The Looming VR Revolution™ may not completely change the world, but it at least promises to change how we think about video games and porn. Here at Kotaku we’ve played plenty of VR games, and some on our staff have tried out various types of VR Porn. The games are generally cool; the porn is…
You can save at any time in XCOM 2, and you can name your saves. This is, unquestionably, a good thing. I’m not exactly a rampant XCOM save-scummer, but I do save often, and I’m not above reloading an old save if I lose a soldier that I can’t bear to lose. Like its predecessor,…
Another week on the books! Another weekend looms! Let’s play some video games. Holy cow man, the games are piling up. Remember when the January/February window was considered a slow period for new games? Yeah, me neither. Between the stuff that recently came out and the stuff that’s about to, I’m absolutely drowning in games…
Rise of the Tomb Raider has gotten its first PC patch. The patch fixes some bugs, adds a bunch of small graphics tweaks and optimizations, and remedies Endurance Mode stuttering, among other things. Full patch notes here
Bungie has detailed a few small but significant changes coming to Destiny in next week’s 2.1.1 update. Notably, players in small-team Crucible matches like Skirmish and Trials will spawn without special ammo, and Bungie’s adding new “Freelance” Crucible playlists that’ll be restricted to solo players only. They also explain some of the things they’re working…
I don’t want to make too big a deal about this but did you see the way her shoulder knocked those bricks loose??? I’m replaying Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC, and have been appreciating some of the smaller details about the game as I’ve played. Most of the time, when Lara Croft moves…
I’ve actually written about this moment in Batman: Arkham Knight before, however briefly. While I was playing again on PC, Batman somehow outdid himself, pulling off a midair cockpit-ening that’d make the Flying Graysons envious. Here’s a slowed-down version, if you really want to take it in. This kind of shit is why he’s Batman…
You’re a discerning individual with refined tastes. Let’s say you want a really cool new video game to play. You think, “Hey, that Gravity Rush game is out on PS4. I’ll play that!” Wise decision, my friend. Yes, I really like Gravity Rush. It’s a good game, better on PS4, and I hope you play…
My approach to modding Fallout 4 is laid-back: I want to make the game better, but I don’t want to fundamentally change it all that much. I haven’t actually “finished” the game yet, by which I mean I haven’t seen the main narrative questline through to its conclusion. I lost interest in the story soon…
If you’d asked me back in 2012 to name a single Vita game that deserved a PS4 version, I would have said “Gravity Rush” with zero hesitation. Good news for me, then! Sony may have all but given up on their Vita handheld, but someone over there appears to have realized they have a handful…
Why don’t more games have a Big Head Mode? This needs to become a thing again. You can only activate Big Head Mode in Rise of the Tomb Raider’s “expeditions” side challenges, which let you replay various levels from the game with unusual modifiers and gear. You can only play with Big Head Mode there,…
I’ve been playing the closed beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division, an upcoming fantasy RPG about patrolling Manhattan and murdering Black Friday “rioters.” The game’s version of New York City isn’t the most convincing I’ve ever seen, but the graffiti is solid. I’vecomplained about bad video game graffiti in the past, so I like to…
Whether you’re catching up on stuff from last year or playing the newest thing, there are a lot of good options for games at the moment. This weekend I’ll be playing through a bunch of stuff: I’m clearing out Batman: Arkham Knight on PC, and continue to like all the extra DLC missions and challenges…
Earlier today Mattel debuted a bunch of new Barbie dolls for the coming year. Among them: Game Developer Barbie, with her cool glasses and nifty headphones andergonomically sound standing desk Game Developer Barbie is coming out this summer and joins a few other new lines, a couple of which seem geared toward modernizing and freshening…
Sometimes you just want to play a really pretty PC game, and in walks the PC port of Rise of the Tomb Raider. I already played through the enjoyably acronymed “ROTTR” on Xbox One last fall, and at the time was struck by how gorgeous the game could be. It stands to reason that it’d…
Mad Max may seem like the action-movie outlier among this year’s Academy Awards nominees, but it’s more than deserving of earnest consideration. In particular, I hope Fury Road wins Oscars for Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing. For all the ridiculous action and stuntwork happening in a given five-minute stretch of the film, it’s…
The best movies get better each time you watch them. That is why I am now going to praise the 2007 cinematic masterwork Hot Fuzz A couple of nights ago, I saw that the movie was on Netflix. Of course, I promptly rewatched it. You know what? It’s not just one of the best comedies…
If you live on the east coast, you may have heard that we’re about to getdestroyed by an epic blizzard. If you hadn’t heard that, well, sorry to break it to you. I guess now you know. Presuming the current apocalyptic weather forecasts bear icy fruit, come tomorrow we’ll all be stuck in our various…
A couple of days ago, technical experts confirmed that the Xbox One version of Ark: Survival Evolved runs like ass. The report came fromEurogamer’s Digital Foundry columnists, who recorded a video of the early access (aka unfinished) survival game and found the Xbox One version desperately wanting. You can watch that videohere, but I’ll summarize.…
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