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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...
Report: Judgment Series Is Ending Over PC Version Disagreement
12.7.2021
Sega scored a big coup by signing up Takuya Kimura, one of Japan’s biggest celebrities, to star in its Judgment games. With Kimura comes bonafide star credentials and, of course, talent agency power. That last point, according to one report, could be the budding franchise’s downfall.Read more
Fallout: New Vegas Mod Wants To Be A Star Wars Game
12.7.2021
Here’s Star Wars: Open Worlds, a modding project currently being worked on that hopes to transform 2010's Fallout: New Vegas into a big Star Wars adventure spanning multiple planets.Read more
The Best Sports Video Game Of All Time
12.7.2021
The latest sports games are not always the best.Read more
The Week In Games: Skyward Sword (NOW IN HD)
12.7.2021
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is out this Friday on Nintendo Switch and is one of the biggest games releasing this week. Read more
Ubisoft Report States It's At A 'High' Risk Of Losing Talent Due To Toxic Work Culture
11.7.2021
In its annual Universal Registration Document, Ubisoft publicly (and quietly considering most folks never read these things...) acknowledged that “inappropriate behavior by employees” was a new risk facing the large publisher and developer and could lead to the company losing talented employees....
A Sealed Copy Of Super Mario 64 Just Sold At Auction For $1.5 Million
11.7.2021
Super Mario 64 is a good game. But would you pay $1.5 million dollars for a copy of it? Probably not. But somebody just did. Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Was The Most Downloaded Game On PS4 In June
11.7.2021
PlayStation has revealed the most downloaded PS4, PS5, and PSVR games during the month of June, and unsurprisingly, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was the most popular PS5 title. More surprising is that Cyberpunk 2077, even after its messy launch and removal from the PSN store, was the most...
Resident Evil Village Pirate Says Cracked Release Fixes Bugs From DRM
11.7.2021
Resident Evil Village is a good game. But on the PC the game has suffered from annoying stuttering issues that have left many frustrated. Capcom has yet to fix these issues, but now a cracked release of the game that removes all DRM seems to have fixed all the stuttering. Read more
Geralt's Voice In The Witcher Show Was A Happy Accident
10.7.2021
During an interview that was part of WitcherCon, Henry Cavill explained that Geralt’s voice heard in the first season of the Netflix show wasn’t originally the plan. Instead, it happened by “accident” while filming a scene early on in production.Read more
A Nearly 20-Year-Old Half-Life Easter Egg Was Just Found
10.7.2021
At the very end of Half-Life: Decay there’s a tiny Easter egg to be found, but only if you change your perspective and pay close attention to a destroyed computer. Read more
Man Arrested For Selling Modded Zelda Save Files
10.7.2021
A 27-year old man in Japan was arrested after he was caught attempting to sell modified Zelda: Breath of The Wild save files. Read more
Welcome Back Live Overwatch, I Missed You
10.7.2021
Today, the Dallas Fuel will hold the first live North American Overwatch League match since March of last year.Read more
New Pokémon Snap’s ‘Obama Skip’ Is The Latest Speedrunning Trick With A Weird Name
10.7.2021
Like any sub-culture, speedrunning is known for creating its own unique vocabulary that, at times, can sound like an entirely different language. Fortunately, we have folks like Abyssoft to act as our Sherpas and guide us up the treacherous speedrunning mountain. His latest video explains...
Video Games Are Part Of Climate Change, Too
9.7.2021
It’s hot! I don’t just mean in the sense that I am sweating while my window AC unit does its best to gasp cool air into my apartment; I mean that it’s historically hot. Last month was the warmest June ever in North America. In honor of the increasingly agonizing heat death of the planet, this...
The Witcher 3 Will Get Free DLC Inspired By The Netflix Show
9.7.2021
Announced today, The Witcher 3 will be getting new free DLC inspired by the popular Netflix show as part of the next-gen upgrade coming later this year. Read more
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...
The Last of Us Part II Breaks If You Go Too Fast
9.7.2021
During a sequence in The Last of Us Part II, players chase after Tommy, the brother of Joel from the first game. Normally, Tommy gets away by escaping through a store and closing a door behind him. But if you are quick enough, you can slide in and kill Tommy, which makes it impossible to move...
Sega Changes PSO2 Name To Something Less Borderline Racist
9.7.2021
A non-player character in Sega MMO Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis underwent a name change with this week’s scheduled maintenance. The black and brown member of the robotic CAST race formerly known as “Diggah” shall henceforth be known as “Excator.”Read more
The Original Half-Life Could Have Had So Much Blood
9.7.2021
The original Half-Life is a pretty tame game from a violence standpoint; headcrabs and other enemies can inspire revulsion in their own ways, but they don’t explode into Mortal Kombat-style gore piñatas when thwacked with a crowbar. But they could have.Read more