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  • Hardware limitations are holding back Final Fantasy’s butt sliders Naoki Yoshida: "You all really like butts, don't you?"

    The director of Final Fantasy XIV says hardware limitations are keeping characters’ bums smaller than their players want. In an interview with Gamespot, Naoki Yoshida explained the work that would have to go in to butt customization. The issue dates back to FF14’s Nier: Automata crossover, where a character outfit based on 2B had a larger behind than other characters, which caused clipping problems with certain animations. That model had its butt shrunk down, but community backlash caused Yoshida’s team to reverse its decision. Additional information about the 2B outfit in FFXIV, it fucking increases the size of your character's ass. Taro you madman. pic.twitter.com/WatsfMIDmj — Buttons Montgomery (@HBJohnXuandou) October 29, 2019 pic.twitter.com/WShEmjawV4 — Dace…

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    The craziest Pokémon Go stories so far Spontaneous friendships, Diglett dick pics, illuminati conspiracies, dead bodies, and all the other crazy Pokémon Go stories so far.

    July 12, 2016

    Why Zelda dungeons are so great Let's dig into how the dungeons work so well with Mark Brown's great crash-course.

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    Twitch streamer brags she can’t get banned for nudity, immediately gets banned for nudity (NSFW) “Jeff [Bezos] lets me take my clothes off on Twitch. I've done it four times.”

    Twitch streamer Wintrycelll had all the reasons in the world to feel confident she would get away with streaming in the nude. Twitch notoriously bans male streamers for the smallest infractions, while female streamers can stream animal torture and beastiality with no consequence. She’s also gotten away with streaming in the nude in the past – a total of four times, she says – which she attributes to her alleged friendly relations with Twitch/Amazon owner Jeff Bezos. But five appears to be the magic number in her case. “Jeff lets me take my clothes off on Twitch,” Wintrycelll bragged to her cohosts while playing GTA. “I can get naked right…

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    The many, bizarre emotions of FIFA 15’s emotion engine Thanks to FIFA 15’s new Emotional Intelligence, all 22 players on the pitch can now employ 600 new emotional reactions. It's... not always the most natural-looking thing.

    September 17, 2014

    It’s alive! How the last decade of horror cinema is influencing indie games The cinematic genre's margins are violently expanding and contracting, and videogames are learning from the best examples.

    March 2, 2018

    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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    ‘Rape Day’ video game tests Steam content policy “A game where you can rape and murder during a zombie apocalypse.”

    A new video game promises to allow players to fulfill their darkest rapist fantasies in a zombie apocalypse scenario. The game is called Rape Day, and it is set to launch on Valve’s Steam gaming platform. The description is plain and straightforward: “Rape Day is a game where you can rape and murder during a zombie apocalypse.” According to the listing’s “about” section, Rape Day puts players in the role of a “serial rapist during the zombie apocalypse,” and encourages the player to “verbally harass, kill, and rape women as you choose to progress the story.” “It’s a dangerous world with no laws. The zombies enjoy eating the flesh off…

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    The 11 hardest survival simulators Casuals, stay away. These are the survival games that make staying alive difficult.

    May 26, 2019

    Four reasons you’re wrong about Pokémon Red and Blue The original Pokémon games aren’t particularly interesting or special, they were just the first.

    November 15, 2016

    What your MMO says about you We've got you figured out.

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  • Randy Pitchford shares porn to promote his failed game and it blows up in his face It’s sad to see Gearbox fall this low.

    Last year was a rough one for Gearbox Software head Randy Pitchford. He had this awkward and downright horrible anti-GameGate song performance, and he also released the game Battleborn, which we ranked as one of the biggest disappointments of 2016. Battleborn was released around the same time as the game Overwatch, our unanimous game of the year selection. The games are somewhat similar, but Overwatch is clearly overshadowing Battleborn on every level. Possibly in a creative way to bring more attention to his failed game, Pitchford has decided to share a link to the game’s porn subreddit. VERY NSFW, but I have received reports that BattlebornRule34 is now a thing on Reddit.…

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    The legacy of Duke Nukem We take you on the full journey, from hope to hopelessness.

    May 18, 2009

    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

    ‘Adventure Mario’: the making of The Legend of Zelda We’re going back to the mid-80s to look at the creation of one of gaming's longest-running and most-loved series.

    November 29, 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.

    So, it turns out that Watch Dogs 2 has fully modeled vaginas on some female characters – something that slipped through certification. However, if you take a picture and share it to prove that these vaginas do in fact exist then Sony will temporarily ban your account. So, here’s a little Public Service Announcement from me to you: don’t share Watch Dogs 2‘s vaginas. Over on NeoGAF, Goron2000 tells how he was sent his copy of Watch Dogs 2 early and claims he has discovered that some of the female character models had fully textured genitals: I received my copy of Watch Dogs 2 on Saturday evening due to a mistake…

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    Does the C64 Mini’s games library do the Commodore 64 justice? The real reason it trumped the Speccy and Amstrad was breadth and quality of software.

