Search
Yikes, Top DOTA 2 Team Gets Covid A Week Before $40M Tourney
29.9.2021
Today, high-profile DOTA 2 team Team Aster announced via a Weibo post that several members of the team had tested positive for Covid-19, including three players. This news comes just eight days before the beginning of DOTA 2’s $40 million tournament, The International, which is scheduled...
Ticked Off Genshin Impact Players Go On Review-Bomb Spree
29.9.2021
Genshin Impact’s one-year anniversary is underway, but not all players are finding it a cause for celebration. For anyone familiar with the game’s community on social media or who follows some of its biggest streamers, it’s been impossible to escape players’ complaints about the anniversary...
Amazon MMO New World Bugs: 7-Day Respawn Timers, Immortality
29.9.2021
Amazon’s New World has launched, and as with many a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, it launched with some pretty annoying bugs. Bugs like being told you have to wait a week for your character to respawn after dying or, on the other end of the mortality spectrum, your character...
Watch Out Twitch, Porn Site Chaturbate Now Lets Models Stream Video Games
29.9.2021
Live sex cam site Chaturbate recently announced that its streaming platform will now support certain pre-approved video games, and is calling on developers to give their permission to add more to that growing list. Honestly, it was only a matter of time.Read more
Breath Of The Wild Player Completes Amazing ‘Minimalist’ Run In Five Hours
29.9.2021
When it comes to cool feats in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you probably think you’ve seen it all. You’ve caught the speedrunners and Korok seed completionists. You’ve seen someone, or perhaps many someones, run essentially naked up to Calamity Ganon’s throne and defeat...
Look At All The Ways You Can Kill People In Deathloop
28.9.2021
Deathloop has some of Arkane Studios’ biggest, most kinetic-feeling levels to date. Yes, they’re beautiful to behold, and a joy to traverse, but their best quality may be a little more subtle. They’ve proven to be perfect laboratories for players to experiment with ever more dastardly and amusing...
Nick Fighting Game Gives Nigel Thornberry Jigglypuff’s Rest From Smash
28.9.2021
Nigel Thornberry, patriarch of the eponymously wild Thornberrys, is one of the weirdest characters in Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. Earlier today, the developers behind this cartoony platform fighter released a breakdown of the nature documentarian’s moveset, which includes one very big homage to...
Splitgate's Big Update: Mantling, Plus Other Quality Of Life Tweaks
28.9.2021
Developer 1047 Games has rolled out a massive update for its popular Portal shooter Splitgate. The patch introduces several quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes, as well as adding two important adjustments to make the game a little easier to play: the option to change the armor color...
FIFA Player Accused Of Rape Suspended And Removed From Roster
28.9.2021
Benjamin Mendy, a Manchester City defender in the real-life Premier League, was suspended after being charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault of three women at his Cheshire home between October 2020 and August 2021.Read more
Amazon MMO New World, As Told By Steam Reviews
28.9.2021
It’s a new world, if not exactly a brave one. New World, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game published by Amazon, is officially out today for PC, marking the first legitimately successful game release for the planet’s most valuable company. (Pour one out for the super-face-planted...
One Year With Genshin Impact
28.9.2021
Exactly one year ago today, Genshin Impact was released. We were almost six months into the coronavirus pandemic, and now, looking back, I can’t imagine my adventure starting any other way. The fantasy world of Teyvat became my safe harbor in a year filled with grief, uncertainty,...
Cruis'n Blast On The Switch Is Arcade Racing At Its Most Ridiculous
28.9.2021
Microsoft and Sony can have their Forzas and Gran Turismos with hyper-realistic graphics, authentic engine noises, and true-to-life physics. The Nintendo Switch has Cruis’n Blast, in which your vaguely Nissan GT-R-shaped vehicle barrels off a cliff at breakneck speed toward a massive yeti which...
Horizon Forbidden West’s Aloy Will Look Realistic AF On PS5, Peach Fuzz And All
28.9.2021
Horizon Zero Dawn, the 2017 open-world game about listening to Lance Reddick’s silky smooth pipes, was a looker, pushing the boundaries of how pretty a game could be on the PlayStation 4, despite coming out halfway through the console’s life cycle. It should come as little surprise that the sequel...
New Nintendo Switch Pokémon Will Have Bits That Look Kinda Like A Game Boy
28.9.2021
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl got a new trailer Tuesday morning, showing off all kinds of neat new details. For example, there will be an improved Pokétch utility watch, Pokémon hangout parks, and surfing Bidoofs. It also sounds like all those pesky HMs present in the original games...
The Maligned Avengers Get Second Chance on Xbox Game Pass
28.9.2021
In a world where blockbuster comic book video games flounder due to repetitive endgame content, one subscription game service takes Earth’s mightiest heroes under its wing. It’s Xbox Game Pass to Marvel’s Avengers’ rescue as the multiplayer superhero game joins Microsoft’s service this...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Introduces 'Noble' Monsters
28.9.2021
A new Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer has just hatched, and alongside lots of new footage of the game, it reveals the existence of a whole new class of monsters: Noble Pokémon. The first of which is Kleavor.Read more
Universal Studios Japan Is Adding A New Donkey Kong Themed Area
28.9.2021
Super Nintendo World first opened at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka earlier this March. The theme park area is already set to get its first expansion. Openning in 2024, it’s Donkey Kong themed and will increase the size of Super Nintendo World by a whopping 70 percent. “Super Nintendo World...
Pokémon Unite Survey Suggests Huge Changes Could Be Coming
27.9.2021
Now that Pokémon Unite has made its Android and iOS debut, developer TiMi Studio Group has pushed out an in-game survey for players to complete. The questionnaire suggests that some new features, like additional game modes and more ways to interact with your monsters, might come to the popular MOBA...
Rune Factory 5 Will Finally Let The Gays Marry
27.9.2021
In a lengthy blog post, Rune Factory 5’s publishers confirmed that the English localization will allow same-gender marriages. This decision marks the first time that Rune Factory players can get gay married without a workaround.Read more
Eastward: The Kotaku Review
27.9.2021
Eastward is a phenomenally constructed video game. All of its music hits. The characters are relentlessly charming. Its art and level design are nothing short of extraordinary. Disregarding a few pacing missteps, the game fires on all cylinders for its entire duration. Hell, they even put a second...