Ethan Gach

Report: Russia Tried To Mess With The 2016 Election Using A Bad Video Game

“Hilltendo” was a flash-based platformer game aimed at smearing Hillary Clinton days before the 2016 election, according to a new CNN report. While it’s hard to gauge how effective it was, it certainly speaks volumes about the bizarre lengths Russian agents may have gone to in trying to influence American politics. As if developed with…

The PS4’s “5.50” firmware update hit today adding some new features as well as supersampling. What the hell is that you might be asking? Basically, supersampling allows you to downscale 4K output to whatever type of TV you’re using, so even if you don’t have a 4K TV the image will still look much better

Heroes Of The Storm Streamer Reports Entire Team, Prompts Blizzard To Investigate 

Heroes of the Storm’s game director says Blizzard is looking into one of the game’s streamers frivolously reporting teammates after losing a match. While broadcasting earlier this week, streamer Alexander “Stalk” Melder appeared to issue reports against the other four members of his Heroes of the Storm team after losing. Melder was a pro player…

Another World is coming to the Nintendo Switch this spring. The French studio DotEmu, which previously ported it to Android and iOS, will be bringing it over. As random as the announcement seems, Switch is currently the only platform you can’t play Éric Chahi’s amazing cinematic adventure on, so it’s about time.

Devil May Cry HD Collection Has Some Issues On PC

The first game in the Devil May Cry HD Collection is out early for Amazon Prime subscribers via Twitch. Unfortunately, it’s arrived with some minor issues, including a bug that makes the game run like it’s got an unofficial, never before seen turbo mode. The new version of the original Devil May Cry, which originally…

Battlerite’s 1.4 update is live, bringing with it plenty of gameplay tweaks and a new champion. Jamila is a Shadowblade assassin with situational abilties including counters, dashes, and long range attacks. In addition, Stunlock Studios has buffed and nerfed existing champions and rolled out its plans for Season 1.

New Mod Lets You Play Breath Of The Wild As Linkle

Link’s great and all, but The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s world is too beautiful to explore as him alone. That’s why players have modded other characters into the game, ranging from Sonic to Goku. Now there’s a mod adding one of the most obvious choices of all: Hyrule Warriors’ Linkle. Created by…

There will be a Nintendo Direct tomorrow at 5pm Eastern focused on 3DS and Switch games coming out this year. Nintendo adds that the entire thing should run about 30 minutes and will also include new information about Mario Tennis Aces. And who knows, maybe we’ll finally get Mother 3.

For Honor‘s Dedicated Servers Make A Big Difference

After a bit of maintenance earlier today, For Honor’s dedicated servers finally went live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Let me tell you: they feel good—real good—and it only took a year for that to happen. Previously, For Honor multiplayer relied on peer-to-peer hosting for matches. When the player hosting quit the match, whoever…

Will God of War have any microtransactions? “No,” said Corey Barlog, the game’s director, in an email to Kotaku. “Not even a little.” The question came up today when a blurry picture leaked from a preview event. Barlog tweeted something similar when a fan later asked if the game would have paid outfits.

Far Cry 5‘s Map Editor Sounds Totally Wild

The makers of Far Cry 5’s map editor are hellbent on giving the game a long and ridiculous life beyond its single-player campaign Ubisoft is calling the tool Far Cry Arcade. A new company blog post indicates that it will include approximately 7,000 different objects players can use to create new levels, some of which…

The Week In Games: Scribbling The Night Away

Scribblenauts Showdown looks like, uh, something. There’s a range of stuff coming this week, including not only the newest Scribblenauts (developed this time by Shiver Entertainment, new Miami studio led by a former Zynga executive) and Final Fantasy XV on PC (as well as the Royal Edition with some new content for consoles). Otherwise it’s…

For Years, PlayStation Plus Kept The Vita Alive

Last week, Sony announced that the Vita, along with PS3, will stop getting monthly games through the PlayStation Plus subscription service in March 2019. In the wake of that news, it’s worth remembering: Vita owners never had an easy go of things, but it would have been a whole lot worse without PlayStation Plus. Vita…

Ubisoft Cracks Down On Hate Speech In Rainbow Six Siege

Starting this week, Ubisoft plans to issue permanent bans for Rainbow Six Siege’s most toxic players, according to a recent announcement on the game’s subreddit “We will be implementing an improvement on the system we have been using to ban players that use racial and homophobic slurs, or hate speech, in game,” Craig Robinson, one…

The Makers Of Castle Crashers Have A New Game And It’s Great

Pit People is finally out of Early Access and officially released on both Steam and Xbox One and if you haven’t already tried it out you should. Pit People is part comedy show part tactical beat ‘em up. The Behemoth made it, the same studio that made Castle Crashers, one of those original XBLA indie…

How To Refund Digital Games

Back in the day, if a video game didn’t work or you just didn’t like it, you could take it back to the store and have the person behind the register laugh in your face when you asked for your money back. These days, getting a refund is a labyrinthine of web forms, logins, and…

Detroit: Become Human will be out May 25. The PS4 exclusive has seen its fair share of controversy during development including a trailer last summer that was criticized for its portrayal of domestic abuse. We’ll see whether the Quantic Dream game avoids the pitfalls of its predecessor.

Judge Orders Teen To Stop Playing Violent Video Games [UPDATE]

Earlier this week, a student at Lake Park High School in the suburbs of Chicago was arrested for threatening to commit a school shooting on social media. At his hearing, a judge yesterday ordered the teen to forfeit his smartphone to his parents and stop playing violent video games. According to a report by the…

Nintendo Adds User Reviews, Immediately Pulls Them [UPDATE]

Late last week, Nintendo began allowing users to post reviews on the Switch’s eShop for certain games, with ratings and comments also appearing under each game’s listing on the Nintendo website. This morning, Nintendo suddenly pulled the feature, and it’s not clear why. The new feature, which was originally brought to people’s attention last Friday…

The Week In Games: Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Breach

The long awaited follow-up to FTL: Faster Than Light arrives this week and the timing couldn’t be better. Perfectly situated in the middle of an otherwise mostly quiet release week, Subset Games’ Into the Breach comes five and a half years after the studio’s first strategy outing. There are mechs, time travel and gigantic creatures…