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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.

Watch The Head of Gearbox and Penn Jillette Kick Off DICE 2016 With Magic Tricks

The annual DICE Summit begins today in Las Vegas, where hundreds of developers, publishers and other gaming titans gather to network, talk and be merry. Kicking things off at 1pm ET will be Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford and Penn Jillette talking…magic. Watch the stream live right here. Here’s the rest of today’s schedule, times converted…

Marvel Comics Just Changed S.H.I.E.L.D in a Big, Scary Way

10 years ago, Marvel’s superheroes split into factions and pounded each other in the face because they disagreed over whether their world-saving should be regulated by the government. The spark that will ignite the upcoming Avengers Standoff crossover is a lot more sinister. Spoilers follow. Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill is a one-shot by…

The Anti-Piracy Tech That’s Giving Hackers Fits

More than two months after release, it’s still not possible to pirate Just Cause 3. The same is true for Rise of the Tomb Raider, released for PC in late January. Cracking computer games used to be measured in hours or days, but now, it’s turning into weeks and months. The nature of piracy is…

Watch As A Master Rust Troll Makes People Lose Their Shit

DanielFromSL is the sort of guy who hops into online games with the sole purpose of wreaking havoc. This time, he’s brought his trollish antics to Rust, and the result is hilarious. It takes some serious skills to get people mad because you’re pronouncing a word sliiiightly wrong. And that bit with the NPC, holy…

Capcom’s Trying to Fix Street Fighter V

It’s been a rocky 24 hours for the first day of Street Fighter V’s release. Capcom says that they’re working on making the experience better. Slow matchmaking, random disconnections and server outages have all plagued players who flocked to the newest entry in Capcom’s fighting game franchise. In an update released last night, the publisher…

Perfect Rainbow Six Siege Teamwork

One player watches and coordinates. A second one distracts the enemy team and a third one takes down all of them. BWOxide’s short Rainbow Six Siege clip shows us how quickly a match can be ended when everyone’s doing their best and there’s one guy hiding in the elevator with explosives. Teamwork! To contact the…

LEGO Predecessors, Compared

The history of building brick toys goes way back and as Jangbricks’ video shows, LEGO was actually quite late to the party. Some of these proto-LEGO bricks were hollow on the inside, and the truly early ones were made of compressed wood and even rubber. Still, not too much different from LEGO bricks, just a…

Nintendo is now taking pre-registrations for Miitomo, their upcoming smartphone app. If you’d like to pre-register yourself, you can do so here. Miitomo is planned to launch next month.

Street Fighter V, As Told by Steam Reviews

As with many online game releases, Street Fighter V’s rollout has been somewhat rocky. Know what that means? Cue the funny Steam reviews. With Street Fighter V, Capcom is making a huge departure from the way it’s conceived previous SF titles. Sure, it’s still a Street Fighter game, but it’s aimed at online play in…

Now, people outside Japan can register for Nintendo’s new account system. You can sign up here. It’s super easy, but if you have questions, this FAQ might help.

101-Player Mario Kart Is A Nintendo Nightmare

Please note that this isn’t a real game. It’s a joke video. But deep down you knew that already, because 101 racers on a Mario Kart track would leave us in a world without friendship.

XCOM 2’s Ambushes Are So Badass

GTFO here, Advent. Of all the things XCOM 2 does better than its predecessor, the thing I like the best is when the series’ penchant for cinematic camera shots meets the sequel’s cooler additions to the formula. Like the way enemy reinforcement drops are telegraphed one turn in advance, so you can (if you’re lucky)…

The Internet Reacts To Jeb Bush’s Dumb Gun Tweet

Nice Tweet, Jeb Bush. It’d be a shame if something happened to it. (Context)

Goofy Dad Recreates Final Fantasy VII Summons With His Butt

My five-year-old daughter, just now: “I like it when he was shaking his tush-tush.” Papa Luciano is at it again. After hilarious turns making his body a vessel for Smash Bros.’ taunts and Street Fighter victory poses, the middle-aged man is interpreting the summons from the beloved JRPG. You will believe a man can chocobo,…

Street Fighter V’s Ridiculous Breast Physics Are Still In The Game 

Last year, Capcom (hilariously) assured us that the bouncy jiggle of Chun Li’s breasts was actually just a glitch.Eventually, Capcom said, they’d fix it. Well, now the game is out, and… uh, the exaggerated breast physics are still in there, as you can see in this video by Eurogamer: As we reported in 2015, the…

When Cosplay Saved Doctor Doom’s Life

Frank Castle was cruising through New York City looking for criminals to kill, as he does. Hey, look, it’s the Supreme Monarch of Latveria! Time for some punishment! Or is it? The current storyline in Squirrel Girl has the title character stuck in the past trying to foil the world-conquering machinations of Dr. Doom. (This…

The Witness Puzzle That Broke My Spirit

I spent three hours staring at this puzzle, wondering if I was losing my mind. Warning: We’re going to spoil a single puzzle in The Witness, but this puzzle sucks, so whatever. If there’s a single refrain in people’s observations about The Witness, it’s that you shouldn’t look up solutions to the puzzles. Walk away,…

Smart Way To Keep Players From Getting Lost Underwater, Dying Light

It’s easy to get lost when you’re swimming underwater in a video game. You’re moving in the right direction, but you look down for a moment, lose your bearings, swim some more and wind up back where you started. I guess you accidentally turned yourself around. Whoops! Come on, that never happened to you? Not…

The Old Han Solo Switcheroo

A sneaky carbonite manuever from the upcoming Carbon-Freezing Chamber LEGO set. Recorded at Toy Fair 2016.