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Mysterious New Radio Signals Infiltrate 2016's Oxenfree
13.9.2021
As Night School Studio builds up toward next year’s release of Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, it’s added some new spooky goings-on to 2016's Oxenfree. Returning to the Steam version of that game today (when patched) will allow you to discover some new radio broadcasts that hint at the storyline...
Look Out Hideo Kojima, Someone Else Is Making A Strand Game
13.9.2021
Death Stranding is a game I loved when I played it in the fall of 2019, and one that I’ve only come to appreciate more in the time since. When so many games with massive budgets feel like they’re covering the same tired territory, Death Stranding, in all its awkward earnestness, offered something...
Hideo Kojima Wants To Make Video Games That Change In Real Time
13.9.2021
You gotta give Hideo Kojima this: He always has interesting ideas for the video games he’s made or would like to make. While the final product might not live up to those concepts, at least the guy is trying to push the envelope. In a recent interview with Japanese lifestyle magazine An-An (via...
Thirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In Japan
13.9.2021
On September 13, 1985 in Japan, Nintendo released one of its most iconic games ever, Super Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, it was a smash at home and became the Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer app a year later. The world was never the same. As Famitsu points...
The Week In Games: Deathloop De Loop And Pull
13.9.2021
I feel like I’ve seen 200 trailers for this game, but finally, Deathloop is out on PS5 and PC later this week. Read more
Incredible Death Stranding Cosplay Even Gets The Landscape Right
13.9.2021
There’s plenty of great Death Stranding cosplay to go around already, but this new video piece really goes the extra mile by having even the place it was shot look just like the game’s desolate future America.Read more
Fortnite's Cube Returns For Season 7's Explosive Finale
13.9.2021
Fortnite players have spent the entirety of the game’s seventh season dealing with a growing alien threat. Now it’s time for the aliens to deal with the threat of us as we storm the alien mothership and liberate dangerous-looking glowing cubes in the explosive season finale event.Read more
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
Two Popular Team Fortress 2 Mods Temporarily Removed Due To 'Arrangements' With Valve
12.9.2021
Here’s an odd bit o’ news: Two popular Team Fortress 2 mods have suddenly and mysteriously been removed from the internet and can no longer be downloaded. According to the devs, this is due to “arrangments with Valve” but neither team has explained what that means. According to devs for both mods...
Destiny 2's Most Bugged Gun Strikes Again
12.9.2021
The gun that keeps breaking Destiny has struck again. Bungie announced it’s once again taking the Exotic fusion rifle Telesto offline in PVP activities after Destiny 2 players were caught exploiting a new bug to demolish their opponents in this week’s returning Trials of Osiris competitive mode....
Alan Wake Remastered Is Ditching The Energizer Batteries And Verizon Billboards
11.9.2021
Alan Wake is a spooky third-person action game with creepy shadow monsters and weird characters. It also contained a ton of product placement, including an Energizer-branded flashlight you use in the game to push back the evil. Next month’s remastered re-release removes that and all the other bits...
Uh... Jake From State Farm Is In NBA 2K22
11.9.2021
NBA 2K22 was released yesterday across PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One. Like previous NBA 2K games, 2K22 features The City, a large online open-world mode that lets players walk around, play basketball, shop in stores, and uh... I guess hang out with Jake from State Farm.Read more
True Roguelikes Like This Are For Sick People, Drink From My Poison Chalice
10.9.2021
There are over 40 blood wolves around me, and they are absolutely kicking vampire ass. Those are wolves made of blood, in case you weren’t sure that’s what I meant. You’d think the vampires would be drinking that blood, but no, there are just too many blood wolves. They’re getting owned. I am...
Before You Start: Tips For Playing Tales Of Arise
10.9.2021
Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of games about spiky haired boys who scream “You bastard!!!” and then stab an evil dude, is a notable deviation from established formula. Rather than an action-oriented RPG, as you may expect by now, this one’s more of...
GTA Fans Are Starving, And Rockstar Keeps Giving Them Nothing
10.9.2021
Yesterday, during a big PlayStation Showcase event that featured a bunch of new games like God of War Ragnarok, we got a new trailer for the next-gen release of Grand Theft Auto V. It wasn’t very good, and the GTA community is letting everyone know about it. At one point on Thursday, GTA...
WarioWare: Get It Together!: The Kotaku Review
10.9.2021
You are 12 years old and you are in the local Family Video. Your grandmother is picking up a movie and she has no idea what it is yet, so you have time. There is a room with several hundred video games. You have a used Xbox 360, filled with the half-remembered save files of its previous owner,...
Sony Seems Ready To Start Leaving The PS4 Behind
10.9.2021
Despite radio silence regarding a full-length Astro’s Playroom, Sony’s fall showcase was nothing if not a success. But between the splashy trailers and genuinely surprising announcements, one thing was clear: Sony seems poised to leave PlayStation 4 owners behind.Read more
The Bloodborne of Samurai Games, Nioh, Is Free On PC
10.9.2021
Nioh takes the action of a Ninja Gaiden and the structure of a Dark Souls and marries them into something elegant, exceptional, and currently free for PC on the Epic Games Store.Read more
Tales Of Arise Is Even Better If You Remap The Buttons
10.9.2021
For years, Bandai Namco’s Tales games have largely been role-playing games with an action bent. Tales of Arise, out now for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, is as close to a pure action game as ever, thanks to a streamlined battle system and a switch on the development end to the Unreal engine. It rules....
Three Reasons The PS5 Star Wars: KotOR Remake Is Such A Huge Deal
10.9.2021
Yesterday’s news of a Knights of the Old Republic remake has my emotions spinning in two opposite directions, like some sort of quantum confusion of nostalgia. An all-time favorite game, one I’ve replayed and explored in ludicrous detail, but now made to look all pretty! Amazing! But...but what...