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Virtual Feats, But A Real Sense Of Accomplishment

The last time I talked to my mom on the phone she told me I should be starting to think about retirement. She told me I should be thinking about my future. I was thinking about where I was gonna get the $150 I needed for my insurance premium and still eat. After I hung…

The Star Wars Game I’ve Played Every Day For Three Months Straight

This is Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. It’s a game I called “another f**king mobile Star Wars card game” when it was announced. A game I called “not bad . . . not great, either” at launch. A game that’s been part of my daily routine since mid-October. EA introduced Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes…

Ice Cold

Goddamn, Peach. The Year of Luigi seems so far away. (Screenshot via an early copy of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. We’ll have a review up later this week or next.)

The next expansion for Paradox’s city builder, Cities: Skylines, is called Snowfall Announced today, the addon will introduce a weather system and a temperature mechanic to the game, along with a couple new public transportation options, like trams. Snowfall will be out on PC “later this year.”

The Best Character Creation Tool, Now Available Without Its Game

Enough reading about Black Desert Online’s amazing character creation tool—it’s time to play with it. Ahead of next month’s second closed beta test, Daum Games has released a standalone version of its character creation tools you can download for free. PC gamers can just hit up the Black Desert Online character creation tool download page,…

The Game Boy Macro 

Anthony Thomas will take your old Nintendo DS, rip off its top screen, move the speakers, clean things up, paint it and turn it into something way cooler: a Game Boy Macro, an unofficial, over-sized brother to Nintendo’s actual (and wonderful) Game Boy Micro. NeoGAF user SmiteOfHand got one the other day and it looks…

Health club company Konami announced that Metal Gear Online launches today on PC, its one-week beta period now over. If you need help deciding whether to check it out or not, you can read about the week Patricia spent with the console version here.

Microsoft and Mojang Announce Minecraft: Education Edition

Launching this summer, Minecraft: Education Edition will be an “expanded” version of Minecraft for classrooms, distributed to educational institutions worldwide. Based on the already existing MinecraftEdu program—a modded version of Minecraft, used for teaching, which Microsoft has acquired—this new edition wants to help things along by launching a community site that, as the announcement from…

Look At This Transistor Statue

It’s $35, and it’s fantastic (via Super Punch)

The Tower Sounds Like Deus Ex vs Dredd

Back in 2014,indie studio Interdimensional Games released CONSORTIUM, a neat little thing that blended adventure gaming with FPS and RPG elements. Today, in news filed under “unexpected but pleasant surprises”, they announced a sequel. CONSORTIUM: The Tower looks to take the first game’s basic premise—dropping the player in a single setting then having them encounter…

Fans Remaking Original Metal Gear Solid In HD, And It Looks Great

Metal Gear fan Airam Hernandez is leading an effort to recreate the entire original 1998 Metal Gear Solid for the PC. Only this time it’ll be using Unreal Engine 4. With a little help from Dan Meadowcroft, who is handling music, they’ve just released the first trailer for the project, which is called Shadow Moses…

Tips For Getting Back Into Diablo III

Diablo III changed a lot over the years. The expansion and the later patches added a lot more content to the game, and these changes might confuse players who stopped playing around Reaper of Souls or before, but want to come back to see what’s new. People running around in crazy gear, gaining hundreds of…

Why Composer John Williams Knows More About Star Wars Than You Do

John Williams knows more about Star Wars than you do. I mean, not in the ‘who was R5-D4’s original manufacturer in the Expanded Universe’ sort of way. I mean narratively, and emotionally. This post originally appeared on Gizmodo Australia. It’s fair to say that while The Force Awakens has been received with near universal acclaim…

Just Cause 3‘s Rico Never Skips Leg Day

Someone else has to do the job when Rico is chilling in the main menu. And as it looks like in Tralion’s clip, he isn’t the one leaning on the car. The car is leaning on him. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Éomer, Son of Éomund, You Sure Look HD

It’s one thing to draw or paint a character you like, and another to model them in high definition—as Nimlot26’s version of Éomer (his version of the Karl Urban version of Éomer) shows. Nimlot26, AKA Georgian Avasilcutei, a character/environment artist from Romania, first posted about his Éomer project on the Polycount forums in June, with…

It looks like Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is coming to Steam according to this teaser. According to the clip’s description, it’s hitting “this February.”

How A League Of Legends Trophy Is Made

Those big trophies that the winners of League of Legends tournaments get don’t just appear out of thin air. Someone has to design and build them, and in this case, that someone was cosplay/props legend Harrison Krix, of Volpin Props. Going off some sketches made by his friend Tom, Krix had four weeks to build…

Meep! MEEP!

Beaker x Akira, by Ryan Lang (whose work we’ve featured a few times before). It was done for Dan LuVisi’s upcoming book Popped Culture

Fan Updates 2002 GameCube NFL Game With 2015 Rosters

It takes some fiddling, but a dedicated fan has made sure that if you want to use the current roster of NFL players in a GameCube sports game released in 2002, you can. The update for NFL Blitz 2003 (which was also released on PS2 and Xbox) is courtesy of johnz1 over on Tecmo Bowl.org…

Redesigning Star Wars’ Coolest Vehicles (Using LEGO)

Whether it’s Ralph McQuarrie’s original vision or more recent efforts, Star Wars is famous for its sweet vehicle designs. Yet over the past month, talented LEGO builders have been messing with the iconic Snowspeeders and X-Wings, redesigning them to either look more contemporary, or just look cooler. They’re entries in a competition over on From…