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The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video

Video games: how much do we love them? Enough to inspire us to devote a good chunk of our lives to them, at the very least. The incredible world of…

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December 10, 2020
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Meet the whale who spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on the MMO Black Desert Online

Heedun yesterday posted a YouTube interview with Estimate, the whale who has spent $160k in microtransactions on the MMORPG Black Desert Online. Estimate is very open about the fact that…

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July 23, 2020
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The 11 most ridiculous Pokémon ever captured

Pokémon, Nintendo’s monster-collecting franchise is a staggering 20 years old this year. The first games dropped with 151 unique critters to collect, including iconic critters like Pikachu and Squirtle. Those characters have…

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August 7, 2015
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    UK university students debate banning “press F to pay respects” meme What the F?

    Saying “press F to pay respects” is now problematic, at least according to the airheads at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, which has taken a stance against the popular gaming meme. Delegates at the NUS National Conference are holding a debate on whether to stop people from saying the popular phrase. Originating from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, “press F to pay respects” became a meme in the gaming community after gamers remarked how out of place it felt as players were instructed to press the F key on the PC to pay their respects to a fallen soldier in the game’s single-player campaign. It quickly became the go-to…

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    69 things you need to do in GTA before you die So you think you’re done with Liberty City? Think again.

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    Gaming’s most persistent myths and urban legends, debunked From blowing in cartridges to Lara Croft nude cheats and the secret Windows95 devil program. I’m sure you believe in at least one of these falsehoods.

    October 6, 2017

    The game journo echo chamber: suppressing dissent and vilifying gamers Apart from a few comments sections, gamers are often defenseless to the torrent of accusations against them by ivory tower weirdos.

    October 11, 2016
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    Sekiro is too hard for game journalists Game journalists are crying out for an easier easy mode and it's starting to get ridiculous.

    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a hard game but it certainly isn’t Demon’s Souls. Now FromSoftware’s newly released game has become the latest to fall afoul of the gaming press as game journalists reach for the cheat codes and cry out for an easier easy mode. PC Gamer is just one of many to jump on the “Sekiro is too hard” bandwagon. In the piece, game journo James Davenport throws a tantrum about the game and the players who didn’t struggle as much as he did. He describes the game’s final boss as “some bullshit,” writing, “It’s a four phase boss fight and I hate it. I know. It was easy…

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    The video games about nothing Seinfeld is famously a show about nothing, but indie developers continue to find plenty of something to work with.

    November 7, 2018

    Legendary Commodore 64 Daffy Duck game finally found, playable for first time It’s a 228KB download, which was huge for the time.

    September 4, 2015

    The rise and fall of video gaming’s most vocal enemy Over the course of 10 years, lawyer Jack Thompson aggressively pursued video games in the courtroom. This is a history of his career.

    September 15, 2015
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    Atari VCS delays may have been worth it Customizable Atari console will have new Radeon Vega-based graphics architecture and two Zen CPU cores from AMD.

    Atari used to be a household name way back in the ’80s, and the company – or at least the new holders of the Atari brand – intend to put the console’s old-school magic into the hands of gamers today. However, delays to the console’s release have cast doubts on whether it’ll ever come out. Originally slated for release in 2018, the console was pushed back to Spring 2019 – a release window that has since come and gone. It’s now set for release in late 2019. The delays haven’t been without cause, as the company revealed last week that they’ve come up with a new production prototype that’s replete…

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    The Lost Arcade: a rose-colored look at the last arcade in NYC, the legendary Chinatown Fair From Times Square to Coney Island you could find people playing arcade games all day and all night, but it wasn’t meant to last.

    August 12, 2016

    How a group of Polish devs turned war into a deeply personal and groundbreaking game A look at what went into the making of This War Of Mine.

    July 1, 2016
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    Video game journalists are a joke Gamers don’t have a problem with challenge. Game journalists do, because they're lazy hacks — and because challenge itself engenders fundamental problems for their ideology.

    November 29, 2018
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    r/Games shuts down for 24 hours to protest “toxic” memes like “gamers rise up” and PewDiePie And it's not an April Fool's joke, subreddit moderators explain.

