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This Anime Image Makes No Sense
Release the Spyce is one of the new anime broadcasting this season. This still image from the show doesn’t make sense. Surely, you can see why, no? There are cars stopped at a red light across from on-facing cars also stopped at the same red light. If the light changed, they would crash into each…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 18, 2018 - Uncategorized
Mario Is Dressing Up As Luigi For Halloween
In a loving tribute to his brother Green Mario, who was tragically murdered earlier this year, Mario has decided to spend Halloween dressed as a rotting corpse. You might think it tasteless, but this is a bold new era for Nintendo. A company once renowned for its traditional views is now making phone games and…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2018 -
CultureThe Hex Mashes Up Game Genres, Then Gets Really Weird
I’m just gonna cut to the chase: The Hex is this year’s Frog Fractions, Undertale, or—perhaps most aptly, given that it’s from the same creator—Pony Island. It’s a game that makes confetti of genre conventions and reassembles the scraps into a surprising story about how we interact with games. To delve too far into the…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
We Were All Wrong About Mario’s Nipples
The world lost its shit last yearwhen Mario emerged from the seas topless, his nipples bare and out there. They were thrilling and new to behold, but it turns out they weren’t as new as everyone thought. The tirelessly excellent Supper Mario Broth have found that Mario’s nipple debut actually came a year earlier, in…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Rocket League’s New Cross-Play Feature Won’t Arrive Until 2019, Developers Say
Rocket League, everyone’s favorite car soccer game, has been at the forefront of discussions around online cross-play for several years now. Long before Sony agreed to play nice with the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One when it came to Fortnite, Rocket League studio Psyonix has been working to create unified player accounts across the different…
By Ethan Gach Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Twitch’s Casino Section Is Full Of Suspicious Channels
On Twitch, if a streamer’s concurrent view count consistently stays above 20,000, it means they’ve probably hit the big time. It’s the culmination of years of hard work, of amassing followers and community building. Even big names like Myth and Summit1g average below 20,000 some months. Yesterday, I watched a casino stream with zero followers…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
For Honor‘s New Update Is Full Of Surprisingly Cool Ideas
For Honor’s Marching Fire update went live this week. While some of the changes it brings can be quite granular, when taken as whole it offers a substantial refresh of Ubisoft’s 20-month-old medieval brawler. For those willing to pay, there are four new fighters. For everyone else, there’s an overhaul of the game’s graphics, as…
By Ethan Gach Published October 17, 2018 - Culture
New Breath Of The Wild Glitch Turns Head Stomp Into High Speed Takeoff
Breath of the Wild players have always taken advantage of the game’s wonky physics, either in speedruns or for fun. It’s one thing to ride on stasis-launched trees, but it’s way more fun to shoot across Hyrule Field with a good head stomp. A new glitch allows just that, letting players gain tremendous speeds and…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Obama Does Not Care About Pokémon
Barack Obama, the 44th President of The United States Of America, a 57 year-old man and father of two, does not care one bit for your pocket monsters. ATTN: got him to sit down to help make a “get off your ass and vote” video for the upcoming midterms recently, leveraging his charm and wisdom…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
MapleStory 2 Players Keep Submitting And Selling Bigoted Items To The Shop
Players of the kid-friendly MMO MapleStory 2 say that the player-created item shop is rife with racism and anime porn. The Maple Story 2 team told Kotaku that they “actively monitor the Design Shop for offensive material as well as have a reporting system,” but also: “Given the volume of the reports, there has been…
By Gita Jackson Published October 17, 2018 -
OpinionA Bullet-Hell Shooter About Loving Your Enemy
The Void Rains Upon Her Heartis an early access bullet-hell game available on PC. It’s all about earning randomized loot and learning to love the monsters you face. Random sequences of difficult bosses challenge the player to adjust their strategies, while special rewards augment your abilities and encourage risk-taking. It’s a colorful experience, perfect for…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedA Stealth Game With A Sneeze-Prone Hero
The next game from Blendo Games, who made Quadrilateral Cowboy and Thirty Flights of Loving, is a first person shooter called Skin Deep. It has a sneeze meter. Blendo Games’ Brendon Chung makes inventive, experimental games, but he also has a deep appreciation for first person shooters like Far Cry 2. In a press release…
By Gita Jackson Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
You Can Now Officially Get The Steam Achievement For Not Playing A Game For Five Years
On October 17, 2013, farcical indie adventure The Stanley Parable was released on Steam. It features an achievement called “Go Outside,” which requires not playing the game for five years. Today is October 17, 2018. Achievement unlocked? There are ways around time-based achievements. For example, one could easily earn The Stanley Parable’s “Commitment” achievement, which…
By Mike Fahey Published October 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedWe’re playing Starlink: Battle for Atlas on the Switch live on Twitch. Come join us in the chat!
By Paul Tamayo Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Chinese Phone Company Boasts Their New Phone Is Better Than The Switch
The Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei debuted three new products at a launch event yesterday. The Mate 20 is a slick flagship phone that checks all the existing boxes and then some. Then there’s the Mate 20 Pro, a slightly bigger and even more powerful version of the base phone. And finally, the Mate 20 X,…
By Ethan Gach Published October 17, 2018 - Uncategorized
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s live events—which feature tough, loot-dropping mercenaries and other challenges—are a day late. Speaking to Kotaku via email, a representative of Ubisoft said that while events are currently not working “the production team is investigating and hopes to have more information on an ETA for a fix.”
By Heather Alexandra Published October 17, 2018 -
UncategorizedCall of Duty Blackout Players Are Now Thanking The Bus Driver, Too
Call of Duty’s hardboiled new battle royale mode isn’t a lot like its candy-colored cousin Fortnite except for one thing: players’ gratitude for public transportation. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players have taken to “thanking the bus driver,” a custom in Fortnite, for transporting them to an island of near-inevitable death. Fortnite players have…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 17, 2018
