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Streamers Play With Call Of Duty Actor, Get Suspended For Cheating
15.3.2021
Streamer Alex Zedra—the face behind an actual character in Call of Duty—was playing Warzone the other day with two other folks when she noticed some pretty suspect behaviour. And hey, surprise, the two people she was playing with have now had their Twitch channels suspended for cheating.Read more
The Week In Games: Eat Some Brains All Over Again
14.3.2021
The loveable and a bit decayed Stubbs the zombie returns in... Stubs The Zombie, a remastered port of the cult classic game releasing later this week on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC.Read more
Expert Doom Players Continue To Complete Challenges Once Thought Impossible
14.3.2021
Classic Doom players are continuing to pick away at some of the hardest remaining community challenges left, beating missions without attacking a single enemy in some of the hardest retail Doom levels ever released.Read more
'Shop Contest: Bethesda+Microsoft
14.3.2021
It’s official. Microsoft has completed its purchase of Bethesda. They had a whole roundtable discussion about it and everything. (More importantly, it was officially approved by regulators.) Let’s have some fun with these two companies now stapled together like some hideous mega-beast. Read more
Peeled Pokémon Are Disturbing, But I Can't Stop Looking
14.3.2021
Nothing really prepares you for stumbling upon a Lopunny that has had parts of its fur and flesh peeled off it, leaving a smooth monstrosity. And yet, that happened to me one day on Twitter. Now I can’t stop looking at all the other peeled Pokémon.Read more
Crusader Kings III's First DLC Is Viking-Themed, Releases March 16
13.3.2021
Crusader Kings III, one of the best games released last year, is getting its first DLC. And you don’t have to wait long, it released in three days on March 16.Read more
The Division 2, Two Years Later
13.3.2021
The Division 2 was released on March 12, 2019, making it just over two years old this week. In that time a lot has happened. Multiple updates, changes, bugs, controversies, teasers, puzzles, and more. Here’s what happened since The Division 2 came out. Read more
The Amazing Astro's Playroom Soundtrack Is Now Streaming Everywhere, Bringing Joy To All
13.3.2021
You can now easily listen to “I’m Your GPU” all day, every day.Read more
New TMNT Game Announced, Rust Servers Wiped Out By Fire, Microsoft Officially Buys Bethesda And More
13.3.2021
This week on Morning Checkpoint we find out what secrets still lurk in Bloodborne, learn how much money Roblox is worth to Wall Street, check out a new trailer for Outriders, eat a bad burger (again) and hear horror stories from game devs who worked through the recent winter storm.Read more
Xbox FPS Boost Coming Soon To Fallout 4 And Other Old Bethesda Games
12.3.2021
After launching the FPS Boost feature in February with a handful of games, Microsoft has announced that five more games, all from Bethesda, will soon be enjoying FPS Boost support.Read more
Mario Kart Speedrunners Are Racing To Blow Themselves Up With Blue Shells
12.3.2021
Do you know you can hit yourself with a Blue Shell in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe? Speedrunners do, and they’re going all out to blow themselves up with the first place-targeting item as quickly as possible.Read more
Turn Your Nintendo Switch Into the Ultimate Portable Console
12.3.2021
Top Product: Hori Split Pad Pro | $40 | AmazonRead more
Game Artists Not Happy That Developer Is Selling Their Nearly Decade-Old Work As NFTs
12.3.2021
The question at the heart of this week’s incessant NFT debate is one of ownership: How, in the digital age, can one really own anything? And when somebody purchases a glorified gif or jpg for mind-boggling amounts of money, what do they even own? Not rights. Not the sole copy of the image. So what?...
The PS5 Is Back In Stock
12.3.2021
Ooops, sorry you just missed it. Read more
Genshin Impact KFC Crossover Events In China Shut Down Over Covid-19 Concerns
12.3.2021
A weekend crossover event between the wildly popular Genshin Impact and Kentucky Fried Chicken had to be shut down at Shanghai and Hangzhou locations after apparently violating China’s ongoing covid-19 prevention measures, the fast food chain announced on Chinese social media site Weibo today.Read...
So, Which Bethesda Game Pass Game Should You Play First?
12.3.2021
Starting today, you can play a bunch of Bethesda-published games on Game Pass, thanks to Microsoft and ZeniMax’s recent marriage. Some were previously available. Many are new. However you slice it, if you’re a member of Microsoft’s games-on-demand service, you now have 20 largely excellent games...
Pokemon Go's Eggs Aren't Lootboxes, They're Fun Presents
12.3.2021
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is testing a feature that lets players see what might be inside the game’s eggs before they walk the many miles to hatch them. It appears this is a response to the argument that the game’s eggs are akin to lootboxes. There is an awful lot that could be better about...
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: The Kotaku Review
12.3.2021
The marsupial of legend returns and he’s never been so fluffy. But there’s nothing soft and cuddly about Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. In true Crash fashion, this cute and colorful platformer is here to kick your ass.Read more
Loop Hero Will Soon Let You Save The Dang Game
12.3.2021
The deck-building, dungeon-making roguelite RPG Loop Hero is getting some much needed quality-of-life improvements in an upcoming update, the game’s developers announced yesterday. The most important of these fixes? Finally letting you save your game.Read more
This NeoGeo Arcade Stick Controller Comes Pre-Installed With 20 SNK Fighting Games for $101
12.3.2021
NeoGeo Arcade Stick Pro | $101 | AmazonRead more