    March 29, 2018

    You can now play XCOM in an Excel spreadsheet It’s called EXLCOM, and all you need to run it is a copy of Excel. What a time to be alive.

    December 3, 2015

    Media calls for VR safe spaces Everyone will finally be safe in places where nothing can hurt you to begin with.

    May 3, 2016
  • Brazzers is making a live action Overwatch porn movie It's called Oversnatch and it was only a matter of time.

    Finally someone’s stepping up to the plate and providing Overwatch’s thirsty fan base with the high budget, live action porno they’ve been craving. In just four short days Brazzers will release Oversnatch: A Brazzers XXX Parody. Watch this video on YouTube Aletta Ocean will be starring as Widowmaker, the “cock sniper” (whatever the hell that means). The promo video gives a little taste of the action, showing a fight between the sniper and Reaper (played by Danny D). The highlight is when Reaper shoots an energy blast at Widowmaker, only for her to catch it in her hand and turn it into a purple dildo. Gawd, Blizzard! Why can’t that be in the…

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    Kotaku is killing video game journalism When Kotaku introduced ‘social justice’ to gaming coverage, it all went to hell. Why can't we just play?

    August 25, 2016

    10 great adventure games everyone must try From the games we grew up with to the best modern examples of this wonderful genre.

    March 17, 2015

    The psychology behind your backlog of unplayed games As games become ever cheaper and ever longer, we must necessarily accrue ever bigger piles of unplayed titles. Feel bad about it? Psychology can explain.

    December 1, 2020
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    Why Blizzard’s decision to crack down on porn memes for Overwatch Is odd Plenty of other game franchises have similar adult content floating around.

    The golden rule of the Internet is Rule 34. It’s not some lofty dictum about caring for others, but the simple principle that if something exists there will be porn of it. And Blizzard’s new massively popular game Overwatch is a prime example. Its ensemble cast of brightly colored, physical spectacles has inspired hordes of Internet dwellers to pump out metric tons of high-grade, computer-generated pornography. Pornhub even has data on the insane demand for Overwatch erotica. But it seems the only entity unhappy with this craze is Blizzard itself. Many of the Overwatch videos received DMCA takedown notices. The number of videos on popular online porn sites dwindled from hundreds to fewer than…

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    Mint condition Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge breaks all records—sells for $156k Super Mario Bros is once again the most expensive video game ever sold. It's-a more money than sense!

    November 23, 2020

    What do you do after you’ve made one of the world’s most successful games? King was bought for $5.9 billion by Activision last year. It has two of the most successful games in the world right now. Where can it go from here?

    August 4, 2016
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    The legacy of Duke Nukem We take you on the full journey, from hope to hopelessness.

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  • 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.

    LEGO Universe was a short-lived MMO that hoped to imitate some of the raw building joy in games like Minecraft and Trove. The game never took off and at the start of 2012, after being live for just over a year, it was shut down. Something the developers never anticipated was the cost of their penis police: The moderation costs of LEGO Universe were a big issue in general. They wanted a creative building MMO with a promise of zero penises seen. — Megan Fox (@glassbottommeg) May 29, 2015 Megan Fox was senior graphics coder on LEGO Universe and, over the weekend, she tweeted the story behind the game’s penis…

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    February 12, 2019

    The 11 most ridiculous Pokémon ever captured Not every pocket monster is a classic. Once you’ve run through the good ideas, you have to start looking a little deeper for inspiration.

    August 7, 2015
  • ‘Cobra Club’: an amazingly weird celebration of dick pics (NSFW) In Cobra Club you play a man stood in his bathroom taking pictures of his penis. It's deeper than you think.

    In Cobra Club you play a man stood in his bathroom taking pictures of his penis. Mechanically, there’s not much more to it than that. You can apply different filters to your photos, zoom in, change your character’s skin color, and (in what is potentially the best slider ever featured in a game) adjust your character’s erection. However, as you take photos of yourself, chat windows start to appear. Other users of Cobra Club start conversations with you, asking whether you want to see their unbound trouser snake. They’ll send you pictures, you can comment on them, and send back some of your own. The game is all about questions…

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    April 4, 2018

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    Hacker receives developer-sanctioned death penalty in Guild Wars 2 Sweet justice.

    May 9, 2015
  • The sex is the saddest thing about GTA V (NSFW) Grand Theft Auto V is an incredible, incredible video game. So why is its sex so terrible?

    The first thing I thought when I saw Grand Theft Auto V’s first-person prostitute sex was “I should probably go down to my local GAME and play this video at all the tragically ill-informed parents buying this game for their 9-year-old boys”. The second thing I thought was “this is literally the worst sex I have ever seen”. It was actually bad enough to put me off real-life sex for, like, an evening. Let’s be clear here: I am entirely un-scandalized by the fact that GTA has first-person sex (I’m European, after all). I’m also aware that this was all in the game before. The first-person view just emphasizes how…

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    The story of Second Life’s long-abandoned Duran Duran universe No ordinary world.

    July 7, 2017

    Why Super Mario Bros. 3 is still a masterpiece Before Mario had a World, he had the biggest stage on Earth – and played the part to perfection.

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