A lot of them are incredibly hard to get, but unlocking all is pretty insane. And, according to Wowprogress, a few others are close to catching up…

Firewatch’s Inescapable Wedding Ring

I’ve forgotten so much about my wedding day. I can’t remember cutting the cake and I don’t remember my first dance. I don’t remember what I said in my vows and my wedding speech was an unparalleled disaster. But one moment is tattooed on my memory, etched so powerfully I doubt it’ll ever leave. My…

XCOM 2‘s Update Doesn’t Fix Its Terrible Performance

XCOM 2 is easily my favorite game of the year so far. It also has serious performance issues. It’s been two weeks since the game launched, and unfortunately, today’s update does little to alleviate them. The update was intended to fix crashing problems and “some” performance issues. In the former area, at least, it seems…

New TMNT Board Game Looks Great

There’s a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles board game up on Kickstarter. It’s already been funded, so don’t sweat, it’s getting made. Which is cool, because it sounds like the perfect TMNT game. Firstly, because of that art! Both original artist Kevin Eastman and current comics property owners IDW are helping out on the game,…

Nothing but (battle) net. Overwatch player alphajew actually scored a basket with one of the starter area basketballs on new map Lijiang Tower. I’ve been trying to do this for days. Let us all bow before our new Master of Hoops.

Harley Quinn Finally Gets Closure on Her Relationship with the Joker

There’s nothing worse than running into an old ex. Especially when that ex is Batman’s homicidal archenemy. In the vague timeline of DC’s rebooted New 52 continuity, Harleen Quinzel and the Clown Prince of Crime broke up a long time ago. But the new issue of the Harley Quinn series clearly illustrates that the Joker’s…

Turrets Are Making Overwatch Players Miserable

A couple characters in Overwatch, Torbjörn and Bastion, use turrets. They are pretty ridiculous. Automated turrets are a staple in first-person shooters, including obvious Overwatch inspiration Team Fortress 2. Torbjörn actually has quite a bit in common with TF2’s Engineer class; he even bonks the crap out of his handy dandy fun-sized murder machine to…

WWE 2K16 is coming to the PC on March 11, and it’ll include all of the DLC from the console versions for free. 2K says the PC version will “largely mirror” the console versions, but it’ll also be a little cheaper—$50.

One Of Atari’s Newest Games Has Been Unplayable For Nearly Five Months

Minimum, a stylish online shooter, has been mysteriously offline since September 2015. 141 days later, there’s still no word on when it’ll be playable again, and the game’s publisher, Atari, can’t say when that might change. Minimum was originally created by TimeGate Studios, but the developer eventually went under. Later, Atari and Human Head Studios…

From Star Wars To Zelda, What Makes The Best Heroic Anthems So Powerful

When we hear music from Star Wars or The Legend of Zelda, we think of noble destinies or awaiting adventures. When we hear Batman’s theme, we picture a lone hero, overlooking a city at night. We think of those things because the music—specifically each character’s theme—explicitly expresses and embodies them. It’s easy to take that…

Pillars of Eternity Gets A Ton Of New Stuff This Week

Obsidian’s Kickstarted role-playing game Pillars of Eternity was one of 2015’s most pleasant surprises. So nearly a year later, it’s nice to see the developers continuing to support it. Anyone with a copy of Pillars can now download update 3.00, a free patch that’s full of new changes and content. In addition to tweaking balance…

Designer Warren Spector is now studio director at OtherSide Entertainment, who are currently working on System Shock 3 and Underworld Ascendent This is a bit of a coming home party for Spector, who worked on the older Ultima Underworld and System Shock games.