Battlefront II’s New Microtransactions Are An Improvement, But Unlocks Are Still Grindy

Star Wars Battlefront II’s latest update brings microtransactions back to the game, allowing players to spend premium currency on cosmetic outfits. It’s an improvement over the ability granting loot boxes from early access but pricey skins add an unwelcome new grind to a game. Microtransactions in Battlefront II initially allowed players to use a premium…

Fortnite Has More Falling Meteors Now And It’s Freaking Players Out 

Fortnite’s big space mystery continues to ramp up and baffle people. Today, players looking up will notice there’s not just one comet, but rather a variety of burning objects falling from the heavens. But what does it mean?? Since yesterday, all Fortnite chatter has revolved around one thing: players believe that the comet will likely…

Rogue Minecraft Skins Infect 50,000 Players With Malware [UPDATE]

Skins uploaded to the official Minecraft site have affected over 50,000 Minecraft accounts with malware, according to a report by security firm Avast. The skins are pretty typical-looking: One’s a yellow suit with a face mask, another’s a blue hoodie getup. In the last 10 days, Avast’s antivirus software has blocked a reported 14,500 attempts…

Smash Bros. Melee Player Goes Wild After Beating 14-Year-Old Target Record

A super-dedicated Super Smash Bros. Melee player broke a 14-year record yesterday for the game’s “Break the Targets” mode. Break the Targets is a classic Super Smash Bros. minigame in which a character must break ten targets as quickly as possible. Each character has their own moveset and target test layout. Right now, the record…

The Demonic Strategy Game I Love Playing Before Bed

Golem Gates is a surprising mix of strategy and card game elements that’s beautiful to look at but rough around the edges. While I started playing it because of its weird hybrid mechanics, what I really came to appreciate was its serenely empty world and relaxing ASMR voice overs I commute long hours and often…

Counter-Strike Player Suspended From Pro League For Calling An Opponent A Monkey

Niko “k1to” Gruhne has been suspended from the Faceit Pro League for a month after he made a racist comment during a pick-up Counter-Strike session. Gruhne was playing a pick-up Faceit game when he called Brazilian pro Joao “felps” Vasconcellos a “fucking monkey” after getting killed by him. The moment was caught on another pro’s…

Iconic Shibuya 109 Building Is Changing Its Logo

If you’ve been to Tokyo, you’ve seen Shibuya 109. The building is a symbol of Japanese youth culture. If you’ve played Square Enix’s The World Ends with You, then you also are familiar with it. In that game, however, 109 was rebranded as 104 Website Kai-You reports that now, after nearly 40 years, 109 is…

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Paragon Used To Look A Lot More Interesting

As it was released (and as it is about to die), Epic’s Paragon looks very much like a Generic Video Game™. But these original pieces of character design show that it was at one point looking a lot cooler. They were done super early in the game’s development—we’re talking years before release—by artist Dave Rapoza,…

Epic Yanks Guided Missiles From Fortnite, At Least For Now

Imagine if you could produce a missile that would instantly do your bidding. Would you use it to sail across the sky like a combustion-powered witch? Or would you mostly just be a dick to people? It seems that Epic has decided that the latter is a big enough concern to shelve Fortnite’s guided missile.…

Mansions Of Madness Is Being Turned Into A Video Game

Fantasy Flight’s excellent Arkham board game Mansions of Madness is getting the video game treatment, and interestingly, it’s not a direct adaptation. Instead it’s a more hands-on take, maintaining the same basic premise while making everything more video gamey While you’ll still be taking a team of investigators inside a very haunted house, the video…

Sources: Next Call Of Duty Won’t Have A Solo Campaign, May Have Battle Royale

This fall’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will essentially be multiplayer-only, lacking the kind of single-player campaign that has been a key component of the annual series for over a decade, two sources familiar with the game tell Kotaku, corroborating a report published earlier today at Polygon One of those sources also echoed a…

Overwatch Fans Are Drawing McCree As A Waiter Thanks To The New Event

Thanks to some new voice lines, the Overwatch fandom is geeking out over the idea of the surly cowboy McCree dressed as a waiter. I am here for it. Overwatch’s Retribution event expands a part of lore players have been wanting to explore. The event takes place during a mission where Blackwatch, the Overwatch team’s…

Playing The NPC In Someone Else’s Dating Sim

Kindness Coins is a dating sim, released on itch.io in 2013, that asks the question: What is it like to be on the receiving end of the protagonist’s flirting in a dating game? On the surface, it would seem like dating sims are not like other video games. In a sea of experiences that prioritize…