Coming to Smite with the season four update, Such Cold Skadi is a premium skin that is bad and everyone who made it should feel bad. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Like most of Overwatch’s Lunar New Year skins, Mei’s outfits for the Year of the Rooster are great. They caused a slight stir earlier today, though, when people who had previously believed (and loved) Mei for being a little thicker than your average video game woman thought she was now looking a bit slimmer.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Nintendo’s first arcade video games were, to be honest, pretty terrible. Way more interesting were the machines that came before those, starting with 1973's Laser Clay Shooting System, an elaborate entertainment offering that nearly sunk the company (but also led to one of its most famous video games).Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Roger Hanna Morash was an indie game developer who used to work at Harmonix. Among other things, he was code lead on Amplitude and one of the minds behind brain-bending platformer Shard. Yesterday, Morash and his wife, Valerie, unexpectedly passed away. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Closed by Disney following last year’s cancellation of toys-to-life game Disney Infinity, developer Avalanche Studios is back in business today, re-opened under new owner Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Its first project is a game based on Disney-Pixar’s Cars 3.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

This isn’t a post about people dressed as Yuri on Ice characters. It’s about people who can skate recreating some of the anime’s most famous routines.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

The Xbox One is getting an update soon, and one of the more interesting changes is the addition of a “copilot” mode, which will let two controllers be assigned to one player. This is great news for disabled and young gamers especially, who can use the feature to assign controls or have someone help them out.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Marco Plouffe is a veteran games artist who has done work for companies like Bioware, Capcom, Eidos and Blur.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Track: Grim Business | Artist: Iron Reagan | Album: Crossover MinistryRead more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

We’ve got a long week ahead of us. So here’s Reinhardt from Overwatch joyriding down Mario Kart’s Rainbow Road. Thanks for lifting our spirits, Noilleber. (P.S. stick around for the video’s ending.)Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.