Gears Tactics review – Gears Of War’s strategy turn

Gears Of War is transformed into an XCOM style turn-based strategy game but does that really make sense for such a fast-paced franchise? It is amazing how in a year where release schedules have been torn asunder by the coronavirus the video games industry can still manage to release two very similar games at exactly […]

PUBG Shifts Esports Plans to Online-Only Regional Events

Esports live events for PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) have been canceled for the year, and will be replaced by a multi-region online competition series. PUBG Corp., the developer of the battle royale game, made the decision in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  The PUBG Continental Series (PCS) will consist of three events in May, […]

How to Play Warhammer 40,000 online for $21 – Daily Esports

Warhammer 40,000 (Warhammer 40k), Games Workshop’s flagship property, has been a titan of wargaming for years. However, for many interested observers, the key obstacle stopping them from enjoying the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium is the steep price of an army and its miniatures. Thanks to an active community and the game Tabletop Simulator, […]

My Hero Academia Season 5 Is On The Way

The much-loved shonen anime My Hero Academia will be back for a fifth season. A recent post on the anime’s Twitter account confirms the news after a post-credit teaser at the end of Season 4 finale which promised that more was to come. Translating to English, the tweet reads, “The fifth season of Hiroaka comes! […]

Celeste Composer Now Working On Minecraft

Lena Raine, the composer behind the emotionally evocative soundtrack of Celeste, has confirmed she is working on new pieces for Minecraft‘s upcoming Nether update. The news came earlier today in a Minecraft blog post detailing some new changes and features in the popular sandbox video game. The piece also confirmed that Raine would be contributing music to the upcoming Nether update. […]

Researchers release data set of CT scans from coronavirus patients

In an effort to spur the development of systems that can quickly spot signs of the novel coronavirus, a team of researchers at the University of San Diego this week released a data set — the COVID-CT-Dataset — containing 275 CT scans collected from 143 patients with confirmed cases of COVID-19, which they claim is […]

Teacher Tries To Teach Class On Twitch, It Erupts Into Chaos As Expected

A professor at NYU Game Center tried to teach a class about streaming on Twitch due to the coronavirus outbreak. It didn’t go well. Remember Robert Yang? The guy who made all those oddly sexualized video games like Succulent, Stick Shift, and The Tearoom? Well, he’s a university professor now. Guess all those funny/artistic/provocative games […]