Fortnite‘s Batman Event Turns Tilted Town Into Gotham City

Today is “Batman Day,” which explains why banks are closed and your town is hosting its annual Batman Day Parade. Fortnite has gotten in on this most solemn of occasions by adding new Batman-themed items and turning part of its map into Gotham City. A livestream announcing the Fortnite/Batman crossover took place on YouTube at…

Every Game Needs A Studio Trigger Anime Opening

Today Skullgirls studio Lab Zero Games debuted the animated opening to Indivisible, the eagerly-anticipated action role-playing game. I thought I could not get more excited about this game. I was wrong. Flashy animated intros from Studio Trigger, the folks behind Kill La Kill, have that effect. Every game should have one. Founded by former Gainax…

Farewell To My Cat

I put my cat to sleep on Tuesday afternoon. She sat on my lap, swaddled in a medical blanket and a favorite scarf of my wife’s. A veterinarian injected anesthesia to knock her out and then delivered a fatal shot. I knew Quimby the cat for 15 ½ years. Some readers of this site may…

Untitled Goose Game’s Developers Stopped Work On Launch Day To Attend The Climate Strike

Today is the long-awaited launch day of Untitled Goose Game, the avian sensation that’s been sweeping multiple nations since its first trailer came out in 2017. It’s also the day of the Global Climate Strike, meaning that people across more than 150 countries are walking out of school and work to demand urgent action in…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for having finally gotten certified to belay people in rock climbing, so skulking around the gym looking for people to belay. It’s also for playing video games. I’m looking forward to playing more Overland, as well as more Untitled Goose Game. They’ve both been fun to have on my Switch: easy to…

Despite The Haters, The Division 2‘s All-Women Gaming Group Is Going Strong

The note atop the thread in The Division 2 subreddit was awkward. “The moderators have allowed for many congratulation raid completion posts,” it began. This was one of many threads in celebrating various groups of gamers for clearing The Division 2’s daunting eight-player raid. But, it continued: “This one is unfortunately being locked due to…

World of Warcraft‘s Greatest Tragedies Look So Much Cuter In A Pop-Up Book

Last year, in the lead-up to World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion, Horde leader Sylvanas Windrunner went a bit more evil than usual. She set the world tree ablaze, destroying the night elf capital of Teldrassil and murdering countless innocents in the process. It was one of the most horrific events in the online…

If I Had Infinite Time I Would Never Stop Chasing Perfect Ranks In Games

I play games because they give me pleasure, but sometimes, that pleasure comes specifically from a desire to master all of their secrets. Clear all the time trials, get higher ranks, collect all the goodies. Sayonara Wild Hearts, Devil May Cry 5, Monster Hunter World. Sometimes you just want to be the best. I felt…

Person Naruto Runs Through ‘Storm Area 51’ Newscast

In what started as a joke and is now our manifest reality, thousands of people are expected to storm Area 51 today. Today, we witnessed just one of many on camera running through the desert like characters from the popular anime series Naruto “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” began as a…

The Creepypasta Community That Influenced Control

Control’s setting, a secretive government facility that studies supernatural happenings, is engrossing. If you can’t get enough of the game’s surreal atmosphere, perhaps you should check out the SCP Foundation, a community-run fiction archive that many speculated was an inspiration for Control. It turns out that speculation was correct. Kotaku spoke with the SCP Foundation…

SNK Reveals The 20 Games For Neo Geo Arcade Stick

Earlier this month, SNK announced the Neo Geo Arcade Stick Pro. It’s packed with 20 built-in games, which weren’t revealed—until now. According to IT Media, the 20 games SNK is including for the release are: The King of Fighters ’95 The King of Fighters ’97 The King of Fighters ’98 The King of Fighters ’99…

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K-Pop Pick Of The Day: 1.2.3.4

A lot of K-Pop stars’ vocals are described as “soulful,” often a product of a public relations team short on English and long on imagination. Lee Hi is one of the few artists whose voice actually lives up to that descriptor. She debuted at a relatively young age, having made her first broadcast appearance on…

Darth, Put Your Helmet Back On, Please

Kevin Cassidy is a character and creature artist who has worked on games like BioShock Infinite, Just Cause 3 and Spec Ops: The Line You can see more of Cassidy’s work at his ArtStation page

Jurassic Dream Lets You Peacefully Explore A CryEngine Jurassic Park

Jurassic Dream is a fan-made CryEngine project that imagines a Jurassic Park where the catastrophic events of the novel/movie never happened, and everything is just fine. It’s beautiful, with the only catch being that there are no dinosaurs. Being a fan project handled almost entirely by one person (LifelessTapir, who started it when he was…