Sick of all those Hanzo mains wrecking your Overwatch competitive ranking? Well, now you can’t dodge them in Heroes of the Storm. A new breed of Hanzo main is about to emerge. At BlizzCon today, HOTS’ senior producer Kaeo Milker announced that Overwatch’s Hanzo is coming to the MOBA in December, joining the half dozen…
Yesterday, after the CIA generously released 470,000 filesfound on a computer in Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout complex, it came out that among them was a trove of video games ranging from Counter-Strike to a smutty anime game. News spread that the most famous terrorist of all time may have also been a huge video…
I was not expecting my favorite anime so far this season to be about an unemployed, 30-year-old MMORPG addict with an unhealthy drinking habit, but here we are. Recovery of an MMO Junkie, which is simulcasting on Crunchyroll, is a silly, playful anime about a woman who quits her demanding office job to become a…
Forum moderators are the unsung heroes of the internet, but a lot of the time, they’re treated more like high school hall monitors than skilled workers. For no money and little thanks, moderators sift out the festering, useless gunk of online culture from the amazing shit that got us hooked on the internet in the…
Yesterday, at Sony’s glitzy Paris Games Show presentation, a pastel, nonviolent game about being a human-dragon hybrid surprised viewers with its same-day announcement and release. Presenters’ comparisons to the respected titles Abzu and Journey added to its branding as a chill, atmospheric game with lots of style (and a little mystery). I am an optimistic…
A lot of people think winning an Overwatch match is about coordination, acumen and skill, when actually, with just a little imagination, it can be about two Torbjorns hammering each other to death. TheBeginS queued up for a normal Quick Play match the other day that, by the end, was neck-and-neck. Three minutes before the…
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds just announced an Xbox One launch date of December 12th, 2017—but it will still be in early access through the Xbox Game Preview program. The game is slated to leave early access on PC late December.
“Whodunnit” board games exist in worlds beyond the stodgy European living rooms we see in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Clue. The one I’m hooked on is very, very, anime. I’ve stopped pitching Tragedy Looper, released in the U.S. in 2014, to my friends as an “anime time travel mystery game.” That’s what it is, but…
Today, Sony showcased The Last of Us Part 2, the second installation of developer Naughty Dog gritty survival horror game released in 2013, with a trailer that is very thrilling but almost made me hurl. Seriously—a woman in a noose props herself up on another woman who gets a hatchet buried in her head.…
Blood & Truth is an upcoming James Bond-style PlayStation VR shooter announced today at Paris Games Week. The player is Ryan Marks, a Special Forces soldier who lives in modern London and hunts criminals in the dark gangster underworld. No release date has been announced.
I have a secret fantasy when I play battle royale shooters like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode. It goes like this: I start a new game. All I have is an axe or my fists. No guns are in sight. Of course, it’s unrealistic to expect that I’m here alone. So, there are…
Firing up Destiny 2 on my PC the first time yesterday, I noticed these lines of crud blemishing my screen. Can anyone guess how long I spent trying to clean my monitor—before realizing that Destiny 2‘s screen crud is, in fact, an intentional feature?
After days of plunging into Fall 2017’s deep, dark anime coal mines, I have emerged with a few diamonds… and some sludgy crap I’m still trying to wash out of my sweater. There was a lot of sludgy crap. Watching through the 52 anime we showcasedin our Fall 2017 anime preview, four anime stood out…
First dead in our hearts, and now dead at the manufacturing plant, the Kinect is no longer in production. Microsoft’s experimental motion detecting camera, which first launched in November, 2010, will die off once existing retail stock is sold, Microsoft told the website Fast Co.in an interview The Kinect, a full-body motion sensor that would…
It’s the end of a hard-fought Overwatch match, the brief moment before an algorithm tells the game’s 12 players who had the most badass play. I’m poised to receive my laurels after pulling off a triple-kill with Roadhog’s ultimate attack. I also won’t be upset if our Pharah gets Play of the Game with her…
Blizzard service Battle.net’s new social features are now live. Now players can customize their profiles, voice or text chat in groups and more.
Yesterday, we reported that sexual misconduct allegations against NeoGAF’s owner helped lead to the big gaming forum’s weekend outage. Today, Tyler Malka responded to those allegations, telling Vice Waypoint that the reported harassment incident was “totally harmonious and consensual,” which the alleged victim described as “delusional.” Malka went on to say that the allegations against…
Haunted houses are passe. It’s 2017. We have haunted video games now. Kotaku is celebrating all things ghostly and gaming this week with Spooky Week. All week, look forward to ghoulish blogs on the unlikely games that scared us most, the real tales behind some of gaming’s most legendary scary stories and what specific mechanics…
The influential gaming forum NeoGAF is imploding in the wake of an accusation of sexual misconduct against the long-running site’s owner. Yesterday, around a dozen of NeoGAF’s moderators—more than half, according to two sources—quit their posts there, and the website has been down for over half a day following a string of threads in which…
For 13 minutes, Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios’ face barely moved. It was the Grand Finals match of a Super Smash Bros. Wii U tournament, and Barrios, the best Smash player in the world, was squaring off against a formidable opponent. A few feet away, Barrios’ bodyguard kept a lookout for a man who’d threatened to be…
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