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Baldur’s Gate 3: This Monk Build Lets You Deal A Couple Hundred Damage Per Turn
18.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 can put up quite the challenge in terms of combat. And given that the RPG’s narrative is fixed across a finite set of outcomes and the fights running strictly by the numbers of D&D, the game presents a solid opportunity for those who enjoy a bit of minmaxing. One such player...
Fatal Guilty Gear Strive Exploit Persists Seven Months Later
18.8.2023
Guilty Gear Strive, Arc System Works’ popular 2D anime fighter, is still dealing with some hacking issues that are so bad, a recent tournament had to get canceled and its prize pool refunded.Read more
Paladin Is Baldur’s Gate 3’s Most Popular Class By A Large Margin
14.8.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3 has a myriad of choices for building your character from the moment you boot up the RPG, including its 12 different classes, which range from magic users to standard sword-and-board warriors. Developer Larian Studios has released early statistics since the game launched on August...
Street Fighter 6's Four TMNT Costumes Cost Almost As Much As The Game
8.8.2023
I love a video game crossover as much as the next person, and fighting games are a perfect platform for absurd matchups. Unfortunately, at $15 each, the price of new Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello costumes in Street Fighter 6 is giving a lot of players sticker shock.Read more
Blind Street Fighter 6 Player Steals Fighting Game Tournament's Hearts
7.8.2023
A blind gamer who competed in the biggest fighting game tournament of them all, the Evolution Championship Series (EVO), took home the ultimate W this year: An uproarious applause from nearly 10,000 competitors and fans alike.Read more
Street Fighter 6 Cheat Turns Commentators Into Animals
2.8.2023
Street Fighter 6 players have uncovered a hidden code in the game that transforms its commentators into shout-casting animals. Read more
Street Fighter 6 Tournament Accidentally Flashes Chun-Li Nude Mod
2.8.2023
A recent Street Fighter 6 European tournament saw quite the blunder as the event’s host, who was streaming the competition from their PC, accidentally left a nude mod for Chun-Li on during a match.Read more
15 Character Revelations We Learned In Street Fighter 6
2.8.2023
Street Fighter 6 characterizes its fighters in odder, more specific ways than prior games in the franchise. The broad strokes—the character archetypes—are still the same. Ryu is a stoic warrior. Dhalsim is a serene yoga master. E. Honda is a prideful sumo fighter. But Street Fighter 6 grounds these...
R&B Singer Ne-Yo Loves Street Fighter So Much He Takes His PS5 With Him On Tour
25.7.2023
This story is part of our new Hip-Hop: ’73 Till Infinity series, a celebration of the genre’s 50th anniversary.Read more
Every Street Fighter Game, Ranked From Worst To Best
21.7.2023
1987 saw the start of something huge, though no one knew it at the time. Capcom’s Street Fighter seemed like just another arcade game. Nice graphics, sure, but no one could have guessed that just four years later its sequel would spark a revolution that transformed arcades as we knew them. Suddenly...
Baldur's Gate 3 Aims For RPG Fans' Ultimate Character Creator
18.7.2023
Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creator is incredibly expansive. Larian Studios has described it as a tool for players to build their ideal fantasy protagonist, but before it could be that, the Belgian studio needed it to serve a different purpose: filling the RPG’s world with unique, believable...
The 20 Best Nerdy Video Game Rap Lyrics
18.7.2023
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Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Cool Games To Chill With
14.7.2023
Another weekend awaits, but what to play? In case you’re feeling indecisive, we thought we’d share a few video games (and a tabletop card game!) that have us enthralled as we head into the weekend. Read more
All The Recent Big, Surprising Anime News You Should Know About
7.7.2023
This week, Anime Expo had a bunch of announcements and trailers for visitors and folks at home to get excited about. In fact, the “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture in North America” almost had too much to reveal for attendees to take time and parse, especially if they were stuck in...
Street Fighter 6 Features The Best Chun-Li In 24 Years
7.7.2023
There’s a lot to love in Street Fighter 6, one of the best games I’ve played in the last couple of years. I love the new characters. (Marisa, the jacked up pankratiast, is my main, and Manon, the supermodel ballerina, is my secondary.) I love the new Drive Impact attack, which lets you reverse...
Sega Bins Blockchain Plans, Calls F2P Games 'Boring'
7.7.2023
In April 2021, at the height of Web 3 Mania, Sega was one of the biggest companies to pledge its future to the scam that was “play to earn”. Now, just two years later and after the ass has completely fallen out of that market, Sega has had a change of heart.Read more
9 Street Fighter 6 Settings To Tweak Before You Start Throwing Hands
5.7.2023
Street Fighter 6 is a frontrunner for my game of the year, but sometimes it feels like I spend more time fighting with its menus than I do throwing hands with other players online. I’ve put around 80 hours into Capcom’s latest fighter and have dealt with several annoyances just trying to change...
Huge (Sometimes Tragic) Collection Of Sega Documents From The 90's Have Leaked
5.7.2023
While Microsoft’s FTC case has let the world catch a glimpse behind the scenes at a modern platform holder’s emails, at the same time an enormous treasure trove of old Sega documents from the 90's have leaked, and they go a long way to explaining...well, why Sega isn’t a platform holder...
Street Fighter 6’s Modern Controls Are Great For The Game
23.6.2023
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Street Fighter 6’s Lobbies Are Full Of Chaos Freaks, It Rules
20.6.2023
Every time I hop into a lobby in Street Fighter 6, it feels like I’m one of the only people who has an avatar that looks just like a regular guy. This game’s character creator is wild, folks. You can create near-perfect recreations of just about anyone, or you can make some weird little guy, and...