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Metal Gear Solid's Board Game Has Been Cancelled
17.2.2021
IDW was supposed to be releasing Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game later this year, but after a succession of delays the company has decided to walk away from the project instead.Read more
Stan LePard, Composer On Games Like Halo Reach & Guild Wars 2, Has Died
17.2.2021
Stan LePard, a veteran composer who has worked in the video game business since 1994, died last week.Read more
You Can Instantly Summon Bowser In Bowser’s Fury With An Amiibo
16.2.2021
The most infuriating part of Bowser’s Fury is Bowser himself. King Koopa’s arrival can both ruin your day and grant access to previously inaccessible areas, meaning the bite-sized Bowser’s Fury is somewhat of a waiting game. But you don’t have to wait for Bowser to do his thing. You just need...
Bowser's Fury Should Be A Template For Future Nintendo Projects
15.2.2021
I played Bowser’s Fury this weekend. I’d intended to save it until I’d finished my first run through the Switch’s remake of Super Mario 3D World, having—like most humans—never owned a Wii U. But boy did I get bored of that quickly. And there was Bowser, just waiting on the launch screen, tempting...
Drifting PS5 Controllers, Video Game Movies Casting Big Names, 60 FPS Bloodborne, And More
13.2.2021
This week on Morning Checkpoint, we rant about PS5 scalpers, check out some new gameplay of Nier: Replicant, play Bloodborne at 60FPS, crush a bunch of people in Hitman 3 and get an update on the GameStop stonks fiasco.Read more
Those Are Strawberries (Not Hearts) On Arthur’s Boxers In Ghosts ‘N Goblins
12.2.2021
Ghosts ‘n Goblins creator Tokuro Fujiwara recently shared a mind-blowing factoid from the development of Capcom’s fiendishly hard platformer: Arthur’s iconic heart-patterned boxers are actually covered in strawberries. Okay, maybe it’s just mind-blowing to me.Read more
Halo 3 Is Getting A New Map Over A Decade After Release
12.2.2021
Halo 3 received its last official new map all the way back in 2009, as part of the Mythic II Map Pack release. Now, 343 Industries has announced that a new map, first featured in Halo Online, will be added to the next round of Master Chief Collection beta testing. Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Not Selling Great On Console
12.2.2021
Cyberpunk 2077's console launch was a disaster, and sure enough sales on console now seem to reflect that, with the game tumbling off of last month’s best seller list according to the latest report by the NPD market research group. Even the nearly four-year-old Switch exclusive The Legend...
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Comes Out This June
11.2.2021
Next-gen exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart releases on PS5 on June 11, Insomniac Games announced over on the PlayStation Blog today. Read more
Lara, You're Drunk
11.2.2021
When Core Design and Eidos Interactive were getting ready to ship Tomb Raider III in 1998, they recruited Lara Croft herself to promote the game. The resulting animation was...something else.Read more
Borderlands 3's Directors Cut DLC Out March 18, Adds New Raid Boss
10.2.2021
Like its own boss fights, Borderlands 3 keeps going. Today, Gearbox revealed details about Director’s Cut, an upcoming DLC for the looter-shooter out March 18.Read more
Tales From The Borderlands Returns To Digital Storefronts On February 17
10.2.2021
During today’s Borderlands presentation, the folks at Gearbox revealed that Telltale Games’ excellent Tales from the Borderlands will be returning to digital storefronts next Wednesday, February 17.Read more
Nintendo Switch Online Adds Psycho Dream And Three Other Random-Ass Retro Games
10.2.2021
Nintendo Switch Online’s slowly-growing Super Nintendo and NES library adds four more old games on February 17, including Doomsday Warrior, Prehistorik Man, Fire ’n Ice, and Psycho Dream, a former Japanese exclusive that scored 18 out of 40 in Famitsu. Hooray. Read more
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury: The Kotaku Review
10.2.2021
Super Mario 3D World would be incredible if I didn’t already know who Mario was and what he was all about.Read more
Homicidal Hitman 3 Mastermind Crushes Every Single Person In The Grape Press
10.2.2021
If you’ve played Hitman 3 and got to the Mendoza stage, you’ll know the grape press. A centrepiece murder machine, it has been designed to help you off one of the level’s main targets in spectacular fashion.Read more
China's Steam Only Has 53 Games
10.2.2021
Steam is now available in China, and if you thought that would give Chinese gamers instant access to the weird, wonderful and sometimes deeply offensive depths of the service’s catalogue, well lol, no of course it doesn’t.Read more
Over 10 Hours With Bravely Default II
9.2.2021
Bravely Default II offers a return to a simpler time where heroes lined up on one side of the screen, fought monsters on the other side of the screen, and then rinsed and repeated until peace and tranquility were brought back to the land. I’ve spent over 10 hours with it, and while what I’ve played...
Hey Agent 47, Slow Down On The Stairs, You Could Hurt Someone
8.2.2021
I’ve been putting a bunch of time into Hitman 3 since it launched a few weeks ago. It’s very good, if a little too heavy on storytelling, but I can’t help but cringe a little every time I’m asked to follow an NPC up or down a flight of stairs.Read more
The Best Console Games You Can Buy For Under $15 This Week
8.2.2021
It seems like every retailer decided to have a massive video game sale this week. Whether you’re looking for physical copies or prefer to download digital versions, we’ve assembled a round-up of the best console games on sale for less than $15 this week. (There are plenty of games on sale for more...
I Want IO's Upcoming 007 Game To Be Just Like Hitman's Train Level
8.2.2021
The final level of Hitman 3 is an exciting and aggressive fight that moves across the length of a long cargo train filled with bad guys and guns. It’s also a bad Hitman level, but it might be our first sign of what an IO Interactive 007 game might look and play like. And that has me excited. Read...