Tag: Video Games

TimTheTatman responds to DrDisrespect’s Warzone challenge with heartwarming message

Sometimes, friendship is more important than bravado.

Recently, DrDisrespect challenged fellow content creator Tim “TheTatman” John Betar to a best of three matches in Call Of Duty: Warzone, and the response isn’t what you would expect: Tim said he misses playing with Doc. 

Ever since DrDisrespect’s ban from Twitch last year, he’s been unable to play games with any of his friends still on the platform, including Betar. Doing so would result in a breach of Twitch’s terms of service, potentially putting someone like Betar in hot water. So of course, Betar had to decline, but not before he voiced his support for his friend.

“Hey, Doc. If you’re watching, for what it’s worth, I miss you. I miss us,” said Betar in a recent Twitch stream. “And for what it’s worth, man. I’ve been tuning into your streams on YouTube, and honestly, for what it’s worth, you’re doing really well over there too.”

Check out the touching clip for yourself below.

“I retract this challenge,” said DrDisrespect on Twitter. “You’d rather spectate solos than win a legendary gaming memorabilia item fully matted, custom framed?” Just the sort of reply you would expect from the good doctor.

Streaming personalities are often full of chest-thumbing bravado when it comes to challenges like this, so it’s nice to see a genuine friendship blossom despite it all.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

Check out the slick esports coffee shop Tim Hortons and Tencent just opened in Shenzhen, China

Probably the most tech savvy coffee place out there.

Esports is such a massive deal these days that Tim Hortons, in collaboration with Tencent, just opened a state-of-the-art esports facility in Shenzhen, China. This coffee shop will even have esports-themed food and drink items for those looking to get in a fine cup of joe in-between matches of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, League Of Legends, or whatever the hottest game might be.

This facility is part of a joint venture between Tencent, the multinational technology conglomerate, and famed fast-food chain Tim Hortons. It’ll be a place for gamers to watch esports tournaments or well-known content creators in a social environment full of interactive screens. Kind of like an internet cafe, but with more modern technology that’ll better suit mobile and offline gaming needs.

You can check out some pictures of the restaurant below.

Looks pretty cool! According to games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, this location is only the first of many that Tim Hortons and Tencent plan on rolling out.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF. 

9 great retro video games we’d love to see remastered

Our nostalgia-infused wishlist of retro games that deserve a makeover.

Look, new games are great and all; nobody’s saying they’re not. But the twin prongs of nostalgia and a young games industry giddy with possibilities are hard to resist. Ergo: Playing the cream of the ’90s or early 2000s is almost always brilliant.

Except, of course, when our modern hardware gets in the way. The cold, hard truth is that Half-Life doesn’t know what a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is, and in all its futuristic imaginings, System Shock never dreamed of personal computers with 32GB of RAM.

So, folks, please welcome to the stage nine remasters we want to manifest into existence through sheer force of will.

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Old worlds made new with current engines, controls, lighting techniques, and resolutions. Together we can make them a reality. Well, us, a team of hundreds of talented devs and a few million dollars.

Fans react to James McAvoy setting a copy of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on fire

Yes, he burned the disk. Literally.

It turns out that James McAvoy was so addicted to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that he burned it — as in, literally set the game on fire so it wouldn’t take up more of his time. 

McAvoy let it slip in a recent interview with Forbes that Bethesda’s seminal open-world RPG was his obsession. Stating that his partner at the time bought a copy of Oblivion, and he was always staying up late playing it. Then, one evening, he chose to end his addiction quite theatrically.

“I went to bed at 5:35 a.m.,” says McAvoy. “My car beeped its horn outside at, like, 5:45. And I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I need to do something.’ So I got the disc out of the Xbox 360, and I turned the gas hob on. I just put the disc on it and just watched it sort of, like, singe and melt a little bit. And I was like, ‘Right, we’re done, we’re over, never again!'”

Fans were either cheekily sympathetic towards McAvoy’s extreme measures or out to roast him.

That’s some extreme dedication right there.

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Top World of Warcraft streamer Asmongold says he’s thinking about quitting Twitch

Twitch’s biggest star might call it quits.

One of the biggest streamers in the world right now is Asmongold, and he might be moving on from Twitch altogether.

Asmongold is regularly at the top of Twitch’s charts with over 2.3 million followers and roughly 800K viewers per broadcast. It’s safe to say he’s a force to be reckoned with on the platform, which is why the prospect of him leaving live streaming behind is a big deal.

“If I can’t have fun and I have to constantly watch what I say because people are going to take it and use it against me, I just don’t want to stream anymore,” says Asmongold in a recent Twitch broadcast. “That’s really the truth.”

Asmongold was a popular World of Warcraft content creator for years before branching out to other MMORPGs. In July of this year, he was Twitch’s most viewed male streamer at 14 million viewers, thanks in part largely to his recent escapades in Final Fantasy XIV and his commentary on the recent lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard by California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

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Twitch streamers band together for #ADayOffTwitch to protest ongoing chat hate raids

Content creators are fed up with with hateful bots, so they’re protesting for change.

Twitch streamers are organizing an online protest hoping that it will lead to action against the ever-growing problem of hate raids targeting marginalized content creators.

Coming together under the #ADayOffTwitch hashtag, streamers from around the world plan to put a dent into streaming and viewership numbers on the platform next week, on September 1. Organized by content creators Lucia Everblack, Shineypen, and Rek It Raven, the protest intends to lower ad revenue for a day to send Twitch a message that content creators and streamers want the platform to take this issue seriously.

