Data 2Grid View Bungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonBungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonBungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonWalk into the cave, making your way toward the Glacial Drift. Data 3Grid View Bungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonBungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonBungie and Vicarious Visions/Activision via PolygonKeep moving through the cave toward Glacial Drift. Just to the left of data node 8, on the top of th

For PlayStation, nothing represents the current era of social media better than the tiny notch nestled between the digital pad and touchpad: the Share button. So by the time the Share button was first pitched, Sony had already decided to use a ring buffer — a circular data structure that overwrites the oldest footage first — to record the user’s last few minutes of gameplay, though the exact length varied with the day. When we would say we wanted to share everything, some developers would reply

Hello Besties fans! Secondly, we wanted to let you know that we’ll be shifting back to just releasing The Besties as an end-of-year special. You can hear all about it in the episode, but this was the solution we were able to make work with everyone’s schedules. While we know you’ll miss hearing from us each month, we’ll do our absolute best to make the end-of-year episode a true banger. But before that, please enjoy this episode where we discuss the very best games of April 2018.

This week on The History of Fun, special guest Patrick Gill joins us to talk about a famous moment in wrestling history: in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 feet through an announcer’s table. Outside of being a meme, it’s also an outrageous story, and we’re thrilled to have Pat with us to tell it. Here is the full thread of responses:I’m doing a guest spot on @TheHistoryOfFun for an upcoming episode about Wrestling! — Patrick Gill (@Pizza_Suplex) April 30,

At this year’s Mid-Season Invitational, things couldn’t have started off worse for North American representative, Team Liquid. In order to advance, Team Liquid need Fnatic to end with a 5-5 record or worse. So, we get an NA vs EU tiebreaker to decide which team moves on to the playoffs of MSI 2018 and which team gets sent home a little early. No matter what happens during the final day of MSI’s group stage, it would be hard to argue with the results for Team Liquid. Either way, North America and

Margot Kidder, best known for her portrayal of Lois Lane in the Superman movies of the 1970s and ‘80s, died yesterday. She’ll be best remembered for her no-nonsense portrayal of the fearless reporter who forges a romantic relationship with Superman, played by Christopher Reeve. Kidder’s Lois Lane managed to meld the tough smarts of a New York investigative journalist, alongside the romantic ingenue of a woman, confronted with a dashing, alien superhero. Her comic relationship with Superman alter

Game designer Cliff Bleszinski, co-founder of Boss Key Productions and a major force behind the development of the Gears of War franchise, is stepping back from games to focus on himself and his family. In a statement posted to Twitter this afternoon, Bleszinski said that Boss Key “is effectively no more. “Four years ago I set out to make a world class video game studio and I hired some of the best talent in the videogame industry,” he wrote. The last substantive Tweet from the Boss Key Twitter

The Spire of Stars raid lair launched last Friday, May 11, when players were able to jump in and tackle Warmind’s hardest challenge. Congratulations to team Redeem on achieving world’s first for the Spire of Stars Raid Lair! But thank you to the people who worked on the raid lair for not messing around. — Datto (@DattosDestiny) May 12, 2018Datto, one of Destiny’s biggest YouTubers and streamers, took a full 12 and half hours to complete the raid lair. It’s the final raid to take place on the gia

Monikers is a guessing game that mashes charades and word association into a beautiful, chaotic mess. The goal is for the teams to guess what the cards are, and have the most correct. In this video — our latest episode of Overboard — we play a highly competitive game of Monikers, pitting coworker against coworker. Overboard is our monthly board game video series. You can keep up with this and our other series by subscribing to our YouTube channel.

