Ian Walker

Fall Guys‘ Most Boring Level Is Getting Way Deadlier

Much like last month’s addition of a giant spinning hammer, Fall Guys is set to receive more variations that spice up some of its existing mini-games. Mediatonic’s first preview of these remixed stages reveals an interesting spin on Perfect Match, one of the game’s more boring levels. It’s no secret that Fall Guys has some…

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is the latest old-school fighting game to get superior rollback netcode Arc System Works plans to open testing on October 29. Let’s make this the norm for modern games too, please!

The Story Of Crow 64, A Game That Did Not Exist

Earlier today, filmmaker Adam Butcher uploaded a new video to YouTube detailing the history of Catastrophe Crow, a forgotten Nintendo 64 game whose mysterious creator went missing before the game was completed. A few simple Google searches will reveal that the game and its developer are fake, of course, but that doesn’t keep “What Happened…

Revamped PlayStation Store Ditches PS3, Vita, PSP Content

An email being sent to PlayStation users today announced that Sony will be introducing a new PlayStation Store on web and mobile later this month. The benefits are unclear, but several features will be removed, including the ability to buy legacy content and build a personal wishlist. Starting on October 21, the new PlayStation Store…

Someone Actually Beat Spelunky 2’s Daunting Cosmic Ocean

Spelunky 2 is a massive game, even more so than the original. While most of us are just trying to survive the first couple of biomes, the best players can follow a variety of intersecting quest lines in pursuit of several unique endings. The holy grail of Spelunky 2 runs has been traversing the Cosmic…

Dark Souls Player Drenched In Blood Every Time He Gets Hit

A YouTuber named Big Secret recently uploaded a video to his channel chronicling his adventures in building and using a contraption that sprays him with fake blood every time he gets hit in Dark Souls 3. I’m both fascinated and repulsed. The machine has two modes: “easy mode,” which sprays Alex every time he dies,…

Axiom Verge 2 has been delayed to the first half of 2021, developer Tom Happ announced today. He has several good reasons, not the least of which being (motions to the state of the world in 2020) all of this.

Yakuza: Like A Dragon Localization Breaks The Fourth Wall For A Unique Joke

Video game localization is a balancing act of preserving the original language’s meaning while also making sure it’s understandable for a wider audience. In one unusual example, Sega’s localizers faced a tricky situation trying to localize an NPC who already spoke English for the Western version of Yakuza: Like a Dragon Yakuza is full of…

Bloodborne Modder Plans To Release 60 FPS Hack, But Is Waiting To See If Sony Will Upgrade The Game First

Lance McDonald, who for some time has been working on getting Bloodborne to run at 60 frames per second, recently shared a video with new gameplay footage of his achievement. That said, he’s willing to let Sony itself take a crack at updating the famously frame-y From Software game to run at a smooth framerate…

Fall Guys’ Crossover With Sonic The Hedgehog Is, Uh, Something Else

Despite the horrorshow that’s supposedly hiding beneath its contestants’ bean-shaped facades, Fall Guys is a pretty cute game with some neat costumes. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog crossover, though. Fall Guys will get a Sonic-themed costume on October 14, Mediatonic and Sega announced during a joint stream…

New Guilty Gear Character Is Wildly Normal

Over the weekend, Arc System Works announced a new character for Guilty Gear Strive. She isn’t Zappa, but she’s pretty neat nonetheless. Giovanna is overwhelmingly normal, especially for a Guilty Gear character. Apart from a ghost dog with what appears to be a retweet symbol on its head, she’s just, like, a normal lady with…

Troubled Amazon Shooter Crucible Is Shutting Down

The rocky saga of Crucible, the free-to-play team-based shooter Amazon released in May 2020 and then unreleased in July 2020, is coming to an end. The developers announced today that they intend to shut down servers on November 9. The team will then transition to development on Amazon’s MMO, New World “We very much appreciate…

America Got The Better Super Mario Bros. 2

Every discussion about the American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 invariably turns to its origins as a completely different game. “It’s not the ‘real’ Super Mario Bros. 2,” is a fact some folks are more than happy to point out, and in some ways, they’re absolutely right. I just don’t think it matters all…

Indivisible Development Stops After Lab Zero Fallout

505 Games has announced that Indivisible, the Valkyrie Profile-esque RPG developed by Lab Zero Games, has ceased development and will no longer receive new content after an upcoming Switch patch. “At this stage, apart from content that is already in submission, there will unfortunately be no more production on [Indivisible],” 505 Games’ statement reads. Once…

Nicolas Cage Does His Best Travis Touchdown Impression

Croatian newspaper DuList recently snapped some photos of actor Nicolas Cage filming his upcoming movie, the aptly named The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, in the village of Cavtat. As many folks have pointed out on Twitter, the pink leather jacket makes him the spitting image of Travis Touchdown, the otaku protagonist of the No…

Maybe Rhythm Games Can Help Teach Fighting Game Skills

Fighting games are hard, but what if they taught players how to perform combos with concepts from a more approachable genre? A new video imagines what it might be like to learn important techniques by way of a rhythm game-style tutorial. The proof of concept, which is actually the product of clever video editing rather…

Mortal Kombat 11 Cheapens Its Guest Characters’ Legacies

At the end of First Blood, the 1982 movie adaptation of the David Morrell novel of the same name, John Rambo tells his former commanding officer that there’s no turning off the violence he was taught to inflict as a veteran of the Vietnam War. He breaks down. He weeps. It’s a powerful image: the…

Your Dogs Won’t Die In The Red Lantern If You Don’t Want Them To

If you’ve ever watched a family pet succumb to disease or age, you know it can be an exceptionally painful moment. That’s why the developers behind upcoming dog-sledding game The Red Lantern are going to allow players to disable deaths entirely. The Red Lantern, available on Switch and the Epic Games Store on October 22,…

The Red Lantern, a “story-driven rogue-lite” about building a dog-sledding team, is coming to Switch and PC on October 22. Why does a life in the Alaskan wilderness sound so tempting right now

Genshin Impact Is Censoring Words Like ‘Taiwan’ And ‘Hong Kong’

The chat feature in Breath of the Wild-style gacha game Genshin Impact has been found to censor a variety of words, including references to places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet. These details first gained prominence thanks to a video uploaded to Twitter by independent journalist Kazuma Hashimoto. The video, which Kotaku has reuploaded to…