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CultureHollow Knight Speedrun Has A Tense Finale
Hollow Knight is a quiet game of exploration and difficult bosses that can take dozens of hours to complete. Last Sunday at Awesome Games Done Quick, a speedrunner beat it in under 90 minutes. The run was a highlight of precise, masterful movement. And the ending had the audience on the edges of their seats.…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 8, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game Diary
The Stories Behind Assassin’s Creed Mercenaries Are Terrific, But Easily Missed
You don’t need to know the backstory of Shoeless Ogarneos, a mercenary who may try to kill you in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, but the word in the game is that this ancient Greek killer-for-hire only wore bandages on his feet and “liked the red tint they had at the end of each day.” I can…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 8, 2019 -
Culture
The Week In Games: Mario Brothers Of Days Past
Not one but two older entries into the Mario Bros. canon resurface this week, because in the world of video games what’s old is eternally new again. And I do hope you like new old games, because otherwise you’re out of luck. In a test of just how many Nintendo fans will buy games they…
By Ethan Gach Published January 8, 2019 -
Culture
The Best-Reviewed Steam Games Of 2018
More so than perhaps even playing them, Steam is a place where people go to yell about games. Here are the games they yelled most positively about last year. Steam reviews are kind of a mess. The positive/negative binary squelches nuance and doesn’t translate well into an overall percentage score, and the system is easily…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryEvery Christmas, There’s A Cosplay Spectacular In Florida
Holiday Matsuri has quickly grown to become one of the biggest and best cosplay shows in the US. And it’s not hard seeing why: who wouldn’t want to escape the winter chills for a resort in Orlando in the middle of December? Below you’ll find a selection of video and photos taken by Mineralblufrom the…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureThe Internet Reacts To Soldier 76 And His Ex-Boyfriend
Tracer is no longer the only canonically LGBTQ hero in Overwatch. Today, Blizzard released a new short story focusing on steely sniper grandma Ana and grumpy military dad Soldier 76. The latter, it turns out, used to be involved with a man named Vincent. In the short story, titled “Bastet,” Ana encounters Soldier for the…
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CultureMiddle Eastern Fortnite Players Start Massive Protest For Dedicated Servers
Alaa “DvLZStaTioN” Ebrahim has been missing his sniper shots. The popular Fortnite YouTuber, who has three million subscribers, says it’s not his fault. Nor are the times when his opponents’ shots hit him even as he moves away from the rain of bullets. Ebrahim, who lives in Bahrain, a small island country in the Middle…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published January 7, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game Diary
The Eternal Castle Is A Great Throwback To Classic Cinematic Sidescrollers
The Eternal Castle is a love letter to old cinematic platformers of the late 80s and early 90s, a throwback to games such as Another World, Flashback. It capitalizes on their virtues without the weight of their technological limitations. It just came out on Steam over the weekend. I haven’t even finished it yet, and…
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 -
Culture
Warner Bros. Pulls LEGO Lord of the Rings Games From Steam, Doesn’t Say Why
Bad news for fans of LEGO, Lord of the Rings, and buying things: Warner Bros. has taken The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit away from us—possibly forever. The saga seemingly began when the two games were free on the Humble Store last month, sparking debate over whether new games were on the horizon—or…
By Kate Gray Published January 5, 2019 -
Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for going to Norway, to live out my bizarre lifelong dream of turning a birthday in the Arctic Circle. My boss dubbed it “a real-life The Long Dark,” which is pretty on-brand for a Riley dream. I will be unable to play very much The Long Dark before I leave, but I…
By Riley MacLeod Published January 4, 2019 -
CultureTwitch
Twitch Re-Suspends Alleged Domestic Abuser After Fan Outcry
Last month, Twitch streamer Luke “MrDeadMoth” Munday was arrested by Australian authorities after a Fortnite stream during which he seemed to be hitting his partner. Twitch suspended his account shortly after. At the start of this week, however, Twitch viewers were surprised to find that Munday’s channel was already back. His suspension, which some presumed…
By Nathan Grayson Published January 4, 2019 -
Culture
Wolf Is One Of Competitive Smash Ultimate‘s Most Popular Fighters So Far
Some of the winter’s biggest esports tournaments are still a ways off, but Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which ended 2018 on a Donkey Kong smackdown, begins 2019 strong with a handful more events taking place across the globe this weekend. Last weekend, I noted that the still-evolving meta around Smash Ultimate meant the Let’s Make…
By Ethan Gach Published January 4, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game Diary
How I Killed My Switch Charger
It was 11:54 p.m. on New Year’s Eve when people started screaming at me to put the big ball drop in Time Square on my TV. It’s sort of the “you had one job” of throwing a New Year’s party, and I had completely forgotten about it. Many gin and tonics deep, I made my…
By Ethan Gach Published January 4, 2019