    Moderators on the r/Games subreddit used April 1st as an opportunity to close the community and prevent any new threads from being posted, and it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke. This was the best way to focus attention on their newly posted sermon scolding the community for not being inclusive and diverse enough to their liking, the moderators explained. In a post titled “r/games is closed for April Fool’s, Find out why in here” the mods talk about what they believe to be a growing, pervasive issue that has, in their opinion, affected r/Games and gaming communities as a whole. “In recent times, it’s come to our attention that what…

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    How ‘Untitled Goose Game’ went from meme sensation to real game House House partner Stuart Gillespie-Cook went into the company’s Slack channel in August of 2016, posted a picture of a goose and wrote “Let’s make a game about this.”

    September 20, 2019
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    No, game journos, Grand Theft Auto doesn’t make you sexist False interpretations of already worthless and pseudoscientific studies. But hey — narrative.

    April 18, 2016

    I played No Man’s Sky with an astronomer to separate its science fiction from facts An infinite gaming world, but is any of it based on scientific fact? We sat down with one of the world's leading astronomers to put No Man's Sky under the intergalactic microscope.

    August 19, 2016
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    Woke at the GDC The Game Developers Conference is now about how games are to blame for every social ill — real or imagined.

    Every year, game developers and the hangers-on parasites of the game industry get up on stage at Game Developers Conference to show the world how woke they are by parroting every social justice narrative known to personkind. No longer do they focus on video games and what they have to offer in terms of innovation and the kind of stuff gamers actually care about – like, you know, the gameplay. They instead talk about how games are to blame for every social ill, real or imagined. In the wake of the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, a number of game industry luminaries attempted to blame it on the toxic gaming…

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    A Call of Duty youtuber is livestreaming his legs literally rotting away 2020 UPDATE: THEY'RE MELTING!⁠—Diabetic drunkard ONLYUSEmeBLADE refuses to seek treatment for the rapidly expanding sores, which are being cheered on by "leg hole" fans as they gradually consume his discolored limbs in daily livestreamed updates.

    September 25, 2019

    Video game journalism is killing itself Game journalists are killing themselves through political peacocking and attacking consumers.

    October 29, 2016

    The Destiny clan that saved a family Think of the average bunch of guys in an online clan and the word 'heart-warming' doesn't usually spring to mind. But then most clans aren't the Dads Of Destiny, a 30,000 strong group bound by two common themes: parenthood, and not being a dick.

    March 26, 2015
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    Steam Link Anywhere offers new innovations to gaming Valve is introducing a new “game streaming everywhere” service with Steam.

    Valve has long since dominated the PC gaming landscape with its online retail service, Steam, but its dominance has allowed the company to collect a bunch of money and get real lazy about innovating its own service. With Steam now facing steep competition against the likes of Discord, Epic Games, and Twitch, Valve is introducing a new “game streaming everywhere” service with Steam. Reported earlier this week on PC Gamer, Valve has revealed plans ahead of GDC to launch two potentially major new features for Steam that are now in “early beta.” Steam Link Anywhere enables streamed gaming to any compatible device, and Steam Networking Sockets APIs, which grant developers…

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    10 fighting game characters that are definitely furries There are some hardcore furries out there in fighting game rosters, and I've put them on a list.

    September 7, 2018

    Woo-Hoo! The making of Stranglehold "There were definitely moments that made you feel like you're in a John Woo movie."

    October 4, 2019

    10 biggest influences on video game history Marquee moments that have helped gaming get to where it is today, and laid the groundwork for what we'll hear about in the future.

    December 23, 2012
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    Snapchat is getting into video games When you think of Snapchat, the last thing you’re going to think about is video games. But!

