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The Worst Enemy in Elden Ring's Weeping Peninsula Region
29.3.2022
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Pokemon GO's Creators Want Players Back Outside, Despite The Outcry
29.3.2022
Recent changes to Pokémon GO have yet again stirred controversy. The nerfing of Incense, and the halving of Community Day, have once more sent out a signal that Niantic wants the mobile game to return to its pre-pandemic form, before some of its audience is ready. We spoke to POGO’s live game...
Breath Of The Wild Sequel Delayed To 2023, Nintendo Apologizes
29.3.2022
Please don’t shoot the messenger. The Sequel to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been pushed to spring 2023, Nintendo announced in a brief video today.Read more
Damn, Elden Ring Doesn't Even Let You Die In Peace
29.3.2022
I should know better by now; I should expect that anyone I meet in Elden Ring will either straight-up suck or have some kind of tragic storyline that will desiccate my bones in existential dread. Probably, I should be killing every NPC I see just to save myself the anguish, leaving only the Turtle...
Kingdom Hearts Celebrates 20 Years With Tamagotchi
29.3.2022
What better way to celebrate twenty years of Kingdom Hearts than with Tamagotchi. You remember those virtual pets, right? Sure you do. And this fall, they’re teaming up with Square Enix’s Disney-themed RPG.I remember first writing about Tamagotchi for Wired Magazine back in 2004, when infrared...
Go Mouthful Mode On Real-World Kirby Car Cake
29.3.2022
It’s not only the Waddle Dee Town Café in Kirby and the Forgotten Land where you can stuff your face with Kirby-themed eats. At Kirby Café in Japan, try out real-world mouthful mode as you chow down on Kirby burgers and cakes. Read more
Hell Yes, Kairosoft's Classic Management Games Are Now On Steam
29.3.2022
Readers, an occasional dabble with emulation and board game ports aside, I don’t normally play games on my phone. Ever. But over the years I have made one major concession and played the shit out of a series of management games released by Japanese studio Kairosoft.Read more
I Wish Kirby Still Kissed His Homies In Forgotten Land
28.3.2022
I’ve been having a great time with Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The pink puffball’s saccharine-sweet, post-apocalyptic journey is the perfect palate cleanser after exploring the massive Elden Ring. But one thing in Forgotten Land bothers me more than any horror that could spring from the minds...
One Piece Odyssey Promises To Be a ‘Full-Blown’ JRPG Experience
28.3.2022
Move over Mario, Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirates are setting sail in a game of their own in the upcoming, One Piece Odyssey.Read more
Breath Of The Wild Actually Has Four Beedles, And You Can Get Them All Together
28.3.2022
Beedle, the friendly travelling merchant from The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, sure does get around, managing to cover almost every corner of the map during your adventures. Turns out he’s got a secret to his breadth of coverage: there are more than one of them.Read more
Elden Ring Bleeding Glitch Makes Some Dogs Its Most Dangerous Enemies
25.3.2022
I previously went on and on about the wildlife in Elden Ring, explaining how its bears, wolves, and birds often pose a larger problem for me than its otherworldly bosses. But a group of bloody dogs put everything else in the game to shame.Read more
Creators of Bloodborne PS1 Demake Announces Bloodborne Kart
25.3.2022
On April Fools’ Day last year, Lilith Walther, the creator of the Bloodborne PSX project announced that she was canceling her PS1 demake to instead create a racing kart version of it. She showed off some footage of the project, which looked too good to remain a joke video. Apparently, Walther...
Gran Turismo 7 Gives Angry Fans One Million Free Credits, Big Changes Coming
25.3.2022
A live-service game is once again apologizing for its microtransactions, and promising to do better. In a new blog post, Gran Turismo 7 director Kazunori Yamauchi acknowledged frustrations with the state of the game and announced developer Polyphony Digital will issue 1 million credits to every...
Devil May Cry Plastered All Over Japanese Capsule Hotel Room
25.3.2022
Capsule rooms might be small, but Devil May Cry fandom is huge. Next month, Anshin Oyado Premier Nagoya Sakae in Nagoya will cover one of its capsules with the silver-haired heroes of DMC.Read more
Elden Ring Players Are Killing Online Victims With Invisible Projectiles
25.3.2022
Elden Ring, like most Souls games, often rewards you for finding the most effective way to defeat its difficult bosses, whether through overpowered builds or cheap, cheesy strategies. But when those same tactics get turned on other players, things can get ugly fast.Read more
Elden Ring: The Kotaku Review
24.3.2022
I spend too much time, at least for someone with only 33 years on his odometer, thinking about legacy. I find myself overly concerned with what I’ve accomplished and what I’ll leave behind, especially in comparison to other people—both successful and otherwise. As such, while playing FromSoftware’s...
Kirby Devs Pulled Some Sneaky Sleight Of Hand To Make The New 3D Action Work
24.3.2022
With Kirby and the Forgotten Land debuting on Switch this week, a group of devs from Nintendo and HAL Laboratory recently got together to discuss some of the tricks they used behind the scenes to help the eponymous pink puffball gracefully transition from his 2D origins to the long-running...
Pokémon Go Fans Upset As Dev Undoes Another Great Change
24.3.2022
Pokémon Go creator Niantic Labs announced Wednesday that, from April on, the mobile game’s Community Days will revert to their pre-pandemic length of only three hours long. Following the recent enormous nerfing of in-game item Incense, players are not at all pleased at Niantic’s seeming refusal...
You Can Boost Your Elden Ring Runes Without Really Trying
24.3.2022
Have you spent a long time murdering eagles and other assorted avians in Elden Ring, only to walk away with a pouch full of mostly bird feathers—and a flock that’s largely flown away? That’s certainly been my experience trying to get the drops needed to craft Gold Pickled Fowl Foot, the go-to item...
Elden Ring’s Wildlife Can Go All The Way To Hell
23.3.2022
Elden Ring is massive, filled to the brim with all sorts of murderous creepy crawlies seemingly designed to make your stay in the Lands Between as unsettling as possible. But the enemies that keep giving me the most trouble are also the most banal.Read more