The Unity Engine Sure Has Come A Long Way

Once was a time people would make fun of the crummy little web games that were made using the Unity Engine. That time is long gone. The multi-platform engine is now used on a ton of big games (the gorgeous Deserts of Kharak and Satellite Reign are recent examples), but not even they look as…

Korean Woman Kicks Ass At Overwatch, Gets Accused Of Cheating [Update]

Meet Geguri. She’s 17 and very, very talented at Overwatch. She’s so good that after beating rivals during Nexus Cup qualifiers, other players accused her of cheating. Update – June 22 6:30am: More details added blow. Check out her stats. As PC Games N notes, playing as Zarya, she has a win rate of eighty…

Overwatch And League of Legends Battle It Out In South Korea

Overwatch and League of Legends are running neck and neck in the rankings for the most played game at South Korea’s internet cafes. Last week, Overwatch starting making a move to overtake League of Legends, the reigning PC bang (net cafe) king. As tipster Sang points out, Overwatch edged out LoL late last week by…

The Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter Release Got Messy

Mighty No. 9 is finally out. Yet, it looks like some of the people who made it all happen are having difficulty getting their download codes or simply figuring out what exactly is going on. Over 67,000 backers contributed a total of $3.8 million to fund this project. After numerous delays, as the clock rolled…

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Cheers Luv, The…Cavalry’s…Here?

Canadian cosplayer Nathan DeLuca genderbends Overwatch’s Tracer to perfection here. You can see more of Nathan’s cosplay work at his Instagram page and Tumblr

Some Very Good League Of Legends Cosplay

Korean cosplay star Tasha(from Spiral Cats) is having one hell of a 2016, blowing the doors off first withher Overwatch work, and now some Jinx from League of Legends

Civilization VI Makes America Great Again

As America faces an uncertain future, there’s comfort to be found in looking to the past with Civ VI’s choice for the game’s US leader: Teddy Roosevelt. America has long been a Civ mainstay, but its leaders have always been drawn from a small pool: Lincoln and Washington for the most part, with one-off appearances…

Game That Promised To Map The World With Drones Has Been Cancelled

ReRoll, an open world survival RPG from ex-Ubisoft devs, had a lofty pitch: they were going to map the entire planet with drones to generate its world. Sound too good to be true? It was! The project has been cancelled. “We had high hopes to secure the necessary funds to achieve our final goal,” the…

A Third Of Valve Is Now Working On VR

Valve? More like VRlve. Hm, that doesn’t really work. Valve isn’t super big into dishing on whether they still make games these days, but they’ll talk your ear off about VR. Despite an overt effort to usher in The VR Age, it’s still kinda shocking to hear just how much of a concerted push Valve…

Sonic The Hedgehog 25th Anniversary Plushies Celebrate The Good Old Days

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the first Sonic the Hedgehog game, and Tomy is celebrating with a group of plushies that recall a time when Sonic was pudgy, Dr. Robotnik was round and secondary characters were exciting additions. Back then they didn’t care about separating Sonic’s eyes with an edgy…

Watch The Evolution Of Destiny’s User Interface

At the Game Developers Conference in March, Bungie’s David Candland gave a really cool talk about the evolution of Destiny’s UI. Among other things, he showed a bunch of prototype menu screens, and also explained the complicated process of fine-tuning a video game interface. GDC has posted a full video of Candland’s talk to YouTube.…

The Games Stephen Played At E3

Between interviews, video shoots and encounters with mascots, I played a bunch of games at and around E3 last week. Let me tell you about them. At EA Play Titanfall 2 (Xbox One, PS4, PC, October 28 2016) – I had no luck getting hands on time with Battlefield 1, but I did manage to…

Overwatch Fans Have Turned Tracer Into A Completely Different Character

A major part of Overwatch’s appeal is character personality, but not because they’re overflowing with it, per se. Overwatch’s characters are colorful vessels for players to inhabit, foundations on which to build. Blizzard gives us their motivation, a bit of backstory, and some banter, but players’ imaginations are meant to do the heavy lifting. Unsurprisingly,…

South Park: The Fractured But Whole Will Let You Play As A Girl

One of my E3 highlights was when Ubisoft showed more of South Park: The Fractured But Whole, the ridiculously titled sequel to Stick of Truth. Everything they’ve said since then has been just as exciting. For example, South Park maestros Trey Parker and Matt Stone confirmed later last week that unlike the first game, you…