In today’s Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced that Lucas from Mother 3 will be a downloadable character for Super Smash Bros He’ll be available in June. Here’s his announcement trailer:
It’s April, the official month of dumb pranks, getting sick from too many Cadbury eggs, and spending an entire day smoking pot. Also, the official month of playing video games, because every month is the official month of playing video games! The days are long as hell now, and up in Portland, it has finally…
You may have noticed a lot of people talking about the new PS4 game Bloodborne. It’s good, they say. It’s really difficult, they say. Maybe you’ve considered checking it out, but you’re worried about that difficulty. I’m here to help. Bloodborne is the latest game from visionary game designer Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team at…
This is cool: The Game Developers Conference has made a whole bunch of talks from this year’s GDC available to watch for free online. There’s some great stuff in there, from classic game postmortems to modern developers talking candidly about how they made their games.
Today, Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma announced that the upcoming Legend of Zelda game for the Wii U is not going to be coming out this year. That’s a bummer, but not an unprecedented one: Lots of console Zelda games have been delayed. Ocarina of Time was eventually released in November of 1998. (Via IGN) Wind Waker…
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Yesterday, we asked you to share your worst PC gaming stories. You delivered. I’ve now read through hundreds of tales of busted hardware, online jerks, childhood heartbreak, ruinous DRM, and PCs that actually caught fire. (Thankfully, there were no submissions about dead cockroaches.) I’ve pulled out some of my favorites and collected them below. For…
It goes without saying that people playing Bloodborne are going to die a lot. It’s a tough game. But to die in the game’s one “safe” area? Last night as I was playing, I noticed something odd in the game’s home-base area, the Hunter’s Dream. There were red splotches on the ground, each one signifying…
It’s possible to love something so much, even if it sometimes frustrates the crap out of you. Take PC gaming, for example. PC gamers have it good. The PC is easily the best single platform for playing video games; you get the cheapest, best-looking versions of the big-budget blockbusters, a vast collection of classic games,…
Track: Micro Cuts | Album: Origin of Symmetry | Artist: Muse Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.
The second episode of Life is Strange is out next Tuesday, March 24. I liked the first episode of Dontnod’s supernatural high school adventure game, despite some questionable writing. I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next.
I peer through my night vision goggles. The hall ahead seems clear. “Evan, you good?” Standing to my left, my partner indicates he is. “Let’s move up.” Just then, the building shakes from an explosion. Our support team in the helicopter above must be keeping the guards outside occupied. “Air team, you guys doing okay?”…
Want to make some money in Elite: Dangerous? The feisty space-pirates over at Rock, Paper Shotgun have put together a useful guide to Elite‘s many career paths. Give it a read and that Lakon Type-6 will be yours in no time.
Last week, GTA Online added 4-player cooperative heists. If you’ve been waiting until now to hop in and start playing, I’ve got a tip that’ll make it much easier to survive your first big score: Pack lots of snacks. In some ways, GTA Online works just like the regular, offline GTA V. The map is…
Maybe video games are better without characters? Ian Bogost explores that idea over at The Atlantic and concludes that we should all join The Borg and play Sim games forever. Well okay, there’s a little more nuance than that.
Whether you want lush orchestral tracks of murderous dance-floor jams, it has been a heck of a couple of weeks for video game music. Several games that I’ve been checking out recently have sounded so, so good. I thought I’d take a second to highlight some of the best stuff. Ori and the Blind Forest…
Early in Valley of the Yetis, protagonist Ajay Ghale sees one of the mythical beasts for the first time. “What the fuck is that?” he asks. It’s a yeti, Ajay. It’s a yeti. Valley of the Yetis is a new downloadable expansion for the 2014 open-world action game Far Cry 4. It came out yesterday,…
As has become par for the course with this sort of thing, the much-anticipated launch of GTA Online‘s multiplayer heists has resulted in some woeful server troubles. We’ve been unable to connect or play all day, and we’re definitely not alone. Rockstar Support is reporting “limited” access to servers across all four platforms: “We are…
If you’re playing Far Cry 4‘s Valley of the Yetis DLC, you probably want to upgrade your holsters. You’ll need Malayan Tapir hides, but those animals aren’t on your map. Happily, you can find four hides in a crate near your base camp. It’s located here: I’m still playing through the DLC to write something…
First, you upgrade your PC. Then, you fire up all the games that used to give your PC a hard time and obliterate them. It’s a time-honored tradition, and the only thing that changes from year to year and GPU to GPU is which games you choose. Which games do you bring before your towering…
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