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Animal Crossing Has October Direct Show, Brewster Confirmed
24.9.2021
Nintendo announced at its September 23 Direct that Animal Crossing: New Horizons will get an update in November and an Animal Crossing Direct in October.Read more
Nier's Yoko Taro Is Making A Card-Based RPG For The Nintendo Switch
24.9.2021
Square Enix’s latest RPG is called Voice Of Cards: The Isle Of Dragon Roars, and is coming out on the Nintendo Switch next month.Read more
Death Stranding Director's Cut's Save Transfer System Is Kojima At His Best
23.9.2021
While the average game director would have players simply port their saves from the PlayStation 4 to the PlayStation 5 via some unobtrusive menu, Hideo Kojima is built different. No, players who want to play Death Stranding Director’s Cut on PS5 for high framerates and fast load times will have...
Kena: Bridge of Spirits: The Kotaku Review
23.9.2021
Kena: Bridge of Spirits is what I’d call a “You Should Give Us Money” project.Read more
Every Big Game Coming Out In Fall 2021
23.9.2021
The leaves are changing color, the wind is getting chilly, and all your favorite beverages are required by law to be flavored with pumpkin. Goodbye, hot and gross summer, and hello fall. And while this fall might not be as stacked as previous autumns, with plenty of games delayed into 2022, it’s...
Rare But Limited PS5, Xbox Best Buy Restock Sees Excruciatingly Long Lines IRL
23.9.2021
Since the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S went on sale last fall, Best Buy hasn’t sold next-gen consoles at its brick-and-mortar locations, citing safety concerns around covid-19. That changed on Wednesday, when the big box retailer said it would sell a limited supply at stores across the country...
You're Not The Only Pokémon Unite Player Unable To Nab Festival Pikachu Right Now
23.9.2021
It’s been a big week for Pokémon Unite. The fast-paced MOBA not only got an update that makes its notorious pay to win mechanics obsolete, but TiMi Studio Group also released the game on mobile. The developers encouraged people to preregister and download the mobile version by promising goodies...
Japanese Esports Team Is Filled With Senior Citizens
23.9.2021
Meet the Matagi Snipers. Based in Akita, the eight-person team is Japan’s first senior esports professional team, complete with a sponsor and everything. The team was established as a way to show the health benefits of esports for older adults, as well as to impress the grandkids. NHK reports that...
The Whiteness of Skater XL’s Mods Is A Major Bummer
22.9.2021
Skater XL, the skateboarding simulator developed by Easy Day Studios, is one of two more recent genre entries that attempts to capture the zeitgeist of EA’s Skate. The game plops you in a myriad of selectable maps, each replete with various obstacles (such as benches and rails) to trick over,...
GTAV’s Enhanced 2022 Release Should Leave The 2013 Transphobia Behind
22.9.2021
Years ago, I saw a video on YouTube—since removed, it seems, though a few like it still remain—of a GTAV player deliberately brutalizing some of the game’s trans sex workers for his own amusement. In the comments, one viewer voiced these chilling words of encouragement: “You’re doing God’s...
Playing Genshin Impact's Last Update As Its Villain Was Eye-Opening
22.9.2021
I’ve been building up my Raiden Shogun character so that I could use her to clear Genshin Impact’s latest chapter. She’s the main antagonist of the game’s Inazuma region, so I thought it would be interesting to attack and dethrone god using god herself. Read more
Nintendo Announces Surprise 40-Minute Direct For Thursday
22.9.2021
Pour one out for every gamer who had plans after work tomorrow. Nintendo will host a Nintendo Direct at 6:00 p.m. ET sharp, it announced today in a tweet. The showcase, which will cover Switch games “launching this winter,” is slated to last about 40 minutes.Read more
Overwatch 2's Boss Is Quitting Blizzard For "Some Time Off"
22.9.2021
With Overwatch 2 still in development, the series’ executive producer has quit Blizzard for what the company says is “some time off”.Read more
Even Sonic Dad Yuji Naka Is Shocked At Game’s $430,000 Auction Price
22.9.2021
The rivalry between Mario and Sonic goes back for decades, but even one of Sonic’s creators was stunned to see the blue hedgehog apparently giving chase to Mario in a whole new realm: that of outrageously priced video game auctions.Read more
Twitch And Music Industry Strike A Deal, But It's Not Great
22.9.2021
Last year a music industry crackdown on streaming site Twitch resulted in copyright strikes and a mass deletion of videos, as the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) sought to cut down on streamers playing licensed music. Twitch has now made a deal with the NMPA, but for streamers it’s...
Ratchet & Clank Still Runs Fine On The Worst PS5-Compatible SSD
22.9.2021
The fine folks at Digital Foundry are back with another wonderfully tech-heavy video, this time examining the SSD options available to PlayStation 5 owners now that the console’s storage can be expanded. As it turns out, even the disk-access-heavy Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart can be thoroughly...
The Latest Stuff Coming To Halo Infinite You Should Know About
21.9.2021
Earlier this summer, developer 343 Industries hosted what was basically a beta for Halo Infinite, the story of one man’s quest to fall in love with a computer. It was bonkers. This week, over on Halo Waypoint, 343 detailed what’s in store for Infinite’s second beta (and, to a lesser degree,...
Billy Mitchell’s Old Website Now Debunks His Controversial Pac-Man High Scores
21.9.2021
If nothing else, you’ve gotta respect the bit. Billy Mitchell, the so-called “video game player of the century,” appears to have let ownership over his old website, perfectpacman.com, lapse some years ago. Now someone else has commandeered the domain, and is using it to publish a multipart...
Fans Gather To Say Goodbye To A Legendary Sega Arcade
21.9.2021
Last month, Sega announced that its Sega Ikebukuro Gigo arcade would be closing on September 20. Yesterday, fans gathered to say goodbye to the legendary game center at a ceremony Sega held to mark the end of its 28-year-run. Read more
Behold, My New Favorite Crusader Kings Bug
21.9.2021
Crusader Kings II is a game with a long and proud tradition of “bugs that should be hung in the Louvre”, but I think this new one I’ve learned about today is my favourite.Read more