Dropping stacks on ephemera PlayerUnknown’s Battlegroundsisfun as shit, but when you’ve got10 million salesand1 million concurrent players, it’s also big money, and bound to pick up some obsessives. Like the kind of player who dropsmore than a fucking stackon a purely cosmetic item. Thered bandanahas been selling for hundreds on the Steam market place over the past few months, but it was being sold for as low as $20 back in March....
Ratings board to reopen offices May 7 Japan’s Computer Entertainment Ratings Organization (CERO)has announcedthat it intends to resume rating new ratings from May 7, following its closure last month as part of the country’s COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic legislation. CEROshut up shop on April 7, following an announcement by Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the country was in an official State of Emergency. Without CERO able to address publisher submissions, this move put all of the country’s upcoming video game releases in limbo, including all base games, demos, and DLC products....
Box office round up Raise your hand if you saw this one coming?Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungleis now Dwayne Johnson’s biggest domestic box office success, and that means it’s grossed more than any of hisFast and Furiousfilms. It’s just been a perfect storm for the movie. There’s been no competition, it’s got strong word of mouth, and its biggest holiday competitors were front loaded with massive box offices so everyone already saw them....
Pocket Puzzler Square Enix Montreal is offering up its mobile puzzlerLara Croft GOas a free download for a limited time. All you have to do is grab the 2015 title on either iOS or the Android Store between now and April 1 and you can dive into the strategic adventure game for no charge. Lara Croft GOis a neat little title that takes the typically action-packed adventures of Lara and translates them into 40 stages of turn-based, strategic action....
This indie comic book was published back in June, but it’s only now coming to my attention. Still, I figure not many of you guys caught wind of this either, and it might make a sweet gamer gift for the holidays. Level Upby Gene Luen Yang and illustrated by Thien Pham is a gaming comic that isn’t really about gaming at all. It’s about an Asian-American boy named Dennis who struggles to live up to the rigid expectations of his immigrant parents....
Class is in session! Hot off the heels ofLittle Witch Academia’sdomestic Netflix debut, Bandai Namco has announced the game adaptation, now titledLittle Witch Academia: Chamber of Time, will release in North America in early 2018. The game will be coming to the PlayStation 4, aspreviously announcedfor its Japanese release, but also to PC via Steam. Bandai Namco has provided a brief overview of the setting for the anime, as well as the the game’s original plot:...
Because the media will publish anything Markus “Notch” Persson opened up on Twitter this weekend, posting several tweets lamenting that life as an celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The tweets became a news sensation as several high-profile websites painted Persson as asadandlonelymanwho hates being a billionaire. Today, theMinecraftcreator announced he’s just going to post some random shit to Twitter to see what the media does with it....
Whether its a bunch of tabletopDungeons and Dragonsplayers or a bunch of extremeGuild WarMMORPG players, role-players are generally just nuts. Have you seen the costumes people wear at Blizzcon? I mean talk about “mom’s basement” scary. So no one should ever release them on a Christmas Nativity scene, unless they want some scary cosplay to happen. Matt Burnett and Ben Levin fromFor Tax Reasonsknew this already, and created a role-playing themed cartoon for the holiday season that spells out the disaster that is public theater and LARP players....
‘We recently extended Kinect?s value’ Until today, you could buy aPC compatible, standalone Kinect v2 (the Xbox One one)for use with your PC or tablet. Microsoft justannouncedit will no longer be producing the Kinect for Windows sensor. If you still want to use a Kinect with your Windows device, Microsoft is producing a FIFTY DOLLAR (50$)Kinect Adapter for Windowsthat can be used tokinectan Xbox One Kinect, thereby, “[extending] Kinect’s value.” Hah....
I’m sure there are quite a few people who have never downloaded any video content from the Xbox Live Marketplace yet. Some were permanently turned off when they tried to rent a movie the day the service launched and experiencedhorrible download speeds. Others would rather just get their movies from Netflix. Whatever the case may be, Microsoft wants to make it clear that we are missing out and that they are kicking ass and takingnamesgamertags:...
We’ve got a clue ChannelingThe Evil Within‘s protagonist detective Sebastian Castellanos, internet sleuths have made good use of their magnifying glasses and keen attention to detail. A new clue has popped up to suggest that a sequel toThe Evil Withinis in the works. A private Japanese job listing forPsycho Break 2(The Evil Within‘s series name in Japan) was leaked and posted toNeoGAF. The listing is specifically for translation and quality assurance positions....
I hope you like Overwatch Every year, PAX draws thousands of game enthusiasts to Seattle, and lots of them decide that the best way to express their affection for a given game is to dress up like one of the characters. Cosplay has really taken off at PAX since it started over ten years ago. I did my best to photojournalize some of the best cosplay at PAX West last weekend....
Fans call for Capcom to revisit the project Some time ago, we learned off a rather odd project from Capcom — a grittyMega Man XFPS ideathat never saw the light of day. Yep, Keiji Inafune gave ex-Retro Studios alumni the idea to re-imagineMega Mansimilar toMetroid Prime, but the concept never got past the greenlight stage. It seems as if a number of fans aren’t giving up hope, as an“Operation Maverick Hunter”fan page has opened on Facebook, alongside of afan-led petition....
