Gita Jackson

5 Tips You Might Not Know For Building In The Sims 4

Although The Sims 4 has made building houses better than ever, it’s still a bit tricky to make your dream home. Here are a few tips to help you graduate beyond just making a box with windows. There Are A Few Hidden Options For Roofing Roofing is a pain in the ass. Roof pieces never…

No One Won Last Night’s HQ Trivia, But You Might Have Had A Shot

Last night’s winner-takes-all HQ Trivia game ended without someone taking home the $10,000 prize, because a Nintendo question stumped everyone. HQ Trivia is basically a bar trivia app you play on your phone. Twice daily there will be trivia games live broadcast through the app, with a cash prize for whoever wins. Usually, games of…

Dwarf Fortress Creator’s Favorite Bug Questions The Nature Of God

As wonderful a game as Dwarf Fortress is, it’s a shoestring operation—the game is held together with chewing gum and a dream. If you head over to the Dwarf Fortress bug tracker, you’ll see all sort of weird things Dwarf Fortress does to players unintentionally. Due to the nature of the game, which requires a…

Dwarf Fortress Is Coming To Steam Because Its Developer Needs Healthcare

If you want to know why Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam, its co-creator Tarn Adams has one answer: health insurance. “Healthcare costs generally are pretty much the whole reason,” Adams told Kotaku over email. “We’ve been doing fine with crowdfunding, but we’re getting older now, and one health problem that lands us in the…

Making My Friends In The Sims Also Means Including Their Flaws

It’s always weird to make versions of your friends in The Sims I’m friends with these four guys: Mike, Dylan, Sam and Julian. They’re in a band called The Hell Yeah Babies, and I think they’re pretty great. One day while in a group DM with Dylan, I offered to make Sims of them. I…

No Man’s Sky Is Getting A ‘New Multiplayer Experience’

Eight months since No Man’s Sky’s last major update, Hello Games has finally announced a new update for the game. In a press release today, Hello Games co-founder Sean Murray revealed No Man’s Sky’s next update, called Beyond. The update, Murray wrote, will make sizable changes to the game similar to last July’s Next. The…

If Apex Legends Were An Anime

Ever wondered what Apex Legends would look like if it was an anime? We got you, fam. Aiden Phan, a freelance videographer who is both an Apex and an anime fan, cut together an incredible anime style opening sequence for the game, set to the song “Shin Sekai” by the Japanese band Hello Sleepwalkers. You…

A Game About Bizarre, Randomly Generated Lives

Yesterday, in BitLife, I was playing as Basil Andre, a french businessman, when disaster struck. I had been slowly climbing the corporate ladder, amassing a family, when suddenly, I got diagnosed with penis cancer. BitLife is a mobile game that bears a lot of similarity to RealLives, a free educational game that was intended to…

Sad alcoholic dwarf simulator Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam. Getting into this game will soon feel slightly less like you’re doing an arcane ritual. The Steam version will also have fully integrated Steam Workshop support, so if you can’t live without a tileset, you’re in luck.

Fake Smash Balls And Bees Might Be The Worst Custom Smash Bros. Mode

On Saturday night I invited some friends over to play Smash Bros., and I’m sorry. I’m not great at Smash, but I think it’s a fun party game. When you get people of varying skill levels together it turns into a raucous, chaotic experience you can’t get anywhere else. I was also hoping that my…

I’m Cautiously Excited About The Stories Apex Legends Fans Are Telling

You can never quite tell what media property will end up with a fandom. You need to hit that popularity sweet spot: likeable characters, but not so much detail that it would be pointless to write fic. Apex Legends has just the right amount of space to fill in its lore, and fans are flocking…

Teenagers Say EA Brushed Off Reports Of Sexual Harassment By Sims Influencer

Last week, a Sims streamer and YouTuber in EA’s Game Changer program was accused by several people in the community of sexually harassing minors online. Although he stepped down as a Game Changer on March 5, people in the Sims community are still left wondering why this wasn’t addressed months ago, because some of the…

Apex Legends Balances The Game’s Most Powerful Gun

Yesterday, developer Respawn made a few balance changes to Apex Legends. One of the most noticeable is for the Wingman, a fan favorite weapon that’s been slightly nerfed. For a time, the Wingman and Peacekeeper combo was pretty much the default loadout for Apex players. The Wingman is a powerful pistol, and the Peacekeeper is…

In 2005, An Activision Designer Dreamed Up A Battle Angel Alita Game That Never Happened

Alita: Battle Angel finally made it to theaters this year, long after James Cameron first bought the rights and tried to make the movie in 2005. At the time, a young game designer at Activision thought it might be the right time to pitch an Alita video game. Casey Holtz has worked in the game…

Last night, Chiquita Evans was drafted by the Warriors Gaming Squad, making her the first woman in the NBA 2K league. Read our interview with her, and wish her luck for this upcoming season!

The Internet, And Sonic’s Creator, React To Sonic’s Movie Design

We now live in a post-Sonic the Hedgehog-movie-render world. Sonic the Hedgehog does not resemble a hedgehog in the slightest, and I’d argue he is more recognizable because of it. He’s a blue ball with spikes on his head, skinny legs, conjoined eyeballs, and sneakers. In the upcoming Sonic movie, he (probably) looks like this…

Chiquita Evans Could Be The First Woman In NBA 2K‘s Pro League

Chiquita Evans, a 30 year-old professional NBA 2K player who splits her time between Chicago and Mobile, Kentucky, loves winning and really loves basketball. Today, she may become the first woman to be drafted in the NBA 2K league, and she’s more than ready to grab the W. Evans is one of two female NBA…

How The Sims Translates Pop Songs Into Simlish

A few months ago, I found myself in a Lyft with the dulcet tones of Nelly’s “Hot In Herre” serenading me. Usually I’m happy to hear the early 2000s classic, but on that day, all I could hear in my head was the Simlish version released with the Sims 4 Get Famous expansion pack. It…

Pokémon Fans Really Hope Scorbunny Doesn’t Evolve Into A Fighting Type

Scorbunny, one of the starter Pokémon for the newly announced Pokémon Sword and Shield, is a sweet lil bunny, and I love him. He’s also the source of some concern among Pokémon fans. So far there have been eight different generations of Pokémon games in the main series, leading to eight different sets of starter…

The Next Pokémon Might Be Set In The UK, And Scottish Twitter Is Thrilled [Correction]

The prospect of the new Pokémon game being possibly set in the UK has amused some fans, and I’m laughing along with them. In order to understand these jokes, you’re first going to have to explain the concept of Scottish Twitter. Regional Twitters have regional dialects. A community of Twitter users based in Pittsburgh might…