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Only Three Percent of Twitch’s Top-Earning Streamers Are Women, Apparently
6.10.2021
The Twitch leak from 4chan confirmed what a lot of people already know: The majority of the platform’s most successful content creators are men. But what’s shocking is the disparity. Out of the top 100 creators, only three of them are women. Only one of them is a woman of color.Read more
New Database Helps Players Find Games With Accessibility Features
6.10.2021
As the conversation around video game accessibility becomes more prominent, it’s clear that some games just don’t take the necessary steps to open up the experiences they offer to players with disabilities. Recently Steven Spohn, the senior director of AbleGamers, criticized Deathloop on Twitter...
How Halo Infinite Calculates Your Kill-Death-Assist Ratios
6.10.2021
If you played any of Halo Infinite’s recent not-a-betas, you probably saw a fairly high number in your postmortem kill-death-assist ratio (KDA). And if you, like me, are flummoxed by math like long division, you likely thought, Cool! ...So what’s it mean?Read more
Report: Twitch Is Hacked And Its Source Code Is In The Wild
6.10.2021
According to a report by VGC, an anonymous hacker has posted a 125GB torrent link containing, well, all of Twitch, including its source code and commit history going back to the start. The leak also contains streamers’ incomes since 2019, and information that suggests the Amazon-owned streaming...
Pokémon Is Joining Forces With Universal Studios Japan
6.10.2021
Today in Osaka, Universal Studios Japan announced it’s entering into a creative partnership with The Pokémon Company. “Universal Studios Japan and The Pokémon Company will enter a long-term partnership to jointly explore groundbreaking entertainment that will immerse guests into the world...
Play This Fantastic Resident Evil x Castlevania Game
6.10.2021
Resident Evil: Village has a spooky old castle full of vampires. Castlevania has a spooky old castle full of vampires. You can see where this is going.Read more
Panzer Dragoon Producer Falsely Reported Dead By Game's Twitter Account
6.10.2021
A tweet made earlier today by the official Panzer Dragoon Voyage Record account said that not only had the game been cancelled by Sega, but that one of the reasons for this cancellation was the death of producer Haruto Watanabe.Read more
Smash Bros. Devs, You Did It, It's Finished, Go Take A Break
5.10.2021
It’s confirmed: The big-shoed hero himself, Kingdom Hearts’ Sora, is the 82nd and final combatant to round out Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s overflowing roster. Whew, that’s that. Now only one thing remains: It’s time for creator and game director Masahiro Sakurai to take a damn break.Read more
Sora’s Smash Reveal Forgot To Bring The Disney
5.10.2021
While he may not be everyone’s cup of tea, Kingdom Hearts’ Sora is officially coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. But there’s a catch: He won’t be accompanied by Disney buddies like Donald, Goofy, and Mickey. In fact, it seems as if Nintendo scrubbed Sora’s appearance in the platform fighting...
Ubisoft Announces Ghost Recon Battle Royale In The Year Of Our Lord 2021
5.10.2021
Did you think we were finally over battle royales? Nope. Sorry. Not if Ubisoft has anything to say about it. Today the French publisher announced yet another one, this time in the Ghost Recon universe. It’s called Ghost Recon Frontlines.Read more
Genshin Impact’s Orchestral Soundtrack Is Unbelievably Good
5.10.2021
Genshin Impact’s online concert last Sunday was a nonstop series of bangers, but the game really didn’t need one to convince me that it has one of the best video game scores I’ve heard in the past several years. So even if you’ve never played Genshin, I’d still like you to experience some of...
Sony Planning To Make PS3, Vita Stores Nearly Unusable
5.10.2021
Sony has invented a new form of digital sabotage, which would almost be impressive if it weren’t so irritating. According to a post in the “Important Notices” section of Sony support, the brilliant business minds at the Japanese giant have decided to discontinue credit card and Paypal payment...
October’s Game Pass Lineup Is Scary Good
5.10.2021
Back 4 Blood might headline the first batch of October’s Game Pass offerings, but sadly several terrific games—like the roguelike ScourgeBringer—are leaving, and they won’t have a chance to come back for blood. Is this lede anything? No? All right, okay, fine, whatever, here’s everything coming...
Kingdom Hearts Trilogy Comes To Switch Via Cloud Streaming
5.10.2021
Sora might be coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate later this month, but that won’t be the spikey-haired hero’s only foray on Nintendo Switch. The Kingdom Hearts trilogy is coming to the popular hybrid console via cloud streaming, Nintendo announced in a digital showcase today.Read more
And The Final Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Character Is…
5.10.2021
Well, for every person who’s thrilled, ten more are pissed. Probably. During a digital presentation this morning, Masahiro Sakurai at long last unveiled the final fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. It’s Sora, from Kingdom Hearts. He’ll be available October 18.Read more
Castlevania Advance Collection Is Great, But Emulators Have Spoiled Me
5.10.2021
Turns out Castlevania Advance Collection is real, and it’s excellent, collecting three of the best Castlevania games of all time as well as a fourth pretty darn good one. While the emulation quality is excellent—courtesy of the experts at Japanese studio M2—like many official re-releases, I find...
Switch's Steel Assault Looks Like A Gorgeous, Lost GBA Game
4.10.2021
Steel Assault seems almost engineered to catch your eye the second it crosses your feed. Each pixelated scene looks at once like generic retro-gaming fodder while also bursting with vibrant colors, as if someone smashed a gumball machine and then used the pieces to craft a side-scrolling action...
New Final Fantasy Origin Trailer 100% Chaos-Free After Last One Got Memed
4.10.2021
Last week, Square Enix released yet another trailer for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, its upcoming Souls-like prequel to the original Final Fantasy. And while the project continues to look great, English-speaking fans apparently missed out on some more aggressive references to Chaos...
The Halo Infinite Test Flight Was A Buggy, Frequently Hilarious Mess
4.10.2021
Within my first two deaths I was certain Halo Infinite was doing something right. In that short span of time I identified the nearest power weapon, the skewer (which is also the best gun ever put in a video game), and ran for it. I jumped into one of Halo’s signature man-cannons, which launched...
The Original God Of War Could Have Been In First-Person
4.10.2021
I don’t think it would be controversial to say that as well as its brutal and satisfying combat, God of War fandom loves the series for how that combat is shown in its cinematic third-person perspective. It now seems impossible to imagine the game’s cinematic camera altered in any way, but David...