Condolences and loving tributes have started pouring in from family, friends and fans of the two victims in yesterday’s Jacksonville mass shooting, Eli “TrueBoy” Clayton and Taylor “SpotMeplzzz” Robertson. Clayton, 22, and Robertson, 27, were both prominent members of the competitive Madden NFL community. “To God be the Glory…Please continue to lift me, my family and my children in prayer at this time,” Michael wrote. Asking for traveling grace to Jacksonville.”Keshawn Fields, a competitive Ma

A limited edition Nintendo Switch Pro controller will be released with Super Smash Bros. Best Buy has a listing up for a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Limited Edition, which according to product details includes Super Smash Bros, steelbook and Pro Controller, though there isn’t yet a product image on the page and the synopsis reads, “Just Announced, More Information Coming Soon”. Pricing information is not yet available on the limited edition controller, though we assume it will be around the same

When fans saw the first trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 at this year’s E3, a vocal minority was upset that it looked too bright. As it turns out, that something was a complete day and night lighting cycle. The only difference was the lighting, which included deeper shadows and more substantive high dynamic range lighting than was shown in Los Angeles. The real kicker comes in the last two minutes of the video, which shows off Night City at night for the first time. There’s still no release date for C

A free version of the full report offers a breakdown of six types of gamers, based on their activities. The report is based on interviews with more than 5,000 people who had played a video game in the month of the survey. It found that 67 percent of Americans play video games, representing an audience of more than 211 million people. Transitionals (11 percent) are adults who’ve spent their lives gaming, but now squeeze gaming into their busy lives. Incidental Players (26 percent) play mobile gam

The gameplay demo for Cyberpunk 2077 shown to the press at E3 2018 was finally unveiled to the public. In a press release issued today, game director Adam Badowski stressed that the game isn’t done yet. “What we’re releasing today was recorded from a game deep in development,” said Badowski in the press release that followed. But the hype from those early showings proved a bit too powerful, and the team decided to toss the gameplay demo out there anyway. After watching the gameplay video again,

Twitch will remove any clip that contains footage of the Jacksonville Madden NFL 19 shooting, which left a dozen injured and three people dead, the company told Polygon. A clip of the shooting’s first moments — which originated on Twitch — circulated on Twitter and Reddit before it was taken down by Twitch administrators. We allow graphic content (with some limitations) to help people raise awareness about issues. We also know that people have different sensitivities with regard to graphic and v

Soulcalibur 6 will introduce a new character to the series when it arrives this October: Azwel, the Leader of Humanity. A new trailer for Bandai Namco’s weapons-based fighting game reveals what Azwel is capable of. Azwel joins Grøh as one of Soulcalibur 6’s all-new characters. They join veteran Soulcalibur fighters Taki, Talim, Ivy, Zasalamel, Sophitia, Mitsurugi, Voldo, Seong Mi-na, Astaroth, Nightmare, Xianghua and Kilik as part of the game’s roster. The Witcher’s Geralt will also be included

Disney’s upcoming streaming service finally has a tentative name, and it’s reportedly the company’s number-one priority heading into 2019. Disney CEO Bob Iger refers to Disney’s streaming service as Disney Play, according to Variety, and the service is geared as a rival to top competitors — mainly Netflix and Amazon. There is another app called Play Disney, which is a mobile game that Disney Parks visitors can play on their phones. Details about the streaming service are still scarce, including

Donut County invites plenty of comparisons to Katamari Damacy; a strange, unexplainable force descends on a town and its unwitting residents. But where chaos reaches literal new heights with Katamari, the holes that terrorize Donut County are silent, efficient and clean. 999 feet below the Earth’s surface, a campfire crackles around the displaced residents of Donut County and the debris of their former lives. Disturbingly large voids aside, the writing of Donut County is equal parts charming and

Tumblr will introduce a new set of community guidelines on Sept. 10, according to an official announcement, in an attempt to crack down on hate speech, harassment, gore and non-consenting sexual images that may appear through deepfake technology. On Monday, the company published a blog post outlining stricter guidelines that community members must abide by to remain on the platform. The company is also cracking down on hate speech. If you encounter content that violates our hate speech policies,

