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Military Shooter Launch Event Turns Into A Racist Mess
24.6.2021
An event organized to celebrate the release of military shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 had journalists and influencers take part in a mock training program based around killing “enemies” and “bad guys” who were dressed up to appear Arab, according to a report published last night by...
Valve Really Doesn't Want You Using VPNs To Get Cheaper Games
24.6.2021
Ever since Valve began selling Steam games with different prices for different markets, people who live in the more expensive regions have been trying to find ways to get cheaper video games. Ways that Valve knows about, and is continuing to quietly crack down on.Read more
LEGO: Builder's Journey Is Very Good, Very Chill
24.6.2021
There have been loads of LEGO games before, some of them trying to replicate the sensation of playing with the real thing, others just using the bricks as set dressing for some very funny licensed platforming. The latest one (well, latest on PC, anyway), LEGO: Builder’s Journey, takes a slightly...
Sonic’s 30th Anniversary Concert Kicked So Much Ass I Cried
24.6.2021
Video game concerts make everything better. Today’s livestream video game concert of Sonic music was so damn great it had me crying in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon—as opposed to my regularly scheduled Thursday cry. Read more
Stardew Valley Speedrunners Are Racing To Get Married
23.6.2021
In real life, few things are more bone-chillingly terrifying than the prospect of marriage. In the simulation game Stardew Valley, though, it’s just what you do. Some speedrunners are messing around to see how fast they can get the job done—and they can do it in under an hour.Read more
Put Pole-Dancing Cloud Back In Remake, You Cowards!
23.6.2021
The Honeybee Inn sequence of Final Fantasy VII Remake is probably one of the more memorable moments in the reimagined game. An interview with Remake’s co-director, Motomu Toriyama, revealed that moment could have been catapulted from merely memorable to the greatest video gaming moment of all time...
One Of Last Year’s Best JRPGs Now Has Pet Dual Wielding
23.6.2021
After six long months, gaming’s most important update of 2021 has arrived: a new patch for farming JRPG Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin that lets you dual-wield the game’s adorable pets.Read more
Commander Riker Is Here To Explain PUBG’s Lore
23.6.2021
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the battle royale game where you run around shooting people without pants for a chicken dinner, apparently has a good deal of lore backing up its death matches. But don’t take my word for it: The developers recently got the one and only Jonathan Frakes to homage...
Destiny 2 Datamining Debate Erupts Over Ramen Coupon
22.6.2021
Sunday night Destiny 2 content creator Tryhard ‘Trials Player’ Tristan tweeted out a picture of his exo hunter sporting a mysteriou new emblem called A Classy Order. It was a reference to the Spicy Ramen Coupon players got back in the game’s Forsaken expansion and an ode to one of the game’s most...
You Can Disable Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Pop Songs While Streaming
22.6.2021
Eidos Montreal confirmed that its just-revealed Guardians of the Galaxy game will include an option to disable its extensive soundtrack during a recent interview with VentureBeat.Read more
Outriders Doubles Horrendous Legendary Drop Rate
22.6.2021
If players have one complaint about Outriders—besides the rampant connectivity issues and the inexplicable instant deaths—it’s with the game’s apparent dearth of legendary weapons and armor. Today, after much community feedback, developer People Can Fly finally addressed the issue by rolling out...
DOTA 2's The International Is Probably Moving Because Sweden Doesn't Think Esports Are Sports
22.6.2021
If it wasn’t for the global Covid pandemic, DOTA 2's big championship, The International, would have been held in Sweden in 2020. Now, in 2021, it’s not going to be held in Sweden again, but this time for more administrative reasons.Read more
Killer Instinct’s Soundtrack Used A Human Bone Instrument
22.6.2021
Spinal is the Killer Instinct franchise’s resident bone daddy, so when it came time to lay down his theme for the 2013 reboot, composer Mick Gordon naturally procured an instrument made from an actual human bone to round out the track.Read more
Ubisoft DRM Breaks Might & Magic X: Legacy Single-Player, DLC
21.6.2021
On June 1 Ubisoft shut down online services for several popular games. One of those games was 2014's Might & Magic X: Legacy, an old-school first-person hack-n-slash dungeon crawler with no online multiplayer components whatsoever. It did, however, require a one-time verification through...
Guilty Gear Strive Potato Mod Runs The Game On Crappy PCs
21.6.2021
While it may go overboard sometimes, Guilty Gear Strive is one of the most beautiful fighting games of all time. So beautiful, in fact, that you can reduce the quality of its graphical output dramatically—say, for the purpose of improving its framerate on less-powerful PCs—and still be left with...
Tekken X Street Fighter Is Dead
21.6.2021
After years of speculation, Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada has officially closed the book on Tekken X Street Fighter, announcing that work has halted on the highly anticipated crossover via his personal YouTube channel.Read more
Myth: Gods of Asgard Sure Looks Like Hades
21.6.2021
We’ve all done it. Usually, “it” means lifting test answers off the kid in front of you, or pretending you’re the one who actually came up with that really funny joke. Less often, “it” means copy-pasting a widely lauded and enormously successful game down to the pixel. Well, allow me to introduce...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Being Used To Attract Tourists
21.6.2021
Wrath of the Druids, the first DLC expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, is set in Ireland and features a gorgeous recreation of the island country, complete with famous natural landmarks and centuries-old villages. Is all that enough to entice some digital Vikings to leave their homes...
Hell Yes Bring Back That 1990s Flight Sim Aesthetic
21.6.2021
While some retro video game looks are making huge comebacks—muddy PS1 textures, I’m looking at you—I’m particularly excited here to see here a developer bringing back one very particular aesthetic that I was super into as a kid: that of early 90s hardcore military flight sims.Read more
I Forgot Mass Effect 1 Ends With An Electronic Rock Song
20.6.2021
The original Mass Effect tells a story of a small group of aliens and humans working together against the odds to stop a deadly, super-powerful mega-robot from beginning the process that will lead to all life being destroyed. Epic stuff. Yet the final song you hear, played during the credits, is...