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CultureValheim Mod Lets You Do A Real Number On Your Character’s Bones
Do you want to turn your Valheim character into a chimera creature with a skyscraper torso and legs that resemble a barstool? Me neither, but, uh, now you can! An0nymooose’s “BoneMod” (via Rock Paper Shotgun) lets you customize the scale of your character’s bones via in-game chat commands. Whereas normally, Valheim character creation is a…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 24, 2021 -
CultureA New Rocket League Game Is Coming To Phones
Rocket League Sideswipe is a new 2D mobile version of car soccer sim Rocket League coming to iOS and Android later this year, developer Psyonix announced today. Sideswipe matches will be two minutes long and feature 1v1 and 2v2 modes to accommodate people playing on mobile (the original game’s matches are five minutes and allow…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2021 -
OpinionYou Don’t Have To Run The Exclusive Reveal For The War Crime Game
Rebooted war crime simulator Six Days in Fallujah got its official gameplay reveal yesterday in a new trailer that seems to confirm some people’s criticisms of the game as one-sided propaganda for the U.S. war machine. The trailer was debuted exclusively by IGN, the same website that just days earlier ran an in-depth report on…
By Ethan Gach Published March 24, 2021 -
CultureHitman 3 Is Getting DLC Based On The Seven Deadly Sins
Next week, Hitman 3 will receive downloadable content based on the seven deadly sins, developer IO Interactive announced in a blog post today. Just don’t expect it to be quite like the DLC from Hitman 2 Among all of the levels in the recent Hitman trilogy, two of the strongest were paid expansions for Hitman…
By Ari Notis Published March 24, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsNew Pokémon Snap Is Like Old Pokémon Snap, Only Much Prettier
Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 is a game about rolling through islands, leisurely taking pictures of pocket monsters. All the upcoming sequel needs to please fans of the original is more of that with nicer graphics. I am pleased to report New Pokémon Snap is exactly that. Nintendo recently held a preview event where…
By Mike Fahey Published March 24, 2021 -
CultureMorning MusicSecret Little Haven Is 10 Minutes Of Weapons-Grade Vaporwave Nostalgia
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll take a trip back to 1999 by way of 2018 with a breezy 10 minutes of refreshingly chill cyber-vibes. Victoria Dominowski’s Secret Little Haven (Bandcamp / longplay / VGMdb / Itch.io) is a unique…
By Alexandra Hall Published March 24, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanJapanese Company Creates “Monster Hunter Holiday” For New Game’s Release
Whenever a massive game is released, no doubt, diehard fans wish nothing more than to take the day off. Some may suddenly find themselves coming down with a cold and the only recipe for recovery is a day of gaming. But employees at Tokyo-based VR-studio Mark-On don’t need to feign illness. Exec Jack Masaki formally…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanKonami Closes 16 Of Its Sports Clubs In Japan Due To Covid-19
In Japan, Konami doesn’t only make video games. It also has a major chain of sports clubs. Gyms have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic, and Konami has had to shutter a number of its locations. Konami’s presence in sports is why the company has developed exercise games and been a major sponsor…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 24, 2021 -
Culture1000s Of Steam Games Now Let You Play With People Who Don’t Even Have Steam Accounts
An update to Steam released earlier this week has, tucked away in its changelog, a very cool piece of news: if you’re playing a game that supports Remote Play Together, you can now invite anyone to play with you, even if they don’t have a Steam account. This won’t work for all Steam games, only…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureCosplayShowcaseIncredible Yakuza: Like A Dragon Cosplay Is Punching Me In The Face
The last time we saw Enyendabbling in Yakuza cosplay, it was as a solitary star of the gangster saga. This time, he’s back, and just like Ichiban in Like a Dragon, he’s brought some friends. This is most of the main crew (sorry Eri!) of Sega’s latest crime/wholesome adventure, with Enyen as Kasuga, Mr. G…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureEpic Games Store Is Draining Some Laptop Batteries
My annoyances with Epic’s store are generally limited to Fortnite pop-ups and forgetting I even had games installed there, but then I play games on a big desktop PC. If you’re using a laptop, you might want to keep an eye on the store, and in particular what it’s doing to your battery. Some testing…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureBlizzard Isn’t Making Any More Skins For Overwatch League MVPs
After this year, the Overwatch League will no longer create special skins to honor the League’s MVP. Earlier today, the Overwatch League announced the release of two special Overwatch skins celebrating the San Francisco Shock’s second championship win and Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim earning 2020’s MVP award. But tucked into the announcement on the Overwatch League…
By Ash Parrish Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureTwitchLivestream Of Boulder Mass Shooting Raises Questions About What YouTube And Twitch Should Allow
Yesterday, a shooter opened fire at the King Soopers store in Boulder, Colorado and killed 10 people. Not long after the attack, a streamer, Dean Schiller, arrived on the scene and broadcast to an audience that topped out at nearly 30,000 concurrent viewers. The resulting video has been viewed over 650,000 times. Despite the visible…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureGameStop’s Most Popular Earnings Call Ever Is A Bust
After weeks of record-breaking days on Wall Street thanks to a meme stock frenzy engineered by Reddit, people were hoping for some answers from GameStop’s executives during today’s call with investors. They got none. Today’s earnings call—the first since GameStop stock skyrocketed to the obscene value of over $400 a share earlier this year because…
By Ethan Gach Published March 23, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsMundaun Is Beautiful, Hand-Drawn Folk Horror
It was around the time the severed goat head in my backpack started bleating and then spoke that I truly began to understand the beauty of Mundaun, the new indie horror game from developer Michel Ziegler. Mundaun opens with a letter from your isolated hometown in the Swiss Alps. Your grandfather, a local parishioner writes,…
By Ian Walker Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureWatch Dogs: Legion Will Be Free To Play This Weekend
Watch Dogs: Legion, Ubisoft’s open-world hacker game, will be free-to-play on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC starting March 25, the developer announced today in a blog post. The trial will allow you full access to the game’s open world. While you can complete Legion’s critical path in less than 20 hours—plenty for one marathon of a…
By Ari Notis Published March 23, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsPuzzle Quest 3 Does The Match-Three RPG A Little Differently
The game that kicked off the match-three/RPG genre in 2007 is back for a third go with Puzzle Quest 3. An early preview of the Android version of the threequel reveals a somewhat more dynamic take on the genre mash-up. Giving players two seconds to map out their moves makes a big difference. The basic…
By Mike Fahey Published March 23, 2021 -
EsportsI, A Hater, Can Only Endorse One Of Overwatch’s Two Latest Limited Edition Skins
The fourth season of the Overwatch League is almost upon us which means it’s time to release a new MVP skin. Starting today until April 6th, you can purchase Echo’s Good vs. Evil skin made in honor of 2020’s Overwatch MVP—and my second-favorite Shanghai Dragon—Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim. Every year, the Overwatch League releases a skin…
By Ash Parrish Published March 23, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsLiliana Vess, Noted Magic: The Gathering Girlboss, Now Teaches Kids At Strixhaven
As the Kaldheim cycle comes to a close, Wizards of the Coast has started to tease cards from Strixhaven, Magic: The Gathering’s forthcoming magical academy-themed set. I don’t pay too much attention to card teases, preferring—somewhat unwisely—to go into a new set completely unaware of what might turn up and picking cards in the moment.…
By Ash Parrish Published March 23, 2021
