If you played Destiny, you may be familiar with Xur, the weekly exotic item merchant. This scales to your character’s power level, so make sure you’re buying Xur exotics on your highest level character. Its first exotic perk, Cold Fusion, causes the Coldheart to fire in a beam made of Arc damage. Its exotic perk, Wraithmetal Mail, will grant Hunters a movement speed bonus and extra weapon handling after they dodge. Three of CoinsThis old farming buff has returned from the Destiny graveyard to he

A major Twitch subreddit gained sitewide attention yesterday, thanks to a discussion on whether threads about swatting incident threads should be allowed. “Swatting will not stop by /r/LivestreamFail banning posts about it …”The conversation that ensued led to more than 10,000 reactions and 420 comments. People are suggesting that the same could be said for swatters, who learn how to do it from reading Reddit threads, watching videos and seeing people talk about it online. Four months ago, a p

A major Twitch subreddit gained sitewide attention yesterday, thanks to a discussion on whether threads about swatting incident threads should be allowed. “Swatting will not stop by /r/LivestreamFail banning posts about it …”The conversation that ensued led to more than 10,000 reactions and 420 comments. People are suggesting that the same could be said for swatters, who learn how to do it from reading Reddit threads, watching videos and seeing people talk about it online. Four months ago, a p

Despite recent reports, YouTube insists it isn’t trying to oust right-wing voices from its channel in a so-called “YouTube Purge,” head of business Robert Kyncl told The Hollywood Reporter. “We have four freedoms under which YouTube operates: freedom of expression, freedom of opportunity, freedom to belong and freedom of information,” Kyncl said, reiterating comments he made to YouTuber Casey Neistat in February. For me, having come from a place that didn’t have freedom of information and freedo

Despite recent reports, YouTube insists it isn’t trying to oust right-wing voices from its channel in a so-called “YouTube Purge,” head of business Robert Kyncl told The Hollywood Reporter. “We have four freedoms under which YouTube operates: freedom of expression, freedom of opportunity, freedom to belong and freedom of information,” Kyncl said, reiterating comments he made to YouTuber Casey Neistat in February. For me, having come from a place that didn’t have freedom of information and freedo

Today only, eBay is offering 20 percent off everything (except real estate — sorry, you can’t get 20 percent off a house). The ecommerce site often runs deals on specific stores within their marketplace, but its rare that a discount like this applies to the whole site. Major retailers like Best Buy, Newegg and even Nintendo have official eBay storefronts where they sell merchandise, often at a discount. eBay actually runs some pretty good gaming deals, including consoles, accessories, and games.

Today only, eBay is offering 20 percent off everything (except real estate — sorry, you can’t get 20 percent off a house). The ecommerce site often runs deals on specific stores within their marketplace, but its rare that a discount like this applies to the whole site. Major retailers like Best Buy, Newegg and even Nintendo have official eBay storefronts where they sell merchandise, often at a discount. eBay actually runs some pretty good gaming deals, including consoles, accessories, and games.

We’re having a conversation about violence in video games because politicians want a distraction, not because there’s any causal link between games and real-world shooting. Because I love violent video games. Should children be playing violent games? Loving violent games doesn’t mean you only love violent games or that you love all violent games. Being critical or thoughtful about violence in games even as you enjoy violent games isn’t a contradiction, it’s being an adult.

Avengers: Infinity War is less than two months away, and we now know more about it than ever before. [Warning: The following contains minor spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Entertainment Weekly unveiled its new Avengers: Infinity War issue this week, featuring 15 different covers and packing in an absurd amount of details into a three-page report. The trailers for Avengers: Infinity War have teased a remarkable team up with Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Avengers: Infinity War will b

Avengers: Infinity War is less than two months away, and we now know more about it than ever before. [Warning: The following contains minor spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War.] Entertainment Weekly unveiled its new Avengers: Infinity War issue this week, featuring 15 different covers and packing in an absurd amount of details into a three-page report. The trailers for Avengers: Infinity War have teased a remarkable team up with Thor and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Avengers: Infinity War will b

