YouTube’s number one trending video has captivated just about every corner of the internet, including Reddit where a new community dedicated to “pencil music” is quickly growing. Created by YouTube user Dani Ochoa, “Cantina Theme played with a pencil and girl with too much time on her hands” is, well, exactly that. The “Cantina theme with a pencil” video marks Ochoa’s first upload to YouTube. Pencil Music, a subreddit created this week, has just over 13,000 subscribers at the time of this writin

Xur’s inventory this week consists of the following:The Colony, grenade launcher: 29 Legendary ShardsShinobu’s Vow, Hunter gauntlets: 23 Legendary ShardsMk. Its exotic perk, Insectoid Robot Grenades, causes missed shots to turn into little robots that track down nearby enemies. No matter what you enjoy doing in Destiny 2, Legendary Shards spent on The Colony will be Shards well spent. The StagA returning exotic from Destiny (in name and look at least), The Stag’s exotic perk, Dearly Departed, gi

Xur’s inventory this week consists of the following:The Colony, grenade launcher: 29 Legendary ShardsShinobu’s Vow, Hunter gauntlets: 23 Legendary ShardsMk. Its exotic perk, Insectoid Robot Grenades, causes missed shots to turn into little robots that track down nearby enemies. No matter what you enjoy doing in Destiny 2, Legendary Shards spent on The Colony will be Shards well spent. The StagA returning exotic from Destiny (in name and look at least), The Stag’s exotic perk, Dearly Departed, gi

Our first look at Tom Hardy in Venom is not what the people wantIN Venom but not AS Venom

John Ridley, the Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, will pen the hidden, personal stories of the DC Universe’s superheroes who aren’t white, male or straight, DC Comics announced today. The miniseries will be titled The Other History of DC Universe, and the company’s press release named several characters as its focus, while leaving room for even more to join the roster. There’s certainly a lot of potential in examining sociopolitical progress in the DC Universe through the ey

John Ridley, the Oscar Award-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, will pen the hidden, personal stories of the DC Universe’s superheroes who aren’t white, male or straight, DC Comics announced today. The miniseries will be titled The Other History of DC Universe, and the company’s press release named several characters as its focus, while leaving room for even more to join the roster. There’s certainly a lot of potential in examining sociopolitical progress in the DC Universe through the ey

The newest track from Jay Rock, Future, James Blake and, yes, Kendrick Lamar proves why. A tease of Lamar’s collaboration with Vince Staples debuted with the latest Black Panther teaser. That means we may see another Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar team up, which the world is in desperate need of. The Black Panther soundtrack is available to pre-order now. Black Panther will follow one week later, hitting theaters on Feb. 16.

The newest track from Jay Rock, Future, James Blake and, yes, Kendrick Lamar proves why. A tease of Lamar’s collaboration with Vince Staples debuted with the latest Black Panther teaser. That means we may see another Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar team up, which the world is in desperate need of. The Black Panther soundtrack is available to pre-order now. Black Panther will follow one week later, hitting theaters on Feb. 16.

I’m a big fan of narrative games. This week I played Till the Dawn, Waiting, which comes out on Steam today. But while it relies heavily on familiar narrative game tricks and tropes, it fails to rise to its subject matter. Many of the narrative games we’ve seen in the past few years have focused on innocence and familial relationships, from Blackwood Crossing’s coming of age tale, to What Remains of Edith Finch. In the main, Till the Dawn, Waiting fails to reach any kind of emotional crescendo.

