Ace Combat 7′s Most Lovable Character Is A Picture Of A Dog

The cutscenes in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown take place in gorgeously rendered environments populated by excellent 3D character models. Also, this static picture of a very good dog. Introduced in a lengthy cutscene leading into the game’s sixth mission, Ace Combat Dog sits stoically by its master’s side. Its tail never wags in excitement.…

A Game About Slapping An Ass Gave Me Embarrassing Flashbacks

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair. This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most…

Telling Lies, the next game from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, will have an all-star cast including Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), Kerry Bishé (Halt and Catch Fire), and Angela Sarafyan (Westworld). Annapurna Interactive will publish the game this year.

Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Girlfriend Is Too Intense About Spoilers

Hello all you lust-macaques of the InterTubes, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column that’s the strategy guide for your open world dating sim experience. This week, we’re tackling the strange, new and different, the questions you never thought you would encounter. How do you handle online dating… when you have…

Black Ops 4‘s Latest Zombies Update Is A Lurch In The Right Direction

Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode wasn’t a big hit with the community when it arrived last fall, and what’s happened in the months since then hasn’t helped its reputation. But this week’s update is a step in the right direction. In my initial review of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, I professed my frustrations…

Maybe It’s Time For Some Weirder Star Wars Games

Maybe it’s time for Disney to ditch EA and open up Star Wars to the masses, perhaps even conducting a game jam? On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen, we discuss. First up, we talk about the games we’re playing including Resident Evil 2, Danganronpa, and Destiny 2‘s dungeon, Shattered Throne. Then we talk about a wild…

I’m Now Playing My Switch Vertically

I’ve played my Switch in TV mode, handheld mode and tabletop mode. Now I’ve got a game that lets me play it like I’m holding an oversized unwrapped candy bar. It’s great. The game is Downwell, a wonderful mobile game about diving and shooting your way deeper and deeper into some Metroid-looking caves. The creators…

Atlas Player Gets Into Admin’s Account, Summons Swarm Of Whales And Other Mayhem

A Steam account belonging to an admin of the controversially received survival game Atlas was compromised yesterday, after which point the account thief went on a server-wide rampage that involved spawning countless whales and even tanks. Eventually, the Atlas team stepped in to stop the chaos eventually and perform a rollback on the server. As…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for snow! Which means it’s the perfect time to make some soup and play some video games! I am still playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Are you? I’ve pretty much given up on ever finishing and am now working on making my peace with that. I’m also going to spend some time…

Ace Combat 7 Is A Proper Ace Combat Game

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown delivers the supremely satisfying air combat players crave and the melodramatic narrative we’ve come to expect. There’s nothing quite like shooting down drones while your squadron calls you “murderer.” Ace Combat has been serving the arcade-style dogfight loving public for more than two decades. Since 1995’s Air Combat for the…

Japan’s Most Downloaded Nintendo Switch Games of 2018

Wonder what Switch games were downloaded the most last year in Japan? How about which download-only games did well? Let’s find out! Nintendo has released its 2018 Switch download rankings. There are no publicly revealed figures so we don’t know how many times the games were downloaded, but Nintendo did put them in order. Here…

Former Bandai Employees Allegedly Embezzled Money In Giant Gundam Project

Two former Bandai employees have been arrested on suspicion of swindling the company out of 200 million yen ($1.8 million) between July 2013 and November 2016. According to The Tokyo Reporter and ANN News, the ex-employees, 44-year-old Takashi Udatsu and 66-year-old Takao Kurokawa, have been accused of faking documents. Specifically, Nifty News adds that in…

This Is Not A Human Fashion Model, But A CG Person

Meet Imma. On her Twitter page, she describes herself as a virtual model and proudly declares, “I want to attract humans to the fashion show.” Sounds good to me! Her name Imma is a wordplay on the Japanese word “ima” (今) meaning “now.” According to IT Media, she was created by Tokyo-based CG company Modeling…

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Travis Strikes Again‘s Ending Hints At The Future Of No More Heroes 

The final sequences of Travis Strikes Again have some interesting twists for fans of Grasshopper Manufacture’s games who might want to know what’s coming next from Goichi Suda’s studio. If you want to experience them for yourself, read no further! If you’d rather get spoiled, this is for you. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, out…

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