ThinkGeek, the beloved collectibles site that’s been a staple of the internet since 1999, is closing its virtual doors. GameStop, which acquired the company in 2015, will fully absorb ThinkGeek on July 2. ThinkGeek was one of the first places on the internet to reliably find cute, geeky merch. That same FAQs also states that ThinkGeek stores will remain open for now, and there will continue to be a ThinkGeek section in most GameStop stores. On the bright side, until the site shuts down for good,

Gamedevs, can you name and describe an instance when you put something really personal about you or your life into a videogame? — Osama Dorias (@osamadorias) June 13, 2019The answers were illuminating, sometimes moving, and some are even silly. This is a great hobby, by the way, and reading stories like these helps me enjoy it more. — Guillaume B-Vidal (@Gheeyom) June 13, 2019Everquest 2In an #EQ2 expansion with cat people, I named crafting questgivers after cats of team members & a long-time fa

It’s hard to imagine a world without the sensation that is Fortnite, but for a little while, things weren’t looking great for the game. Initially shipped as a co-op zombie title with a frustrating progression system, Fortnite fell totally flat with players. “If I had stayed at Epic, I would have canceled Fortnite,” Fergusson says. Fergusson left Epic in 2012 and eventually ended up as a producer at The Coalition for Microsoft, which might make you think he regrets leaving right before Fortnite t

Pro Evolution Soccer’s name change, announced earlier this week, is a nod to publisher Konami’s esports ambitions. But eFootball PES 2020 still feels like it’s part of the Pro Evolution family. Konami seems to be focused on differentiating PES from its mighty competitor, EA Sports’ FIFA games, by slowing the pace down considerably. In England, PES can also license full teams of real players, but must use euphemisms for the clubs themselves, such as “Manchester Reds” for Man. The fact is that PES

Staple of late 2000s Harry Potter fandom, Potter Puppet Pals posted a new video for the first time in two years. Entitled “Where’s Ron?” the song is a platonic love ballad between Harry and Hermione, taking place during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in the time where Ron abandons his two friends. Also, the Snape puppet mournfully plays the piano, which makes sense given his gloomy disposition, with the frenzied Dumbledore puppet joining in on the drums later on. Though the Potter Puppet

When battle royale games first emerged into the popular consciousness in the summer of 2017, people figured that PlayerUnknown Battlegrounds was a fad. And no two games at E3 made that more clear than Fallout 76, with its new battle royale mode Nuclear Winter, and Fall Guys, an adorable BR physics-based fight for survival. They can occasionally give your games a sense of scale that few other battle royale games have achieved. Fall Guys is Mediatonic’s new battle royale game that takes adorable c

Multiplayer survival game Scavengers was announced more than a year ago. In motion, the game type — which the developers at Midwinter Entertainment dub “co-opetition” — actually solves a huge problem with the survival multiplayer genre. Boss Key Productions’ Radical Heights was, in my opinion, the most successful game to address that intrinsic pacing problem. Only by huddling near a fire can players stay warm enough to avoid losing their health. Fans who are interested can submit an application

Storage devices just keep getting cheaper. In today’s Amazon deal of the day, a 512 GB microSD card from PNY is on sale for $80.99. There’s also a PNY Pro Elite 512 GB micro SD card, which is a bit faster and can record 4K video, on sale for $89.99. 512 GB will hold a lot of games; I’m only just beginning to reach capacity on the 256 GB card I put in my Switch over a year ago. The Amazon deal of the day discounts some other PNY storage devices as well, including flash drives, SSDs, and standard

The trailer for Doctor Sleep — a follow-up to Stephen King’s The Shining — summons the ghost of Stanley Kubrick’s original film. The movie isn’t technically a sequel to that movie, instead based on Stephen King’s 2013 novel of the same name. The book, and now the film, follows a grown-up Danny Torrence (the kid in The Shining) as he deals with life (and death). He eventually teams up with a psychic girl named Abra to defeat a cult known as The True Knot that preys on children with psychic powers

