Red Dead Redemption 2 Developers Speak Out After Rockstar Lifts Social Media Ban

Last night, Red Dead Redemption developer Rockstar Games lifted its social media policies, telling employees they were no longer banned from speaking about their work experiences on Twitter and Facebook. The move has led to a number of current staff sharing mostly positive stories from their time at the massive game company. “First off, this…

The New Anime That Has Fans Complaining About Animation Quality

Another season of anime! Another season of fans pointing out animation problems. This time it’s My Sister, My Writer So far, the show is two episodes in and regardless if you are enjoying the story or the characters, it seems rife with animation issues. Which will, no doubt, be smoothed out with the animators are…

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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…

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…

The 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…

Not Here To Win Hearts Or Minds

Rafael Amarante is a freelance concept artist and designer from Brazil who has worked on games like Halo 2: Anniversary You can see more of Rafael’s stuff at his personal site

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A 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…

A 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…

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…

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,…