Black Panther has been a massive success at the box office, even by the high standards of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Nothing specific to reveal, other than to say we absolutely will do that,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly. “One of the favorite pastimes at Marvel Studios is sitting around on a Part One and talking and dreaming about what we would do in a Part Two. There have been plenty of those conversations as we were putting together the first Black Panthe

Black Panther has been a massive success at the box office, even by the high standards of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “Nothing specific to reveal, other than to say we absolutely will do that,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Entertainment Weekly. “One of the favorite pastimes at Marvel Studios is sitting around on a Part One and talking and dreaming about what we would do in a Part Two. There have been plenty of those conversations as we were putting together the first Black Panthe

Kevin Feige, architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, knows that everybody wants to know about Avengers: Infinity War — and which of the Avengers make it out of the movie alive. With the 10-year anniversary of the MCU coming up, Infinity War finally paying off the franchise’s Thanos subplot and many actors reaching the end of their initial contracts, speculation on who’ll live and who’ll die is running rampant. Feige admits that Infinity War is absolutely a both a turning point for the MCU an

Kevin Feige, architect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, knows that everybody wants to know about Avengers: Infinity War — and which of the Avengers make it out of the movie alive. With the 10-year anniversary of the MCU coming up, Infinity War finally paying off the franchise’s Thanos subplot and many actors reaching the end of their initial contracts, speculation on who’ll live and who’ll die is running rampant. Feige admits that Infinity War is absolutely a both a turning point for the MCU an

That will change with Avengers: Infinity War. Actor Josh Brolin told Entertainment Weekly audiences will finally see how Thanos came to be; what shaped him as a child and led him to become the abusive, evil, towering figure he is today. Brolin compared Thanos to Quasimodo, the misunderstood character at the heart of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Part of learning to understand Thanos, Brolin added, is getting to know him as a father. Avengers: Infinity War will be released on April 27, 2018.

That will change with Avengers: Infinity War. Actor Josh Brolin told Entertainment Weekly audiences will finally see how Thanos came to be; what shaped him as a child and led him to become the abusive, evil, towering figure he is today. Brolin compared Thanos to Quasimodo, the misunderstood character at the heart of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Part of learning to understand Thanos, Brolin added, is getting to know him as a father. Avengers: Infinity War will be released on April 27, 2018.

Jessica Jones’ second season has a very early appearance from a very obscure Marvel character, and I’m not talking about Kilgrave. [Warning: This post contains spoilers for the first few episodes of the second season of Jessica Jones.] The Whizzer, hard as this may be to believe, is a Marvel superhero — and sometimes villain. But in Jessica Jones, it seems likely we’re looking at a reference to the hero’s Golden Age incarnation, given his first name, his yellow jacket and blue backpack. We won’t

Wizards of the Coast has been forced to move up the announcement of the much-anticipated 25th anniversary set for Magic: The Gathering. Called the Dominaria set, the decision was made yesterday after a Chinese version of the release notes was leaked online. “We messed up,” said Blake Rasmussen in an article about the leak posted to the official Magic website. Several new card types are being introduced with the Dominaria set, according to the release notes. The release notes are extensive, and i

Wizards of the Coast has been forced to move up the announcement of the much-anticipated 25th anniversary set for Magic: The Gathering. Called the Dominaria set, the decision was made yesterday after a Chinese version of the release notes was leaked online. “We messed up,” said Blake Rasmussen in an article about the leak posted to the official Magic website. Several new card types are being introduced with the Dominaria set, according to the release notes. The release notes are extensive, and i

Valve founder Gabe Newell said the company, which hasn’t shipped a new, full-size game since 2013’s Dota 2, is back in the business of “making and shipping games.” Its next game, Artifact, is supposed to be released this year. Newell spoke at a recent press event, and his quote about Valve getting back to making games comes from Geoff Keighley, who played Artifact with other members of the media. Fans of Valve’s work are aware that for the past few years, the company has not shown much interest