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OpinionImpressionsSludge Life Feels Like Playing Hooky From Late Capitalism
One of my favorite Onion articles of all time is titled “Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back.” It was published five years ago, back when I still worked at an office job I hated where I frequently daydreamed of doing exactly as the Onion health experts advised. But where…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
UncategorizedCastlevania’s Third Season Is A Violent Slow Burn
By the end of its second season, Netflix’s Castlevania show seemed to have reached its apex. Dracula was defeated, and the story—largely based on the NES’ Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse—was over. Season three could have gone in a lot of directions. It ends up focusing on the characters that viewers have come to know and…
By Heather Alexandra Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureUbisoft Is Massively Reworking Ghost Recon Breakpoint
In as extreme a case of eating crow as you’ll see from a big game publisher, Ubisoft said today that they are cancelling Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s planned second raid, reducing its aggravating always-online requirement, and will soon release an update that lets players deactivate its despised loot system. It’s all in service of trying to…
By Stephen Totilo Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIt’s Literally Just Mowing (And Microtransactions, Ads, And Loot Boxes)
As soon as I heard about the game It’s Literally Just Mowing, I was like, “Hell yeah!” Unfortunately, the game is not literally just mowing. It’s Literally Just Mowing, which arrived on iOS and Google Play last week, has been promoted as being about mowing some lawns, and that’s it. But once I played it,…
By Ian Walker Published March 5, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesWhat Happens To Your Xbox Game Pass And PlayStation Now Downloads Once They Expire
For budget-conscious gamers, there are few better ways to get games than via the games-on-demand services PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. Each service costs $60 per year or $10 a month and grants access to a vast library of games. Triple-A blockbusters and indie darlings both pop up on these services with some regularity,…
By Ari Notis Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureThe Last Of Us Is Getting An HBO TV Show
Craig Mazin, writer behind the wonderful miniseries Chernobyl, is apparently teaming up with The Last of Us game director Neil Druckmann to adapt the PlayStation zombie thriller into a TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will focus on the events of the first game, though The Hollywood Reporter writes that there’s “the…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureThe Outer Worlds’ Font Size Is About To Get Even Bigger
Yesterday the developers at Obsidian announced that even though The Outer Worlds came out nearly five months ago, they’re still hard at work on improving its font sizes This is great news since the original text in The Outer Worlds was too damn small, and while Obsidian added a large font option shortly after release,…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsIf You Like Picross You’re A Good Person And Will Probably Enjoy Depixtion
Picross is a wonderful series of games in which players use logic to create dubious pixel art using numbers and grids. In Depixtion, recently released for the Nintendo Switch, each level is three Picross-style puzzles of varying colors and shades coming together to create dubious pixel art. It’s deep dish Picross with a twist. A…
By Mike Fahey Published March 5, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsHands On: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Will Put You Right To Work
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a hard game to demo, but Nintendo invited me to try to do it anyway last weekend at PAX East. I came away from my brief trip to its deserted island impressed by how pretty everything looked and eager to continue toiling away on its beaches, in its fields, and…
By Ethan Gach Published March 5, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Ch-Check It Out | Artist: Beastie Boys | Album: Some Old Bullshit
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanAfter Fainting At Gym, Masahiro Sakurai Reminds Fans To Prioritize Their Health
Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai has written about working out in his regular column in Weekly Famitsu. One reader sent in a question asking Sakurai if he’s also careful about what he eats. After a recent, momentary blackout at the gym, it sounds like he needs to be and probably should be better hydrated and rested.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2020 -
UncategorizedAs of now, the Anime Expo is still scheduled for early July in Los Angeles. “With that being said,” reads an official statement, “the health and safety of our community is our number one priority. During the coming weeks, we will continue to monitor the situation, review the guidance by global health authorities, and consider…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 5, 2020 -
UncategorizedNintendo’s Japanese store will start taking preorders for the Animal Crossing Switch dock and Joy-Cons on March 7. Check out our story about how to import them if you want to buy either one of them separately without having to buy the whole bundle.
By Chris Kohler Published March 4, 2020 -
CultureParked Out Front
Henry Wong is an artist and illustrator based in London who has worked for companies like Netflix and Axis (a studio responsible for, amongst other things, that amazing Blizzard anime from 2018). You can see more of Henry’s stuff at his ArtStation page
By Luke Plunkett Published March 4, 2020 -
UncategorizedSilent Hill VR Demo Gets A Big No Thank You From Me
As has been established repeatedly on this website of record, I am a coward, and so maybe this fan-made Silent Hill 2 virtual reality demo is not for me. Perhaps it is for you, though. This is just a concept trailer, not something that’s actually being worked on, and for you that might be terrible…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 4, 2020 - Uncategorized
A bright spot of news for Google Stadia: The cloud gaming initiative has recruited PlayStation veteran Shannon Studstill, who led Sony Santa Monica during the creation of 2018’s acclaimed God Of War, to run a Stadia studio in Playa Vista, California that will focus on making exclusive games and game features.
By Stephen Totilo Published March 4, 2020 -
CultureFIFA Pro Loses After Game Disallows Goal That Clearly Went In
Penalty shootouts are cruel at the best of times, but I’ve never seen anything like this. This is Giuseppe Guastella, a FIFA player so good he plays for the esports branch of the LA Galaxy, taking what would be the final shot in a shootout. As you, and everyone else with eyes can see, the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 4, 2020
