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UncategorizedFans Create Day Of The Tentacle Sequel, And It’s Pretty Much Perfect
Lucasarts made two Tentacle games and will never make a third, so a group of fans have done some heroic work and made one for us. The team, based mostly in Germany (though with some outside help), have released Return of the Tentacle, a full standalone fan game that has almost everything you could ask…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Resistance Is Still One Of The Best Card Games Out There
I’ve somehow only recently got the chance to play The Resistance. Now that I have, I’m upset I’ve missed so many years of good times A game for 5+ players, The Resistance was first released in 2010. It’s a deduction game (think Bang!, or even Battlestar) where everybody plays as a member of a cyberpunk…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
LEGO Final Fantasy Build Used Over 10,000 Pieces
This Bahamut from Final Fantasy X, built by Marius Herrmann, is an enormous one metre (3.2 feet) wide. Via Brothers Brick, it’s got some interesting composition, having been built from pieces as varied as shields, plant stems, a rip cord and even a grill in a colour that hasn’t been available for a decade. Herrmann…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedAmerican Twitch Streamer Leaving Taiwan After Doxxing, Harassment
Cjayride, an American Twitch streamer who’s made a name for himself broadcasting his life in Taiwan, has decided to leave the country in the wake of harassment, doxxing, and his personal life falling apart. Last year, he faced criticism from the Taiwanese news media for a handful of incidents that involved littering and other relatively…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Original Magic: The Gathering Card Art Sells For $72,000
Heritage Auctions recently sold the original art used for Shahrazad, a card released in 1993 for Magic: The Gathering’s Arabian Nights expansion. It sold for a ton Illustrated by writer and artist Kaja Foglio, the $72,000 final offer is the second big Magic sale in the last few months, with the original Arcbound Ravager art…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Nintendo Suing Pirate Websites For Millions
On July 19, Nintendo filed suit in an Arizona Federal Court against the operator of two popular retro gaming sites, which had been hosting ROMS of some of the company’s most famous games. The suit alleges that the two sites, LoveROMS.com and LoveRETRO.co—both owned and operated by Jacob Mathias—are “built almost entirely on the brazen…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 23, 2018 -
CultureFortnite Player Wins With Fantastic Airborne Shot
Today on Highlight Reel we have fantastic shots, terrifying glitch eyes, Dark Souls moments, and much more. Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on…
By Chris Person Published July 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedCall Of Duty: WWII Will Finally Get Top-Level Rewards, 8 Months Later
Rewards are finally coming to players who reach the highest ranking in Call of Duty: WWII. The long-awaited and overdue Master Prestige rewards were finally teased on Sledgehammer Games’ Weekly Livestream earlier this month. Sledgehammer Games previously introduced players to Master Prestige rewards by adding them to their 2014 title Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.…
By S.E. Doster Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Gwent Players Are Worried After No New Information Comes At The Latest Tournament
There was a somewhat surreal moment in the middle of this weekend’s big Gwent tournament. Right after a short Witcher 3 musical performance and before the finals, Pawel Burza, Gwent’s community specialist and the tournament’s host, looked directly into the camera and apologized to the roughly 36,000 viewers for not having anything new to announce…
By Ethan Gach Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
A tweet from Bungie last night indicates that Destiny 2‘s gnarly Whisper of the Worm quest is now temporarily closed, and that it’ll return “next week.” I’ve asked Activision if they can clarify the precise timing. For now, safe bet is it’ll return this coming weekend. I’ll be there when it does
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 23, 2018 -
CultureSpeedrunner Completes All Five Main Fallout Games In Under 90 Minutes
A casual playthrough of a Fallout game can take dozens or even hundreds of hours of wandering through wide wastelands. This new speedrun completes the entire series in under an hour and a half. The “Any% Main Series,” carried out by the dubiously named speedrunner tomatoanus, completes all five main titles in the Fallout series—Fallout,…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedAmateur Developer Says Adding Dragon Ball Z To Pokémon Helped Make Him A Better Person
Last week, a 22-year-old Frenchman who goes by the online name Z-Mack released the seventh major update to Dragon Ball Z: Team Training, a hack of an old Pokémon game where you can catch all of your favorite characters from Dragon Ball Z and have them fight against each other in the Pokémon world. Dragon…
By Keoni Nguyen Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite’s Playground Mode returns this week on July 25. The low-key sandbox mode had its fair share of technical issues when it debuted late last month, but Epic Games appears to have them all figured out now. Squad battle, ATV vehicles, and more will be added, with full 5.10 patch notes coming soon.
By Ethan Gach Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
A Researcher Is Digging Up Largely Forgotten Queer Video Games
In the early 90s, two queer people in the Mission District of San Francisco made games about queer experiences. One was a fantasy role-playing game populated by gay characters, the other a lesbian adventure game. These two developers would never meet. It’s only now, through archival projects like LGBTQ Game Archive, that queer scholars have…
By Gita Jackson Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Psyonix has revealed the drop rates for Rocket League’s loot crates. The studio says these haven’t changed since they were first added to the game back in September of 2016, and the rates track closely with various player estimates. The game’s battle pass arrives later this summer.
By Ethan Gach Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Dungeons & Dragons And Magic: The Gathering Get An Official Crossover
In the greatest bit of brand synergy since the Flintstones met the Jetsons, the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering are smashing together in a new D&D book announced today. Out on November 20, the Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica is a D&D lore book set within Ravnica, a massive city from Magic:…
By Jason Schreier Published July 23, 2018 - Uncategorized
Octopath Traveler‘s Best NPC Is This Reclusive Old Man
Every party member in Octopath Traveler has a special ability that allows them to interact with NPCs throughout the world. Ophilia the cleric and Primrose the dancer can temporarily recruit NPCs into the party and summon them during battles. One unassuming old man is able to unleash Hell upon enemies. I’m pretty sure he’s a…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 23, 2018 -
UncategorizedI’m Okay With 419,826th Place In Mario Odyssey’s Jump Rope Challenge
Every day, we make decisions about the games we will play and the things we will try to do in them. These days, I’m trying to make choices that are smarter, which I hope is the correct way to classify my decision to only try the jump-rope challenge in Super Mario Odyssey once. I only…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 23, 2018
