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The United States Space Force Is Basically Setting Up Destiny
19.12.2020
Earlier today, United States vice president Mike Pence announced that the members of the Space Force—a big dumb vanity project by the big wet toddler currently living in the White House—will be called “Guardians,” much like the player characters of the Destiny franchise.Read more
The Sephiroth Boss Fight Is The Most Fun I’ve Had In Smash Bros. Ultimate In A While
18.12.2020
It’s been a rough year for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and me, mostly because with the ongoing pandemic I haven’t been able to play it IRL with anyone. The game’s new limited-time Sephiroth boss fight has helped me fall back in love with it though, by giving me a brief but excellent...
Yoshitaka Amano's Harley Quinn Cover Is So Good I'm Gonna Cry
18.12.2020
Stephanie Phillips, writer on DC Comics’ upcoming Harley Quinn comic series, recently shared an excellent variant cover from the first issue, provided by none other than legendary Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano.Read more
What Is Even The Point Of Giving Awards To Video Games
18.12.2020
‘Tis the season to feel mildly embittered at basically all times. I speak, of course, of awards season, during which countless games take home trophies and plaques (or pictures of trophies and plaques), but not the ones you want to win. What, really, is the point, though? On this week’s episode...
Cyberpunk 2077 Third-Person Bug Reveals V Is A Shambling Monstrosity
18.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is a disaster that the executives at CD Projekt knew full well was going to crash and burn. That said, one of its numerous bugs has the benefit of giving players what they’ve asked for since the game’s long-ago 2012 reveal: a third-person mode.Read more
Hivebusters Is A Great Gears DLC And A Fantastic Xbox Series X Showcase
18.12.2020
Hivebusters is a new single-player DLC campaign released for Gears 5. It’s also one of the best-looking games on Xbox Series X and feels like a full Gears game compressed into a bite-size experience that has me excited for the future of Gears of War. Read more
Microsoft Is Offering Full Refunds To Anyone Who Bought Cyberpunk 2077 Online
18.12.2020
Microsoft has expanded its refund policy for players who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally, guaranteeing money back for the notoriously broken CD Projekt game.Read more
Report: Cyberpunk 2077 Developers Grill Management Over Crunch, Deadlines, And Poor Launch
18.12.2020
Staff at Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt Red asked tough questions of their leadership at an all-hands video meeting on Thursday, including about mandatory overtime and far-fetched production goals, according to a new report by Bloomberg.Read more
Call of Duty Season One Brings Much-Needed Maps To Cold War, But Warzone's 'New' Map Doesn't Quite Work
18.12.2020
Call of Duty’s Season One arrived earlier this week, bringing an ambitious number of new maps and modes to Black Ops Cold War and Warzone, as well as integrating the new level progression system into last year’s Modern Warfare. New maps were sorely needed and are appreciated, but the large rollout...
Control Comes To PS5 And Xbox Series X/S With Ray-Tracing In February
18.12.2020
Remedy Games paranormal office thriller Control will come to next-gen consoles digitally on February 2, followed by a full retail release on March 2, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. Read more
Dota 2 Gets New Hero And Massive Mistwoods Update
18.12.2020
Dota 2's Mistwoods update dropped yesterday, making a ton of changes to the game and adding its 120th hero: a crossbow toting woodland creature named Hoodwink. Read more
McDonald's China Has A Spam and Oreos Burger, It Seems
18.12.2020
Goodness. In what sounds like a dare, McDonald’s China is offering a Spam burger with crumbled cookies.Read more
Watch The First Episode Of Mamoru Oshii's New Anime Right Here
18.12.2020
Mamoru Oshii is famous for influential anime feature films like Patlabor 2: The Movie and Ghost in the Shell. Prior to that, he made a name for himself directing the Urusei Yatsura TV series in the early 1980s. He’s now returned to TV anime with Vlad Love.Read more
A Final Goodbye To The Last Generation
18.12.2020
For the past month we’ve been taking a look back at the winners, losers and defining trends of the PlayStation 4/Xbox One era of home video game consoles as part of a feature series called The Last Generation.Read more
Sony Pulls Cyberpunk 2077 From PlayStation Store, Says Buyers Can Get A Refund
18.12.2020
Hopefully concluding a rollercoaster few days where PlayStation owners were told to get a refund for Cyberpunk 2077 then asked not to, Sony has confirmed that not only will the company be issuing refunds, but the game itself is being pulled from the PlayStation Store.Read more
Riot Casually Announces League Of Legends MMO
18.12.2020
League of Legends fans who would like to enjoy the universe but not keep playing the same game over and over until you die, you’re in luck. Riot just announced a new MMO set in the game’s universe in the most casual way imaginable.Read more
Beat (Stupid Sexy) Sephiroth In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate And Unlock Him Five Days Early
18.12.2020
Sephiroth officially joins the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cast next week, but players eager to open their presents early can unlock this surprisingly shirtless Final Fantasy VII villain right now by simply kicking the crap out of him.Read more
It's Weird How Some Games Are Now Too Big To Fail
18.12.2020
For nearly the entire history of video games, most title’s lifespans would play out the same cruel, Darwinian way: they would come out and either live or die, sometimes with spectacular consequences. No second chances.Read more
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Barret, Tifa, Aerith, And Geno Mii Fighter Costumes
17.12.2020
During today’s Sephiroth presentation, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai showed off some of the new Mii Fighter costumes that will be added to Ultimate alongside the Final Fantasy villain.Read more
Streamers Flabbergasted After Twitch Partially Bans The Word 'Simp'
17.12.2020
It’s been yet another long 24 hours for Twitch—the latest in what’s shaped up to be an agonizingly long year for the company (and also everybody on Earth). Yesterday afternoon, Twitch held a live town hall with the goal of illuminating recent policy changes and features around DMCAs, sexual...