Some Tips For Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ May Day Maze

Historically, May Day is a holiday with deep-seated spiritual roots, but you may know it more from its modern reinvention as International Workers’ Day. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is lorded over by the most insidiously craven capitalist in animalkind, but Tom Nook is still using the occasion to let players earn some Bells by navigating…

Classic Streets Of Rage Soundtracks Getting Reissued On Cassette

Sure, one can get Wayô Records’ reissues of Yuzo Koshiro’s legendary Mega Drive soundtracks to Streets of Rage and Streets of Rage II digitally or on compact disc, but why not pick a format capable of melting on the dashboard of your car or being eaten by hamsters? While the merits of the music from…

Evo 2020 has been canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic The annual fighting game event was previously scheduled to take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, but will instead shift its focus to online competition. It’s currently unknown if the official lineup will remain intact.

Fallout 76 Wastelanders: The Kotaku Review

Fallout 76 is an incredibly frustrating game. Its combat feels like trying to unseize an overheated engine by hand. Bugs and occasional game crashes, though much rarer than at launch, remain ever present. Fallout 76 demands a lot of you if you just want to survive, and a ton more if you want to flourish…

Upcoming Guild Wars 2 Episode Won’t Release With Voice Acting Due To Covid-19

The upcoming third episode of Guild Wars 2’s fifth season will release without voice acting, developer ArenaNet said in a recent announcement. The studio plans to record voiceover and add it to the game at a later date. Since the Guild Wars 2 team is working remotely due to covid-19, The Icebrood Saga’s next chapter,…

In a lovely video Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano dishes on his distinctive art. Confessing a love for Western fantasy, he traces his creative evolution from anime to fine art and explains why inspiration is never in short supply. A truly serene watch, just long enough to enjoy with a cup of tea.

Last Of Us II Leakers Are ‘Not Affiliated’ With Naughty Dog, Sony Says

Earlier this week what appeared to be major spoilers from The Last of Us Part II leaked on YouTube and Reddit. Sony now says it knows who the leakers were, and contrary to widespread online speculation, can confirm they were not a disgruntled Naughty Dog employee. “SIE has identified the primary individuals responsible for the…

Bungie Hopes To Make Destiny 2’s Seasons And Bounties Feel Less Punishing In The Future

In its latest weekly blog post Bungie laid out plans to address some of players’ biggest complaints about the current state of Destiny 2, including how content disappears once a season ends and the game’s recent emphasis on grinding bounties. Destiny 2 operates on a seasonal basis with new activities, quests, and guns rotating in…

Spelunky 2 is coming in 2020, according to developer Derek Yu The follow-up to Yu’s popular cave-diving roguelike from 2008 has been without a concrete release window since being delayed last year

Thanks For The Lovely Birthday Party, Animal Crossing Friends

I’m not normally one for elaborate birthday celebrations, but the party held for me this morning by a trio of Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers was exactly the pick-me-up I needed today. My ideal birthday is good food with family and friends and maybe a new Transformer or Lego set to fiddle with. I commemorate…

How To Make Short Work Of Gears Tactics’ Frustrating First Boss

Gears Tactics, the don’t-call-it-an-XCOM strategy game out this week for PC, flips the long-running Gears of War series on its head. Where mainline franchise entries are all about shooting big guns and having big biceps, this game offers headier fare. Surviving the lengthy turn-based battles calls for a little bit of patience, a lot of…

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Slay To The Beat In Rhythm Action Shooter BPM: Bullets Per Minute

Coming to PC this summer and consoles this winter, BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a first-person shooter where everything happens to the beat of an epic rock opera. Shoot to the beat. Dodge to the beat. Jump to the beat. Reload to the beat. Players progress through procedurally-generated levels as a Valkyrie defending Asgard from…

Track: Don’t Stop… (Demo) | Artist: Oasis | Album: N/A

The Wonderful 101: Remastered’s physical release for North America and Europe has been delayed due to coronavirus covid-19. The digital release is still on track for May 19 and May 22 respectively, but the physical version won’t be out until June 30 and July 3. In case you missed it, check out our previous coverage…

The Internet Agrees That Elon Musk Is Deus Ex‘s Trillionaire Villain, Not JC Denton

Today, noted embarrassing smoker, bad driver, and worse tweeter who is also somehow a billionaire Elon Musk has decided he’s JC Denton, the hero of 2000’s genre-defining cyberpunk immersive sim Deus Ex. Nobody agrees with him. Musk has spent the past couple days yelling to his 33.4 million Twitter followers about how it’s time to…