The Weekend In Esports: Smash Bros. And Cruise Ships

It’s finally fall, and as if there weren’t already enough games coming out to play, there’s plenty of big things going on in competitive gaming to watch. This weekend, Europe will crown a Hearthstone champion to send to BlizzCon later this season, and a slew of Chinese Dota 2 teams will compete to see who…

This Week In The Business: Caveats In 4K

QUOTE | “I think there are a lot of caveats [Sony’s] giving customers right now around 4K.” ­– Albert Penello, senior director of product management and planning at Xbox, commenting on how PS4 Pro compares to Microsoft’s upcoming Scorpio console Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “I think there’s going to…

Palmer Luckey Comments On His Political Involvement, Says He’s Voting Libertarian

As Kotaku noted this week, The Daily Beast reported that Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey has been “secretly funding” Nimble America, which it called “an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to ‘shitposting.’” Tonight, Palmer has commented on Facebook about his involvement. Here is Palmer’s statement in full: The original article stated, “The 24-year-old told The…

Blubber Busters is a combat platformer about venturing inside space whales to cure their illnesses. Seriously. You lead a crew of intergalactic infection fighters, and you can swap between and upgrade them. It comes from devs who worked on League of Legends, Darksiders 2, and Enter The Gungeon. It’s on Kickstarter

Star Citizen‘s First-Person View Is Based On Birds

Star Citizen’s first-person view isn’t like other games, where you’re essentially in control of a floating camera. That approach is tried and true, but not wholly realistic. In the preposterously ambitious space game, your view and your body are one-in-the-same, just like in a real human body. Problem: turns out, human bodies have a lot…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: One Last Dance

I’d originally planned to run our World of Warcraft: Legion review today, but due to circumstances firmly under my control, it’s now going to run Monday morning. The fact that I’m still playing the game every night probably didn’t help. Yes, three weeks and change later, I’m still pretty heavily invested in World of Warcraft’s…

VR Developers Speak Out About Oculus Founder’s Support Of Trump Trolls [UPDATE]

Following last night’s newsthat Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is helping fund a troll army of Trump supporters, several VR developers have decided to pull Oculus support for their titles. UPDATE – 9/23, 10:30 PM: Palmer Luckey posted a statement to Facebook in which he claimed he’s not a Trump supporter and instead plans to vote…

Destiny Team Beats Rise of Iron‘s Raid In Two Hours

Clan Redeem is the world’s first Destiny team to complete the new Rise of Iron raid, Wrath of the Machine. The raid launched at 1pm Eastern, and they completed it a bit past 3pm. Nice work, Clan Redeem.

Twelve Of The Best Gaming Episodes In Cartoons

The worlds of gaming and animation have been living in harmony for over 30 years. There have been plenty of shows based on gaming’s greatest icons and plenty of games based on classic cartoon characters. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t. This post originally appeared 9/7/15. Animated programs that were modeled after specific games…

Mystery Game Inspired By The X-Files Does A Lot Without Words

Virginia is a narrative game developed by Variable State out now for the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. It lasts about two hours and has no dialog but it might just be one of the best stories I’ve encountered in games this year. Taking the role of a rookie FBI agent Anne Tarvers, you…

Onward!

This is a piece of concept art for the upcoming Dishonored 2 It’s by Sergey Kolesov. You can see more of Sergey’s work below, as well as at his blog and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration…

The Denizens of Minecraft’s ‘Worst’ Server Are At War With YouTube

A war is raging on one of the longest-running servers in Minecraft, 2b2t Some of the battle is fought with diamond swords and lava buckets, as you might expect, but the rest of it unfolds with racist memes, shocking gore and porn, as well as monstrous contraptions designed to make the server literally unplayable. It’s…

Street Fighter V Update Makes Losing Matches More Embarrassing

Losing in Street Fighter V is now very, very embarrassing. Last night’s Street Fighter V update added Street Fighter III’s suit-clad human-muscle Urien and a Versus CPU mode, but the game’s new environmental stage KOs are the real… kicker. SFV patch 1.06’s new stage KOs are just vicious. Your limp, defeated corpse no longer just…

Well Of Course Destiny Players Have Already Found Rise of Iron Cheese

Destiny, a video game about the eternal war between the players and developers of Destiny, has always been full of cheese. Over the past two years, Destiny’s community has discovered all sorts of ways to manipulate the game and get new gear as quickly as possible. Rise of Iron is no exception. This week’s new…

Forza Horizon 3 Runs Fine On PC

Forza Horizon 3 marks the series’ PC debut as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program. I’ve been playing the PC version since yesterday, and so far nothing horrible has happened. In fact, almost everything is fine. It’s sad that a PC port of a game that’s traditionally been a console exclusive had me primed…

Nintendo’s Big Fall Wii U Game Briefly Went On Sale Two Weeks Early

Some shocked Wii U owners spread the word this morning that Paper Mario Color Splash, the only remaining big Nintendo-published Wii U game of 2016, was playable today despite it not technically going on sale until October 7. It’s common these days for retail copies of games to find their way to gamers’ consoles prior…