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Dude Gets 100% On Guitar Hero Song That Looks Physically Impossible
23.4.2021
Honestly, this is one of the most physically impressive video game feats I have ever seen.Read more
Mortal Kombat 2021: The Kotaku Movie Review
23.4.2021
As I said last month following a preview of the film’s first 12 minutes, the new Mortal Kombat movie starts off strong. The opening battle between the men who would become Sub-Zero and Scorpion is one of my favorite cinema moments of the year. The remaining 98 minutes? Not so much. The fights...
Clone Hero Is So Much Fun I Don't Mind The Carpal Tunnel
23.4.2021
As the last of the notes disappeared from the screen, I put my fake, plastic guitar down to look at my hands. They were shaking, and my fingers were curled as if they were still wrapped around the fretboard. I felt pain twisting around my wrist and creeping into my finger joints. Still, I wore...
Microsoft Adds FPS Boost To 13 More Xbox Games
22.4.2021
Microsoft announced today that 13 EA Play games now support FPS Boost on Xbox Series X/S consoles. A bunch of these FPS-boosted titles support 120Hz including Star Wars: Battlefront, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, Titanfall 2, Battlefield V, and more. Read more
Epic Games Store Adds New Apps Including, Um, Another Game Store
22.4.2021
Epic announced today that a slate of new non-gaming apps are now available on the Epic Games Store. The most interesting new app added is the indie games storefront Itch.io, potentially giving the thousands of smaller games on their store a huge new audience of EGS users. Read more
The Olympics Gets A Virtual Sports Tie-In Event
22.4.2021
It’s not quite esports in the Olympics, but the International Olympics Committee (IOC) will host a virtual sports event May 13 to June 23, tied to the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo.Read more
Behold, A Little Pikachu Photo Printer From Nintendo And Fujifilm
22.4.2021
Nintendo and Fujifilm have joined for a small printer called Instax Mini Link for Nintendo Switch Smartphone Printer.Read more
Returnal Feels Like An Actual PS5 Game
22.4.2021
A busted spaceship. An uncharted exoplanet teeming with hostile life. An emphasis on scanning objects, upgrading equipment, and retracing your footsteps. Those might sound like core components of a new Metroid Prime, but they’re not, at least not in this case. They’re the ingredients of...
Fans Criticize Poor Timing Of In-Person Twitch Star Uno Tournament
22.4.2021
Last night, esports and lifestyle organization 100 Thieves held an all-star streamer Uno tournament featuring Twitch and YouTube stars like Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter, Ali “Myth” Kabbani, Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, Ludwig Ahgren, Hasan Piker, and the Botez sisters, whose otherworldly skill at chess...
Never Count Out A Wario Full Of Farts
21.4.2021
Wario is, by most accounts, a pretty good character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. But facing him gets even scarier when he’s had time to fill his guts with explosive flatulence.Read more
Xbox Free-To-Play Games Are Finally Free To Play
21.4.2021
Starting today, all Xbox players can play more than 50 free-to-play games without an Xbox Live Gold membership, Microsoft announced in a blog post. The update comes on the heels of a ballyhooed reversal of longstanding Xbox policy.Read more
Sonic 2 Movie Set Photos Feature A Second Sonic Sidekick
21.4.2021
We know Sonic the Hedgehog 2 features Sonic, and the teaser at the end of the first movie revealed Tails. Photos shot during the sequel’s filming in Vancouver show off a third anthropomorphic animal character that could be joining the cast. Potential movie spoilers but come on, we all know who...
Square Enix Launches A Photobook Service In Japan For Final Fantasy XIV
21.4.2021
If photo books are good enough to revive your digital pics, then surely the same goes for your life in Final Fantasy XIV.Read more
Handy Sticker Lets You Meme Devil May Cry’s Dante Into Any Game
20.4.2021
Ahead of Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster’s release on PlayStation 4 and Switch next month, publisher Sega has provided the internet with a beautifully high-resolution version of the “Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series” sticker from the PlayStation 2 original’s box art...
Mother 3 Gets An Updated English Patch On Its 15th Anniversary
20.4.2021
The folks behind the wonderful English translation of Mother 3 are still working on the project over a decade later. Earlier today—which also happens to be the 15th anniversary of Nintendo’s milestone RPG in Japan—they dropped a new patch that irons out some lingering bugs in the unofficial...
Mods Make Gaming A Better Place For Everyone
20.4.2021
Twitter is abuzz with today’s awkwardly wrong gaming take, this time focused on modding, after disparaging thoughts about a recent Witcher 3 mod led to debate over whether modders are harming the games industry. Which leads me to present the other case: modders are not harming the games...
Here's Everything Coming To And Leaving Game Pass Soon
20.4.2021
The baseball game is the big one, but that’s not the only game en route to Xbox Game Pass. Here’s everything coming to Microsoft’s games-on-demand service in the next few weeks:Read more
Spiritfarer Celebrates 500K Copies Sold With A Free Update
20.4.2021
Spiritfarer, the “cozy management game about dying,” has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. In celebration of this impressive milestone, developer Thunder Lotus is releasing The Lily Update, adding a new butterfly spirit to the game to help flesh out the story of main character Stella....
Fan-Made Portal Game Adds Third Color, Which Allows Time Travel
20.4.2021
Portal 2 was challenging enough when all you had to worry about was space, but now we have to think about time as well?Read more
Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan + Super Mario Bros. 2 USA = My Dream Game
20.4.2021
Programmer and digital artist Sammu recently put out a nifty video showcasing her work combining the two different versions of Super Mario Bros. 2 into a mega-game featuring the mechanics of one and the levels of the other. As a fan of both, I desperately want to play it.Read more