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Tier List: The Best Goths in Video Games
27.10.2021
With Halloween right around the corner, it’s the perfect time for us to immerse ourselves in the signature styles of video gaming’s greatest and most fashionable goths, as well as those whose fashion sense makes them goth-adjacent.Read more
That Dark Souls III Twitch Streamer's Bananas Single-Button Run, Explained
27.10.2021
Earlier this week, Twitch streamer Dylan “Rudeism” Beck blew our minds by beating Dark Souls III using a single-button setup to hammer out Morse code. It’s an impressive feat to be sure and one that also touches on something Rudeism is quite passionate about: accessibility in games.Read more
Hot Wheels Unleashed Devs On Making 2021's Most Surprising Racing Game
27.10.2021
Italian studio Milestone is known for racing sims. MotoGP, MXGP, Ride, the World Rally Championship series—that’s all Milestone. Hot Wheels Unleashed, the surprise hit arcade racer featuring Mattel’s iconic toy cars racing through physics-defying loops and making heart-stopping jumps, is about...
Dune’s Timothée Chalamet Was Once An Xbox YouTuber
27.10.2021
Timothée Chalamet: Hollywood superstar, GQ cover model, and...former gaming YouTuber? Yes, more than a decade ago, the Dune actor used to operate a YouTube channel under the handle ModdedController360, where he showed off custom paint jobs of Xbox 360 controllers.Read more
Former World of Warcraft Devs Start Studio Where Only Female Staffer Is A Dog
27.10.2021
Ex-Blizzard developers who started Notorious Studios seem to have exactly zero women on their development team. The staff page shows nine developers and two advisors, all of which are men, and one canine “Chief Morale Officer” named Ellie. Which means that the studio has more dogs than women....
Nintendo Switch Datamine Hints At Smash Bros. And Other N64 Games Coming
27.10.2021
The Switch Online Expansion Pack arrived earlier this week, bringing nine N64 games to Nintendo’s portable console. That’s...not a lot, and people have been eager to know what other classics will be headed to the subscription-based library. Recently datamined files offer a few hints.Read more
The Legends of Bezogia Blockchain NFT Rental MMO Game Takes Gaming Industry by Storm
27.10.2021
The Legends of Bezogia, the land where everything always goes up, is a massive open-world sandbox-style game where players can summon their own Bezogi characters from a large selection of different breeds by minting in-game NFTs, which randomly generate Bezogi. Each unique to their own playstyles...
Guilty Verdict For Death Threats Against Japanese Game Developer Arika
27.10.2021
Back in September 2019, threats insinuating murder were sent to Tokyo-based game developer Arika. The threats were made against the company as well as a corporate execute and sent through the Arika website’s contact form. Read more
The Pokémon x Sumo Collab We've Been Waiting For
27.10.2021
Over the years, Pokémon has done an array of collabs, including New Era, Oreo, Levi’s, and Casio. Some have been more interesting than others. But finally, Pocket Monsters is teaming up with sumo wrestling. It’s about time!Think about it. This makes perfect sense. In sumo, you have two wrestlers...
RECENZE: Česká dekadentní pohádka Happy Game opravdu není pro děti
27.10.2021
Produkce české Amanity bývá obvykle barvitá, hravá, mnohdy až dětská. Spoustu takových motivů najdete i v novince Happy Game, která tomu ovšem zároveň utrhá hlavy, rozlije po tom spoustu krve a pošle vás hledat kontakt na nejbližšího exorcistu
Pokémon Go Creators' New Mobile Game Is Pikmin Bloom
27.10.2021
Briefly and vaguely announced back in March, Nintendo and Niantic just took the wraps off Pikmin Bloom, the latest game to come from the partnership between the two companies.Read more
A Quiet Place Is Getting A Video Game Adaptation
27.10.2021
A Quiet Place, the excellent horror/sci-fi movie series about a blind alien invasion, is being turned into a video game by iLLOGIKA, a Canadian studio made up of former Behaviour Interactive, Eidos Montréal and Ubisoft developers.Read more
Ubisoft Pestering Far Cry 6 Players For Not Playing Enough
27.10.2021
One of the bleakest things about modern video gaming is the way major publishers are obsessed with not just gaining your attention but keeping it, holding it trapped and exposed to their monetary ecosystems for as long as humanly possible while they do everything they can to bleed you dry.Read more
26 companies and advocacy groups call on Valve to reverse its blockchain games ban
26.10.2021
“The potential blockchain gaming ecosystem will grow to be orders of magnitude larger than it is now, by the end of this decade," said Enjin CTO Witek Radomski
Spirit Halloween’s Video Game Costumes Are Pretty Good, Actually
26.10.2021
It’s not too late to pick up a Halloween costume—well, so long as you’re down to go as a character from a popular video game. Kotaku (that is, I) recently visited a local Spirit Halloween (“the world’s #1 Halloween store!”) to get a sense of the gaming-themed costume offerings you can expect...
Blizzard Cancels Online BlizzCon 2022
26.10.2021
It’s been a rocky couple of years for Blizzard’s annual fan celebration, with the 2020 and 2021 shows canceled due to the ongoing covid-19 epidemic. Now, as fallout continues from the California lawsuit over the studio’s culture of abuse, discrimination, and harassment toward women, Blizzard...
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Would Be A Terrible Deal, Even If It Worked Properly
26.10.2021
As Nintendo’s roll-out of the upgraded Nintendo Switch Online goes so very poorly, there’s a bigger question hovering over it all: even if it had launched with working controllers, functioning control schemes, and no input lag, would it be worth the price? And the answer is, from pretty much...
Players Have A Ton Of Complaints About Nintendo Switch Online’s N64 Games
26.10.2021
Nintendo 64 games finally became officially playable on Nintendo Switch Online last night and they run...less than stellar. Almost immediately, social media started filling up with examples of technical shortcomings, emulation woes, and button layouts that prove there is no god. It once again calls...
You Can Finally (Finally!) Suspend Your Returnal Runs
26.10.2021
It only took 179 real-world cycles, but Returnal, history’s glossiest Blue Öyster Cult music video, will finally let you close the game without erasing your progress. Developer Housemarque revealed the news of a “suspend game” option—easily the most-requested feature among fans—in a video detailing...
PC game discovery: 5 big trends in 2021
26.10.2021
We look at the big-picture story for the year so far