Rage 2 has been officially announced with a live-action trailer posted to Bethesda’s YouTube page. It looks as much like the recent Mad Max film and the Borderlands game series as it does the original Rage. The original Rage — a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter from id, designed as a showpiece for the company’s game engine — received mixed reviews. This playful first trailer suggests similar changes may be in store for Rage. UPDATE: Rage 2’s box art reveals the developer is Avalanche Studio

The newest entry in the Superhot universe will be inspired by Japan, developer GameTomo announced today. According to the Japanese studio’s website, the game is currently codenamed Superhot JP and will feature much of the same gameplay that helped make the original Superhot a success. GameTomo says the environments will reflect their region: “Battle the red guys in a variety of Japan-inspired environments, from hot springs to samurai castles, from seedy Tokyo alleyways to karaoke bars and bullet

A PlayStation Vita version of Stardew Valley was announced months and months ago, but we’ve heard almost nothing about it since. But here’s some good news for Vita owners: Stardew Valley will be available on PS Vita May 22. “Perhaps the most common questions [sic] I get asked is, ‘When is Stardew Valley coming to PS Vita?’” wrote creator Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone on the game’s blog. It works both ways; if you already have Stardew Valley on PS4, guess what? As for why the Vita version took so lo

The Mars Dota 2 League is holding its first ever Changsha Major, in which twelve teams will fight it out for big points before the season wraps up. Competition Format:Teams begin in a round-robin group stage, in which all teams play each other, followed by a double-elimination playoff bracket. For playoffs, remaining teams are seeded by group stage performance into the double-elimination bracket. — The next two teams of each group, second and third, begin in first round of the upper bracket. GRO

[Warning: The following will contain spoilers for Westworld season two, episode four.] Westworld solved most of its own mysteries by the end of the show’s first season, although one major character was left without an explained fate: fan-favorite and Delos programmer Elsie Hughes. Bernard remains an unreliable narrator, and it’s hard to tell when scenes shown from his point of view take place. He hasn’t shown much agency in this season, even if he pleads with Elsie to let him write his own story

We’re given the impression that Delos has some kind of degenerative disease, which would explain the observation and the hand tremors. Delos puts everything together much quicker this time, and the sense of sadness has been replaced by an almost sadistic glee as Delos is told his daughter is dead. He leaves Delos secure in the knowledge that his mind will go again, and his life’s work is in ruins. And Delos has to learn this fact about himself over and over, while William witnesses the pain in e

As promised, Nintendo is bringing back the NES Classic Edition after a brief discontinuation period. The NES Classic Edition will cost $59.99 upon its return, just as it did when it launched in November 2016. Nintendo halted production of NES Classic Edition systems in April 2017, mere months after the highly coveted system went on sale — and quickly went out of stock, even after additional shipments hit stores. But Nintendo reversed course in September of last year, stating that it would re-rel

In this far future tale, Earth is populated and ruled exclusively by super-rich individuals — one million of them, to be exact. Seeing this, Gavin turned away and closed his eyes. And anyway”—and here Neal looked everywhere but at his father’s eyes—“I still say Bernie’s had help running the place.”“This again? “Look!”Eli turned, and Gavin turned, and so just managed to catch the moment when Bernie’s hard-won self-control failed. Douglas Penn-of-Chaffee seemed to glower disapprovingly at Bernie;

The UK-based independent games developer has a PlayStation 4 kit and is preparing to deliver his next work, Rocket Punch, sometime in 2019. Rocket Punch will be the apotheosis of Bulch’s creative ideal. Rocket Punch’s goal is to make the user look like a stock-photo model demonstrating a console. If I recall correctly, he is excited for Rocket Punch’s launch and, after spending a lot of his own money to get a PS4 devkit, is pretty sure this will actually happen. Rocket Punch does not yet have a

The UK-based independent games developer has a PlayStation 4 kit and is preparing to deliver his next work, Rocket Punch, sometime in 2019. Rocket Punch will be the apotheosis of Bulch’s creative ideal. Rocket Punch’s goal is to make the user look like a stock-photo model demonstrating a console. If I recall correctly, he is excited for Rocket Punch’s launch and, after spending a lot of his own money to get a PS4 devkit, is pretty sure this will actually happen. Rocket Punch does not yet have a

One of the top teams in the Overwatch League had to suit up in something other than their preferred jersey, after league managers apparently ruled their their “FU” printed apparel strayed a little too close to the edge of good taste. Philadelphia Fusion made the grand finals of the Overwatch Contenders series earlier this weekend, but weren’t wearing their official garb which designates them as FU, for Fusion University, the unit’s sponsor. So they wore black shirts yesterday against OpTic Acade