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And Now, Mario Kart Tracks In Flight Simulator
30.8.2021
We’ve seen how well Microsoft’s Flight Simulator handles interpreting real-world objects and landmarks, but what about something a little more…racy? Modder Illogicoma thought it would be neat to try importing Mario Kart tracks into the sim, and they’re right. It’s very neat.Read more
Nintendo Back On Its BS, Shuts Down Another Smash Bros. Tournament
30.8.2021
Nintendo of America has once again stepped in to foil fans’ efforts to keep its old games alive and vibrant. After learning a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate event at an Ohio waterpark next month would also feature competitive play for Smash Bros. Brawl mod Project+, the company’s lawyers sweeped...
Report: Yakuza Creator Toshihiro Nagoshi Leaving Sega To Join NetEase
30.8.2021
Veteran developer Toshihiro Nagoshi, of Sega Rally, Monkey Ball and Yakuza fame, is in the final stages of negotiating a contract to leave Sega and join Chinese company NetEase, according to a report on Bloomberg.Read more
Axiom Verge 2 Shows It's Time To Rethink Metroidvanias
27.8.2021
More so than any other medium, video games have a knack for spawning jargon that’s both absurd sounding and inscrutable. Near the top of that list is “Metroidvania,” a term that would prompt any normal person you said it in front of to quickly begin searching for the nearest exit. Even people...
Big Boy Kraid Returns In Metroid Dread
27.8.2021
Nintendo dropped some new Metroid Dread info this morning, complete with a video detailing the different skills franchise heroine Samus Aran brings to the table in the upcoming Switch game when it launches on October 8. But this all pales in comparison to the reveal that Kraid, a secondary...
Awesome Metroid Prime 2D Fan Project Gets Nintendo’d
27.8.2021
Back in April a group of incredibly talented independent developers calling themselves Team SCU released an impressive demo for Prime 2D, a side-scrolling remake of 2002’s first-person Metroid Prime. The ambitious project had been in planning for over 15 years. Nintendo’s lawyers put an end to...
Here's All The New Elden Ring News Worth Knowing
27.8.2021
It’s the third day of Gamescon 2021, and multiple outlets have gotten an in-depth preview of FromSoftware’s eagerly anticipated open-world RPG, Elden Ring. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most interesting bits of information coming out of today’s articles.Read more
Official Animal Crossing Sneakers Look Very Cozy
27.8.2021
So Puma has had the Nintendo license for a little while now, and where their first Mario shoes were a miss, their second attempts were an improvement. These next ones though, with an Animal Crossing theme, are easily the best yet.Read more
No More Heroes 3: The Kotaku Review
27.8.2021
“If a young boy takes acid and experiences a change, the least a film can do is give him more than acid gives him. But you mustn’t give him the visions that acid gives him; you must give him the pill. And then let each individual see his own visions.”Read more
Bravely Default II Gets PC Port In September
26.8.2021
Previously a Nintendo Switch exclusive, Bravely Default II is coming to PC via Steam on September 2, Square Enix announced today. This marks the first time the classic JRPG-inspired series has come to a non-Nintendo, non-smartphone platform.Read more
The Hottest JRPG Of The Moment Is Being Developed By A 22 Year Old
26.8.2021
Most musical games are rhythm games, popular examples include titles such as Guitar Hero, Beat Saber, and Dance Dance Revolution. However, Sword of Symphony turned that genre expectation on its head. It’s a stylish music-action roleplaying game that uses combat to compose music, meaning that...
Nintendo Switch Game Fitness Boxing Is Getting An Anime
26.8.2021
This October in Japan, Nintendo Switch fitness game Fitness Boxing is getting an anime adaptation. Developed by Tokyo-based Imagineer, the game was first launched in 2018 and had players throw punches and dodge by holding the Joy-Con controllers. Imagineer published the game in Japan as Fit Boxing...
New Director's Cut Features Seem Like They'll Undo What Made Death Stranding Good
26.8.2021
Kojima Productions showed off more of the add-ons and enhancements coming to Death Stranding Director’s Cut and they all look like they will help ease your pain and make delivering packages across the game’s grueling, ghostly world easier. In other words, they seem to miss the point.Read more
February 2022 Already Has Too Many Games
25.8.2021
Pour one out for the avid gamers in your life, because come next winter, you’ll never hear from them again. Following today’s Gamescom Opening Night Live showcase, hosted by Geoff Keighley’s heart red blazer and jet black sneakers, it’s clear that February 2022 is gonna suuuck (but also...
April O’Neil Finally Gets To Kick Some Shell In TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
25.8.2021
Look, I’m excited about Saints Row and Marvel: Midnight Suns and all the other big announcements out of Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase. But my favorite announcement of all concerns Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Yes, today Geoff Keighley revealed that, for the first time...
13 Years Later, Fan Gets Tricky Zelda Record In Smash Bros.
25.8.2021
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one of the most frequently, and thoroughly, speedrun games on the planet. Having been released almost 25 years ago, the game has been explored to death, and yet gamers find a way. There was one version of Ocarina of Time left undefeated for 13 years: the five...
Mysterious And Super Rare Nintendo Game & Watch Discovered At Auction
25.8.2021
A Yahoo Auctions listing in Japan made headlines in the collecting community recently when it offered for purchase a Nintendo Game & Watch that was so rare many people were convinced it was fake.Read more
Trees Have Become The Pokémon Fandom's Ultimate Brain Worms
23.8.2021
While the latest trailer for Pokémon Legends: Arceus shows the open-world monster-collecting game shaping up nicely compared to its initial reveal, some onlookers are not impressed. And so, for the second time in recent memory, the Pokémon fandom is once again talking about trees.Read more
First Look At Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, Which Might Not Suck
23.8.2021
We haven’t seen the actual show yet. It could still suck! But if we’re going to be superficial, it sure looks like Netflix is getting the look of its Cowboy Bebop adaptation sorta, well, right.Read more
Sonic Amateur Games Expo Features 150+ Free Fan Games
22.8.2021
Yesterday, the Sonic Amateur Games Expo started, continuing a 21-year tradition of fans coming together to share new community-developed games, demos, mods, and engines. And while the name implies it’s all about Sonic, SAGE is more than just ROM-hacks and fan games based on Sega’s popular mascot....