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Destiny 2 Is Finally Getting Trials Of Osiris Next Month

Last night players completed the final stage of Destiny 2’s Empyrean Foundation event, resulting in an announcement from Bungie that the beloved, high-stakes player-vs.-player mode from the first game, Trials of Osiris, will be returning on March 13. “D2 needs aspirational experiences like Trials in PVP,” the game’s director Luke Smith said on Twitter. Trials…

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Our Favorite Photos From Katsucon 2020, One Of The Biggest Cosplay Shows On The Planet

Katsucon, held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, may not be as big as shows like Comic-Con, PAX or Anime Expo for the general attendee, but for cosplayers this is one of the absolute highlights of the year. Around 20,000 people went through the gates earlier this month, and…

Get Paid, Sonic

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YouTuber Etika’s Memorial Is Now A PokéStop

Last year, following the passing of YouTube star Desmond “Etika” Amofah, fans got together and painted a 40-foot mural in Brooklyn in his honour. And now, after lobbying Niantic, the mural is a bonafide PokéStop in Pokémon Go As upstart young Vice reporter Gita Jackson writes, the idea was first raised back in November by…

Horror Game That Was Pulled From Steam Revived In A Harvard Library, Of All Places

Devotion, the first-person horror game from Taiwanese developers Red Candle Games, was recently added to the Harvard-Yenching Library archives. This makes Harvard University the only place to play a legitimate copy of Devotion since it was removed from Steam a year ago after the discovery of an image mocking China’s leader. Earlier this week, Red…

You Can Easily Play Stadia Games Using Your Phone’s Touchscreen Now

Stadia is still missing a lot of common sense features following its launch late last year, including a built-in touch control option. But now, a fan-made Chrome extension called TouchStadia lets you bypass Stadia’s controller requirement and use touch controls on smartphones. Released over the weekend on Reddit where it was first spotted by Android…

Samurai Jack Gets Its First Video Game In Over A Decade

Samurai Jack, the popular Cartoon Network series that recently received a much-needed conclusion on Adult Swim, gets its first new video game adaptation since 2004 this summer. Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is being made by developer Soleil, whose previous work includes Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, No More Heroes: Travis Strikes Again, and, uh,…

The New Xbox One Home Screen Is A Lot Cleaner

Microsoft released a new update for the Xbox One home screen yesterday that makes recently played games easier to find and removes a lot of the extra junk that had previously been taking up real estate. The three rows that used to make up the home screen have been condensed and moved. Now, in the…

Fans Beautifully Remaster One Of World of Warcraft‘s Greatest Moments

It’s been a decade since World of Warcraft players stormed Icecrown Citadel to take down the Lich King Arthas Menethil once and for all. Blizzard’s ending cinematic to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion is a powerful piece, but it’s showing its age. Nothing new models, textures, lighting effects, and some very dedicated fans…

Peanut Butter Company Finally Addresses GIF Pronunciation Issue

Since the debate between the hard and soft pronunciation of the G in GIF began, we here at Snacktaku have been waiting for the J.M. Smucker Company to figure out how to tap into the argument to sell Jif peanut butter. We are pleased to report that our wait is over. Just in time for…

I’m Already Having Nightmares About The Whirling Blades Of Disc Room

Last night I dreamt I was being relentlessly chased by spinning saw blades. Yesterday, Devolver Digitalrevealed Disc Room, a game coming to Steam later this year in which a scientist dodges his way through an alien deathtrap made up of rooms filled with spinning blades. It’s a collaboration between developers Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman,…

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Portraits Of Three Houses

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The Only Artist Ever To Sculpt Spider-Man’s Nipples In A Video Game Wanted Them To Be ‘Hot,’ But Not Distracting

Nipples. They’re like fun little slices of pepperoni on the vast pizza that is the human body. Most people have them. Video game characters, though? Not so much. In fact, former Insomniac artist Xavier Coelho-Kostolny thinks there’s a credible case to be made that he’s the only person ever to sculpt Spider-Man’s nipples in a…

Fist Of The North Star Player Lands Killing Blow At Last Second

Last weekend’s annual Hokuto no Ken championship in Japan was full of incredible moments, but one match stood out thanks to the winner successfully landing the finishing blow right as the timer reached zero. Hokuto no Ken, also known as Fist of the North Star outside Japan, is a silly, silly fighting game. High-level play…

YouTuber Banned From Every EA Game And Online Service After Rants, Threats

Kurt “Kurt0411” Fenech, a FIFA Pro who is probably more notorious/famous for his YouTube presence, has been hit with one of the most severe online punishments I’ve ever seen, having been banned by EA from playing any of the company’s games online or even accessing any of their online services. The ban comes after Fenech’s…

Guilty Gear Director: Strive Will Be The Deepest Game In The Series

Guilty Gear Strive is Arc System Works’ upcoming sequel to Guilty Gear Xrd, which reinvigorated the series’ competitive scene as the first new entry in 12 years. The competitive community has a lot of expectations for Strive, and they haven’t been afraid to point out issues they’ve seen in early builds. Kotaku spoke to Guilty…

Someone Spent 7 Years Making Metroid Fusion In Minecraft

There’s a popular video of Samus running down corridors, hopping between platforms, and shooting parasites. It looks like any other piece of Metroid Fusion gameplay—until the camera slowly zooms out to reveal that the entire simulation is happening inside Minecraft That moment feels like an epiphany, in part because of how the fluid pixel animations…