While celebrities playing video games isn’t anything new, Fortnite is reaching a pop culture saturation point that few games will be able to match. The latest example of this phenomenon is Logic talking shit about Drake’s Fortnite ability while performing his single during an appearance on Ellen. “Tell that boy Drake he don’t want it with me on Fortnite!” Logic told the crowd in the middle of his performance. We have since entered the world of celebrities using video games for attention. Those d

There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the return of Travis Touchdown, star of the No More Heroes series. Best of all, the pitch for Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, sounds great: Travis fights his way through seven various game genres, his adventure filled with jokey pastiche after pastiche. I tried out one of the game’s short co-op levels with Suda standing by, watching intently. The story goes that, after Travis Touchdown killed his dau

There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the return of Travis Touchdown, star of the No More Heroes series. Best of all, the pitch for Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, coming to Nintendo Switch later this year, sounds great: Travis fights his way through seven various game genres, his adventure filled with jokey pastiche after pastiche. I tried out one of the game’s short co-op levels with Suda standing by, watching intently. The story goes that, after Travis Touchdown killed his dau

YouTube employees say that the campus is under lockdown, with San Bruno police indicating that an active shooter is on the premises. Police responded to several 911 calls from 901 Cherry Avenue, YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, around 4 p.m. pic.twitter.com/H6iAj0g7ra — San Bruno Police (@SanBrunoPolice) April 3, 2018We are responding to an active shooter. — San Bruno Police (@SanBrunoPolice) April 3, 2018YouTube employees tweeted about the situation, writing that the headquarter

On May 25, 2018, Pokémon Go players who attended the disastrous festival in Chicago’s Grant Park in the summer of 2017 will get a very unusual alert on their smartphones. It’s all thanks to a settlement reached in a class-action lawsuit against the game’s developer, Niantic. If users have the Pokémon Go app installed and allow for push notifications, they’ll receive a court-mandated offer directing them to a website for further information. Users must have registered for Pokémon Go Fest through

Westworld’s second season will allow guests to explore a second world teased at the end of the first season, and this one will be far more violent. “For those for whom Westworld is not enough, the true connoisseur of gore can indulge their fantasies with the slash of a katana,” the description reads. Let your true self take shape in the land where self-discovery is an art form.”Well then. We saw glimpses of the new park in a recent trailer for Westworld released by HBO. As we pointed out previou

Marvel and FX’s hit show Legion is back tonight for a second season, and you could be forgiven for needing a reminder of how last season went. If you ask us, Legion’s first season had its ups and downs, but the finale still held our attention. And it looks like there’s going to be a dance number, at least judging by the season two trailer. Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered there, too. The show’s second season premieres tonight, April 3, on FX.

Stuckmann, a longtime YouTuber, noted that his videos fall under YouTube’s fair use policies and Universal Pictures wasn’t playing fair. “Studios have to start using copyright rules sensibly and stop punishing the people who are giving their movies exposure and coverage.”This isn’t a new issue with Universal Pictures, either. Stories from 2017 popped up on Twitter, as creators pointed out the fallacies in the copyright content disputes. One creator, Matthew Brando, pointed out that his appeal ov

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is the most popular streamer on Twitch, and just beginning to understand the weight of the responsibility that comes with that title. “There are these massive people on YouTube and Twitch that are not doing anything with the responsibility they have. We need to be instilling good morals in these kids. A video featuring Blevins streaming a Fortnite game and rapping along to Logic’s “44 More” made its way around Twitter. “It’s a word historically used to divide people, and I’

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is the most popular streamer on Twitch, and just beginning to understand the weight of the responsibility that comes with that title. “There are these massive people on YouTube and Twitch that are not doing anything with the responsibility they have. We need to be instilling good morals in these kids. A video featuring Blevins streaming a Fortnite game and rapping along to Logic’s “44 More” made its way around Twitter. “It’s a word historically used to divide people, and I’

Board game designer Rob Daviau and the team at Restoration Games faced a huge challenge when they decided to update Fireball Island, a classic board game from 1986. How the hell do you re-create a game that is remembered for being so much larger than life? The issue was that no one remembers Fireball Island as it was — they remember how it felt at the time. It was a toy as much as a game, and that board seemed massive at the time, with a verticality that was missing from most board games. The ma

All battle royale games are horror games at their core. Crytek’s first-person entry into the PC battle royale genre does a lot of things differently from its genre counterparts. Hunt: Showdown gets rid of the “circles” of a traditional battle royale game, instead allowing players more freedom of movement. It’s an achievement in making a horror game competitive, which is something that PUBG came so close to achieving, albeit perhaps unintentionally. It’s the only game that’s embracing the horror

A Way Out uses creative split-screen and filmmaking techniques, and the result is a cooperative experience that isn’t quite like anything else. Simone: Jenna, you and I streamed all of A Way Out on our YouTube channel. If A Way Out were a movie, Leo and Vincent would have found some way to reconcile, even if one died in the other’s arms. I can’t shake the feeling that if there had been a third option, my enjoyment would have been way higher. I think narrative rules can always be broken, but in t

A Way Out uses creative split-screen and filmmaking techniques, and the result is a cooperative experience that isn’t quite like anything else. Simone: Jenna, you and I streamed all of A Way Out on our YouTube channel. If A Way Out were a movie, Leo and Vincent would have found some way to reconcile, even if one died in the other’s arms. I can’t shake the feeling that if there had been a third option, my enjoyment would have been way higher. I think narrative rules can always be broken, but in t

The Video Game Theatre Players have long been renowned for their adaptations of the most poignant and emotional game sequences that were already set to human voices. Now, they take a bold stab in a new direction: a medley of scenes from Pokémon games, none of which are voiced. Here we see Brian David Gilbert, returning to the stage with a bold interpretation of the young man Joey, whose love for his special Rattata threatens to destroy him. Viewers will be riveted until the very end, when a surp

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is being billed as a science fiction adventure, which makes sense. [Warning: This post contains spoilers for Ready Player One.] Since we know so much about online communities, we also know exactly where Ready Player One falls short. In that regard Ready Player One is propagating a fallacy. As unfortunate as it is, that’s what’s missing from Ready Player One.

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is being billed as a science fiction adventure, which makes sense. [Warning: This post contains spoilers for Ready Player One.] Since we know so much about online communities, we also know exactly where Ready Player One falls short. In that regard Ready Player One is propagating a fallacy. As unfortunate as it is, that’s what’s missing from Ready Player One.

Magic: The Gathering is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special set of cards. For the past few years, Magic cards have been released in blocks, with two sets of cards released within each block. Earlier this year, Wizards released Rivals of Ixalan, the second set in the Ixalan block and the last set to be released in the current block format. Before they could get started designing cards, they first needed to figure out what kind of world Dominaria would be. Three of the characters that

The Vive Pro head-mounted display is currently the best consumer-level virtual reality headset money can buy, but it may not be the simplest to explain. It’s also hard to create an apples-to-apples pricing comparison with the original Vive bundle, much less other headsets on the market. That’s good news for everyone, and brings the total cost of the Vive Pro platform to just under $1,100. There’s also no software we were pointed toward that takes advantage of the second front-mounted camera on t

The Vive Pro head-mounted display is currently the best consumer-level virtual reality headset money can buy, but it may not be the simplest to explain. It’s also hard to create an apples-to-apples pricing comparison with the original Vive bundle, much less other headsets on the market. That’s good news for everyone, and brings the total cost of the Vive Pro platform to just under $1,100. There’s also no software we were pointed toward that takes advantage of the second front-mounted camera on t