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Sony Report Says Uncharted 4 Is Coming To PC
27.5.2021
Sony’s latest investor relations report is full of numbers and promises, but also some actual video game news, in that it is somehow the first place to officially mention that Uncharted 4 is coming to the PC.Read more
Latest Outriders Patch Pisses Everyone Off Even More
27.5.2021
Yesterday, developer People Can Fly released the latest—and repeatedly delayed—patch for Outriders. It was supposed to fix an issue wherein players would get killed instantly, without explanation. Instead, it appears to have irritated everyone under Epoch’s sun.Read more
Video games & TikTok: how to get discovery right
27.5.2021
An interview with somebody who knows what's up - and lots more
Let's Check In On Star Citizen, Shall We
26.5.2021
Star Citizen is currently free-to-play as the game enjoys its annual Invictus Launch Week celebration. I figured now would be as good a time as ever to take a peek at the ambitious space sim and see how things are going.Read more
How To Kick (More) Ass In Biomutant
26.5.2021
Biomutant, an ambitious yet messy RPG-cum-ASPCA advertisement, is full to the brim with mechanics. Though the combat system doesn’t exactly reinvent the wheel, it’s saddled by enough quirks that, yeah, it may take some getting used to, even for seasoned players of action games. The following advice...
Sega's Tokyo Olympics 2020 Game (The One Without Mario And Sonic) Drops Next Month
26.5.2021
With the real games delayed until July of this year due to covid-19, Sega’s had plenty of time to cobble together Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 – The Official Video Game, coming June 22 to PC, consoles, and Stadia. It’s a collection of 18 sports you can play with your own goofy-looking, costume-sporting...
How To Choose The Right Faction In Biomutant’s First Major Choice
26.5.2021
Within the first few hours of Biomutant, you have to make a choice. You’ll find yourself at the fulcrum of a war between two opposing factions. Whichever one you don’t choose will, by virtue of you being an unstoppable badass, eventually cease to exist. And the one you align with will dictate...
Call Of Duty Has Banned Over 350,000 Players For Racism And Toxicity In The Past Year
26.5.2021
Call of Duty big. Now Call of Duty ban number big, too. Read more
Roger Craig Smith Is Voicing Sonic The Hedgehog Again
26.5.2021
Roger Craig Smith announced this morning that he will return as the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in future games.Read more
Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Is Thinking About Retiring
26.5.2021
Masahiro Sakurai has a regular column in Japanese game magazine Weekly Famitsu. In the latest issue, just released and read by Kotaku, Sakurai’s article is titled, “Everything comes to an end.”Read more
The Factory In Resident Evil Village Is So Damn Boring
26.5.2021
I’m tired of Heisenberg’s Factory in Resident Evil Village. So much so that I, once again, might quit playing. The difference here from Village’s infamous Dollhouse—that also caused me to almost quit the game prematurely—isn’t because the factory is particularly scary or difficult. It’s just...
Monster Hunter Rise Update 3.0 Adds More Monsters And A New Ending
26.5.2021
Just when you thought you were done hunting monsters, bam! Capcom drops a free title update adding two new ferocious beasts to conquer and “a new ending to advance the story,” which is not how endings work but that’s what Capcom says, so we’ll run with it. Read more
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, And Pokémon Legends: Arceus Get Release Dates
26.5.2021
Make sure to kiss your mom goodbye and stock up on your X-Potions, because the three latest Pokémon games finally have release dates. Today, The Pokémon Company announced that the Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl remakes will launch on November 19, and a new open-world game Pokémon Legends:...
Following One Final Update, Echtra Games Ends Work On Torchlight III
26.5.2021
Yesterday Echtra Games released the “Cursed Captain” update for Torchlight III, adding a playable class, new pets, and applying several bug fixes and quality-of-life changes to the dungeon crawler. The developer also announced this update would be its last, due to its acquisition by Zynga...
CD Projekt Red Still Doesn’t Know When Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be Back On The PlayStation Store
26.5.2021
Cyberpunk 2077 has been through the ringer over the last six months, but despite all the hotfixes and attempts to rectify the biggest crashes and oversights, CD Projekt Red still doesn’t know when the game will be allowed on the PlayStation Store.Read more
1994 Story On Video Game Crunch Is Brutal Reading
26.5.2021
Widescale reporting of terrible working conditions at video game studios is a relatively recent thing, but crunch has always been with us, and as we can see in this rare story about the practice from the 1990s, when it’s bad it can be life-threatening.Read more
Everything You Need To Know About Creating A Biomutant Character
25.5.2021
Following the long-standing convention of complicated role-playing games, Biomutant makes you customize your character—their stats, class, and so on—before you actually know how the game plays. You’re essentially funneled into a situation in which you make lasting decisions without fully...
Nintendo Patent Looks Like A Giant Shitpost
25.5.2021
On June 5, 1997, Nintendo filed a patent titled “Video game system and method with enhanced three-dimensional character and background control due to environmental conditions.” I can’t even begin to parse what the heck that means on a technical level, but what I do know is that the document’s...
Skyrim Is As Old As Morrowind Was When Skyrim Came Out
25.5.2021
Wanna feel old? I sure don’t but I do now anyway, all thanks to one astute yet extremely mean tweet that popped into my timeline and instilled in me a sudden urge to burn my savings on a premium Botox job: As amateur video game historian Chris Chapman pointed out, Skyrim is officially as old...
Virtua Fighter 5 Coming To PlayStation 4 Next Week
25.5.2021
After teasing the classic fighting game franchise’s return last fall, this morning Sega announced Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown, a PlayStation 4-exclusive update to a game that’s almost 15 years removed from its original release at this point. Oh, and it’s launching June 1, also known as next...