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Jude Smith is an artist at Kabam, developers of mobile games like Marvel Contest of Champions You can see more of Smith’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

Massive Scandal Hits FIFA Community As Cowardly Pros Avoid Playing Each Other

A huge scandal has hit the online FIFA community recently, as several of the world’s top players were caught in a secret Discord colluding to avoid playing each other, thus making their games easier, and their winnings more secure. There’s a lot to take in here if you don’t play FIFA—and if you want the…

World Of Warcraft Will Reduce Everyone’s Level To Avoid A ‘Grind’

After 15 years and seven expansions, World of Warcraft has become the content equivalent of a foot-tall (not -long) sandwich constructed by an overly ambitious stoner. At this point, it’s teetering under the weight of pieces that, in hindsight, don’t really fit. That’s why the World of Warcraft team has decided to cut the leveling…

The Outer Worlds will be out on the Nintendo Switch some time in the first three months of 2020, according to publisher Take Two, narrowing the earlier promise for a release some time in 2020. In an update to investors today, the company also announced the delay of Kerbal Space Program 2 to some time…

YouTuber’s Lifetime Fortnite Ban Opens Conversation About Fair Punishments For Cheating

Jarvis Khattri, a YouTube content creator for the esports organization FaZe Clan, received a lifetime ban from Fortnite earlier this week after releasing a video of him cheating in the mega-popular battle royale shooter. This has since given way to discussion about the severity of the punishment and whether content creators whose livelihoods depend on…

Handmade Gaming Dice Kickstarter Raises $1.5 Million In A Day

Up until the moment she launched the Kickstarter campaign yesterday, Dispel Dice creator Karen Wang was worried that no one would want her handcrafted, sharp-edged, custom gaming dice. A day later, more than 12,000 backers have pledged over $1.5 million toward her dazzling gemlike creations. Turns out people like shiny, pretty things. A lot. According…

Track: The Sun & The Moon (in London) | Artist: Sheena Ringo & Hikaru Utada | Album: Apple of Universal Gravity

Shuhei Yoshida Isn’t Sony’s Head Of Worldwide Studios Anymore

Since 2008, Shuhei Yoshida has been the president of SCE Worldwide Studios. Today, Sony announced that Yoshida will be stepping down to focus on a new initiative to nurture independent developers. In his place, Guerrilla Games co-founder Hermen Hulst will take over as SCE Worldwide Studios head. In an official release, Sony announced that this…

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Julian Holm is a freelance artist from Norway. You can see more of Julian’s work at his ArtStation page

Valkyria Chronicles 4 Gives Away All Its DLC For Free

The Steam version of Valkyria Chronicles 4 has just been updated to give everyone who owns the game all of its DLC for nothing. Previously there had been six different updates you could buy, ranging from extra story missions to…a way to unlock swimsuit costumes. The update simply transforms everybody’s copy of the game to…

Overwatch Stagnated Because Of Its Sequel, Says Director

Conspicuous is the word you might use to describe the lack of meat on Overwatch updates’ bones for the past couple of years. Seasonal events like summer’s Lucioball, fall’s Junkenstein’s Revenge, and winter’s Winter Wonderland have ground to such a screeching standstill that players don’t get excited about them anymore. What happened? Here’s a hint:…

China Bans Kids From Playing Games After 10 p.m., Caps Microtransaction Spending

A new Chinese law that went into place on Tuesday has placed extreme limits on the screen times of the nation’s youth, with everyone under the age of 18 now restricted from playing video games for longer than 90 minutes a day, or between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. As the New…

World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands‘ Designers Are Learning From WoW Classic‘s Success

If you’ve been following Blizzard news lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that the company had bulldozed its meticulously expanded World of Warcraft and replaced it with the humble township of Warcraft Classic. Modern WoW, however, is still kicking, and at BlizzCon, Blizzard announced a new expansion, Shadowlands. That said, even Shadowlands’ designers can’t…

The Internet Reacts To Mai Shiranui’s No-Show In Smash

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate received a huge dose of SNK today with the release of Fatal Fury protagonist Terry Bogard as a playable character, a King of Fighters-themed stage featuring cameos from characters like Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, and 50 new pieces of music from the studio’s extensive history. One popular fighter that won’t…

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Fandom’s Quest For An 8th DLC Ends With A Whimper

Over at the Tomb Raider forums, fans have been hoping in comment after comment for the surprise addition of one more tomb or level to 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider game. Alas, yesterday’s upgrade of the game to its Definitive Edition brought no new tomb, just a new outfit, as a PR rep for…

World of Warcraft’s 15th Anniversary Celebration Sends Players Back in Time

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the release of World of Warcraft, a moderately successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game. To celebrate the occasion, Blizzard’s set up an anniversary blow-out in Azeroth’s Caverns of Time, with special pets, retro world bosses, old-school player-versus-player battlegrounds, and a three-part raid that rewards players with a rideable…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Latest Fighter, Terry, Goes Live Today

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s latest DLC fighter goes live today. SNK’s Terry Bogard arrives with a unique stage with special ring-out rules and a host of guest characters—though not Mai Shiranui, because as director Masahiro Sakurai put it in today’s live stream, “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is for good boys and girls of many different…

Track: I Wanna Be Sedated | Artist: Ramones | Album: Road To Ruin

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