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Destiny 2 Gets Evil Tobey Maguire Dance From Spider-Man 3
9.12.2021
Destiny 2's mid-season expansion celebrating Bungie’s 30-year development history includes nods to Halo, Marathon, and...2007's Spider-Man 3? Sure, why not. I mean there’s a literal trans-dimensional space pony currently chaperoning players through a The Price Is Right horde mode too,...
Halo Infinite's Campaign Opening Is Awful
9.12.2021
For a game sold on its wide open spaces, player freedom, and great big sticky-up hexagons, Halo Infinite’s opening couple of hours couldn’t be much less representative. The approximately 700 miles of the same blue-gray corridors and chambers that gate access to the open-world game, feel as though...
This Senior Couple Were The MVPs Of A Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Tourney
9.12.2021
The 2021 CEO Fighting Game Championships tournament last weekend had plenty of surprising announcements, but nothing quite as surprising as the participation of Tinker and Arachius. Tinker and Arachius are a senior couple who competed at CEO to understand how a professional fighting game tournament...
Ubisoft's NFT Announcement Has Been Intensely Disliked
9.12.2021
As we reported yesterday, Ubisoft is getting right into the business of NFTs, a space that is both an environmental catastrophe and an enormous pump-and-dump scam. And because that’s a shitty space to be in, people have been quick to let the company know their feelings.Read more
Destiny 2 Debuts Gjallarhorn With Powerful New Perk
8.12.2021
Destiny 2’s massive mid-season update went live yesterday, and while there are a million aspects to discuss about it, the first thing a lot of returning players will want to know is how to get Gjallarhorn, the overpowered Exotic rocket launcher from Destiny 1. The answer isn’t complicated, but it’s...
GTA Online Gets First Actual Story Expansion In Years, Starring Franklin and Dr. Dre
8.12.2021
Rockstar Games just announced a new major content drop for Grand Theft Auto Online. The series of missions titled The Contract will feature Franklin, one of GTA V’s protagonists, and rapper Dr. Dre. In addition to Dr. Dre’s music, Rockstar promised sweeping updates to the game’s radio...
The Game Developers Who Enable Speedrunners To Break Their Games
8.12.2021
It was a few days after Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had launched on PS5, and Insomniac Games had a problem. Using a glitch known as the swingboost to gain phenomenal amounts of forward momentum, a small group of players had found a method of tearing this carefully-crafted experience apart...
Attack on Titan Director's Netflix Anime Looks Like A Post-Apocalyptic Mirror's Edge
8.12.2021
Tokyo flooded by a rain of gravity-defying bubbles and isolated from the rest of the world becomes a playground for lost children doing battle in team-based parkour competition. It sounds like a game. Instead, it’s a new original anime movie called Bubble, written by Puella Magi Madoka Magica...
Last of Us HBO Show Casts Perfect Grump Bill With Grump Nick Offerman
8.12.2021
Nick Offerman, actor, woodsman, and grower of immaculate beards, has officially been cast as Bill in HBO’s upcoming adaptation of The Last of Us.Read more
Garfield's Gonna Kick Monday's Ass In The Nickelodeon Fighting Game
8.12.2021
Internet sensation Garfield is the first post-release character being added to Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, the devs behind the impressive Smash-style platform fighter announced today.Read more
Speedrunners Beat Pokémon Shining Pearl With No Fights, Only A Fishing Rod
7.12.2021
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have been called “totally broken” by some speedrunners, and that brokenness has reached its logical conclusion: a sub-20 minute record time for the finishing game. About a week ago, that record time was 51 minutes.Read more
Uncharted: Legacy Of Thieves Comes With A Free Ticket For The Tom Holland Movie
7.12.2021
The leap from one console generation to the next continues to be a puzzle worthy of Uncharted: not terribly mind-bending, but certainly more complicated than you’d expect. The latest example, in an Escherian twist, is Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 bundle that includes...
The Art Of Dune
7.12.2021
I finally got to see Dune over the weekend (its release was delayed in Australia due to pandemic lockdowns), and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Read more
Henry Cavill Gently Corrects TV Host: It's Warhammer, Not Warcraft
7.12.2021
This is a conversation that I’m sure has played out countless times across kitchens and living rooms around the world as children, friends and partners patiently try and explain the difference between a video game universe and a tabletop wargaming universe. I just don’t know if it’s ever been done...
Dead Cells' Constant Mutations Make It One Of The Best Games Of 2021, Too
6.12.2021
I love Dead Cells. The side-scrolling combat and platforming are tight, the art is impeccable, and its progression system and unlock curve are among the best I’ve ever seen. It feels like a near-perfectly designed game. In the three years since its release, it has become even better—and a more...
Unreal's Matrix Teaser Has People Debating Whether Keanu Reeves Is Real
6.12.2021
Today, Unreal Engine released an extremely short teaser trailer for its own “boundary-pushing cinematic and real-time tech demo,” The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience. The teaser featured an existential Keanu Reeves looking into the camera and asking a real stumper of a question: “How...
Halo Subreddit Temporarily Shutdown Because Angry Gamers Won't Stop Being Toxic Jerks
5.12.2021
Once again, the angry gamers are angry and yelling and being just the worst. This time it’s happening over on Reddit. Specifically, the main Halo subreddit, r/Halo, which has been locked until Monday due to how angry and toxic most of the posts and comments have been recently following Halo...
Fortnite Chapter 3 Trailer Leaks, Revealing Spider-Man And Gears Of War Characters
4.12.2021
Fortnite’s next big chapter is nearly here, but before the official launch of Chapter 3 Season 1, a trailer for the next era Epic’s mega-popular free-to-play shooter has leaked online revealing new skins, game mechanics, and characters coming soon.Read more
An Extremely Goofy Performance Of 'Simple And Clean’
3.12.2021
You don’t have to be a Kingdom Hearts fan to experience goosebumps running up your arm when you hear the first infectious notes of Hikaru Utada’s “Simple and Clean.” From its early appearance in commercials to its continued use in the series, “Simple and Clean” is a beloved anthem of Kingdom Hearts...
The Game Awards Won't Take Sides On Activision Fallout To Focus On Reveals
3.12.2021
As Geoff Keighley’s annual Game Awards show enters its eighth year, the creator and host told The Washington Post today that he’s still thinking about how to “navigate” Activision Blizzard’s involvement in the ceremony following the latest reports of sexual misconduct at the publisher.Read more