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Tips & GuidesWhy You Should Find (Most Of) The Diglett In Pokémon Sword And Shield’s New Expansion
What do you get if you take the original 151 Pokémon and replace them with carbon copies of an eighth generation reimagining of one the more forgettable ones? The Isle of Armor expansion for Pokémon Sword and Shield, out last week for Nintendo Switch, answers that head-scratcher. Kinda. Early on in the DLC, as you…
By Ari Notis Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureFacebook Buys Creators Of The Order: 1886
Ready At Dawn, the makers of The Order: 1886 and more recently Lone Echo, is now part of Facebook, where the studio will work on virtual reality games for the Oculus VR platform, the social media company announced today. “As part of the Oculus Studios team, Ready At Dawn will continue creating memorable, immersive, and…
By Ethan Gach Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureMicrosoft Is Shutting Down Mixer, Moving Streaming To Facebook
Microsoft announced today that the company will be shutting down its streaming site Mixer on July 22 and will partner with Facebook Gaming moving forward. The shutdown starts today, with a transition plan laid out by Microsoft for Mixer streamers. Mixer Partners will be granted partner status with Facebook Gaming, and the platform will honor…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsSpongeBob SquarePants: Battle For Bikini Bottom Rehydrated Is Pure Platforming Joy
One of the most beloved licensed games of all-time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a wonderful hodgepodge of all things good about 3D platforming. It’s got multiple characters with different abilities, big boss battles, endless collectibles, entertaining mini-games, and all sorts of secrets to uncover. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated has…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020 -
UncategorizedAvatar: The Last Airbender comes to Smite During today’s Summer Game Fest showcase, Smite announced they’re adding Avatar: The Last Airbender skins to their upcoming battle pass. Players will be able to select Aang, Zuko, and Korra skins for Merlin, Susano, and Skadi respectively.
By Ash Parrish Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Comes Out October 2
We’re less than four months away from the first numbered Crash Bandicoot game since 1998. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on October 2,, picks up right where Crash Bandicoot: Warped left off, give or take a couple of decades. At the end of Warped (spoilers?), the villainous…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Priorities Edition
Welcome to another week, and welcome back to our daily open thread. This morning I made a list of all the things I need to do, from work stuff to various life things, and then tried to rank them in order of priority so I could figure out how to handle them. Because I’m me,…
By Riley MacLeod Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureSmash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting A Small Crossover With Fallout
Vault Boy is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, but not as a fighter. On June 29, the Fallout mascot will become available as a Mii Fighter costume for $0.75. Vault Boy is classified as a Gunner, meaning he’s slower than his Brawler and Swordfighter counterparts but a bit more versatile. Most of his attacks…
By Ari Notis Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureMin Min From Arms Will Be The Next Smash Bros. Fighter
We knew the next Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter would be a character from ARMS. We just didn’t know who. Today, while broadcasting from his home, Masahiro Sakurai announced the new fighter for Nintendo’s crowd-pleasing crossover fighting game: Min Min. True to her source material, Min Min isn’t a great close-combat fighter. Her standard attacks…
By Ari Notis Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureFree-to-play RPG Kingdom Hearts Dark Road launches today for iOS and Android devices. Explore Disney-themed worlds while exploring an original Kingdom Hearts tale. Players create their own character and team up with a teenage Xenahort in order to Xenahort all over the damn place.
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsWhat Do You Know, Burnout Paradise Kicks Ass On The Switch
The left side of this image is the recently-released Switch version of Burnout Paradise Remastered. The right side is the same game running on a high-powered gaming PC. The difference? Doesn’t matter. Both are Burnout Paradise. Both are awesome. The sky and shadows are more detailed on the PC side of the image, but these…
By Mike Fahey Published June 22, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanA Device To (Maybe) Help You Get Out Of Zoom Meetings
With people at home, enough more of our lives have gone online. In Japan, on-nomi, short for “online drinking parties,” are a way for people to gather in Zoom and drink. But what if you are ready to log out? This gag device might help. Maybe not! This is being referred to as an online…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureTrack: In Between Days | Artist: The Cure | Album: In Between Days / Stop Dead
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanThe PlayStation PocketStation Makes For An Excellent Backpack
Remember the PocketStation? Released in Japan for the original PlayStation, it was a Memory Card peripheral outfitted with LCD screen and the ability to run software. Turns out the PocketStation’s shape works very well in backpack-form. Twitter user Yoshito created this PocketStation backpack. It’s not working or playable, of course, but does feature the white…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanA Kamen Rider Store Is Opening In Japan
In a country with Ultraman, Godzilla, and Gundam stores, it was only a matter of time before an official Kamen Rider store opened in Japan. On July 1, the Kamen Rider Store Tokyo will begin serving customers. It’s located on Tokyo Character Street, a hub of anime and manga related shops in Tokyo Station. As…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2020 -
CultureWelcome To Australia
Andrew Hamilton is an artist who has worked on games like Battlefront II and Battlefield V He’s also, while currently living in Sweden, Australian, and has made this tribute to his homeland about his “crystal clear memory of a sound, smell, or particularly calm experience as a kid growing up in the land down under”.…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020 -
CultureHard Lads, A Game About Shirtless Dudes Hitting (And Kissing) Each Other
Hard Lads is an adaptation of the now-famous internet video British lads hit each other with chair, in which…well, the title says it all really. Made by Robert Yang, creator of stuff like The Tearoom and Cobra Club, it’s a short, free (though you can pay what you want) game that “casts the player as…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020 -
CultureDesert Golfing’s Sequel Is Out Now!
Here is the most pleasant of surprises: a full-blooded sequel to mobile time-annihilator Desert Golfing, one of the finest mobile games ever made, has been quietly released on both iOS and Android over the weekend. It’s not Desert Golfing 2 though, because really, for a game that felt like it literally never ended, we don’t…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020 -
CultureCounter-Strike Is Now Old Enough To Drink
On June 19, 1999, Minh Le and Jess Cliffe released a humble little mod for the original Half-Life called “Counter-Strike”. In 2020, 21 years later, it is still one of the most popular video games on the planet. I remember playing the mod at the time—not right at launch, but sometime early in 2000—and finding…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2020 -
Uncategorized10 Questions I Have About This Weird Crash Bandicoot Mascot Photo
As today was wrapping up, video game hype man Geoff Keighley posted a photo of him and a giant Crash Bandicoot mascot in front of a large house. Both are wearing masks. I have some questions. Where did they get that mask? I can’t imagine you can just go to a local Walmart or even…
By Zack Zwiezen Published June 21, 2020