    When you think of Snapchat, the last thing you’re going to think about is video games. There’s premium snaps, egirls, and just being all around flirty with people you know. That’s what I think of when I think of Snapchat. So why is Snapchat getting involved with video games? Snapchat’s seriously considering getting into the video game scene with the introduction of games that live inside of the app itself. According to Cheddar, which spoke to a source that’s quote unquote close to the matter, the application is developing a system that will allow game devs to build games that live inside the Snapchat app, but how they might look…

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    Former jewel thief reviews GTA 5’s jewelry heists A former jewel thief has taken Grand Theft Auto 5’s heists to task, and explains how he would have done it instead.

    January 27, 2020

    Inside the troubled development of Star Citizen After five years, more than $124 million in fan funding and nothing close to a finished game, Star Citizen has become a lightning-rod for controversy. What’s really been going on?

    September 23, 2016

    The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.

    December 10, 2020
  • 25 years later, how Super Metroid came to define a genre It drastically reimagined how people would think about action games, and still shows up on “best game of all time” lists to this day.

    On March 19, 1994, Japanese audiences got a chance to play one of the most influential video games of all time: Super Metroid, developed by Gunpei Yokoi’s Nintendo R&D team along with Intelligent Systems. The game saw bounty hunter Samus Aran once again contend with the machinations of Mother Brain as she once again tries to exploit the titular energy-draining creatures for conquest. Although not a hit in Japan, it sold over a million copies worldwide and still shows up on “best game of all time” lists well into the 21st century. Obviously the existence of Super Metroid implies a regular Metroid, but the effects of the original NES game…

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    The making of Firewatch The story behind one of 2016's most unusual, human and thought-provoking games.

    August 12, 2016

    Under the thumb: the evolution of buttons How the buttons we press daily were formed over many decades.

    November 29, 2020

    Metroid Prime like you’ve never seen it before An extract from the new issue of Heterotopias.

    May 9, 2017
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    Who is to blame for New Zealand attack? PewDiePie, say checkmarks, media Of course.

    Tragedy struck Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday after a 28-year-old eco-fascist opened fire on worshipers at two separate mosques during midday local time, killing dozens of them. The shooter livestreamed his atrocity on Facebook and uploaded a manifesto to 8chan, both of which referenced a large number of memes. One of these memes, mentioned well before the actual rampage and while still in his car, was the ubiquitous “subscribe to PewDiePie.” PewDiePie, as most of you know, is the world’s most popular youtuber and staple object of media and blue checkmark hate. So, of course, the inevitable happened. Andrew Todd, a New Zealand-based film critic and journalist, was the first to…

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    Teen secretly spent $20k of mom’s savings on Twitch celebs, and the streaming giant thinks that’s just fine Twitch ignored the distraught mother and then silently deleted the evidence—or so they thought.

    August 10, 2020

    Don’t share Watch Dogs 2’s (very real) vaginas or Sony will ban you (NSFW!) Turns out there are vaginas in Watch Dogs 2, but if you share a picture of them then Sony will ban you.

    November 15, 2016

    5 plot twists that would have made great games even better When done right, a twist can be truly spectacular. Here's what they should have done...

    September 1, 2014
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    Rotten Tomatoes deletes 50k Captain Marvel reviews to ‘fight trolls’ Negative review bombing out, positive review bombing in.

    The world’s biggest movie score aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes, has removed over 50,000 user reviews of Captain Marvel in response to a “review bombing” campaign of the controversy-ridden movie on the day of its premiere. The film featured over 58,000 reviews – arguably an absurd number of reviews ahead of its actual release. Throughout the day, users who kept a keen eye on the page noted how thousands of reviews were being removed in real time, eventually dropping the number of total reviews to 7,000. Twitter was ablaze with conspiracy theories about the deletions, which would seem to suggest that the company was trying to run defense for Captain Marvel, which…

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    Legendary Commodore 64 Daffy Duck game finally found, playable for first time It’s a 228KB download, which was huge for the time.

    September 4, 2015

    Sony makes the worst exclusives, according to science We downloaded over 350,000 reviews from 18,000 different games so we can rank Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony.

    February 5, 2018

    The real reason LEGO Universe shut down: it didn’t anticipate the ‘penis cost’ The challenge of keeping a family-friendly MMO penis-free was too much for Warner Brothers.

    June 1, 2015
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