The Twitch feed for CD Projekt Red, the Polish developers behind the Witcher series of role-playing games, is acting a little funny this morning. Fans on Reddit are convinced that it’s a teaser, and that a public demonstration of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay is on the way. Cyberpunk 2077 was announced way back in 2012, well before the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. More than six years later, CD Projekt made a huge splash at E3 2018, when it showed off a 50-minute gameplay demo behind closed doo

A new Streets of Rage is coming. Dotemu and Lizardcube, the publisher and developer of Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, announced Streets of Rage 4 today in partnership with Sega. Also involved in the creation of Streets of Rage 4 is Guard Crush Games, developer of Streets of Fury, a side-scrolling beat-’em-up released in 2015 that used digitized graphics. Sega’s Streets of Rage series kicked off on the Sega Genesis in 1991. The original Streets of Rage was followed by sequels in 1992 and 1994.

Microsoft announced Xbox All Access today, a new plan that includes subscriptions to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass, as well as Xbox One hardware, for a discounted monthly fee. There are two tiers of Xbox All Access: For $21.99 per month, subscribers will get an Xbox One S, in addition to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass; and for $34.99 per month, subscribers will get an Xbox One X, in addition to Xbox Live Gold and Game Pass. There is no upfront cost, Microsoft said, and at the end of the 24-mon

But a brand new survival game, titled SCUM, is currently the third most popular game on Twitch. In the fiction of SCUM, players take on the role of inmates in a supermax prison. The game map itself is fairly large at 144 square kilometers. That’s roughly in-between the size of DayZ’s original map, which was 225 square kilometers, while still a lot bigger than Battlegrounds’ original map, which was 16 square kilometers. You can watch streamers learning about the game in real time by heading to Tw

HBO debuted the first teaser trailer for season three of its peculiar drama series, True Detective, tonight — and it’s definitely got some season one vibes. The teaser focuses on Wayne Hays, played by Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), who is trying to figure out something from his past. Much like the first season, the third looks like it will use fragmented memories and multiple timelines to tell a twisty story. True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto will be credited with writing the entir

At its peak, more than 860,000 people paid $10 to watch Logan Paul and KSI’s months-in-the-making fight, but that was nothing. There are now officially more people watching the Logan Paul/KSI fight on Twitch through illegal streams than through the official YouTube stream. Amazon fail.”Kint previously said that if KSI and Logan Paul streamed the fight for free, their viewership would have doubled. Like KSI and Logan Paul fighting, or Mayweather and McGregor’s match. What happens when KSI and Log

The International 2019 will be held in Shanghai, the first time the tournament will be held outside North America since its first at Gamescom seven years ago. Valve revealed next year’s plans yesterday at the Grand Final of The International 2018, won by OG Dota in five games over PSG.LGD. This year’s prize pool was another record, $25 million, with $11 million of that going to OG Dota. Mercedes-Benz Arena was the main event site for the second major in 2016’s Dota Major Championships series. Te

Kaur is a KSI fan; Sandhu is a Logan Paul supporter. “Shania came to Vancouver for summer two months ago and we just happened to connect over YouTubers and the fight,” Sandhu said. He’s a bad influence.”Ormond, who also uploads videos to YouTube himself, was more worried about Paul’s pre-teen fans. “My son’s a big fan of KSI and YouTube in general, and I’m just the dad who’s done the taxi driving,” Nick said. “I feel like for years, old media has always neglected YouTube, pushed back and felt li

MotorStorm Apocalypse’s multiplayer servers will be shutting down tomorrow, and while the closure of a seven-year-old PlayStation 3 game might not be stop-the-presses news, it’s a chance to remember a relic of arcade racing and the previus console generation. Today is the last day you can play #MotorStormApocalypse before the online servers are shutdown forever. pic.twitter.com/lGJORimXgL — Paul Rustchynsky (@Rushy33) August 26, 2018Paul Rustchynsky was the director of the Motorstorm series, lat

Multiple persons on live streams and social media reported a mass shooting at a Madden NFL 19 tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, this morning. The Jacksonville sheriff’s office confirmed “multiple fatalities” at the scene, including the suspect. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will hold a news conference at 4:30 ET. Madden Tournament. New: The Jacksonville gunman was a gamer in the Madden tournament who lost, and he killed himself after opening fire, another competitor tells me.