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EA Is Changing Their E3 Plans Big-Time

Electronic Arts is essentially skipping E3 this year, pulling out of the trade show in favor of their own events in Los Angeles and London that will be open to the public. Rather than hosting an E3 press conference and putting up a big flashy booth for trade show attendees, the publisher will hold an…

Nintendo too skrong? Two Wii U games and a venerable Gamecube release are among the headlining games announced for the world’s biggest fighting game tournament. Along with Pokken Tournament, Smash Bros Wii U and Smash Melee, the 2016 Evo line-up will include Mortal Kombat X, Killer Instinct and Tekken 7 among others Contact the author…

Reminder: Dragon’s Dogma’s Ending Is Completely Ridiculous

Dragon’s Dogma, one of Capcom’s most underrated games of the past few years, is getting a new lease on life, thanks to the great PC version that just launched. It’s also an opportunity for more people to discover how batshit the story gets. I kept playing Dragon’s Dogma because the game’s dynamic combat kept me…

Fans Are Turning Fallout: New Vegas Into A Multiplayer Game, And It Sounds Wild

Introducing New Vegas: Multiplayer, a mod that will let players venture out into the Mojave wasteland with buddies (or enemies.) While the modification of the 2010 game is still in its early days, what developers are showing off so far looks promising. Here, for example, you can watch a few different players all load into…

Nintendo has taken down Super Mario Maker for “emergency maintenance” from now until January 28 at 8:00 pm ET. The company says it’s due to an unspecified bug that happens in the creation tool. Any ideas on what bug it is? Contact the author at [email protected]

Def Leppard’s latest music video makes its debut in Guitar Hero Live, because there just aren’t many places to debut a music video anymore. “Dangerous” joins “Let’s Go” and “Rock of Ages” as part of the “Def Leppard: Through The Ages” premium show.

How To Get Around Hearthstone‘s 10-Card Limit And Hold 12 Cards

The folks over at HearthSim came up with a way to bypass the 10-card hand limit in Hearthstone, and eventually end up holding 12 cards. In Hearthstone players can only play cards from their deck that are currently in their hands. And the limit of that is 10 cards. Attempting to add a card from…

Guy Turns Cute Bunny Toy Into Battle-Hardened Mech

An average-looking cute bunny rabbit, some plastic junk and almighty0404‘s superb modding skills. The result is a badass warrior, controlling a small bipedal mech, absolutely not made from soda cans. Could be a funny character in some alternate Star Fox universe where Peppy Hare joined the infantry. WIP pics show this wasn’t an easy transformation:…

How To Ruin Monopoly and Make People Hate You

At one point in your life, you’ve probably played Monopoly. If want to learn how to ruin the game so that you and your friends will never want to play again, here’s how. Imgur user Elpher gives a step-by-step guide, which I encourage you to read. However, the gist is that you want to create…

In 1994, Vin Diesel Was Selling Street Sharks At Toy Fair

Look, Vin Diesel wasn’t born a star. From break-dancing to his own short films, the guy had to work real hard to get where he is today. One such early gig, which popped up on Twitter today, involved being the hype man for…Street Sharks merch at the 1994 Toy Fair. This is so fucking cool.…

$75,000 Worth Of Magic Cards Stolen In Games Store Robbery

Early on Sunday morning, revered Austin board/card games joint Pat’s Games was robbed by two men who, going by what was stolen, clearly knew what they were doing. The men approached the store at around 1am, and using a water meter key ripped the front door off. They then moved inside and stole around $75,000…

Rise of The Tomb Raider’s DLC Is The Good Kind Of Short

The latest large-scale Lara Croft adventure has has a bit of DLC already. But last month’s Endurance Mode add-on didn’t offer up the kind of strong storytelling found in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s main campaign. Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch is a new extra chapter that aims to do exactly that. Out…

Why Mad Max: Fury Road Is So Easy To Watch

Mad Max may seem like the action-movie outlier among this year’s Academy Awards nominees, but it’s more than deserving of earnest consideration. In particular, I hope Fury Road wins Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. For all the ridiculous action and stuntwork happening in a given five-minute stretch of the film, it’s…

Suikoden II Did Pretty Damn Well Last Year

Last week the PlayStation Blog brought serendipitous news: the masterpiece Suikoden II took a top 10 slot not just on the best-selling list of PlayStation Classics for December, but for all of 2015 This is the list: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Mega Man X4 Mega Man X5 Final Fantasy VII Breath of Fire IV…

After just a week, the people behind Hero’s Song have cancelled their Kickstarter. “We put a lot of time and effort into the Kickstarter, but it’s obvious missing things like physical goods hampered our efforts. It’s also fair to say because we’re early that we didn’t have enough gameplay to show the game off enough…

Here’s How Modders Are Dressing Up Their Fallout 4 Characters 

The denizens of the wasteland might as well have their very own fashion line, thanks to the powers of mods. When I originally wrote about nudity mods in Fallout 4, one thing modders felt adamant about was that they wanted body modification tools not to run around naked, but rather to put on nicer, more…

Star Wars Outpost, A Cancelled LucasArts Game, Looked Way Better Than FarmVille 

About a year before LucasArts shut down, the iconic studio cancelled a near-finished game called Star Wars Outpost. Today, we’ve learned a bit more about that game. Developed by LucasArts’ Singapore studio—which at the time was also assisting on other games like Star Wars 1313 and even working on its own projects like an HD…

An Alien In Star Wars: The Force Awakens Shouted ‘Kojima’

You’ve probably seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but chances are you didn’t pick up on what appears to be a shoutout to Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima. The official Star Wars website published a list of the many voice actors who contributed lines to the movie today, from stormstroopers to resistance pilots. What we’re…

The Other Ways Nintendo Is Changing The English Version of Fire Emblem Fates [UPDATE]

Despite being another sequel in a longtime Nintendo series, Fire Emblem Fates is… quirky. Its Japanese version sparked quite a bit of controversy among English-speaking fans when it launched last year. Nintendo is making some fairly significant changes. As I reported last week, Nintendo is removing a scene that’s been regarded as homophobic from the…

Star Wars: Battlefront Finally Getting New DLC This Week

When Star Wars: Battlefront came out last November, both critics and players noted that the number of vehicles, maps and modes in the first-person shooter came off as a little underweight when compared to similar full-priced games. EA promised that there’d be more stuff to do and play in Battlefront but the additional offerings seem…