-
CulturePlanetSide Arena Is Shutting Down After Only 4 Months (Update)
Some games last for years and years. Other games disappear in less than one. PlanetSide Arena, which launched back in September 2018 2019, is closing down next month. The announcement was made yesterday on the game’s Steam page via a blog post from the developers at Daybreak Games. (Correction: 4:15 PM – I got my…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CulturePokemonCofagrigus Will Eat You And Turn You Into A Mummy
Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Cofagrigus! Cofagrigus Details Type: Ghost Average Height: 5′ 07″ Average Weight: 168.7 lbs. First Added In Generation V Tomb…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureMorning CheckpointWhere Did All The Cheez-Its Go?
Hello! This week we buy Baby Yoda, defeat the problems clown, learn more about Shovel Knight’s long dev cycle, watch Ninja fail at slicing bread, meet one ugly bird and waste all our Cheez-Its. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I love Shovel Knight and the story behind these games makes me love all…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 14, 2019 -
CultureCelebrated Non-Violent Indie Game Is Now A Gun In Rainbow Six Siege [Update]
Sometimes, two great tastes go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter and ice cream. Ice cream and Reese’s peanut butter cups. Maybe most of my examples involve peanut butter. Point being, sometimes these things just work. Other times, you try to mash up two cool things, only to come away with a new…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe PC Demo For Wooden Nickel Is Worth A Try
Tied to last night’s Game Awards, Steam is hosting a bunch of game demos through Saturday morning. There’s a lot of interesting stuff to check out, but I particularly enjoyed Wooden Nickel, a minimalist story game set in the Wild West. Wooden Nickel is by developers Brain & Brain, who previously made the lovely Burly…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedRed Dead Online’s New Mooonshiner Role Is The Best Yet
Red Dead Online’s latest update is focused on moonshine, illegal booze crafted by folks in hidden stills deep in the woods. In this new update, players make and sell moonshine, take out the competition and even get revenge on the government goons trying to stop them. The slightly high price of entry might make it…
By Zack Zwiezen Published December 13, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsControl’s New Combat-Focused Update Is Fun Even When It’s Destroying Me
When I first heard about Control’s new Expeditions mode, timed events based around combat that went live last night during the Game Awards, I was skeptical. Control is an atmospheric thriller, and while I think it handles third-person action combat well, it’s not the reason I’d recommend the game (which I definitely would). But here…
By Ethan Gach Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureGame AwardsDeveloper On Pranking Game Awards With Golf Balls: ‘It’s A Boring Show’
Some would tell you that The Game Awards are gaming’s Academy Awards. Those people are hilariously wrong, given that the show largely serves as a vehicle for commercials announcing upcoming games, with the awards themselves coming off as a distant second priority-wise. Still, the event has become increasingly glitzy, glamorous, and long over the years.…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureModern Warfare Will Show You Your Kill-Death Ratio For $20
Modern Warfare finally offers players the ability to see their death count during matches, but what was once a staple Call of Duty feature now comes at a price. In past Call of Duty games, the in-game scoreboard for a standard multiplayer mode like Team Deathmatch would show each player’s kills, deaths, and assists. At…
By S.E. Doster Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureThe Seven-Year Saga Of Shovel Knight Is Finally Over
When I first met the co-founders of Yacht Club Games in October of 2016, at their sleek, ocean-adjacent offices in Marina del Rey, California, they told me they were shocked to still be working on Shovel Knight. After all, it had been three and a half years since they’d quit their day jobs to make…
By Jason Schreier Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedOuter Worlds Developer Finds Bug That Caused Companions To Climb Infinite Ladders Until They Died
Obsidian Entertainment’s games can tend to be glitchy. The Outer Worlds mostly bucks that trend, but at least one bug proved to be incredibly frustrating: a strange glitch stating that your companions were dead when they were, in actual fact, alive. This could lock players out of completing quests. Figuring out what was causing the…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureMortal Kombat 11‘s Joker Gets A Much-Needed Makeover
In August, when Netherrealm Studios revealed the full roster of downloadable fighters for Mortal Kombat 11’s first Kombat Pass, many fans were put off by the buff, well-groomed version of DC Comics villain Joker. Apparently Netherrealm took those concerns to heart, as last night’s video announcing a January 28 release for the character stars a…
By Mike Fahey Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for not being sick anymore, which means addressing the grungy animal den my apartment has turned into as I moped around being sick. It’s also for feeling well enough to sit up and play some video games. The Long Dark got a new region this week, which I’m super excited to go…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Bright Eyes | Artist: Anoushka Shankar | Album: Bright Eyes (single)
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureThe Xbox Series X Has Nicknames Like “Sex” And “Butt X”
That didn’t take long! The next-generation Xbox was announced last night, and people online already have nicknames for it. In the English-speaking world, it’s either being called “Xbox Sex” or simply “Sex,” a shortening of “Series X.” In Japan, it’s also being called “Xbox Sex” as well as another nickname, Shiri X (尻X) or “Butt…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2019 -
UncategorizedPokémon Sword and Shield Inspiring Short-Form Anime Adaptation
A short-form anime take on Pokémon Sword and Shield has been announced. Called Hakumei no Tsubasa (Twilight Wings), it is set in the Galar region of Sword and Shield The animation is being done by Studio Colorido, which is best known for feature films like Penguin Highway and Typhoon Noruda. According to 4Gamer, each episode…
By Brian Ashcraft Published December 13, 2019 -
CultureGame AwardsAll The Big Announcements At The 2019 Game Awards
The new Xbox was shown off at the fifth annual Game Awards, during a show that also saw a slew of new game announcements, release date reveals, and trailers. Microsoft unveiled the name of the next Xbox It’s called Xbox: Series X. How will people abbreviate that? Xbox SX? And it looks like a computer…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 12, 2019
