A Surreal Multiplayer Game About Sentient Cubes

Zarvot is two different games smashed together. One is a surrealist story about voxel-blasting cubes on a journey to bring their best bud a banana for their birthday. The other is a shooty, smashy multiplayer hell-fight simulator where chaos reigns. Both bring their own silly spin on their respective genres. Zarvot’s title sounds like a…

Adding Clutter To The Sims Gives The Game A Human Touch

If you want to mod The Sims 4, you can add drugs, make a pregnant teen, or even roast babies on a barbecue. One of the most popular kinds of mods, though, is something less fantastical: clutter. The Sims is like a huge dollhouse you can tell stories in. Those stories can range from setting…

Fans Commiserate After Big Smash Bros. Leak Turns Out To Be Fake

Last week a Super Smash Bros. leak, known as the Grinch leak, sent the Smash community down a rabbit hole of rumor and speculation that ended up with fans divided into two camps, #teamreal and #teamfake, depending on whether they believed the leak would turn out to be legit. In its Direct today, Nintendo resolved…

They Made A Compact Retro Keyboard Out Of Wood

Last year keyboard maker Azio introduced the Retro Classic, a full-size luxury keyboard sporting typewriter-style keys and a real leather finish. Now the company is back with the R.C.K., a streamlined mechanical keyboard with a compact layout and Bluetooth support. There’s even a genuine walnut version. I loved the look and feel of the Retro…

Mario’s Real-Life Namesake, Mario Segale, Dies At 84

Mario Segale, the namesake for Nintendo’s Mario character and a successful American real estate developer, passed away on October 27, Kotaku has learned. Segale was surrounded by his family in Tukwila, Washington. He was 84. Segale developed office buildings and malls in Washington state and, in 1998, sold his construction services company to an Irish…

British Website Forced To Pay $1.3 Million Over Red Dead Redemption 2 Leak

The British website TrustedReviews today pulled an article, apologized to publisher Take-Two Games, and said it was donating 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) to charity after publishing leaked information about Red Dead Redemption 2 in February of this year. It’s a radical move that raises serious questions about editorial independence and legal threats against the…

PSVR Platformer Astro Bot Is More Fun If You Don’t Try To 100% It

Ever since I played the first demo of Lucky’s Tale, I’ve been convinced that third-person platform games are a surprisingly perfect fit for virtual reality. It’s fun to play a platformer when you’re enveloped in the world itself. It’s more thrilling to make your character jump off a high cliff when you yourself can feel…

Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s First Post-Launch Fighter Will Be, Uh, Piranha Plant

There’s one more fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: the Mario series’s Piranha Plant, which will be free if you buy the game before the end of January. I’m sure someone, somewhere, is very happy about this. Piranha Plant can spit poison, fire spiky balls, and turns into the massive Petey Piranha for its Final…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s ‘Spirits’ Mode Detailed, And It’s A Whole Lot

Nintendo announced today that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is getting a wild, weird new system called Spirits. Players will be able to assign spirits—cameo characters from other games—to their Smash fighters that will help buff them in battle. Its mechanics are a lot to take in and it’s easy to imagine that, like Smash’s trophy…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets Two Final New Fighters, Ken And Incineroar

Nintendo has confirmed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s final starting roster will be 74 fighters, with newly announced Ken from Street Fighter and Incineroar from Pokemon being the last two additions before the game comes out. Ken will be an echo fighter, meaning most of his moves and animations will mirror Ryu’s. He’ll have unique attack…

Sony Releasing a 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro in Japan

Previously, Sony released a limited edition 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro. Now a standard version has been announced for Japan. The 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro comes in Jet Black and will be released on November 21. It’s priced at 44,980 yen ($399). No word yet on an international release.

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Halloween In Tokyo Descends Into Chaos, Clean-Ups And Arrests [Updated]

It’s not Halloween yet, but the weekend before drew big crowds in Tokyo’s Shibuya. Costume-wearing revelers descended on the neighborhood, and the tricks made a much bigger impact than the treats. Update: November 1 – 6:30am: According to Japan Today, thirteen men were arrested last night for alleged theft and groping. A fire also broke…

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Tam Nguyen is a freelance concept artist from Vietnam. You can see more of Tam’s work at his ArtStation page