Our Quest For The Best Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Difficulty Setting [Updated]

I’m enjoying Assassin’s Creed Odyssey so far, but I’ve been struggling to find a difficulty setting that I like. More specifically, I’m struggling to find a setting that I like equally for every activity. My boss Stephen Totilo is about as far into the game as I am, so I figured I’d check in to…

Sea of Thieves‘ New Volcanic Region Is Difficult And Hilarious

Rare’s online pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves launched into some rough waters, feeling more like a beta than full game. Since then, the developers have worked to make the seas more treacherous and exciting. Last week’s Forsaken Shores content adds an entirely new region packed with dangerous volcanoes and difficult quests. It’s the perfect…

The Story Of Chiller, One Very Messed Up Video Game

The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games represented some phantasmagoric nadir for youth culture, the idea that you could encrypt Satanism into a Super Nintendo, none of that held up. Night Trap was a blasé Scream send-up with worse politics, Splatterhouse never rendered anything…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Female Crews Sing Different Sea Shanties

Sea shanties have been a part of the Assassin’s Creed series ever since Black Flag. These lively songs breathe life into lengthy ocean voyages. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you a ship to sail around ancient Greece and a variety of crews. One small detail helps bring their songs to life. Most of the crews you’ll…

Game Developers Say They’re Preparing For PSN Name Changes

As PlayStation users across the world wonder whether they’ll ever get to change their names from (or to) xx_gokusephiroth420_xx, the option now seems closer than ever. Developers of multiplayer games tell Kotaku that they’re preparing for PlayStation Network name changes to finally come soon. Three people at three different game studios, speaking anonymously because they…

Rare Character Matchup Punctuates Dominican Street Fighter V Tournament

No matter how many players pick up fighting games as a competitive endeavor, there are always going to be certain character matchups that barely ever come up in tournaments, let alone in the later stages of a major event. Last weekend, Fighting Fest showcased one such matchup during its Street Fighter V finals, a battle…

Low-Spec Version Of PUBG Released In Thailand

It’s called PUBG Project Thai and went into closed beta testing last month. This low-spec version of PUBG is currently Thailand-only. Here are the recommended specs: And the minimum ones: A PUBG Corp spokesperson told Inven (via tipster Sang), “The low spec version is a separate project developed for Thai players only. It was primarily…

Hollywood Is Making A Live-Action Mega Man Movie

Capcom has announced that a live-action Mega Man film is going to written and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman of Paranormal Activity 3 and 4 fame. Chernin Entertainment (Planet of the Apes series) is producing the picture along with Masi Oka, who produced the Hollywood Death Note adaptation and previously starred in Heroes…

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Report: New Nintendo Switch Model Coming In 2019

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nintendo will be introducing a new version of its popular Switch console next year. The report says that the move comes as Nintendo hopes to boost sales momentum of the Switch, which has dropped off since its meteoric launch. It’s claimed that this new model would “likely share…

My New Alarm Wakes Me Up With Mini Games And It Works, But At What Cost

I’ve been having trouble waking up on time recently, so I downloaded a new alarm for my phone that makes me play a mini game before it turns off. It’s the best and worst decision I have ever made. I have no idea why I don’t have any energy right now, but I’ve been sleeping…

Blue Sky Mining

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Windows Will No Longer Interrupt Your Games To Annoy You About Updates

We’ve all been there: you’re in the zone with a game—so dialed in that you can practically smell the body odor of the man you just kicked off a cliff—but then, suddenly, it’s gone. Windows has decided it’s update time, and also that you can go fuck yourself. Mercifully, that problem is now history. The…

Danganronpa, Zero Escape Creators Team Up For A New Murder Game

The writer-directors behind Zero Escape and Danganronpa have formed their own studio and are teaming up to create another game about school kids and murders. Fans of both series will likely want to check out Death March Club—especially since the developers don’t think their former employer will continue their old series without them. Danganronpa’s Kazutaka…