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The First Hour Of Megadimension Neptunia VII Says It All

The first PlayStation 4 entry in Idea Factory’s girls as game consoles role-playing game is out in North America today. I’m betting it’ll take less than an hour of playing to decide if Megadimension Neptunia VII is for you, so here’s an hour of playing. Mind the NSFW screen at the end. The Hyperdimension Neptunia…

Carl Sagan’s Incredible Pale Blue Dot Speech, Recreated In GTA V

And now, a moment for us to be humbled by our place in the universe. By now, it’s possible you’ve heard this timeless excerpt of astronomer Carl Sagan’s audiobook. Here it is again, coupled with footage of Grand Theft Auto. Somehow, it works. That’s just how on-point Duggy’s cinematography is. Now, if you’d like to…

Gravity Rush Is Great On PS4

If you’d asked me back in 2012 to name a single Vita game that deserved a PS4 version, I would have said “Gravity Rush” with zero hesitation. Good news for me, then! Sony may have all but given up on their Vita handheld, but someone over there appears to have realized they have a handful…

It’s Hearthstone, Only With Kung Fu Panda

Video game tie-ins for children’s films aren’t known for their originality, but this is just silly. Ludia’s new iPad game is Hearthstone, only instead of some kung fu pandas it has the Kung Fu Panda. The mechanics in Kung Fu Panda: Battles of Destiny are basically the same. Each player draws cards and gets an…

Nightmarish Remnants of Fallen Heroes

Artist Eric Ridgeway started a fan project with classic heroes, and how they’d look beyond the Game Over screen, after being defeated. Well they certainly look deadly, more like the victims of a Zerg infestation. And if that’s what Mega Man would look like after falling into one of Dr. Wily’s traps, I don’t want…

World of Warcraft: Legion Is Getting An Artifact… Fishing Pole

As if epic and rare fishing poles weren’t enough to catch fish and slowly level up fishing, the next expansion will introduce an artifact fishing pole called the Underlight Angler, with its own traits and special abilities. One of the biggest new features of Legion will be powerful Artifact Weapons that we can level up…

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is Coming Soon

Xbox’s website has inadvertently announced the next big LEGO game, surprising nobody in this or any other galaxy, regardless of distance, with news that it’s LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Seems that in addition to letting players fight their way through the stuff that happens in the movie, there’ll also be “exclusive playable content…

Popular YouTubers Stop Trying To Trademark ‘React,’ Apologize

Last week The Fine Brothers drew mass internet hateafter they announced they wanted to let other YouTubers monetize and license its “React” format shows. Tonight, they’re taking all of it back. Over on Medium, The Fine Brothers wrote the following about their short-lived “Reacts” trademark: Hello, We’re here to apologize. We realize we built a…

The Official Anime Versions of Harry Potter Characters

These are not fan art. You are looking at the official anime-style drawings of many of the major Harry Potter characters. As Get News reports, Warner Bros. Japan has officially licensed these illustrations for a series of Harry Potter goods that will go on sale within the country. So far, the designs have been limited…

Strong Game Sales Are Helping Power Nintendo

Nintendo has posted their financial data for the nine month period between April and December of 2015, showing some rather strong software sales: just Splatoon sold over four million copies, for example. For the 3DS, Nintendo’s best-selling game in this period was Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, selling at a total of 2.93 million units…

Would You Fuck This Video Game Sex Machine?

Well? There’s currently an IndieGoGo campaign running for a thing called VirtuaDolls. It’s some interactive software married to a peripheral that will, through the power of science and crowd-funded manufacturing, fuck a dick. I guess most of what follows is NSFW? If not by definition then at least in spirit. Allow these gifs to demonstrate:…

NBA 2K16 Studio Sued Over Some Video Game Tattoos

If you ever look at your day job and think, self, I could be making more money, then maybe you oughta consider a career in video game sports tattoo litigation. As ridiculous as that may seem, there’s money in it! In 2012, a tattoo artist was awarded over $20,000 when THQ used one of his…

And Now, A Batman Short Story

Studio Goes Broke, Rises From Ashes To Release A Strategy Classic

In 2007, Rob Cunningham (of Homeworld fame) formed a brand new studio called Blackbird Interactive. By 2009, work had begun on an ambitious new strategy game strongly inspired by Homeworld’s art design and setting. In 2013, everyone working there was laid off. That 2009 game was called HARD|WARE, and was intended to be a free-to-play…

Anti-Swatting Congresswoman Gets Swatted

Rep. Katherine Clark has for a few years now been on a crusade against shitty behaviour on the internet, from death threats made against women to hoax calls that send armed police to a victim’s home (also known as swatting). On Sunday night, Rep. Katherine Clark’s home was swatted. The Boston Globe reports that while…

That Time A ‘Gritty’ Tomb Raider Reboot Almost Sank The Franchise

Tomb Raider has been in good hands for the last decade or so, thanks to the steady hand of Crystal Dynamics. Before they took over, though, the series had become a disaster, and Angel of Darkness was its trainwreck. Angel of Darkness was a darker take on Tomb Raider. But when the game bombed, an…

Spider-Woman‘s Artists Have Been Killing It

Spider-Woman is in the middle of a very fun, unconventional storyline right now, which centers on the pregnancy of its lead character. And the series’ charms are greatly increased by the excellent art on its pages. Spoilers follow. The art team on Spider-Woman consists of penciller Javier Rodriguez, inker Alvaro Lopez, color artist Rachelle Rosenberg…

Rise Of The Tomb Raider’s Big Head Mode Is Pretty Good

Why don’t more games have a Big Head Mode? This needs to become a thing again. You can only activate Big Head Mode in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s “expeditions” side challenges, which let you replay various levels from the game with unusual modifiers and gear. You can only play with Big Head Mode there,…

Black Desert Online. that wonderful character creator with the MMO attached, officially launches on March 3 in North America and Europe. Preorders run until February 26, and interested parties can sign up at the website for a chance at the final closed beta on February 18.

Good Job With The Graffiti, The Division

I’ve been playing the closed beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division, an upcoming fantasy RPG about patrolling Manhattan and murdering Black Friday “rioters.” The game’s version of New York City isn’t the most convincing I’ve ever seen, but the graffiti is solid. I’vecomplained about bad video game graffiti in the past, so I like to…