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The closed beta for Valve’s digital card game Artifact has been delayed to November 19. PC Gamer reports that this announcement was delivered via email to those who had previously signed up for the beta. The game is still slated for release to the public on November 28.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 21, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Luigi Is Scared
We know that the ghost hunter Luigi is a spineless worm, so for this Halloween season I need you to show me what that big ole scaredy-cat is so afraid of. Look, I have some amount of respect for Luigi. After all, it takes a brave soul to enter a haunted house to fight ghosts.…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 21, 2018 - Culture
Sunday Comics: Recruitment Decision
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 15. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published October 18. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 21, 2018 - Uncategorized
A Free Horror Game Collection About Loss, Driving, And Candlekeeping
Noted indie horror game creator Kitty Horrorshow has released a new, free collection of horror games, and they make for a disturbing time. Haunted Cities Vol. 3 is a collection of games emerging from behind the paywall of Horrorshow’s Patreon, and if you’re familiar with her previous games such as Anatomy and CHYRZA, then you…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 -
UncategorizedSif Is Cute In Dark Souls, Is Even Cuter In Animation
Dark Souls players know to respect Sif. After all, he carries a massive sword in his mouth and the mournful tale of his friend Artorias in his heart. But he’s also a big furry wolf who is extremely heckin’ cute. Anna Piwońska’s short, but incredible, hand-drawn animation of Sif’s initial appearance inDark Souls really hammers home…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 -
UncategorizedNice Shot! is an upcoming game where you play golf by shooting the ball with guns. It seems both incredibly silly and legitimately interesting since your shot determines the angle and force of the ball. The game’s Steam page says it will release November 9.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
Upcoming Metal Gear Survive Event Summons Pyramid Head
Pyramid Head is the long-running scary sexual terror monster from the Silent Hill franchise. Metal Gear Survive is a zombie game created from the bones of the Metal Gear universe. What better way to unite these two titan franchises than by putting Pyramid Head in Metal Gear Survive? The Metal Gear Survive developers have announced…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 -
CultureThere’s a new I Am Bread speedrun world record. Runner YaroKarozuno has completed the game in a flat six minutes, beating last week’s world record run by twelve seconds. The community has also began subtracting load times from final times, meaning that YaroKarozuno has a 4:23 run.
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 - CultureShop Contest
‘Shop Contest: Expanded Ops, Winners!
We’re living in the world of Black Ops 4 now, and last week I asked you to ‘shop up some new kinds of ops to include in the game. The standard set of game modes in a given Call of Duty game are fairly limited. Team deathmatch, free for all, and point capture modes are…
By Cameron Kunzelman Published October 20, 2018 - Culture
This Week In The Business: Buncha Crunch
QUOTE | “That was shit. This was the hardest.” – Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser says Red Dead Redemption 2 development set a new difficulty bar for the studio, in the same feature where he said “we were working 100-hour weeks” several times this year to finish the game. QUOTE | “No one, senior or junior,…
Brendan Sinclair Published October 20, 2018 - Uncategorized
Finally, Players Can Add As Many Puddles To Spider-Man As They Want
A week before Spider-Man released, some people on the internet started freaking out about the game’s apparent lack of puddles. There were a lot of puddles in an early trailer for the game, and later, not as many puddles in what appeared to be the same location, which some saw as a downgrade. Fortunately, they…
By Ethan Gach Published October 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Rockstar QA Studio Told That Overtime Is Now Optional After Workers Said It Felt Mandatory
Rockstar Lincoln, a UK-based studio that has been handling a lot of the quality assurance testing for Red Dead Redemption 2, is swearing off an approach that many employees say they had interpreted as mandatory overtime. That change comes as a result of a studio meeting at the end of a week full of unusually…
By Stephen Totilo Published October 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedTeen Developer Makes Game Inspired By ’90s Shooters That Came Out Before He Was Born
Jakub Cislo is a game developer who wears his influences on his sleeve. His just-released game, Project Warlock, is a chunky shooter stew made from the gory giblets of classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. It’s a pretty typical palette of influences—until you consider that Cislo is 19, and all those games came out before he…
By Nathan Grayson Published October 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Soulcalibur VI’s Story Mode Does Geralt Dirty
Bandai Namco’s fighting game does an excellent job of portraying the personality and likeness of The Witcher 3 protagonist, but fails to make good on the full crossover potential CD Projekt Red blessed it with. Soulcalibur VI’s Geralt moves like a witcher and talks like a witcher but spends most of the game’s story mode…
By Ethan Gach Published October 19, 2018 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for having knocked a window curtain down this morning and, while trying to put it back up, realizing it’s ridiculous you still use the last tenant’s curtains and determining to go buy new curtains. Also, video games. This week I learned there’s a ghost ship that appears only once a day in…
By Riley MacLeod Published October 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Two More Gaming Magazines Are Ending
UK gaming magazines GamesTM and GameMaster will publish their final issues next month, owner Future Publishing announced today. This news from across the pond hits close to home for me as someone who used to read GamesTM and has always loved the feel of a nicely weighted, glossy gaming mag. “Despite the company’s strong performance…
By Ethan Gach Published October 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Spider-Man’s New Game+ mode has finally been added to the game. Version 1.07 also adds an Ultimate difficulty setting, new frames and stickers for photo mode, and the ability to access photo mode directly with one button press. New Game+ was originally expected at the game’s launch but got delayed
By Ethan Gach Published October 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
You Should Opt Out Of Discord’s New Policy Changes
A small but important change to Discord’s terms of service has big ramifications for users. The social app’s terms now include a class waiver, which would prevent participation in larger lawsuits. It’ssupposedly meant to prevent frivolous lawsuits, but if you want to protect your consumer rights, a simple email will opt you out of the…
By Heather Alexandra Published October 19, 2018