Tetris Effect: The Kotaku Review

Tetris Effect takes the pure, near-perfect game design of the classic puzzle game and injects a cocktail of hallucinatory visuals mixed with a sublime soundtrack. It’s a refreshing, modern update to a classic with an optional virtual reality component and more than anything, it’s also the kind of game that I think we desperately need…

Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down

Prima Games, the publishing company that has printed video game strategy guides since it was founded in 1990, is shutting down, parent company DK said yesterday. The label will no longer publish new guides starting now, and it will officially shutter in the spring. Thanks to the rise of sites like GameFAQs—and major gaming publications…

Warframe Fans Ask Developers To Avoid Crunch

This year, game players have learned many uncomfortable truths about video game crunch. If what happened on the Warframe subreddit in the runup to the increasingly MMO-ish co-op shooter’s latest expansion is any indication, we’re starting to see players push developers to take better care of themselves, even if that means slower game releases. Warframe…

All Hail The King Of Space

Ivan Shavrin is an artist and illustrator from Russia. You can see more of Ivan’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Cloudpunk, A Cyberpunk Game Where You’re A Courier

This is Cloudpunk, a PC game where you play as a courier for a “semi-legal delivery company”. Seems like it’s set during the events of a single night, and has you meeting “a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society” as you move around both on foot…

Black Ops 4 Zombies Won’t Stop Crashing, Frustrating Easter Egg Hunters

Frequent blue-screen crashes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode has made it much more difficult for the community to find the game’s Easter eggs. After 25 frustrating days, the “Classified” map has been solved—but the players had to use exploits to do it. Black Ops 4 marks 10 years since Treyarch introduced…

Activision Says It’s Not Happy With Destiny‘s Sales

Sales for Destiny 2: Forsaken have not lived up to Activision’s expectations, the publisher said today on an earnings call, promising investors a faster content model and new forms of monetization for the game. This comes at a time when the Destiny fanbase is as happy as it’s ever been, which raises serious questions about…

Bethesda Says It Plans To Fix Fallout 76’s Item Storage Problem

Fallout 76 players are running out of room in their inventories, and the game’s not even out yet. Fortunately, Bethesda is promising a fix. Finding and crafting the best equipment is a major part of Fallout 76. The game’s world is full of junk you can pick up, useful for creating everything from guns and…

Overwatch Probably Won’t Get A Hero Wackier Than Wrecking Ball

There was a time, hard as it might be to remember, when Overwatch’s wackiest hero was a peanut-butter-loving science ape from the moon. Earlier this year, however, he was usurped by a mech-piloting, robo-voiced, Thunderdome-battling hamster who’s also from the moon. How do you top that? Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan isn’t sure he wants to.…

When Hearthstone Pros Get Bored, Out Come The Wacky Decks

Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has been live for two months now, and as tends to happen at the end of the expansion cycle, the game is beginning to feel like a waiting room for the December 4 launch of the next set, Rastakhan’s Rumble. Iterations of Hearthstone’s most powerful decks have reigned for months, and…

DC Universe Online‘s Atlantis Update Takes Players Under The Sea

Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from Aquaman, the half-human Atlantean monarch who’s fighting for his crown in today’s massive edition to Daybreak’s long-running superhero MMO. Man, what took the game so long to get wet? One of the earliest missions I remember in DC Universe Online when it launched back in…

New PS4 Pro Models Seem Much Quieter

While the PlayStation 4 Pro has been out in the wild for two years now, it’s recently undergone some slight hardware refinements that change how loud it is. According to a recent analysis by Digital Foundry, the noise reduction in the latest iteration of the console, currently only available as part of a Red Dead…

What To Do When Falling Asleep While Gaming

So, uh, does anyone know what happens in the Red Dead Redemption 2 stranger mission with the photographer and, was there a coyote in it? I may have fallen asleep while playing it last night. Readers, I am not knocking RDR2, which I’m happily sauntering through. I’m instead recognizing my limits as a tired father…

Black Desert, the MMORPG with theridiculously detailed character creator, is now in open beta for the Xbox One. From now until November 12, Xbox One owners can raise characters up to level 40, or just sit there and stare at them, marveling at how pretty they are.

PlayStation Classic Plays Fine, But It’s A Bare-Bones Experience

With the PlayStation Classic’s release less than a month away, I went to PlayStation HQ this week for three hours of hands-on time with Sony’s nostalgic mini-console. It plays its selection of 32-bit classics like Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil: Director’s Cut just fine, but the features of the device are pretty much the…

75% Of Final Fantasy XV’s Remaining DLC Just Got Cancelled

Square Enix just announced in a livestream that three of the four upcoming pieces of downloadable content for Final Fantasy XV have been cancelled. The one remaining will be out next year. Back in April, we were told there’d be four more pieces of DLC coming for the 2016 game, with episodes called Ardyn, Aranea,…