PAX East 2019 is off to a big start, with the official reveal of Borderlands 3 and some other big announcements from Gearbox Software. We also got hands on with some lesser known, but equally awesome games like Creature in the Well.
PAX East has always been a convention that attracts talented cosplayers. So far, we’ve seen characters from Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, League of Legends, and more. Check out the best cosplay get-ups from day one!
Star Trek: Discovery regains its stride with “Perpetual Infinity” after last week’s exposition-heavy outing, and while this segment is also chockfull of plot and technical techings of the tech, it’s got enough action and character to balance things out nicely.
It all starts with a flashback to Burnham’s childhood, and more specifically to that fateful day when her parents were killed by marauding Klingons while she hid in a closet and listened to them die. It’s nice to see the family just being a normal family at first — until it all goes horribly wrong and Michael’s life is irrevocably altered. But whereas we previously believed Michael’s folks were both killed that day, we see here that her mom attempted to escape via the Red Angel time-travel suit that she was working on. Alas, her plan went awry, and she essentially wound up lost in time.
A 24-year old security researcher who worked for the Malwarebytes security company was arrested and narrowly avoided jail for hacking into Microsoft and then hacking into Nintendo while on bail.
As reported by The Verge, Zammis Clark, also known as Slipstream or Raylee, admitted to hacking into Microsoft and Nintendo servers and stealing confidential information, including 43,000 files from Microsoft’s internal Windows flighting servers which contain pre-release versions of Windows.
Clark gained access to a Microsoft server on January 24, 2017, and proceeded to upload a “web shell to remotely access Microsoft’s network freely for at least three weeks. Clark then uploaded multiple shells which allowed him to search through Microsoft’s network, upload files, and download data.”
Mortal Kombat 11 is just around the corner, and it’s already shown us some of the nastiest, most brutal fatalities we’ve ever seen. But brutality isn’t everything. Throughout the history of mortal combat, there have been plenty of Fatalities, Friendships, Animalities and more that weren’t afraid to get weird with it. From the bizarrely gruesome to the gruesomely bizarre, here are our picks for the 25 craziest finishing moves in MK history.
Spoiler alert: There’s a lot of MK 3 in here. That game was wacky.
25. Mortal Kombat 3 – Reptile – Fatality
Even setting aside the fact that in order to swallow his prey, Reptile’s head expands by about 500%, the real WTF?! of this finisher is the question of how can a man who’s head and vocal chords are currently being digested keep screaming?! Or maybe it’s Reptile who’s screaming, though that begs the question why we haven’t seen his ventriloquist act yet.
Now that we’ve finally had our first glimpse of the inevitable Borderlands 3, it’s a great time to look back at 10 years of the series. While IGN has missed a DLC here and there (there were a lot of them!) over the past decade we’ve reviewed a couple of dozen Borderlands things, including games, add-ons, an unfortunate Vita port, and even the episodic Tales from the Borderlands series from Telltale Games (RIP). Next week we’ll have a review of the refreshed Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition so we can finally find out how well that game might’ve scored if not for its terrible final boss battle!
