Brittany Vincent

Applying for a reporting job and then getting shoved on camera because they don’t want to hear what you have to say about gaming, they want you to be the face of the things they want to say about gaming.

You've snagged countless chicken dinners in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. You and everyone else in the world are crazy about Fortnite. But have you taken Boss Key Productions' Radical Heights for a spin? It's the newest project from the studio helmed by Cliff Bleszinski, and it's got just about all the raditude one can handle.

After spending nearly two years in Early Access, Funcom's Conan Exiles is now available in its full, complete form — which means there's never been a better time pulverize your enemies into a pulp as you journey throughout the savage land of Hyboria.

For Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro, the offbeat game developer with a sunny disposition, life is good. He's full of ideas, energy, and positivity about the games industry, which can be one of the most fickle beasts you'll ever tangle with. But that hasn't soured his resolve one bit, as he strives to make games that he feels good about creating. That's why he's back for another round of crowdfunding tango with his latest project, The Good Life, which is now seeking funding via Kickstarter.

After surviving a horrific car crash that kills his parents, Fuminori begins to perceive every other human being as what can only be described as wriggling lumps of flesh. He can barely understand the words spewing from their rancid, meaty appendages, but when he tries to explain what he's seeing he's restrained and drugged. He has no choice but to pretend everything is fine.

Developer Rare is hard at work updating the game, already (vaguely) detailing the major updates players will soon be able to experience. No doubt there are plenty more adventures in the works, but that got us thinking — what would we choose to add to Sea of Thieves if we could have anything at all? Here are five features we'd love to see added in the near future.

For the last few weeks, players have been confronted with an icy, gleaming ball of light that suddenly appeared over the Tilted Towers zone. It's a comet, and it's getting closer each day. No one knows exactly what purpose it serves, or what's going to ultimately come of the anomaly.

Windows 10 holds a lot of potential for Microsoft to make up for lost ground, especially in one of their bread-and-butter areas: gaming. "How?" you, and the roomful of other Microsoft execs, might ask. The way we see it there are three big areas: cloud streaming, Windows Live integration and cross-platform communication. Microsoft showed up late to the cloud streaming race and there's no better place to start catching up than on Xbox One.

Almost everyone who had a Windows PC in the 1990s played SkiFree, but almost none of us know its origins. It's a simple game: you ski down a hill while avoiding obstacles and a ravenous, unrelenting Yeti. SkiFree was a harbinger of endless runners, and the kind of games you play in brief spurts at random moments. I'd play it at stores like Staples and Office Depot after guessing the easy passwords on the demo PCs while my parents browsed.

Losing the use of your hands can be a devastating blow to both your career and your lifestyle. However, there are people out there who face that very issue every day and are able to persevere and adapt. Austin-based developer Rusty Moyher is one such person. A voracious coder, Moyher faced a repetitive strain Injury (RSI) diagnosis five years ago that threatened to derail his career and passion as a game designer.

In 1998, a modest, relatively unknown title launched for PlayStation. Human Corporation's Mizzurna Falls followed in the footsteps of the massively popular survival horror series Clock Tower, though it never saw anywhere near the same amount of recognition enjoyed by its contemporaries. It was quirky, weird, and rife with references to a cornucopia of media, namely Twin Peaks, and traces of it can now be seen in cult favorites like Deadly Premonition.

Part of the extremely talented CLAMP's stable of work, xxxHOLiC features a set of players that may be a little unorthodox for fans of lighter fare. It's important, nevertheless, to get to know the faces behind what may be one of CLAMP's most haunting and beautiful stories of all time, especially if we're dealing with fate, one of the main threads of the narrative.

It's depressing, but it's a well-known fact that video game publishers and big-name corporations just don't know how to market their products toward women. Let's not mince words here: they're just awful at it. Whether it's a pastel PSP or an ad proclaiming "Girlz Play Too," there are some truly horrific examples that will likely conjure a wicked case of second-hand embarrassment. Despite the endless amount of surveys that proclaim half the video game-playing public to be women, it's still such

The sights and sounds of the world of Berserk can be downright cruel, rotten, and disturbing. If you think you can barely stomach some of the blood and gore, it must be even more difficult then for some of its characters who are less battle-hardened than protagonist Guts.

Kiss Him, Not Me takes on familiar shōjo anime tropes and turns them on their heads from the moment the show begins. Following Serinuma Kae, a fujoshi and otaku who’s all about pairing men up as couples in her head, it’s shaping up to be one of the season’s funniest so far. But, interestingly enough, it’s also one that takes potentially harmful stereotypes and breathes new life into them. For that, it should be applauded. [This article contains spoilers for the first episode of Kiss Him, Not Me

Dream Festival! follows fledgling idol Kanade Amamiya as he starts down the pathway to stardom with other members of the same agency. After being scouted by legendary idol Haruto Mikami, he joins fellow performers Shin Oikawa, Junya Sasaki, Itsuki Katagiri, and Chizuru Sawamura as they all strive to receive special Dream Festival cards that fans provide them with. Their goal is to be the best they possibly can to keep making fans happy. It may be a bit simplistic, but it works.

If you’ve ever dreamed of creating your own video game, Magic of Stella is most certainly a show you’ll want to pay attention to. Though it features a protagonist who didn’t exactly grow up with dreams of joining the industry (or many dreams at all, it seems), it’s an interesting and candid look into how game development teams realistically get their start.

When the teenagers in Kaiju Girls start noticing rather bizarre symptoms about themselves, like stomping around everywhere or making loud roaring noises, they go to a special facility that’s meant to help curb and nurture those compulsions. An organization called GIRLS fosters them and teaches them all about how to summon and control their inner monster. And it’s impossibly adorable.

If you’ve been keeping up with this anime season (or the articles here at ANIME NOW!), you’ve probably heard of Aooni The Blue Monster. It’s a new, comedic interpretation of a game called Ao Oni, a freeware horror role-playing game released back in 2008.

Typically, the Monster Hunter series is known for its difficult conquests and enormous monsters that require a whole team to put down. It’s very much a team-based affair that requires cooperation with other players and careful planning to ensure everything goes smoothly–and so everyone isn’t sent hurtling toward a Game Over screen immediately.