Soulcalibur VI’s Story Mode Does Geralt Dirty

Bandai Namco’s fighting game does an excellent job of portraying the personality and likeness of The Witcher 3 protagonist, but fails to make good on the full crossover potential CD Projekt Red blessed it with. Soulcalibur VI’s Geralt moves like a witcher and talks like a witcher but spends most of the game’s story mode…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend’s STI Diagnosis Has Me Questioning Everything

Hello all you death spores on the flesh of the Internet, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the dating advice column that helps you respec for the action RPG of love. This week, we’re talking about some tough questions. When your relationship hits a crisis point, do you trust your partner, or do you go…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for having knocked a window curtain down this morning and, while trying to put it back up, realizing it’s ridiculous you still use the last tenant’s curtains and determining to go buy new curtains. Also, video games. This week I learned there’s a ghost ship that appears only once a day in…

Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending

UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news from across the pond hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag. “Despite the company’s strong performance…

You Should Opt Out Of Discord’s New Policy Changes

A small but important change to Discord’s terms of service has big ramifications for users. The social app’s terms now include a class waiver, which would prevent participation in larger lawsuits. It’ssupposedly meant to prevent frivolous lawsuits, but if you want to protect your consumer rights, a simple email will opt you out of the…

My New, Healthier Mobile Game Obsession Is Fidel: Dungeon Rescue

Some mobile games play psychological tricks with you to get you to keep playing. Others hook you the much better way, simply by being great. So it is with the new iOS port of the stellar Fidel: Dungeon Rescue, which is billed as “the roguelike where you can rewind.” My colleague Heather highlighted the game…

Soulcalibur VI Is A Fresh Reboot Of Its Eternally Retold Tale

The Soulcalibur franchise needed either a hard reboot or an adrenaline shot, and Soulcalibur VI is both. The latest entry in the fighting game series, available October 19, circles back for a do-over of the first few Soulcalibur games, retelling the major characters’ stories all over again and even putting everyone back in their original…

League of Legends Coach Urges Underdog Teams To Play Their Own Style

The knockout stage of League of Legends’ biggest tournament of the year gets underway this weekend with only eight teams from across the globe left. One coach, whose team was recently sent packing after their loss earlier in the week, gave an impassioned speech to two of the remaining underdog European teams, encouraging them to…

PS4 Exclusive Days Gone Delayed Again, Now To April

Days Gone is the first to flinch in the game release death race currently slated for February 22, 2018. Today, Sony announced the open world zombie game will be delayed again by two months so the studio can finish polishing it. “We recently decided to move the release of Days Gone from the crowded February…

The “AirDrop Perverts” On Japanese Trains 

In Japanese, the word “chikan” refers to those who grope others in public or the unwanted touching itself. “AirDrop chikan” has entered the public discourse. As this Japanese news broadcast points out, it’s also called “cyber chikan.” In the West, the BBC reported on the “first cyber-flashing” in 2015 after a British woman was sent…

The Internet Reacts To Crunchyroll And Funimation’s Break Up 

For the past two years, Crunchyroll and Funimation have been sharing anime broadcasts via a cross-licensing deal. Variety reports that agreement is over. Bummer. Sony-owned Funimation has decided not to renew. The reason? According to Funimation president and CEO Gen Fukunaga in an internal memo, Sony is increasing inventions in the streaming company in order…

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Zelda Really Needed A Frog Village

Ziggy Zhu is a concept artist from China who, as a tribute to Breath of the Wild, decided to design his own village for the game. It’s beautiful. And very froggy. The village hook is simple: it’s built in a swamp, and everyone is a frog, and they all love sumo. And I love Frog…

Dying Genji Obliterates Enemy Team With Their Own Ult 

Tired: Getting a team kill with your own ultimate in Overwatch. Wired: Dying a painful death as Genji, only to posthumously realize that you deflected the other team’s ult right back at them, resulting in a team kill so inevitable that their Bastion didn’t even try to get out of harm’s way. That’s exactly what…

Wait, There’s A Ghost Ship In The Witcher 3?

The Witcher 3 is a big game, so big that even three years later it can still surprise us. The series’ official Twitter account posted this earlier today: And not a single one of us—that’s thousands of combined hours in the game—had ever seen the thing. Throw in the fact loads of players never see…

Putting Usain Bolt In FIFA 19 Hardly Seems Fair

You may remember Usain Bolt as the fastest man on the planet, but ever since retiring from sprinting in 2017 he’s been trying to make it as a professional footballer. And by God, he’s actually doing it. With a dream to ultimately play for Manchester United, Bolt had a run with some Norwegian teams earlier…