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Gaming’s Best Character Creators, From Demon’s Souls To Final Fantasy
19.5.2022
Sometimes I think I like sliding into a character creator sandbox more than the game it’s attached to. Character creators let me play a benevolent god that only creates hot people—like Abercrombie in the 2010s, except I’m a socialist. I feel powerful and clever until I run smack into a wall:...
Silent Hill Rumors Have Everyone Wondering If Horror Dev Is Worthy
19.5.2022
The internet is once again awash in rumors, reports, screenshots, and vague Instagram posts pointing to a new upcoming Silent Hill game. Maybe even multiple games, including a remake of Silent Hill 2. So you can bet that fans are losing it, especially after horror devs Bloober Team were suggested...
All Pop Culture Is Merging Into Mush, And The Iron Giant Is The Latest Casualty
18.5.2022
WB Games recently released a new trailer for its upcoming Smash-like fighter Multiversus. In it, characters like Harley Quinn, Bugs Bunny, and Shaggy fight each other before Superman and the Iron Giant show up at the end. While some enjoy the trailer, other viewers are disappointed to see the Iron...
Xbox’s Rep Takes A Hit Following Major Delays
18.5.2022
Riding the bus of video game fandom should come with a seatbelt warning. To wit: Last month, it seemed like everyone was losing their minds over Microsoft gobbling up half the industry. Now, in the wake of some major delays, it’s all “Dead console!!!” this and “Xbox has no exclusives!!!” that. Hope...
The Zelda-Inspired Indie Game That's Causing A Commotion
18.5.2022
A recent entry in IGN’s peculiar indie developer-funding competition, Rogue Jam, has raised eyebrows for its obvious visual similarity with Nintendo’s 2019 Switch remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. In response, many are attempting to whip up some sort of controversy, as if this isn’t...
Bungie Calls Out Gaming Racism After Buffalo Shooting, Won't Be 'Muzzled' By Sony
18.5.2022
Yesterday players expected Bungie to reveal the latest content coming to Destiny 2 in the form of Season 17. Instead, following the latest mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, Bungie called on fellow gaming companies to examine how racism and radicalization occur in their own online communities even...
Messy But Beautiful, Swansong Captures The Darkness Of Vampire: The Masquerade
18.5.2022
Any video game bearing the title Vampire: The Masquerade has a lot of heavy lifting to do. With the legacy of the cult-favorite hot mess that is Bloodlines, and the AWOL status of Bloodlines 2, many VtM fans (my fellow kindred) have an ever-lingering hunger to see this classic setting finally...
Turns Out A Short Yakuza Is A Very Good Yakuza
18.5.2022
If the Yakuza (and its spin-off Judgment) games are famous for one thing, it’s that you can smash a dude’s face in with a bike and that it looks very funny. If they’re famous for two things, it’s that they are really long, and that their stories and cutscenes go forever.Read more
Hardcore Military Shooter Arma Is Back, And Coming To Console
18.5.2022
Developers Bohemia Interactive dropped a nice surprise today, not only announcing a new Arma game, but revealing that it’s playable right now on Steam.Read more
Love Elden Ring But Miss Sekiro’s Grappling Hook? This May Be The Souls-Like For You
18.5.2022
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PUBG Mobile’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Crossover Is Plain Weird
17.5.2022
The latest PUBG Mobile event melds the handheld battle royale with anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion. Among other things, this means we get to see series mascot Eva Unit-01 perform silly dances, which is both delightful in an irony-poisoned sort of way and a serious indictment of...
Real Lego Figures Vs Skywalker Saga’s Digital Recreations
17.5.2022
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is excellent. It’s one of my favorite video games of 2022 and is probably my favorite Star Wars game ever made. It’s also one of my favorite Lego games, too. As a big Lego fan and someone with many sets and minifigs, I decided to use some of my expensive plastic...
Genshin Impact Dev’s Rad AF ‘Urban RPG’ Is Living In My Head Rent Free
17.5.2022
Last week HoYoverse, the developers behind the popular RPGs Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3, released a trailer for its newest IP—and it’s been on my mind all weekend. So now I’m making it your problem too.Read more
Developers Are Finally Starting To Leave Last-Gen Behind
17.5.2022
We’re now 18 months into the life of the PS5 and the Xbox Series X/S. The PS4 and the Xbox One are officially last-gen, a fact that’s become increasingly clear to anyone who’s tried to play Elden Ring on an old console whose fan sounds like a wind tunnel. Developers are also taking note, and recent...
Cyberpunk 2077 Totally Misunderstands Subways, According To A Transit Expert
17.5.2022
When it comes to offering plausible visions of the future, the cyberpunk genre tends to fall just short of perfection. Eidos Montreal’s trench coat runway show, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, portrayed a convincing version of near-future Prague but royally screwed up how vents work. DICE’s parkour...
Activision Blizzard’s Diversity Tool Has A Long, Even More Embarrassing History
17.5.2022
Activision Blizzard touted its Diversity Space Tool in a blog post on May 12, in which it claimed that both the Call of Duty: Vanguard and Overwatch 2 development teams beta tested the tool with much enthusiasm, then quickly walked this statement back on May 13 and said the tool “is not being used...
The Latest Warhammer Has A Feature I Want To See In Every XCOM-Like From Now On
17.5.2022
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Team Fortress 2 Players Beg Valve To Acknowledge The Game’s Bot Problem
17.5.2022
There is a very large group of people who want you to know that multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2, the 2007 game from Half-Life creators Valve, has a bot problem. A “rampant bot problem” we’re told, in hundreds upon hundreds of identically worded emails sent to Kotaku and every other gaming site....
Take-Two CEO Acknowledges Frustrated Red Dead Online Players, But Offers Nothing Else
16.5.2022
It’s been nearly a year since Red Dead Online’s last major update. The long wait for new content has led to a growing movement among some players to #SaveRedDeadOnline, putting pressure on developer Rockstar using social media and emails. Today, Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Rockstar’s parent company...
NYC Funding $2 Million Bachelor’s Degree Program In Game Design
16.5.2022
City College of New York will begin offering a bachelor’s degree in game design this fall, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced today, making it the first public institution in the city with such a program.Read more