The Weirdest Little Transformers Ever

Throughout the years, the Transformers series has made a lot of things transform into robots. Cars, airplanes, tape decks, animals, and more have sprouted heads and limbs accompanied by the signature transforming sound. So why not everyday household items, sporting goods, and food? Hasbro’s BotBots Transformers turn everything into ridiculous little robots. Who’s up for…

Another World Creator Éric Chahi Is Back With A PS4 VR Game

It’s been a few years since we heard much from Éric Chahi, the French designer most famous for his work on Another World and 2011’s From Dust. He’s back in 2019, though, with a monster game for the PlayStation 4 called Paper Beast I got the chance to interview Chahi ahead of the game’s announcement…

Soon, Your Sims Will Be Able To Be Miserable Freelancers

This month, your Sims will be able to work as freelancers, and upon hearing this news I had a flashback to being broke and drinking beer for the calories. Careers in The Sims 4 are basically just watching your Sim get into a car, go to a location you can’t visit, and then waiting for…

Starting Today, You Can Finally Change Your PSN Name

As first reported last fall, Sony is letting folks change their PSN names through their PS4 or web browser. The rollout out will happen later today. Below is a simple walk-through to explain the process. So, the first change is free, but additional changes will cost $10 each time (or $5 for PlayStation Plus members).…

First Look At Weathering With You, The Follow Up To Your Name

Your Name was one of the best films of 2016. This summer, director Makoto Shinkai is back with a new anime feature. Here’s our first look. Called Weathering With You (Tenki no Ko, or “Weather Child” in Japanese), the movie once again features the music of Radwimps, the band that provided the memorable songs for…

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Wet Noon

Lucas Staniec is a concept artist at CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 He’s also worked on games like Total War: Warhammer II, Dying Light II and Fantasy Flight’s board games. You can see more of Lucas’ stuff at his ArtStation page.

You Can Now Pet The Dog In Enter The Gungeon, Thanks To That Twitter Account

You can pet the dog in Enter The Gungeon, but it was not always this way. Until recently, nobody could pet the dog, and times were dark indeed. Then a humble Twitter account stepped in and saved the day, at what turned out to be the very last minute. Enter The Gungeon, originally released on…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Player Overwhelmed After Winning Tournament He Lost Last Year

The fighting game community has expanded over the last decade, to the point where its competitive calendar provides a constant stream of tournaments to attend and watch online. While this can be overwhelming at times, it also lets players gauge their growth on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. A Dragon Ball FighterZ competitor came…

Hearthstone‘s New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots

On its surface, today’s new Hearthstone expansion, Rise of Shadows, looks like just another batch of new cards. But paired with the Year of the Dragon rotation—a major rule change that also drops today and will make some of the game’s most powerful cards illegal in the game’s popular Standard mode—the set looks like it…

Bungie Blocks Xbox And PC Destiny Players From Equipping PS4-Exclusive Weapon After Accidentally Allowing Them To Buy It

Bungie announced today it will soon be rolling out a fix to prevent players on Xbox One and PC from using the PS4-exclusive exotic trace rifle Wavesplitter after Destiny 2’s traveling alien salesman, Xur, accidentally sold the weapon to some players last weekend. “We’re investigating an issue where the Sony exclusive weapon Wavesplitter was made…

Four Players Have Quit Overwatch League In The Last Two Weeks

Expansion teams and new meta aside, Overwatch League season two has felt, for the most part, like business as usual. Behind the scenes, however, teams continue to practice, scrimmage, and prepare rigorously, all while planning for a third season in which they’ll move to their respective cities all across the world. It appears to be…

Player Discovers Brutal Combo For One Of Smash Ultimate’s Worst Fighters

Charizard may be the final evolution of one of the strongest Pokemon starters of all time, but in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate he’s kind of shit. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun playing as him, especially by trying to pull of this deadly two hit combo that few of your friends will see…

The Unexpected Success Of No Man’s Sky

Sean Murray, lead developer of the planetary exploration game No Man’s Sky, doesn’t want to dwell on negativity, tempting as it is when chatting for an interview about any game with a huge, vocal playerbase. “The story often is the narrative of the bad community, the toxicity, and it really annoys me that [it] commands…

Falcon Age Is All About That Bird

The amount of enjoyment to be found in Falcon Age, a falcon-hunting adventure game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR, depends on how much one falls in love with its feathered co-protagonist. Fortunately, the bird is ridiculously lovable. Falcon Age is a game about the relationship between human girl Ara and her bird, or at…

Real-Life Politician Removed From In-Game Office In EVE Online [UPDATE: Accusations Dropped]

Yesterday, EVE Online player Brisc Rubal was permanently banned from the game and removed from the Council of Stellar Management, the game’s player-elected representative body. Outside of EVE, Rubal’s real name is Brian Schoeneman, and he’s a lawyer and a career politician, working as a lobbyist in the state of Virginia. A developer blog released…

The Elder Scrolls Is At Its Best When It’s Super-Weird

This weekend, I started playing The Elder Scrolls: Blades on my iPhone. While I do enjoy dungeon crawling, I also felt disappointed. The Elder Scrolls is a rich setting packed with some of the more evocative cosmology I’ve ever encountered. But there I was, fighting standard goblins as if it were any other fantasy game.…