The First Episode Of Life Is Strange 2 Doesn’t Hide Its Politics

In certain ways, Life Is Strange 2 is a huge departure from the first game. It’s set in a different city, with wildly different characters. It ditches the Gossip Girl-meets-Twin Peaks murder mystery for a harsher story about two teenagers on the run. But it’s still an over the top teenage angst fest. Life Is…

Here’s October 2018’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

October’s PlayStation Plus lineup is a bit of a range. Friday the 13th is good for some co-op scares, and there’s also some indie gems in The Bridge and Read Only Memories. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription. October’s PS Plus games are: PlayStation 4 Friday…

Every Car In Forza Horizon 4 Has Its Own Perk Tree, So Of Course I’m Hooked

Back in 2016 I spent a great deal of time farming skill points in Forza Horizon 3 in order to unlock bonuses in the game’s Skill Shop perks tree. In Forza Horizon 4, every single one of the over 450 cars in the game has its own perks tree to unlock. I am filled with…

Check Out Some Of Our Best Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Gameplay

I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey a lot lately in preparation for a review next week. In the meantime, I can finally show off some new gameplay. In this clip, I play as Kassandra and sneak my way through an enemy camp using tons of useful assassin skills. I’m not allowed to talk much about…

Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season Has Been Removed From Several Digital Gaming Storefronts [UPDATE]

The Walking Dead: The Final Season has disappeared from the PlayStation and Xbox One digital stores, as well as Steam and GOG. At the time this article was posted, the game’s season pass was still available to buy on the Switch eShop. This latest news comes after the studio laid off approximately 90% of its…

Zenyatta Overwatch Figure Comes With All The Glowing Orbs

No video game is complete without some sort of glowing orb, and Omnic monk Zenyatta is Overwatch’s prime source of lighted spheres. Japanese toymaker Good Smile Company understands this. That’s why their new Zenyatta figure has all of the orbs. Now available for preorder for about $80 USD with a release planned for next summer,…

Sony Is Finally Allowing Cross-Play On The PS4 [Update]

Having resisted for so long, Sonyis finally giving in and allowing cross-play on the PS4 “for select third party content”, meaning PlayStation 4 owners will soon get to play the same game against people on competing consoles. In a blog post, Sony say: Following a comprehensive evaluation process, SIE has identified a path toward supporting…

Man Makes Excellent Anime Trope Glasses

A common trope in anime is light reflecting on glasses. You’ve seen them in Detective Conan, Evangelion and more. TV Tropes calls these lenses “scary shiny glasses.” One man decided to make them. The trope is used to underscore a character’s thoughts or emotions. Twitter user Hideki Katsumura bought some cheap glasses and stuck LED…

After Bowsette, Fans Go Wild For Boosette

Bowsette isn’t the only fan creation tearing up the internet. Boosette is really making a name for herself. As Kotaku previously reported, the Super Crown in New Super Mario Bros. Wii U Deluxe led to fanart in which Bowser morphed into a new character, Bowsette. Fans didn’t stop there, dreaming up what other characters would…

BTS And Jimmy Fallon Did Fortnite Dances 

K-pop supergroup BTS appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing “Idol” and as a special bonus “I’m Fine.” The group and talk show host also pulled off their best Fortnite dance moves. You can watch the group’s performances below Here they are doing Fortnite dances And if you missed it, here’s the group’s…

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Nearly 200,000 Steam users play PC games with SNES controllers. That’s the most surprising factoid from Valve’s data about controllers. Xbox 360 controllers are most used (27.2 million), while Xbox One and PS4 are nearly neck-and-neck (11.5 million and 12.2 million). The Steam controller, at 1.5 million, remains niche.

Here, A Bowsette Amiibo, I Hope You’re All Happy

Nintendo has of course released official Peach Amiibo. But it’s up to people like GandaKristo turn them into something fans truly want The custom Amiibo creator extraordinaire has created the masterpiece you see here. And the back: Perfection. We’vefeatured her work here before, but in the time since our last showcase and this she’s also…

Scrabble Adds 300 New Words, Like “Sheeple” And “OK”

Four years after its last update, the official Merriam-Webster Scrabble Dictionary is having around 300 new words added to the ranks. AsAP reports, 20 of those start with Q, like “Qapik”, which is “a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to 1/100 of the Azerbaijani manat”. Also added are some Asian culinary treasures, like “bibimbap” and…

Xbox One Getting Mouse + Keyboard Support

FPS games (and…strategy games?) are about to get a lot more precise on the Xbox One, with the announcement today that Microsoft is “enabling mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One for select Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks.” It’s a game-by-game thing, with developers free to choose whether they implement the added compatibility or…