It may be a question nobody thought to ask, but Fall Guys proves the answer is delightful. Fall Guys is developed by Mediatonic — also making the thematically similar Gears Pop for mobile — and is being published by Devolver Digital, which debuted the trailer during its E3 “press conference” on Sunday evening. The final challenge was the race to the top of a mountain and be the first Fall Guy to grab the crown. Even with such short courses (the entire playthrough was maybe 10 minutes, which I re

Who’s doing it, and why, is the story of Event Leviathan. Is it a Superman event — or is it a DC-wide event? Which we will find out in the pages of Event Leviathan. Speaking of Lois, there’s a Lois series spinning out of Event Leviathan — and clearly she’s very much involved. You outlined Leviathan’s take on how to handle Superman in the Event Leviathan special, in a very cool scene.

Horror giant Blumhouse announced on Thursday that it will shed some blood over the holidays with Black Christmas, a remake directed by Always Shine’s Sophia Takal. Takal had previously directed an installment of the company’s Hulu streaming series Into the Dark, and is now the first female director to helm a Blumhouse theatrical release. The film’s 2006 remake, which starred Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Michelle Trachtenberg, was fraught due to disputes with the Weinstein brothers, whose company,

What is a new in 2017? PASS Refined comprises biological activities that are the most important for medicinal chemists, pharmacologists and doctors. We are working on the integration of our predictive services, to allow you either select the set of activities of interest or to get prediction of all activities/properties in one click. One will be able to choose:

There’s an easy way to figure out if Fallen Order or any Star Wars game is good. A good Star Wars game lets you do things that can only happen in Star Wars: chill in a cantina, fly a fast spaceship through a confined space, or use telekinesis to choke an old British man. On the other end of the spectrum, we’ve got Star Wars: Battlefront, which packs in as many Star Wars icons as it can, to the point where it’s overkill. That’s good Star Wars. If so, it does not belong in a Star Wars game.

The world of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge is full of iconic vehicles from the Star Wars movies — plus one ship that’s never appeared in any of the films or Expanded Universe lore. Among the X-Wing fighter, Millenium Falcon, and an A-Wing fighter sits a First Order Tie Echelon. The design apparently was born from director Colin Trevorrow’s version of Episode IX. “Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow have mutually chosen to part ways on Star Wars: Episode IX,” Lucasfilm published in a statement from Septembe

With each installment, the Toy Story movies have made their interrogation of a toy’s duty more and more explicit. The most beautiful moments in Toy Story 4 are those between Woody and Bo. Toy Story 4 does an even better job than Toy Story 3 of managing mature themes while remaining kid-friendly. There are so many wonderful details and moments in Toy Story 4 that Keanu Reeves’ role as the Canadian stuntman toy Duke Caboom almost doesn’t merit mentioning. The film doesn’t even need the early repri

One of the highlights from Devolver Digital’s anarchic E3 presentation was a first trailer for Carrion from Phobia Game Studio. It’s a 2D Metroidvania world of tunnels, doors, traps and levers, with the twist that I play as the monster. I spent some hands-on time with Carrion earlier today, and came away impressed not just with how the game looks, but how it feels. I am the monster, slinking and oozing through tunnels and vents, and I find that it’s very much to my liking. I seek out save points

If you’ve watched the teaser for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel, then you’ve probably noticed that Ganondorf is looking kinda busted these days. But if you ask a Zelda fan, the problem is that Ganondorf just hasn’t had enough water. So, they’re drawing fan art of Ganondorf that speculates on what he might look like if he were fully restored. Spoiler: Fans are making Ganondorf hot. Here’s a selection of some of the best fan art and related jokes floating around on social media.

Together, we took a tour of a mobile game he compares to a theme park. There’s a logic to their size: Chen hopes Sky will be a game entire families play together. Like Pixar films, the game intends to be enjoyed by both kids and adults. Playing Sky, which looks and feels like a console game, but works elegantly on mobile, I can imagine thatgamecompany threading the needle. “I think it will be how many people played the game, and they changed their taste,” says Chen.