These raids aren’t simple trolls looking to get a rise out of folks, either. They are swarms of bots posting everything from homophobic, transphobic, racist, and full-on Nazi imagery in chat rooms to try and push marginalized creators off the platform.

Many other streamers are already chiming in, voicing support for and agreeing to take part in the protest.

Twitch itself responded to these mounting concerns over harassment and hate speech earlier this month, but the problem persists all the same. Hopefully, the calls for change from #ADayOffTwitch lead to lasting change.

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Ranking the 10 greatest sports video games of all time

Madden? NBA 2K? The Show? Or a near-40-year-old Atari game?

Welcome to hallowed ground. A virtual hall of fame where only the 10 absolute finest specimens of sports gaming are allowed in. Breathe it in – smell that? Greatness. (Don’t worry if you can’t smell anything, this is just a webpage.)

Sport is a broad term in gaming, of course. Competitive Starcraft is athletic as heck, and the rosters of certain Nintendo karting titles and era-defining skating games would argue strongly for their inclusion here. But we’re being strict.

You can keep your blue shells, Mario Kart. And yes, that is a sick stiffy, Tony Hawk’s 2, but right now we don’t care. It’s numbers, face scans, animations, and forensically accurate kits that matter here. Sports games are about engines simulating and imitating life, and, above all else, making you feel like you’re performing a real sport at a top-level.

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Below are the releases people still talk about, though their polygons might have wilted and their licenses expired because they took a leap forward toward perfect simulation and immersion of the stuff we shout at on TV. They’re the titles we dedicated ourselves to, and were richly rewarded for doing so. Ladies and gentlemen, the sports game GOATs.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ new trailer shows it’s the Pokémon game we’ve always dreamed of

Wow this game looks amazing.

Listen. Pokémon is Pokémon. And there haven’t been many bad Pokémon games throughout its history. Some are just better than others, but most of them play pretty well and give you some sense of a challenge.

While they’ve all been great, though, they all haven’t quite filled the heart up of every wannabe Pokémon master out there.

For the folks out there who play Pokémon, y’all know what I mean. We want every one of these games to feature every single thing.

There’s a long list. We want to be able to catch Pokémon from every generation. We want to be able to travel from every single region in the series that has ever existed. We want access to every legendary Pokémon. Some folks (read: ME) have even stranger requests like wanting to be actual gym leaders.

But one thing we’ve all universally dreamed about is having an experience on the game that mimics the show a bit more.

We want to really see Pokémon out in the wild and just throw Pokéballs at them if we want to capture them. We want to ride on the back of our Pidgeot as it flys throughout the region. We want that full experience.

And it’s pretty clear that a lot of that and more is the vision here or Pokémon Legends: Arceus after seeing the brand new trailer.

The Zelda: Breath of the Wild comparisons seem apt here. This is a full RPG Pokémon experience. It’s unlike anything we’ve seen the franchise put together before.

It feels realistic. You’re sneaking around through grass trying to capture Pokémon. The ones you fail to capture might actually attack you while you’re off guard. You can also have your Pokémon companions defend you and actually watch them battle.

This game feels like what happens if you fuse the main games from the franchise with Pokémon Stadium and then fuse that again with Zelda. It looks spectacular.

This is what we’ve always dreamed of in a Pokémon game. This game is going to be so fun. January can’t get here quickly enough.

Watch our new sneaker unboxing series, Special Delivery

Every NBA 2k22 player rating we’ve seen so far including LeBron James, Kevin Durant and more

NBA 2k22 player ratings are finally here

It’s about that time of year again. We’re in the doldrums of the offseason. The NBA draft is over and NBA Summer League is just wrapping up.

Now, it’s time to dive into an NBA tradition like no other: Complaining about the player ratings on the latest version of NBA 2k. It happens like clockwork. Player ratings drop, fans from the team see the ratings, fans from the team complain that 2k hates their player and then, BOOM, the season is here.

That’s where we are now and we’ve finally got some of the 2k ratings in. NBA 2k just dropped some of the ratings for the best players on the game.

Some of them are surprising. Some of them, not so much. Almost all of them will be controversial for every fanbase in one way or another.

Here they are.

The Tokyo Olympics used so much video game music in the Opening Ceremony and it was the coolest

The Olympics really played video game music during the Opening Ceremony

Everyone knows what Olympic-themed music sounds like when they hear it. It’s regal. It has this sort of pristine vibe to it. You know the vibe I’m talking about.

So, naturally, everyone was surprised when they turned on the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics and they heard Kingdom Hearts’ (!!!!) Olympus theme music player.

Kingdom Hearts, y’all. THE Kingdom Hearts. For real.

For those out of the know, Kingdom Hearts is a video game made by Square Enix — a Japanese video game publisher — that involves lots of Disney characters. It’s pretty awesome, to say the least. Many a moment of my childhood was blessed by this game.

And here it is. Playing at the Olympics. Specifically, the Olympus theme – the music that plays when you enter Hercules’ world.

Y’all. This is so awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVHwmEGMR4

And, as it turns out, it wasn’t just Kingdom Hearts. Apparently, there was a whole video game music playlist they used as athletes marched around the stadium.

It included a bunch of Square Enix properties, including Sonic the Hedgehog, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter and more, per Nikkan Sports.

That was so awesome. Video game fans loved it.

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