Multi-Console Emulator Now Runs On Hacked Switches

RetroArch is a homebrew program that combines a ton of different gaming emulators into a single, relatively sleek package. Development on it began in 2010, with version 1.0 releasing in 2014. Several updates later, today the people behind itreleased the latest version, which can run on hacked Nintendo Switches. RetroArch isn’t the simplest homebrew program…

Mega Man 11: The Kotaku Review

Mega Man 11 is a fine game, and a worthy eleventh entry in a series that once set the bar for tricky platformers. It also feels oddly shallow, the latest iteration of a formula that has gone largely unchanged for decades. Mega Man 11 is great at being a Mega Man game. Maybe that’s why…

The Sims 4 Is Getting A New Career And Terrain Tools (Finally)

In an effort to keep their fans in the loop about upcoming features, The Sims’s development team has started a monthly live stream to talk about the game and sometimes hint at what’s to come. Their very first livestream was a doozy: they introduced a new career and terrain editing tools, both coming in a…

Horny Gamers Are Already Making The Most Of Skyrim’s New Unofficial Switch Mod Support

If you’ve got a hacked Switch and Skyrim, you apparently can now bring popular mods from the PC version of the game with you, including the ones that appeal to hornier players. Using a tool called Skyrim NX Toolkit, people are porting over mods that were made for previous editions of the game. The Switch…

The Street Fighter V Rivals With Dramatic Handshakes

While post-match handshakes have become commonplace in the fighting game community, they rarely come laden with dense layers of history. Japanese competitors Naoki “Nemo” Nemoto and Hiromiki “Itabashi Zangief” Kumada have turned these brief moments of sportsmanship into yet another opportunity for showcasing their deepening rivalry. The two had a very tense post-match handshake this…

Four Weapons You Should Really Have In Destiny 2: Forsaken

Destiny 2: Forsaken has been out for almost a month. That’s been long enough to get a sense of which weapons are good, which are bad, and which you should go out of your way to track down. A year ago, I joked that the MIDA Multi-Tool was the only good gun in Destiny 2.…

Monster Hunter: World Is Getting Less Mysterious

Monster Hunter: World has slowly expanded post-release, with new monsters and armor keeping hunters on the daily grind. But as players begin to master all of the game’s hunts and its roster of monsters becomes more familiar, World needs to find new ways to bring back the wonder that made it so intoxicating to begin…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Hides A Nintendo Easter Egg

While I was playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I couldn’t help but think back to a certain Nintendo game. Watching the sun set in a beautiful cove off the shore of a section of Odyssey’s colossal map, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye that caught my attention. Upon closer inspection, it turns…

XCOM 2 Getting New Story Missions, A Level Editor

More than two years since its release, XCOM 2 is still a behemoth of a strategy game, but things have been quiet out of developer Firaxis’ camp since the release of excellent expansion War of the Chosen last year. Today, the developer surprise-announced that it’s not done with XCOM 2 just yet. New additions to…

More Games Should Let Us Replay The Tutorial

Of all the many valid reasons I’m still playing The Witcher 3, there’s one that’s not related to the game’s quality. If I put it down for too long, I’ll completely forget how to play. It’s a problem that extends to every game I own. I recently discovered a game in my Steam library that…

Witcher Author Threatens CD Projekt Red With Legal Action If It Doesn’t Pay Him More

The creator of The Witcher books, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, has called on CD Projekt Red to pay him up to $16.1 million more in royalties following the success of the studio’s video game adaptation of the series. In a post on the company’s website, CD Projekt Red called the demands “groundless.” Lawyers for Sapkowksi…

What Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Changes From Origins

At a glance, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey looks a lot like last year’s Assassin’s Creed Origins. Despite swapping Egyptian pyramids for Greek temples, the surface-level similarities are numerous. There are plenty of subtle differences, however. (Note: This piece is based on the 14 hours I’ve played with the game as well as our reviewers’ 75 hours…

Leaked Video Seems To Show Open-World Harry Potter Game

A video, leaked this morning by a Reddit user who says they captured it from a focus group, shows an apparent big-budget Harry Potter game that looks fantastic. Publisher Warner Bros. has yanked the video from YouTube, but you can watch a mirror here. The footage shows, among other things: Wizards in Hogwarts academy casting…

Call of Duty: WWII, (Almost) One Year Later

On November 3, 2017, Call of Duty: WWII arrived to return the franchise back to its roots. It got off to one hell of a rocky start, but it’s improved quite a bit since launch. With Black Ops 4 arriving in just a few days’ time, let’s look back on how WWII fared after nearly…

Japan’s Crappiest Apartments 

Because Japan has lots of people and not as much space, interesting housing solutions are a necessity. Some of them are cool. Some of them are terrible. In the past, people have posted crappy real estate under the tag #クソ物件オブザイヤー2017 (#kuso bukken obu za iyaa 2017 or “shittiest real estate of the year 2017″) or…

Hollywood’s Monster Hunter Movie Still Sounds Kinda Eh

The Monster Hunter games are about people who track and hunt, well, monsters. The plot of the upcoming live-action film has monsters as well as the United Nations and a portal to another dimension. Because, Hollywood! As with the Resident Evil movies, the Milla Jovovich vehicle puts its own spin on the popular games. According…

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