‘Flashback’ Maker Trades Twitter Snipes With Fans Over Downgraded Pac-Man Plug-N-Play

A new plug-and-play retro game machine doesn’t offer what it promises on its box. Players are feeling burned by what they say is a bait-and-switch, while the maker of the system says it’s all due to last-minute production snags. The manufacturer, AtGames, has been making all-in-one retro consoles including the popular “Flashback” line for well…

No Man’s Sky Player Recreates The Nightmare Before Christmas 

What’s this? While exploring the endless universe of No Man’s Sky,Redditor Reefguy007 and a friend came across the perfect planet for Halloween. All it took was a little creative terraforming to transform it into The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s all about those bizarre pumpkin-ish plants, isn’t it? Reefguy007 discovered and reported on the globular flora…

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Gets Review Bombed For Going On Sale So Soon

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is, to hear people (including Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo) tell it, pretty good, despite some questionable narrative decisions. Last week, however, it committed a crime that some Steam users decided couldn’t be forgiven: a 34 percent off sale. Cue the review bombs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider came out on September…

Every Big Game Coming Out In Fall 2018

Fall can feel like the worst season for a lot of reasons—school starts, the days grow short, people become obsessed with putting pumpkin in everything—but new video game releases is definitely not one of them. If you enjoy big, expensive, blockbuster video games, especially sequels, this time of year has you covered. Assassins, cowboys, soldiers…

The Weirdest Soulcalibur VI Character Creations

SoulCalibur IV includes the most robust custom character creation tool in series history. The game’s only been out for four days, and already the internet is flooded with twisted player creations, and not all of them have giant fake cocks. The character creation tool in SoulCalibur VI is ridiculously feature rich. Players can choose between…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Player-Run Tournaments Embrace The Fun Of Random Chance

Most players adventuring in Final Fantasy XIV worry about what new piece of loot will drop from a difficult dungeon or if they can earn enough rewards in PVP to unlock that one emote they like. But some players lean toward the more creative side, hosting massive roleplaying events. Combat in these events is mostly…

16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique

Over the weekend, seven-time winner Jonas Neubauer showed up at the Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Oregon like he has every year since it moved there in 2011. Instead of adding another championship to his name, he finished in second place this time, bested by 16-year-old Joseph Saelee who went on an amazing three-game…

Other Player’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Photos Inspire Me To See Its World

I’m really loving Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, even if it took me a while to get to it. One of the features that is unexpectedly enhancing the game for me is being able to see all the pictures other people are taking with photo mode. When it comes to game, I usually know what I don’t…

Transformers Change Into Tiny Cheap Collectibles

You know Shopkins, those tiny collectible plastic replicas of consumer goods children have been nuts for over the past few years? What if they could transform into robots? Behold, Hasbro’s newest Transformers creations, BotBots. Oh boy. According to the new toy line’s backstory, one day a cloud of energon descended upon a shopping mall, giving…

Black Ops 4 May Not Have A Campaign, But It’s Got Some Terrific Cutscenes

Black Ops 4 is the first Call of Duty without a traditional story campaign, but the game still gives us some of the series’ best cutscenes. I was initially annoyed that they were locked behind tutorials I didn’t need, but I’m glad I soldiered through all of them to discover interesting bits of story told…

The Week In Games: Cowboy Throne

This week delivers a Disgaea port, a comedic kart racer, and the cowboy game that everyone’s been hollering about. I know that you’re probably getting super excited about the release of Red Dead Redemption 2 this week, but the truth is that there’s all sorts of things to be enthused about this week. If you’re…

Devil May Cry 5‘s Ridiculous $8,600 Bundle

Capcom doesn’t have just one pricey “Ultra Limited Edition” bundle for Devil May Cry 5. It has several, including this Dante themed once, which is 972,000 yen ($8,600) tax included. Is that all? According to E-Capcom (via tipster Roy), the bundle comes with a copy of the game, interchangeable box art and a leather Dante…

Guess All These Anime References In This Week’s Pokémon Episode

Megumi Hayashibara is one of Japan’s most iconic voice actresses. Besides her singing work, she’s voiced characters including Team Rocket’s Jessie, Rei Ayanami from Evangelion and Kitty White from Hello Kitty, among many, many others. The most recent episode of the Pokémon TV anime pays homage to some of those characters How many can you…

The Limited Edition Sega Saturn Themed Music Player

The palm-sized Activo CT10 music player is getting limited edition Sega Saturn themed hardware in Japan. They go on sale late next month with the gray and white editions limited to 500 units each. Priced at 44,800 yen ($397), they come pre-installed, each comes with a few Sega tunes. The gray version, for example, has…

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