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Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Lazy
Something that I appreciate about the Korean language is its tendency to assign playful words to nuanced definitions of common thoughts and objects, and Son Ah Reum’s Lazy is a great example of that. The word “lazy”, directly translated, most often comes out as 게으름 (gae-euh-reum). However, the original title of the song in Korean…
By Seung Park Published April 10, 2019 -
CultureWet Noon
Lucas Staniec is a concept artist at CD Projekt Red, the developers of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 He’s also worked on games like Total War: Warhammer II, Dying Light II and Fantasy Flight’s board games. You can see more of Lucas’ stuff at his ArtStation page.
By Luke Plunkett Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedYou Can Now Pet The Dog In Enter The Gungeon, Thanks To That Twitter Account
You can pet the dog in Enter The Gungeon, but it was not always this way. Until recently, nobody could pet the dog, and times were dark indeed. Then a humble Twitter account stepped in and saved the day, at what turned out to be the very last minute. Enter The Gungeon, originally released on…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedGreetings, Troubleshooter. Welcome to Alpha Complex, where happiness is mandatory. Developer Black Shamrock is making a role-playing game based on Paranoia, one of the greatest and silliest tabletop RPGs of all time. It’ll be out this year on consoles and PC, if Friend Computer approves.
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedDragon Ball FighterZ Player Overwhelmed After Winning Tournament He Lost Last Year
The fighting game community has expanded over the last decade, to the point where its competitive calendar provides a constant stream of tournaments to attend and watch online. While this can be overwhelming at times, it also lets players gauge their growth on a weekly, monthly, or yearly basis. A Dragon Ball FighterZ competitor came…
By Ian Walker Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedHearthstone‘s New Expansion Is Bringing The Game Back To Its Roots
On its surface, today’s new Hearthstone expansion, Rise of Shadows, looks like just another batch of new cards. But paired with the Year of the Dragon rotation—a major rule change that also drops today and will make some of the game’s most powerful cards illegal in the game’s popular Standard mode—the set looks like it…
By Joshua Calixto Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedBungie Blocks Xbox And PC Destiny Players From Equipping PS4-Exclusive Weapon After Accidentally Allowing Them To Buy It
Bungie announced today it will soon be rolling out a fix to prevent players on Xbox One and PC from using the PS4-exclusive exotic trace rifle Wavesplitter after Destiny 2’s traveling alien salesman, Xur, accidentally sold the weapon to some players last weekend. “We’re investigating an issue where the Sony exclusive weapon Wavesplitter was made…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2019 -
EsportsFour Players Have Quit Overwatch League In The Last Two Weeks
Expansion teams and new meta aside, Overwatch League season two has felt, for the most part, like business as usual. Behind the scenes, however, teams continue to practice, scrimmage, and prepare rigorously, all while planning for a third season in which they’ll move to their respective cities all across the world. It appears to be…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedPlayer Discovers Brutal Combo For One Of Smash Ultimate’s Worst Fighters
Charizard may be the final evolution of one of the strongest Pokemon starters of all time, but in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate he’s kind of shit. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun playing as him, especially by trying to pull of this deadly two hit combo that few of your friends will see…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Unexpected Success Of No Man’s Sky
Sean Murray, lead developer of the planetary exploration game No Man’s Sky, doesn’t want to dwell on negativity, tempting as it is when chatting for an interview about any game with a huge, vocal playerbase. “The story often is the narrative of the bad community, the toxicity, and it really annoys me that [it] commands…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 9, 2019 -
OpinionImpressionsFalcon Age Is All About That Bird
The amount of enjoyment to be found in Falcon Age, a falcon-hunting adventure game for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR, depends on how much one falls in love with its feathered co-protagonist. Fortunately, the bird is ridiculously lovable. Falcon Age is a game about the relationship between human girl Ara and her bird, or at…
By Mike Fahey Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedReal-Life Politician Removed From In-Game Office In EVE Online [UPDATE: Accusations Dropped]
Yesterday, EVE Online player Brisc Rubal was permanently banned from the game and removed from the Council of Stellar Management, the game’s player-elected representative body. Outside of EVE, Rubal’s real name is Brian Schoeneman, and he’s a lawyer and a career politician, working as a lobbyist in the state of Virginia. A developer blog released…
By Lee Yancy Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Elder Scrolls Is At Its Best When It’s Super-Weird
This weekend, I started playing The Elder Scrolls: Blades on my iPhone. While I do enjoy dungeon crawling, I also felt disappointed. The Elder Scrolls is a rich setting packed with some of the more evocative cosmology I’ve ever encountered. But there I was, fighting standard goblins as if it were any other fantasy game.…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedYouTuber Takes Beautiful Walks Across Huge Video Games
Open world games keep getting bigger and bigger, but the time we have to thoroughly explore them is limited. Most players will never see all the beautiful things a game has to offer, but a time-lapse walkabout across the entire map can offer a slightly blurry glimpse. As spotted by Eurogamer, Gaming YouTuber Enigma recently…
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedCJ From Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Fits Perfectly With Everything
Another video game joke is taking over the internet. Ah shit, here we go again. Sometimes weird performances of inconsequential lines can live in your memory forever. To quote James Franco in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, they are so good. One of those, for Grand Theft Auto fans, is CJ’s first lines in the game…
By Gita Jackson Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Past And Present Of Dragon Age 4
In December 2018, developer BioWare teased the next Dragon Age game, hinting at a mysterious future for the popular fantasy series—one that’s enticing, but seems very far away. Why, more than four years after Dragon Age: Inquisition, is Dragon Age 4 still so early in development? The answer is complicated, and reflective of BioWare’s turbulence…
By Jason Schreier Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedBlizzard says it is bringing back Overwatch’s seasonal co-op event with Storm Rising, an all-new story mission about Overwatch’s pursuit of the Omnic Talon boss, Maximilien. With Storm Rising, the previous two Overwatch Archives events (Uprising and Retribution) will also be repayable, with “more than 160 cosmetic items” in seasonal loot boxes.
By Joshua Rivera Published April 9, 2019 -
UncategorizedFallout 76‘s PVP mode is about to get a lot less brutal In the patch notes for today’s update, Bethesda announced significant nerfs to the game’s survival mode, including greatly reducing the number of caps players drop when killed as well as how many aid items they leave behind.
By Ethan Gach Published April 9, 2019