Armello Is Great On Switch, If You Can Read The Tiny Text

A sublime combination of fantasy board game and card game, League of Geek’s Armello has been one of my go-to competitive strategy joints since it first hit the scene back in 2015. Now it’s on the Nintendo Switch, and while my love remains strong, my eyes can’t quite handle the tiny text of handheld mode.…

Twisting mobile strategy masterpiece Euclidean Lands scores a sequel later this month called Euclidean Skies Creator Miro Straka has teamed up with developer Kunabi Brother to create puzzles that not only rotate but also unfold, allowing for multiple solutions. It’s due out on iOS on October 25. 

Artificial Intelligence Gets Good At Creating Anime Girls

The types of anime-style characters artificial intelligence was making in 2015 weren’t good. But now in 2018, the machines have improved. A lot. As Twitter user Yoshiwo Konogi points out, it’s amazing at how good AI has gotten at this type of art. Have a look below: Earlier this year, the deep learning AI character…

Inside Riot Games’ New League Of Legends Stadium In South Korea

This is LoL Park. Located in Seoul, it’s a brand new esports arena for Legend of Legends. It’s very cool, so let’s check it out. As Inven reports, LoL Park also has a Riot shop, a cafe, a 24-hour PC bang, a commemorative hall with the pro jersey and 3D printed figures of players, a…

Pringles Flavored Ramen And Noodles Exist In Japan

Of course they do! This month, Pringles Sour Cream and Onion flavored fried noodles and Pringles Jalapeño and Onion ramen will go on sale in Japan. Pringles is teaming up with instant noodle maker Acecook to make this happen. If that wasn’t enough (it’s not, I guess!), chicken-bone soy sauce flavored ramen Pringles and squid…

Welcome To Mushroom Town

Lukasz Salata is a concept artist from Poland, who most recently worked on the adventure/puzzle game My Brother Rabbit You can see more of Lukasz’s work at his ArtStation page

Toys ‘R’ Us Is Kinda Coming Back

The Toys ‘R’ Us bankruptcy auction has been cancelled, replaced with a plan to reboot the brand and open new stores. Reuters reports that instead of just selling off the brand name and assets like their original plan, lenders now want to “open a new Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us branding company that…

Blizzard Is Changing Overwatch‘s Pharah, But Some Players Aren’t On Board

Time takes its toll on us all, but especially on fictional heroes who exist in constantly updating video games. Theirs is the greatest plight of all, as exemplified by Overwatch’s master of the skies, Pharah. Pharah is just fine—some might even say perfect, if they are me—but she’s about to be hit with a rocket…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Cosplay Is Looking Sharp

No doubt helped by the fact Ubisoft released a very cool guide back at E3, we’re already seeing quality cosplay from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. This is French cosplayer Phobos, who built Kassandra’s outfit from EVA foam, worbla, sculpting clay, linen and some fake leather. Her boyfriend Thibaut Claudel is responsible for the photos, which were…

Multi-Console Emulator Now Runs On Hacked Switches

RetroArch is a homebrew program that combines a ton of different gaming emulators into a single, relatively sleek package. Development on it began in 2010, with version 1.0 releasing in 2014. Several updates later, today the people behind itreleased the latest version, which can run on hacked Nintendo Switches. RetroArch isn’t the simplest homebrew program…

Mega Man 11: The Kotaku Review

Mega Man 11 is a fine game, and a worthy eleventh entry in a series that once set the bar for tricky platformers. It also feels oddly shallow, the latest iteration of a formula that has gone largely unchanged for decades. Mega Man 11 is great at being a Mega Man game. Maybe that’s why…

The Sims 4 Is Getting A New Career And Terrain Tools (Finally)

In an effort to keep their fans in the loop about upcoming features, The Sims’s development team has started a monthly live stream to talk about the game and sometimes hint at what’s to come. Their very first livestream was a doozy: they introduced a new career and terrain editing tools, both coming in a…

Horny Gamers Are Already Making The Most Of Skyrim’s New Unofficial Switch Mod Support

If you’ve got a hacked Switch and Skyrim, you apparently can now bring popular mods from the PC version of the game with you, including the ones that appeal to hornier players. Using a tool called Skyrim NX Toolkit, people are porting over mods that were made for previous editions of the game. The Switch…

The Street Fighter V Rivals With Dramatic Handshakes

While post-match handshakes have become commonplace in the fighting game community, they rarely come laden with dense layers of history. Japanese competitors Naoki “Nemo” Nemoto and Hiromiki “Itabashi Zangief” Kumada have turned these brief moments of sportsmanship into yet another opportunity for showcasing their deepening rivalry. The two had a very tense post-match handshake this…

Four Weapons You Should Really Have In Destiny 2: Forsaken

Destiny 2: Forsaken has been out for almost a month. That’s been long enough to get a sense of which weapons are good, which are bad, and which you should go out of your way to track down. A year ago, I joked that the MIDA Multi-Tool was the only good gun in Destiny 2.…

Monster Hunter: World Is Getting Less Mysterious

Monster Hunter: World has slowly expanded post-release, with new monsters and armor keeping hunters on the daily grind. But as players begin to master all of the game’s hunts and its roster of monsters becomes more familiar, World needs to find new ways to bring back the wonder that made it so intoxicating to begin…