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PSA: Sonic Mania Is Free Right Now
24.6.2021
In case the kick-ass concert didn’t make it clear, it’s Sonic the Hedgehog’s 30th birthday, and how better to celebrate than with a copy of the game that Kotaku ranked the second-best Sonic game of all time? The Epic Games Store is giving away copies of Sonic Mania for free but you gotta...
One Of Last Year’s Best JRPGs Now Has Pet Dual Wielding
23.6.2021
After six long months, gaming’s most important update of 2021 has arrived: a new patch for farming JRPG Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin that lets you dual-wield the game’s adorable pets.Read more
12 Hours With Scarlet Nexus, Bandai Namco’s New Action-RPG
23.6.2021
Right out of the gate, Scarlet Nexus shows off its gimmick. You can play as one of two characters, viewing the same storyline from different perspectives. Both share the same formidable telekinetic superpower, spicing up what appears to be typical blade-swinging combat. While cool, it initially...
Luigi Unlocks Lego Super Mario’s Two-Player Mode
22.6.2021
When Lego Luigi officially joins the Lego Super Mario lineup on August 1, he’s bringing much more than his verdant sense of style and slightly smoother mustache. Combining the plumber brothers in Lego land unlocks the possibility of two-player brick-bounding action. Here’s how it works.Read more
Next Yakuza Spin-Off Has A Playable Sega Master System
22.6.2021
The Yakuza games have long featured playable versions of classic Sega games, but they’ve normally come in the form of arcade classics. The upcoming Lost Judgment, though, is taking things back a little further in time.Read more
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Is A Good Intro To An Old Series
21.6.2021
Jumping cold into the latest entry of a long-running series is often a daunting proposition. Catching up with dozens of characters across decades of games? Checking out Wikipedia pages between missions? No thanks! An exception to this rule is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, released earlier this...
Ubisoft DRM Breaks Might & Magic X: Legacy Single-Player, DLC
21.6.2021
On June 1 Ubisoft shut down online services for several popular games. One of those games was 2014's Might & Magic X: Legacy, an old-school first-person hack-n-slash dungeon crawler with no online multiplayer components whatsoever. It did, however, require a one-time verification through...
Myth: Gods of Asgard Sure Looks Like Hades
21.6.2021
We’ve all done it. Usually, “it” means lifting test answers off the kid in front of you, or pretending you’re the one who actually came up with that really funny joke. Less often, “it” means copy-pasting a widely lauded and enormously successful game down to the pixel. Well, allow me to introduce...
Hideo Kojima Conspiracy Theory Ends With Tears
21.6.2021
A week ago, most people didn’t know that Abandoned was an upcoming indie horror game for the PS5, or that it was being made by Danish developer Blue Box Game Studios. Now both are at the heart of gaming’s latest conspiracy theory that Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima is secretly involved...
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Is Being Used To Attract Tourists
21.6.2021
Wrath of the Druids, the first DLC expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, is set in Ireland and features a gorgeous recreation of the island country, complete with famous natural landmarks and centuries-old villages. Is all that enough to entice some digital Vikings to leave their homes...
Basketball Players in Canada to Be Paid in Bitcoin
19.6.2021
CEBL, the Canadian men’s basketball league, will offer its professional basketball players the option to receive a portion of their salary in cryptocurrency. The new payment option has been enabled through a partnership with the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange Bitbuy. Bitbuy to Convert...
The Best Metroid: Dread Reaction Is a Metroid Cosplayer One
18.6.2021
To get ready for Nintendo’s E3 presentation, you might have poured yourself a beverage, grabbed a snack, and got comfy. Cosplayer Bonbon, it seems, donned a Varia Power Suit.Read more
The Best Xbox Demos To Play This Weekend, Before They're Gone
17.6.2021
Back for its second year, the Xbox Summer Game Fest Demo Event—which somehow didn’t get a more palatable name during its time off—puts up 40 demos of unreleased games, generally indies. Over the past few days, two of us—staff writer Ari Notis and weekend editor Zack Zweizen—have given a bunch...
Nintendo Scores Highest Peak Viewership Of E3
17.6.2021
Switch Pro or not, Nintendo still had the most people watching its E3 2021 presentation. Nintendo amassed 3.1 million peak viewers for its nearly 40 minute presentation, according to yesterday’s tweet from Stream Hatchet, a data analytics firm specializing in video game streaming.Read more
Five Nights At Freddy’s Creator Scott Cawthon Retires Amid Controversy
17.6.2021
Scott Cawthon, the independent developer best known as the creator of the Five Nights at Freddy series, has announced his retirement from professional game development.Read more
GTA Online Player Tries Performing Hamlet, Dies
16.6.2021
It is not uncommon for people to put on performances in Grand Theft Auto Online. These days, there are entire role play servers with special modifications that allow players to better strut and fret their hour upon the stage, and they’re hugely popular. But players don’t usually do much acting...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Devs Say It's Single-Player For Better Storytelling
16.6.2021
When Eidos Montreal revealed Guardians of the Galaxy at E3 2021, many were surprised to see the upcoming Marvel game will be a single-player, Star-Lord-focused experience rather than offering multiplayer with the whole ragtag squad. But the developers have since made clear that taking a different...
Final Fantasy Origin’s Normie Fuckboy Scores More Stylish Gear As You Play
16.6.2021
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin’s main character looks completely out of place, but here’s some good news from the newly fixed demo: His wardrobe quickly expands to include clothes and accessories that better fit the setting.Read more
Report: Breath of the Wild 2's Real Title Might Give It Way, Nintendo says
16.6.2021
Yesterday, Nintendo came out swinging with its E3 presentation, showing off a trailer for the long-anticipated Breath of the Wild 2. But amidst the explosion of new fan art and fan speculation, you might have noticed that Nintendo isn’t calling this game BotW 2 like everyone else is.Read more
Why Was Nintendo's 'Switch Pro' Missing From E3?
16.6.2021
There was a bunch of cool stuff to get excited about during today’s E3 2021-adjacent Nintendo Direct presentation. Metroid Dread is real, Advance Wars is back, and Tekken’s Kazuya Mishima dropped the entire Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cast into a volcano. But one major announcement was notably...