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Nick Fighting Game Looks Legit, Will Prob Have Better Online Than Smash
13.7.2021
As the classic saying goes, if you cherish something from your childhood, someday, somehow, corporate licensing departments will find a way to wring every penny from it. Such is true with Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a Smash-style fighting game developed by Ludosity and “exclusively announced” today...
Hero Erects Entire Switch Game Wiki After Finding Little Online
13.7.2021
The internet is so big and vast and great and terrible that whenever I can’t find something, I just assume I must not be looking in the right place. In actuality, there’s just a lot of stuff that doesn’t exist because it got deleted or nobody wrote in the first place. That’s what one fan discovered...
Werewolves Within Is One Of The Highest-Rated Video Game Movies Ever
13.7.2021
With a “Certified Fresh” 86 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 114 reviews, Ubisoft horror comedy Werewolves Within is one of the highest rated video game movies of all time. What’s its secret? An amazing cast, clever writing, and having barely anything to do with the video game it’s based...
Bethesda’s PS5-Exclusive Ghostwire: Tokyo Delayed To 2022
13.7.2021
The great season of delays continues unabated. Ghostwire: Tokyo, the forthcoming PlayStation 5 action adventure game from Tango Gameworks, has been delayed to early 2022, the studio announced in a tweet today.Read more
Pokémon Go's Okinawan Pikachu Delayed 'Due To Recent Developments'
13.7.2021
Niantic was planning to do a promotional collaboration with the Pokémon Air Adventures campaign by having a special Okinawan kariyushi shirt-wearing Pikachu appear in Pokémon Go. That has now been delayed. Below is the following update Niantic added to the original announcement:Read more
Shoot'em-Up Developer Cave Announces A Totally New Shooter For Touhou Project
13.7.2021
Today, Tokyo-based Cave announced that it’s got the okay to make a Touhou Project shooter—something that, no doubt, gets shooting game fans excited.Read more
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Released In 2015, Has Just Been Patched On Steam
13.7.2021
The third game in the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, was first released on PC all the way back in 2015. That’s six years ago, so it’s pretty cool/interesting to see that the game has just received an official patch.Read more
Ninja Gaiden's Disastrous PC Port Now At Least Has In-Game Graphics Options
13.7.2021
Just over a month after its release on PC, Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection—a full-priced product from a major international publisher—has finally got around to adding some in-game graphics options.Read more
Next-Gen Sports Games On PC Always Suck, This Is Nothing New
13.7.2021
This year, fans of EA Sports titles like FIFA and Madden who play on PC—and there are more of us than you think!—are upset that those games will be ports of the last-gen versions, and not of the fancier editions appearing on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.Read more
Game discovery: where do short/niche games fit?
12.7.2021
A slightly worrying discussion
Someone Bought A Copy Of Skyrim For $600 In 2021
12.7.2021
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most popular video games ever released and it has been ported to more platforms than I have time to list. Yet, someone still decided to spend $600 on a sealed Xbox 360 copy of Skyrim at a recent online auction. Read more
Fortnite Drafts NBA Star LeBron James
12.7.2021
The latest Fortnite crossover is all about NBA star LeBron James, who will appear in the game on July 14 ahead of his turn in the terrible-looking Space Jam sequel this weekend. Oh, and he has a Taco Tuesday outfit for some reason. Mmm, tacos.Read more
Social NFT Project Nifty’s Raises $10M, Partners With Entertainment Giant Warner Bros
12.7.2021
The Miami-based Nifty’s, Inc. announced the launch of the project’s website which aims to reveal a non-fungible token (NFT) social platform focused on gathering mainstream attention. The company has also revealed it raised $10 million in a seed round from well-known investors like...
Sealed Mario 64's Record-Breaking $1.5M Sale Has Retro Experts Skeptical
12.7.2021
Super Mario 64 is not one of rarest or oldest video games by any stretch, but that didn’t stop it from reportedly selling for $1.5 million at auction over the weekend. It was the latest stunning display of just how vintage game collecting has blown up amidst a new speculation-fueled bubble.Read more
Kojima: Death Stranding Director’s Cut Isn’t A Director’s Cut
12.7.2021
Cross-genre game Death Stranding will receive an enhanced and expanded version on PlayStation 5 this fall with Death Stranding Director’s Cut. But Hideo Kojima, the game’s famously enigmatic director, doesn’t think it qualifies as a bona fide director’s cut.Read more
The Division 2’s Massive Drones Are Breaking The Game Right Now
12.7.2021
Large and deadly weaponized marauder drones are normally a threat in The Division 2. But right now they are even more of a danger than usual: If you shoot one, you’ll receive an annoying error and be kicked from the game. The bug is making it next to impossible to complete some missions and events....
One Of The Biggest FNAF YouTubers Finally Responds To Scott Cawthon's Retirement
12.7.2021
While Matthew “MatPat” Patrick’s YouTube series Game Theory isn’t specifically dedicated to Five Nights at Freddy’s, with nearly 50 videos focused on the popular horror game franchise it’s become a huge part of the FNAF community over the years. Yesterday, in a very special episode of Game Theory...
Microsoft Calls For An End To 'Git Gud'
12.7.2021
Before the weekend, Microsoft’s Xbox Twitter account sent a surprisingly important tweet: “Beating the game on the lowest difficulty is still beating the game.” This was then followed up by Double Fine who added that completing Psychonauts 2 with the “invincibility toggle on” still counts...
Final Fantasy XIV Is So Popular Even The Digital Version Sold Out
12.7.2021
Final Fantasy XIV, the popular MMO about trying to find an apartment in San Francisco, is flying off shelves—digitally. Right now, when you pop onto the Square Enix store, you’ll likely run into a roadblock trying to buy a download code for the game.Read more
Square Enix Producer Doesn't Like Drip-Fed PR
12.7.2021
Square Enix producer Naoki Yoshida is hard at work on Final Fantasy XVI. As Kotaku reported last fall, the producer has been trying to manage expectations for the game. In a recent livestream, he also discussed his dislike for drip-fed PR. Previously, Yoshida said that he didn’t want to show...