Counter-Strike Adds Harsher Penalties For Repeat Griefers

As part of the latest patch to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive , Valve has made changes to their policy for bad behavior. Two strikes and you are out, pal. The patch notes read as follows: A temporary griefing conviction assigned by Overwatch will now be elevated to a permanent conviction if the suspect had a previous…

VR Developers Add ‘Superpower’ To Their Game To Fight Harassment

Over the last few months, several women have reported facing or witnessing sexual harassment online in VR. Most recently, author Jordan Belamire explained on Medium last week that the avatar of someone she didn’t know virtually groped her in the online mulitplayer game QuiVR. Yesterday, QuiVR’s developers responded by modding their game to prevent non-consensual…

Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture Headlines PlayStation Plus Lineup For November

PlayStation Plus members can get Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Costume Quest 2, and several other games for PS4, PS3, and Vita this month. Remember, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. PlayStation 4 Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture The Deadly Tower of Monsters PlayStation 3 Dirt 3 Costume…

Windows 10 Gets Built-In Game Streaming This Spring

The Xbox One has built-in game streaming, so why not Windows? During today’s Windows 10 event, Microsoft announced that Beam interactive broadcasting technology would be built into the operating system with this spring’s free Creators Update. Streaming from a PC can be a complicated affair. Microsoft aims to make the experience as easy as it…

Somebody’s Making ‘The Ultimate Gaming Deodorant’

Why settle for one of the dozens of stink-suppressing products available at your local supermarket when you can have Plus Five, a deodorant aimed specifically at your favorite hobby? Practicality? Convenience? Okay, I can see that. It really says “the ultimate gaming deodorant” at the top of Plus Five deodorant’s Kickstarter page, where Tim Cooley…

Cancel Halloween in Japan, This Famicom Costume Has Already Won

Now, this is brilliant. The dad from YouTube channel RuiRei Channel created a Famicom console costume to wear with his twin sons. Famicom, Family Computer, family costumes, geddit? Told you it was clever! This kids, of course, enjoy playing the Famicom. First, as IT Media reports, the dad designed the outfits. Then started making them:…

One Piece, Naruto, and Attack On Titan Turned Into Crappy Statues 

Well, these aren’t very good. A shopping mall in Beijing recently kicked off an anime exhibition with life-sized statues of famous characters from One Piece, Naruto, and Attack on Titan. As you can see in these images via GamerSky and Toutiaoabc, the results are not so good. Smart money says these are not licensed (obviously!),…

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Get Me Cosplay Pictures Of Spider-Man!

This is TrevRay Cosplay, hitting the streets of New York to get some very authentic-looking shots of Spider-Man in action. Before you ask, no, we did not pay $300 for them. All photos by Jason Laboy. You can see more shots at Jason’s site

Evolve’s Creators Are No Longer Working On The Game

Evolve, a team-based shooter about giant monsters, was first released in 2015 as a paid standalone game. Then it went free-to-play. Now, it’s going to keep on going without the help of the people who actually made it. Developers Turtle Rock have posted a letter on the game’s forums saying “unfortunately today is the last…

GTA V’s Train vs 100 Tanks

If we’re going to try and find a glimmer of hope amidst the churning turd maelstrom that is 2016, let’s find it in the GTA V trend of “smashing a certain number of things into other things”. Yachts, planes, whatever can move and smash is being moved and smashed, and we’re all the better for…

Overwatch Player Gets Revenge On Cocky Symmetra Troll

In Overwatch, certain people pick Symmetra for the sole purpose of placing teleporters near ledges and watching gung-ho allies with stars in their eyes and dreams in their hearts plunge to their deaths. The first time it happened to me, I laughed. These days, though, the joke’s old. In this clip, Will-e M nearly falls…

You’re Going To Get Fewer Early Game Reviews From Everyone

Bethesda Softworks, makers of Skyrim, Dishonored and other fine games and franchises, is the latest game publisher not rushing to have their games reviewed, at least not by game reviewers. It’s something all gamers should factor in as they assess when and how they’ll find out if a game is worth their time and money.…

Silly Civilization VI Map Recreates Earth, Melts Graphics Cards

The game’s only been out for a few days, and there’s no Steam Workshop support yet, but already the race to see who can make the best “real” map in Civilization VI is on. And the early frontrunner is…taxing. Gedemonover on Civ Fanatics has released an alpha version of an Earth map that blows right…

22 Life Lessons I Learned From A Permadeath Car Game

Surprise Steam global top seller My Summer Car bills itself as “the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance, AND permadeath life survival simulator.” It’s taught me a lot. Find your center My Summer Car really is an open-world survival game. Sure, my goal is to take the shell of an old junker and fill…