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Blizzard replaces Tracer’s butt pose in Overwatch with a better butt pose
Blizzard Entertainment stepped on a landmine recently when it agreed to replace an “overly sexualized” victory pose for Tracer, one of the heroes in its upcoming team-based shooter, Overwatch. Now that the replacement pose is finally out, and somehow the studio seems to have miraculously satisfied almost everyone. Background The whole fiasco started when Overwatch forum user Fipps ...
Fallout 4 studio Bethesda will return to E3 with another big press event
Bethesda Game Studios made a big splash last year with its first ever E3 press conference where it announced the now incredibly successful Fallout 4, and now Bethesda has said that it will once again be holding a press event at E3 with more exciting announcements to come. “Like last year’s inaugural BE3 Showcase, this year’s ...
PlayStation 4 finally gets its PC Remote Play update tomorrow
It has been just under five months since Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, said that PlayStation 4 would be getting official PC and Mac remote play support, and now that update will finally be arriving tomorrow. The new feature will allow PlayStation 4 owners to play their games remotely using a computer running Windows ...
Trump supporter’s “Mass Effect” video taken down by EA
Electronic Arts Inc has ordered that a fanmade Donald Trump ad be taken down from YouTube after learning that the video used a voice over ripped directly from BioWare’s Mass Effect 2. “The video was an unauthorized use of our IP,” an EA spokesperson told GameInformer in a statement. “We do not support our assets being used ...
Indie darling ‘Starbound’ prepares to leave Early Access after over 2 years
It has been over four years since indie sandbox game Starbound was first announced, and now after two and a half years in development on Steam Early Access, the game is finally ready for its official release. Starbound is the brainchild of Finn “Tiy” Brice, who has worked on other successful indie games, most notably Terraria. ...
Watch Blizzard’s second Overwatch animated short featuring Widowmaker
It has been only two weeks since Blizzard Entertainment released the first animated short for its highly-anticipated upcoming game, Overwatch, and now the second short has already arrived. “Alive” stars Widowmaker, a sniper hero with a dark personality and an even darker backstory. Here is Blizzard’s official history for Widowmaker: Widowmaker is the perfect assassin: ...
Nintendo’s Miitomo is awful, so why am I still using it?
Nintendo Co Ltd’s first official mobile app, Miitomo, launched worldwide last week, and it has already surged to the top of the download charts in the App Store. My first impression toward Miitomo was one of confusion. Why did Nintendo make this? Is this really how they want to break into the world of mobile ...
Jay and Silent Bob game successfully funded on Fig
With only a few hours remaining in its crowdfunding campaign on Fig, Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch has successfully reached its $400,000 funding goal, ensuring that the foul-mouthed slacker duo will be getting their first ever video game. “The outpouring of fan support has been truly humbling,” Interabang Entertainment co-founder Justin Woodward said in a ...
World of Warcraft children’s book series to be published by Scholastic
Blizzard Entertainment Inc has announced that it is partnering up with book publisher Scholastic Corp to release World of Warcraft: Traveler, a series of adventure books aimed at children. “Every Blizzard game from Warcraft on has really had roots and a foundation in story, and I think we really see ourselves as world builders as much as ...
Nintendo’s quirky social app “Miitomo” is now available everywhere
Nintendo Co Ltd’s first official mobile app, Miitomo, has been available in Japan for a few weeks, but today the somewhat bizarre social app has finally launched worldwide. It has been one year since Nintendo first announced that it would be partnering with DeNA Co Ltd to release five new mobile games by the end of 2017, ...
