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Epic Games Briefly Suspends Fortnite Creator Over Homophobic Comments
22.7.2021
Fortnite’s latest event, Rainbow Royale, is supposed to be a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community. But elsewhere, developer Epic Games chose not to suspend a popular creator for more than a few hours after discovering a history of homophobia. While the influencer has been reinstated, the situation...
Blizzard Harasser From Lawsuit Is Still All Over World of Warcraft, Fans Dismay
22.7.2021
Yesterday, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard over the company’s allegedly pervasive culture of sexual harasment and discrimination.Read more
Veteran Borderlands 3 Devs Leave Gearbox
22.7.2021
Several senior Borderlands 3 developers are leaving Gearbox to work on a new, unannounced project together, Axios reported today.Read more
Leak: Battlefield 2042 Sandbox Mode To Include Bad Company 2 Maps
22.7.2021
Last month, EA pulled back the curtain on climate-change shooter Battlefield 2042 and detailed two of its four modes. The other two remained couched as future announcements—one mentioned only by name (Hazard Zone), and one shrouded entirely in mystery. A since-deleted GameRant article (that...
PUBG Skin Looks An Awful Lot Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dev Objects
22.7.2021
In the great river of “borrowed” ideas, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds floats midstream. Itself broadly based on the wonderful Japanese film Battle Royale, it then saw its central conceit lifted somewhat wholesale by Epic with the original version of Fortnite. Now, a million iterations later,...
The Best Switch Carrying Cases
22.7.2021
Even if you primarily use your Nintendo Switch as a living room console, situated in its dock and hooked up to your TV, you’ll probably want to take it on the go from time to time. That’s...kind of the portable’s whole deal. Even figures released by Nintendo show that roughly 80 percent of Switch...
You Can Get Vintage Game Magazines Delivered To Your Doorstep
22.7.2021
Bright, colorful, choked with ads, and filled with articles dated before they even left the publisher’s warehouse, retro video game magazines are delightful little static moments in video game history preserved on paper. The Video Game History Foundation’s vintage magazine subscription service...
It's Not Every Day You Get To See New Footage From A Game Nintendo Cancelled Over 20 Years Ago
22.7.2021
Earlier this month a Mother fan pounced on a Japanese auction listing that was selling a Nintendo corporate CD-ROM from 1998, solely because that disc included footage of the cancelled EarthBound 64 for the Nintendo 64.Read more
My Speedrunning Career Lasted A Bit Less Than A Week
22.7.2021
I’m no speedrunner. In fact, I’ve never loved a video game enough to attempt to speedrun it until recently, when I found the PlayStation 2 oddity X-treme Express. But after almost a week of watching my promising attempts slip away at the last second, and feeling my affection towards the game turn...
Genshin Impact Players Insist On Reaching New Region The Hard Way
22.7.2021
Genshin Impact just added a gorgeous new region inspired by traditional Japanese culture, and players want to reach it on their own terms—or get unceremoniously teleported back to land trying.Read more
Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch
21.7.2021
In August of last year, Ubisoft launched a mobile Tom Clancy action-RPG called Elite Squad, which featured characters from Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, The Division, H.A.W.X., and EndWar (remember those last two?). Today, less than a full year later, Ubisoft’s Owlient studio announced...
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21.7.2021
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Adventure Game Last Stop Doesn’t Pull Punches When Criticizing Crunch
21.7.2021
Last Stop, a narratively riveting if mechanically unengaging adventure game, comes out tomorrow for pretty much all of the platforms (and Game Pass). If you’re a fan of the genre, you’ll get a kick out of Last Stop, full stop. Getting into the weeds for a sec, I found myself impressed by...
WoW’s Wrath Of The Lich King Expansion Is Now A Board Game
21.7.2021
Pandemic is a classic board game from publisher Z-Man in which players work together to stop the spread of rampaging viruses. World of Warcraft’s Wrath of the Lich King expansion is about stopping the Lich King’s Scourge from rampaging across the continent of Northrend. They’re basically the same...
Seascape Network and Binance NFT Release Exclusive Zombie Mystery Box NFTs
21.7.2021
PRESS RELEASE. 20th July 2021, SINGAPORE – Leading DeFi and NFT gaming platform Seascape Network is working with Binance NFT, enabling the integration of BSC for exclusive NFTs from their upcoming Zombie game series on the brand new Binance NFT Marketplace. Binance NFT Mystery Boxes...
PC Game Removes Denuvo DRM Before It Even Launches
21.7.2021
Humankind, one of my most anticipated games of 2021, was going to have Denuvo acting as its digital rights management (DRM). But after its developers found that it was impacting performance, they took it straight out.Read more
1986's Super Mario Bros. Movie Is Being Painstakingly Restored, Now In 4K
21.7.2021
A long time ago, in one of the first Total Recall features I ever wrote for this site, I covered The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!, the first—and in many ways still the best—Nintendo movie ever made.Read more
Smash Player Effs Up Opponent
21.7.2021
Last night, a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate competitor styled on his opponent so hard that the entire venue lost their minds.Read more
Netflix's Video Game Service Is Saying All The Right Things
21.7.2021
As part of the company’s latest earnings report, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and Chief Product Officer Greg Peters jumped on an investor phone call to talk about loads of things related to the future of the company. While discussing one of those things, their impending detour into video games, things...
I Had My Sexual Awakening Thanks To Final Fantasy X
21.7.2021
Final Fantasy X’s 20th anniversary is this week, and while it’s not my favorite Final Fantasy, it is one I come back to whenever I think about sex. No, not in the way you’re probably thinking (although Kimahri Ronso, if he wanted, could get it). But Final Fantasy X represents one of those...