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Why The FGC Won’t Stop Talking About Melty Blood: Type Lumina
22.9.2021
Fighting game YouTubers (like JMSCrofts, Jiyuna, and Rooflemonger) are talking a lot about Melty Blood: Type Lumina. This is not a complaint. As someone very new to fighting games it has been great to watch people absolutely lose their minds over an upcoming release (while still expressing...
Pokémon Unite Just Massively Leveled The Playing Field Against 'Pay To Win'
22.9.2021
Since release, it’s been difficult to talk about the merits of pocket monster MOBA Pokémon Unite. The fun factor was there, though largely obscured by TiMi Studio Group’s monetization practices, which allow you to boost items with real-world money. But with Wednesday’s big new patch, Pokémon Unite...
Overwatch 2's Boss Is Quitting Blizzard For "Some Time Off"
22.9.2021
With Overwatch 2 still in development, the series’ executive producer has quit Blizzard for what the company says is “some time off”.Read more
Even Sonic Dad Yuji Naka Is Shocked At Game’s $430,000 Auction Price
22.9.2021
The rivalry between Mario and Sonic goes back for decades, but even one of Sonic’s creators was stunned to see the blue hedgehog apparently giving chase to Mario in a whole new realm: that of outrageously priced video game auctions.Read more
Ratchet & Clank Still Runs Fine On The Worst PS5-Compatible SSD
22.9.2021
The fine folks at Digital Foundry are back with another wonderfully tech-heavy video, this time examining the SSD options available to PlayStation 5 owners now that the console’s storage can be expanded. As it turns out, even the disk-access-heavy Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart can be thoroughly...
Pokémon Unite's New Season Is Space-Themed, Will Bring Squad Features
21.9.2021
Pokémon Unite finally arrives in its natural home on mobile on Wednesday, and it’s bringing with it a few new neat bits and bobs. There’s a new battle pass called Galactic Ghost 094 that’s adding space-themed items to the game, the arrival of Mamoswine and Sylveon, and a new feature called Unite...
Genshin Impact Embraces Fan Creators, Rather Than Suing Them
21.9.2021
Genshin Impact developer miHoYo has a uniquely generous policy toward fan artists, and its explicit endorsement on Genshin Impact merch has created an incredibly vibrant art community.Read more
Behold, My New Favorite Crusader Kings Bug
21.9.2021
Crusader Kings II is a game with a long and proud tradition of “bugs that should be hung in the Louvre”, but I think this new one I’ve learned about today is my favourite.Read more
ToeJam & Earl III's Original Final Boss Was A Klansman
21.9.2021
In early builds of the Xbox’s ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, the eponymous extra-terrestrials beat up a hooded member of the Ku Klux Klan as the final boss fight of the game. Previously we only had the developer’s word from an obscure interview, but now we can finally see it for ourselves...
The BioShock Problem: When Gameplay And Narrative Clash
20.9.2021
It may not seem like it, but gaming is still in its infancy. Yes, we’re beaming games from $10,000 rigs through the cloud to our phones, and swinging around swords in room-scale wireless virtual reality. That’s some Ready Player One shit, for sure. But while the technology is progressing rapidly...
Warhammer MMO Gets Unreleased Cities Nearly A Decade After It Shut Down
20.9.2021
Eight years ago, the MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning shut down. But the fans of Warhammer Online won’t let the game die. A passionate team of fan developers has maintained an emulated version of the game on their own server since 2013. And they just announced they are adding new cities...
What We’ve Heard About A Quantic Dream Star Wars Game
20.9.2021
Reports started to circulate last week that Detroit: Become Human developer, Quantic Dream, was working on an unlikely new project: a Star Wars game. While Kotaku can’t currently confirm if this is 100% accurate, we have heard something similar from an independent source with knowledge of...
RIP Mick McGinty
20.9.2021
Mick McGinty, an artist responsible for many of the most memorable pieces of video game artwork from the 1990s, has died.Read more
Diablo II Resurrected Dev: Folks Deciding If They'll Buy It Should 'Do What They Feel Is Right'
19.9.2021
In an interview with Axios Gaming on September 17, the design director on the upcoming Diablo II remake explained that folks trying to decide if they should buy the game should “do what they feel is right.” Many players don’t want to support Activision Blizzard games after a recent lawsuit made...
Chess Star Sues Netflix Because Queen’s Gambit Erased Her Accolades
18.9.2021
Female Soviet chess legend Nona Gaprindashvili is suing Netflix for $5 million after a scene in the hit show Queen’s Gambit falsely claimed she had never played against men. In fact, she claims to have played and beaten dozens of men. In the suit, Gaprindashvili called the incorrect dialogue...
Blizzard Reduces Titty In World Of Warcraft, But Not Sexism At The Company
17.9.2021
The newest World of Warcraft update reduces the amount of titty that can be seen in the game. Unfortunately, no restitution for its gender-marginalized developers is in sight. Read more
Destiny 2 Players Are Mad Bungie's Gonna Enforce Fair Multiplayer Matchmaking
17.9.2021
This Friday, Bungie will roll out matchmaking assistance for Destiny 2’s hardcore mode, Trials of Osiris. The intent, basically, is to make the multiplayer gauntlet a bit more fair for Guardians who continuously get thrashed. You’ll never believe this, I know, but some players are pissed about...
Deathloop’s Villain Group Chat Is A Perfect Mess
17.9.2021
Deathloop does a lot of things right. One of those things is chat logs. When you’re not going on a murder spree, you’re reading through the private DMs of those you just killed. Arkane has done a superb job of imbuing its villains with flair and personality from beyond the grave, thanks to one...
New WipEout Game Announced, Only It's Not On Console
17.9.2021
WipeOut is, very quietly, one of the most important video game series to have ever lived thanks to its role in selling the original PlayStation as something genuinely “cool”, but it’s a franchise that has fallen on hard times of late.Read more
The 15 Best Games on PC
17.9.2021
PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. Complex strategy simulations? Totally. The shiniest, prettiest versions of big-budget console games? They get a lot of those, too. Let’s say you’ve recently joined the ranks of the PC elite. Which games...