Ian Walker

This Month’s Rerelease Of Doom 64 Will Include A New Chapter

Doom 64, an original Doom game released exclusively on the Nintendo 64 in 1997, is often overlooked when discussing the history of the series. Perhaps that will change on March 20, when a Doom 64 port, complete with a new epilogue chapter, lands on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Doom 64 was…

Disco Elysium Players Are Hunting Down A Mysterious Achievement

Fans are still enamored with Disco Elysium's world, especially when it comes to one mysterious achievement.

SonicFox Wins Mortal Kombat 11 Championship, Shouts Out Bernie Sanders

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean is one of the greatest fighting game players of all time. The young non-binary competitor added to this legacy with a win at the Mortal Kombat 11 championship this weekend. It wasn’t quite as easy as some of their previous wins, but SonicFox used every opportunity to let the world know that…

Animators Reimagine LucasArts Classic Full Throttle In Modern 3D

Full Throttle was one of many amazing adventure games developed by LucasArts throughout the 1990s. It got a remastered release in 2017, but an independent studio recently took things a step further with an incredible reimagining of what the game might look like if it was developed today. The short video, an unofficial project from…

Microsoft, Bungie Enact Work-From-Home Policies In Response To Coronavirus [Update: Nintendo, Too]

The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has hit the video game industry in a major way, most notably resulting in the postponement of the Game Developers Conference last week. As a response to the virus spreading to Washington’s King County, Microsoft and Bungie, both of which have offices in the area, have decided to enact work-from-home…

If You Want To See Smash Bros.‘ Wildest Crossovers, Look To The Spirits

Just a few years ago, it would have been nonsense to think we’d see characters like Persona 5‘s protagonist Joker or Terry of Fatal Fury fame playable in Super Smash Bros. But Ultimate has far surpassed what we expect from Nintendo’s massively popular brawler. Look beyond the character select screen, though, and you’ll see that…

It’s Literally Just Mowing (And Microtransactions, Ads, And Loot Boxes)

As soon as I heard about the game It’s Literally Just Mowing, I was like, “Hell yeah!” Unfortunately, the game is not literally just mowing. It’s Literally Just Mowing, which arrived on iOS and Google Play last week, has been promoted as being about mowing some lawns, and that’s it. But once I played it,…

Tips For Playing Granblue Fantasy Versus

I love fighting games and wish more folks played them, but I also realize that they aren’t all that welcoming. They hyper-focus on a very specific kind of competitive player to the detriment of pretty much everyone else. Granblue Fantasy Versus is better than most at providing useful ways for beginners to learn and improve,…

Curse Of The Dead Gods Is A Roguelike Roguelike Likers Will Like

Curse of the Dead Gods, available today on Steam, punches all the roguelike buttons. It features most of the hallmarks of the classic dungeon hack while also including several mechanics that are obviously inspired by contemporary spins on the genre. It’s almost as if Curse of the Dead Gods has been playing through a roguelike…

A Trippy Game Where You Solve Puzzles With Perspective

I don’t do drugs, so I’m not about to make any bold proclamations about the mind-altering properties of Infini, a new puzzle game out tomorrow on Steam from developer Barnaque. But the game is grotesque, thoughtful, overwhelming, and altogether trippier than any other game I’ve experienced. Infini tells the story of Hope, a being lost…

Granblue Fantasy Versus: The Kotaku Review

It seems like everything is getting a fighting game adaptation these days. Dragon Ball Z, RWBY, Power Rangers, League of Legends, you name it. Granblue Fantasy, one of many mobile role-playing gacha games that asks players to spend real money on virtual slot machines, is the latest to jump aboard the train. While I have…

Game Jam Combines Fishing And Horror Genres To Great Effect

Video game curators Horror You Haven’t Played recently tasked the independent development community on itch.io to create horror games with fishing as the unifying theme. This call to action produced seven games of varying lengths and styles, all of which do an excellent job of adding a sinister edge to life below the waterline. Fishing…

Game Developers Conference Has Been ‘Postponed’ To Summer

Following the exit of several major exhibitors, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference said Friday that the show, originally scheduled to take place from March 16 to 20 in San Francisco, will be postponed until the summer due to concerns over the spread of coronavirus. “After close consultation with our partners in the game…

Greninja Voted Pokémon Of The Year, Somehow

Koffing was robbed. Despite my excellent case for Koffing’s status as the Best Pokémon, official results from Google’s Pokémon of the Year vote show that the world somehow believes otherwise. Greninja, the frog ninja that uses its own tongue as a scarf (ugh), dominated the poll with over 140,000 votes, followed by Lucario, Mimikyu, Charizard,…

Borderlands 3’s Next Major Expansion Coming March 26

Gearbox announced Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright & Hammerlock, the second piece of post-release Borderlands 3 story content, at PAX East earlier today. It will launch on March 26. Guns, Love, and Tentacles will revolve around the wedding of Wainwright Jakobs and Sir Alistair Hammerlock, nuptials that were teased during the main game’s…

Borderlands 3 is heading to Steam on March 13, Gearbox announced during its PAX East panel. This version will feature crossplay with the Epic Games Store, which has been the exclusive storefront for the looter-shooter on PC since it launched last September.

Suda51 returns to Fire Pro Wrestling with a brand new scenario for Fire Pro Wrestling World Suda was in charge of directing these highly-customizable and technical wrestling games back in the early 1990s, and it’s awesome to see him back in the mix.

Diablo IV Will Let Players Use Controllers On PC And Rebind Practically Everything

Diablo IV will feature an array of expanded control options for PC users, Blizzard revealed today in the first of its new developer blogs. These will include the ability to use controllers on PC, as well as rebinding the primary skill from left mouse click to the keyboard. Blizzard first announced Diablo IV at BlizzCon…

Breath Of The Wild Player Beats Calamity Ganon In 11 Seconds

Few experiences in video games feel better than demolishing a tough boss after figuring out the perfect strategy. Reddit user Master_t0rch recently took this to the extreme by optimizing the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild fight against Calamity Ganon to such a degree that the monster is reduced to a useless pile of…

‘Konami Code’ Creator Kazuhisa Hashimoto Dies At 61

Kazuhisa Hashimoto, veteran video game developer and creator of the famous Konami Code, died this week at the age of 61. “We are saddened to hear about the passing of Kazuhisa Hashimoto, a deeply talented producer who first introduced the world to the ‘Konami Code,’” Konami said in a statement. “Our thoughts are with Hashimoto-san’s…