Hori is releasing an officially licensed PlayStation 4 wireless controller that should appeal to Xbox fans. The Onyx Wireless Controller from Hori, which hits stores later this month, mimics the asymmetrical analog stick layout of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers. The Onyx Wireless Controller from Hori is out as of Jan. 15 — at least in the U.K. — according to a post on the European PlayStation Blog. We’ve reached out to Hori for details on a North American release of the controller

Niantic is launching Pokémon Go Community Days, a monthly event where players are encouraged to go out and play the game together. During Pokémon Go Community Days, players will have a few hours to find and capture a rare Pokémon. Using a Pikachu that knows Surf, players can get Pikachu on a little surfboard to ride some nice, pixelated waves. Since then, the beach boy has appeared in games like Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Channel, as well as mainline games via special events. We’r

Should you get better items for doing well in a game, or should focus more on helping struggling players with better items or boosts? A feedback loop is a game system where the output is defined by the player and is then used as the input for another system, or even the latest loop of an existing system. Other systems may give players who are struggling a boost to even out the odds. Properly managed feedback loops make for good games, while poor feedback loops can ruin an experience. The video a

Should you get better items for doing well in a game, or should focus more on helping struggling players with better items or boosts? A feedback loop is a game system where the output is defined by the player and is then used as the input for another system, or even the latest loop of an existing system. Other systems may give players who are struggling a boost to even out the odds. Properly managed feedback loops make for good games, while poor feedback loops can ruin an experience. The video a

Not only is Detective Pikachu finally coming stateside — along with a big ol’ amiibo of the Pokémon — but a New Nintendo 2DS XL emblazoned with Pikachu’s charming face will soon hit store shelves. The New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition will hit the U.S. — it was released in Japan late last year — on Jan. 26. Here’s a peek at the interior of the New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition, which keeps the Pikachu color scheme going with brown ABXY face buttons and cross pad. Pokémon fans will have somet

Not only is Detective Pikachu finally coming stateside — along with a big ol’ amiibo of the Pokémon — but a New Nintendo 2DS XL emblazoned with Pikachu’s charming face will soon hit store shelves. The New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition will hit the U.S. — it was released in Japan late last year — on Jan. 26. Here’s a peek at the interior of the New Nintendo 2DS XL Pikachu Edition, which keeps the Pikachu color scheme going with brown ABXY face buttons and cross pad. Pokémon fans will have somet

Major League Soccer is partnering with EA Sports to create an esports organization for FIFA 18’s worldwide gaming competition, the sports league announced today. Known as eMLS, the league will resemble esports organizations like the NBA 2K League in that its competitors will represent real-life sports teams. Related Here are the 17 teams that will kick off the NBA 2K esports leagueThe FIFA eWorld Cup is the conclusion of the FIFA 18 Global Series tournament, an expansion of the long-running annu

Major League Soccer is partnering with EA Sports to create an esports organization for FIFA 18’s worldwide gaming competition, the sports league announced today. Known as eMLS, the league will resemble esports organizations like the NBA 2K League in that its competitors will represent real-life sports teams. Related Here are the 17 teams that will kick off the NBA 2K esports leagueThe FIFA eWorld Cup is the conclusion of the FIFA 18 Global Series tournament, an expansion of the long-running annu

It’s finally 2018 and professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is back for the new year with the ELeague Major: Boston. The main event of the tournament gets started next week, but before that we have a new addition to ELeague called The New Challengers Stage. The top eight finishers in the New Challengers Stage will advance to the main stage of the tournament where they will play against the so called, “Legend” teams that had already qualified for the major. The New Challengers Stage of th

The Pokémon Company is bringing Detective Pikachu to the West. This will mark the first English-language release of Detective Pikachu, which originally launched in Japan in winter 2016. But the best part of all of this news isn’t our chance to adventure with the Pokémon investigator; it’s that, to coincide with the new game release, there will be a super-sized Detective Pikachu amiibo available. Look at this comparison with the standard, Super Smash Bros.-edition Pikachu to understand just how t

The Pokémon Company is bringing Detective Pikachu to the West. This will mark the first English-language release of Detective Pikachu, which originally launched in Japan in winter 2016. But the best part of all of this news isn’t our chance to adventure with the Pokémon investigator; it’s that, to coincide with the new game release, there will be a super-sized Detective Pikachu amiibo available. Look at this comparison with the standard, Super Smash Bros.-edition Pikachu to understand just how t