Category: News
Tracer’s Butt and Why I’m Okay with the “Over the Shoulder” Pose
A recent post on the Overwatch forums has sparked a controversy over how one of Overwatch‘s star characters, Tracer, is represented in the game. The thread started as a complain from a player who claimed that Tracer’s “Over the Shoulder” pose was too sexualized for the character and is in opposition to Tracer’s spunky personality. […]
Blizzard Announces Children Book Series – World of Warcraft: Traveler
Blizzard announced this morning that they are partnering with Scholastic to create a new series of children’s books based on World of Warcraft. The series, titled World of Warcraft: Traveler, will follow Aramar Thorne, the 12 year old son of the great explorer, Captain Greydon Thorne. Due to a series of unfortunate events, Aram finds himself […]
Consider Who Could Be There: Harassment in VR
Today marks the official launch of the Oculus Rift, a high quality virtual reality headset with dozens of games to enjoy. As an avid fan and enthusiast for the medium, I am beyond excited for today. However, I am not going to gush about my love of VR in this article, I am writing it to talk […]
Overwatch weekly brawls dug up by data miners
If you are not in the Overwatch beta (like me) then you probably missed the most recent set of patch notes which added a new mode similar to Hearthstone’s tavern brawl. Now data miners have found a cache of data which seems to name all of the brawls that will be playable. Lets get right […]
User gets connected to two separate League of Legends games at once
Reddit user /u/popingheads has posted a video to the League of Legends subreddit showing his champion getting placed in to two separate matches at the same time. Its as odd as you might think. Both of the matches seem to feature the same 10 players. While Popingheads team plays in one game, the other team seems to […]
Those NX leaks were all fake
It was too good to be true, the NX news which we reported on last week has been exposed as fake. The images which were first revealed in this reddit post have been revealed to be fake. Their creator took to youtube to discuss how he managed to create the 3D printed “prototype” In the video […]
The divisions first raid is on the way
Last week Ubisoft made a ton of changes to their online shooter RPG The Division, but in the end of their change log they also did something else. Teased new end game content, which I hope is the end game raid that they discussed previously. The exact statement was “Coming soon, we will be introducing new […]
ARK: Survival of the Fittest Video Interview With Jesse Rapczak
Studio Wildcard, the minds behind last year’s smash Steam hit ARK: Survival Evolved have taken the concepts from their first prehistoric title and fashioned what they call a M.O.S.A or Multiplayer Online Survival Arena. Ark Survival of the Fittest pits a number of different players in Survival Evolves‘ world map and gives them a limited number of […]
Microsoft Brings Its AAA Games With April’s Games With Gold
Microsoft is bringing it’s AAA games, literally, with April 2016’s Games With Gold line-up. Heavy hitters from the likes of Insomniac, Deep Silver, Telltale Games and Vicarious Visions make next month possibly one of these best months to be a subscriber to Microsoft’s online platform on either Xbox One or Xbox 360. Xbox One owners can […]
Neko Atsume Update: Four new cats, a new location & tons of new items!
Today a big update for Neko Atsume landed, bring joy to cat lovers everywhere! The overall theme of this update seems to be somewhere between English high tea and candyland, with a new “sugary style” house remodel and many accompanying items!
Have at the G900 Chaos Spectrum the newest flagship from Logitech
Logitech makes some of the best mice in the industry the G (gaming) series of mice have unparalleled sensors, features and design. Now Logitech have taken all that they learned from the early G series, made it wireless and given birth to the G900. A wireless ambidextrous work of art. The G900 features the PMW-3366 sensor […]
Independent Games Festival Awards Recap
Last week while our staff were busy crossing the many halls of the Games Developer Conference 2016 the IGF (Independent Games Festival) were just as busy preparing to announce the winners for this year’s awards. The grand prize went to Seumas McNally’s narrative crime title Her Story won not only the Grand Prize but also […]
Are these new images of the NX controller?
New images of the development kit version of the Nintendo NX controller have leaked thanks to Perkele37 on Reddit. We now have an up & close look at the controller in much higher detail than the previous leaked photos. From these photos it is quite clear that the NX’s thumbsticks are physical nubs, not unlike […]
Hero’s of the Storm is getting draft bans, Finally
Blizzards MOBA Heroes of the Storm is an awesome game. I still play it at least onece a week. I have several max level Hero’s and I have even dabbled in the ladder mode though I still have yet to get a placement since they upped the number of games you need to finish to […]
Nintendo Denies That They Are Ending Wii U Production In Japan
Rumors popped up earlier this week that Nintendo would cease production of its nearly 4 year-old home console the Wii U by the end of this current calendar year according to a repors by Nikkei. To date Nintendo has sold over 12.6 million units worldwide since the console’s launch in 2012, one year prior to […]