After Twitter user c0mpl3x1ty had a few drinks, they booted up Techland’s open world zombie game, Dying Light. An electrical engineer by day, they noticed a problem: there should be no way for the city to generate power. It’s all wrong! But when I contacted Techland, they revealed a huge secret about the game. Because…
If your PlayStation 4 looks a little different today, that’s because your machine probably updated overnight with firmware 3.00. While it’s a system update less sweeping than its version number implies, and the launch hasn’t been without hiccups and oversights, it comes with some pretty nifty new features. Here are the full patch notes for…
Thanks to Super Mario Maker (and Giant Bomb “editor”) Dan Ryckert, I was forced to commit a horrible act to finish this stage (5330-0000-0071-CCBE). Watch me play the whole thing here.
Sony’s announced the PlayStation Plus lineup for October and it’s headlined by Broken Age (PS4/Vita) and Super Meat Boy (PS4/Vita). The other games include Unmechanical Extended (PS4/PS3), Kickbeat (Vita/PS3), Kung Fu Rabbit (Vita/PS3), Chariot (PS3). Never played Super Meat Boy before? I’m so jealous! Contact the author at [email protected]
Twisted Pixel has split off from Microsoft, and is once again an independent studio, according to a report from IGN This isn’t the first time Microsoft has allowed a developer to go off on their own; it happened to Bungie back in 2007. Given Destiny’s success, perhaps they regret that decision now. Contact the author…
Davey Wreden, co-creator of The Stanley Parable, has announced his new game, The Beginner’s Guide. While we don’t know much about The Beginner’s Guide yet, chances are it’s pretty weird. We won’t have to wait long to play it, either, as game’s website says it’s launching on October 1 for PC and Mac. Contact the…
Some players are rooting for the bad guy as humanity’s last hope, but why? Warning: There some SOMA spoilers ahead. There are lots of reasons things have gone so bad for SOMA’s underwater station, PATHOS-2, but the AI overseeing its operation, WAU, hasn’t helped. But in the eyes of some players, WAU is the one…
It took them six weeks, but Gwyn, the Lord of Cinder, has been defeated. Remember, when Twitch Plays Dark Souls kicked off in mid-August, it wasn’t looking good. They were barely able to stumble into the first boss room, let alone make any significant progress towards slaying the game’s first challenge. They got stuck in…
Anyone who’s played N++ can see how utterly ridiculous this stage is. Watch the whole thing, then weep at our inability to ever be as good at this player. Jeez Contact the author at [email protected]
After suffering a pretty shady delay, Comcept claims Mighty No. 9 will ship on February 9 for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. The 3Ds and Vita versions are coming “at a later date.” We’ll see! Start placing your bets. Contact the author at [email protected]
SOMA players have discovered—and solved—something weird. If you shove a plastic toy into the toilet and flush, a set of numbers appear on the screen. If you find enough of these numbers and use them as the password for a file called _supersecrets.rar in SOMA’s installation directory, you’ll find something special. Warning: We are going…
As the fall gaming season sucks up all the hours in the day, so does the plentiful bounty of gaming writing that goes along with it. Worth Reading is here to guide you through the fog, a guide to the best games writing from the past week or so. Hey, You Should Read These “Redesigning…
The single player portion of Treyarch’s next Call of Duty game has proven too much for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the studio announced today. Treyarch wasn’t building the last-generation versions of Black Ops 3, though it was overseeing them. Beenox and Mercenary Technology had been assigned the unenviable task of making the game…
Remember that absurd GIF from earlier today? I’m going to try beating that Super Mario Maker level right now, as if my life depended on it. The level in question, F829-0000-0066-E98B, was a collaboration between the editors of Giant Bomb, my home away from home, and its community. From what I can tell, there is…
It’s possible the people who voice many of gaming’s colorful characters will go on strike, depending on how a SAG-AFTRA union vote goes down next month. As various performers have started voicing their support on Twitter, so have a couple of game developers, and not everyone’s 100% behind what’s going on. Here’s what performers represented…
At Oculus Connect today, the company announced video apps, including Netflix and Twitch, and confirmed Minecraft is getting proper VR support in 2016. An updated Gear VR, compatible with all 2015 Samsung phones, hits in November for $99, but no word on a price or release date for the Rift…yet.
Rinse and Repeat, the latest from provocative designer Robert Yang, was recently banned from being streamed on Twitch. There are only 14 games on Twitch’s list so far, and Yang’s made two of them. Yang’s game, which Kotaku wrote about last weekend, is about showering with other men. It’s meant to be erotic and, for…
A bridge of p switches, followed by a pipe to nowhere? Mario Maker is for jerks. Good luck with F829-0000-0066-E98B! Contact the author at [email protected]
Next month’s Games With Gold lineup has been announced. Valiant Hearts: The Great War and The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season are coming to Xbox One, while Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Walking Dead are for Xbox 360. Sony hasn’t announced what’s coming to PS Plus just yet.
Anyone recall Xbox Live Primetime, Microsoft’s push to do game shows on Xbox Live? No? That’s probably because 1 vs. 100, based on the television show of the same name, was the only one Microsoft ever produced. Yes, that actually happened. Xbox Live Primetime was announced by former Xbox executive Robbie Bach at CES 2009,…
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