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Bizarre Scarlet Nexus Shadow Glitch Gets Fixed
9.7.2021
A recent Scarlet Nexus update revealed that Bandai Namco’s stylish action RPG wasn’t rendering character and enemy shadows on PC if it was being played in several non-English languages. Even the biggest video games are technical marvels held together by hopes, dreams, and duct tape, but this takes...
Black Woman Gets Two World Records For Her Vast Vintage Gaming Collection
9.7.2021
Y’all! A Black woman was named the winner of not one but two world records for having the largest collection of LCD and playable gaming systems and my mind is alight with joy.Read more
This Horror Game Has One Of The Best Narratives In Years
9.7.2021
Scarlet Hollow is a quite incredible accomplishment. It’s one of the best narrative games I’ve played. Not only is this interactive fiction a deeply compelling and engrossing story, but it’s also an Inkle-level of branching story possibilities where your choices have long-reaching and significant...
'Undetectable’ Console Cheat YouTube Ad Taken Down By Activision
9.7.2021
Earlier this week we reported on an insidious new cheating system for competitive shooters that works on consoles and PC alike and promises to be completely undetectable. Looks like Call of Duty maker Activision already has the cheat makers in their sights, striking down their YouTube ad for...
Genshin Impact's Biggest Update Yet Adds Japan-Inspired Region
9.7.2021
The moment Genshin Impact fans have been waiting for practically since the game came out is finally here. Inazuma, an oft-rumored, much-anticipated in-game area inspired by Japan, is launching on July 21. Not only that, it’s arriving alongside an update so large that Chinese developer Mihoyo...
FC Barcelona Mucks Up Apology After Racism Controversy
9.7.2021
As Kotaku reported earlier this week, a video filmed during FC Barcelona’s 2019 tour of Japan, showed star Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele mocking hotel staff. The team’s ensuing apology one isn’t going over well in Japan.Read more
Hearts Of Iron IV: The Kotaku Re-Review
9.7.2021
In 2016, Paradox released the grand strategy Second World War game Hearts Of Iron IV. I have spent huge parts of the last five years playing this game, through updates and expansions, and I think in 2021 it’s as important, and even better, than it was at launch.Read more
Nintendo Switch Hallway Guy, What Are You Doing
9.7.2021
Nintendo announced an upgraded Switch with a larger, OLED screen earlier this week the same way it’s announced most Switch-related things. We’ve got someone playing Metroid Dread in his living room, a nice poolside session with the Breath of the Wild sequel, and a guy…wait, why is he playing...
Everything Sony Showed At The Latest Big PlayStation Event
9.7.2021
Sony aired its latest State of Play today focusing on smaller indie games and once again showing off its timed-PlayStation 5 console exclusive Deathloop. The company promised there wouldn’t be any big news at the event, but even so, it was bit of a snooze-fest.Read more
Charizard Millionare Fiasco Turns Ugly As Pokémon Critics Get Attacked
8.7.2021
In late July, Pokémon card collector Gary Haase drew the ire of fans who believed he was disrespectful to Mitsuhiro Arita, the artist who drew the iconic Charizard that has made Haase rich.Read more
Jackie Chan Fighting Game Is As Wild As You’d Expect
8.7.2021
Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Jackie Chan Densetsu, released in 1995 by the now-defunct Japanese studio Kaneko, has long enjoyed a small-yet-passionate scene of competitive players, and the offbeat fighting game only continues to get more wild as it’s picked apart by devotees.Read more
We Dwell in Possibility Is A Game About Queer Paradise (And Also Butt Plugs)
8.7.2021
We Dwell in Possibility is a garden simulator by Robert Yang, a New Zealand developer who’s known for his queer sex games, and renowned graphic artist Eleanor Davis. The collaboration makes a notable shift from Yang’s previous work but maintains a similar vision.Read more
Sony Pulls Ad Featuring Upside-Down PS5
8.7.2021
Sony posted an ad on Twitter this morning showing a dad capping off his day by playing some God of War. Typical fare, as far as these things go, except that the video also featured an upside-down PlayStation 5. Gasp! After fans pointed this out, the tweet got deleted with no explanation for...
Rust Is Big Again On Twitch, Now With Beautiful Music About A Blood God
8.7.2021
Trends come and go on Twitch, but the Blood God is forever. Or at least, that’s the impression I get from a cult dedicated to this imaginary deity is one of the central throughlines between Rust role-playing’s first popularity explosion late last year and its latest, which is happening right now....
PS4s and Xbox Ones Are Now Just As Hard To Find As Next-Gen Consoles
8.7.2021
Supply issues and Covid-19 complications have made the recent console generation transition a rocky one, with ongoing shortages making it nearly impossible to reliably procure a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X/S. But current gen consoles aren’t the only ones playing hard-to-get. Outside...
Detachable Screen Project Wants To Make Your Xbox Portable
8.7.2021
The Xbox Series S is undeniably an impressively small box for a powerhouse of a console, but it takes a special pair of eyes to look at it and think, “Mmm, portable.” Those special eyes belong to UPspec Gaming, an Australian start-up that has invented the xScreen, a detachable 11.6" screen...
Gaming giant Ubisoft joins Aleph.im as core channel node operator
8.7.2021
As Cointelegraph previously reported, Aleph.im was the only blockchain company to participate in Ubisoft's sixth annual Entrepreneurs Lab that began in May
Valve Finds A City Willing To Host DOTA 2's The International
8.7.2021
Already delayed from 2020, this year’s The International was supposed to take place in Sweden, until Sweden looked at the continuing global pandemic and said no thank you. So Valve had to scramble to find a city that would take the event, and in Bucharest, they’ve found it.Read more
It's 2021, Why Not Read A Video Game Magazine
8.7.2021
All the way back in 2016, I wrote about a very pretty, very good magazine called A Profound Waste Of Time, that brought together some beautiful art with some great features written by famous developers. Five years later, it’s back for a second issue.Read more
Pokimane's Immaculate Room Tour Has Twitch Streamers Showing Off Their Messy Bedrooms
8.7.2021
What does it mean to be authentic on Twitch? Who is real and who is fake on a platform where everybody is a brand, but also where a cornerstone of that brand is the appearance of down-to-earth chillness? This is the implicit question of the week on Twitch, and it’s all thanks to Imane “Pokimane”...