Battletech’s Character Creator Is About More Than Just Looks

Battletech’s character creator isn’t really about how your character looks; it’s about who they are, where they’re from, and what they believe. Battletech is a long established property and mainstay of tabletop wargaming. The original game came out in 1984 and there’s been a swath of spin off games like the MechWarrior series, lore sourcebooks,…

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Has One Of Action Gaming’s Most Peaceful Moments

In between the big, satisfying skirmishes in the new God of War, players can put gruff protagonist Kratos and his scrawny son Atreus in a boat and paddle across a lake while the father tells his boy a fable. The moments in the boat are among my favorite in the game. They reminded me of…

The Internet Reacts To Hogwarts Mystery’s Microtransactions

Hogwarts Mystery, a new mobile game based on the popular fantasy books, can be fun, but a lot of its content is gated behind some gnarly microtransactions. Harry Potter fans are not pleased. When I checked out Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery yesterday, I was having a blast living out my dreams of being a wizard……

We Played Shadow of the Tomb Raider, And It Looks Like The Darkest One Yet

At a Square Enix event in London yesterday evening, I played through an hour of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the final game in a trilogy, which comes out September 14 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Though the action felt very familiar, the tone was a little different. The newest Tomb Raider game is…

Nintendo’s E3 2018 Schedule

Earlier this week, Kotaku announced the E3 2018 press conference schedule. At that time, Nintendo had yet to reveal its plans. Now it has. As in previous years, Nintendo is doing a video presentation, which can be watched live at e3.Nintendo.com. It will begin on June 12 at 9 am PT. There will be other…

Dragon Quest X Director Jin Fujisawa Is Leaving Square Enix 

Jin Fujisawa has worked on the Dragon Quest series for around two decades. Today on Twitter, he announced he’s leaving Square Enix. Fujisawa got his start as an assistant for DQ creator Yuji Horii in the late 1990s. He was the scenario assistant on Dragon Quest VII in 2000 and rose up the ranks to…

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René Aigner is a concept artist and illustrator who has worked in video games and books. You can see more of Aigner’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work…

Hellboy Board Game Kickstarter Raises $1 Million In About Five Seconds

A miniatures board game based on Hellboy—the comic, mercifully, not the movies—has launched on Kickstarter, and is already 6x over its funding target. Designed for 1-4 players, you take control of a BPRD agent and “explore gothic locations, hunt down clues, discover artefacts, fight horrific creatures and face off against terrifying bosses”. The terrain is…

Nintendo Releasing All-New RPG For Phones

Nintendo just announced that it’s working with Cygames on an all-new RPG for mobile devices. The game is called Dragalia Lost It’ll be released this Summer, first in Asia then in North America and Europe. It’s described as an “all-new original action RPG application”, which Cygames desgined and which Nintendo “has been co-developing and will…

Overwatch‘s Retribution Mode Uses AI Tricks To Make You Feel Cool

Overwatch’s Retribution PVE mode can make you feel so on-fire that you ought to be signed by an OWL team. Talon soldiers fall like bowling pins to your blade, shotgun, revolver, or alarmingly pointy hand. I almost hate to break it to you that Retribution’s AI is tricking you. Speaking with Variety, Retribution lead designer…

Bungie has explained how Exotic masterworks will function when they hit Destiny 2 on May 8. Each one is like a mini exotic quest that will require players to complete a series of sometimes mysterious challenges in order to unlock it. More info at the Bungie blog, along with details for a couple more exotic weapon…

Alien Board Game Accused Of Plagiarism, Publisher Threatens To Sue Critics

Games publisher Wonder Dice has been accused of stealing a designer’s ideas for its upcoming board game Alien: USCSS Nostromo A statement by the SAJ (Société des Auteurs de Jeux, a group of French board game designers) first sounded the alarm, raising concerns that Wonder Dice’s game was built on both the setting and rules…

Wolfenstein II, Six Months Later

It’s been six months since Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus launched for PC, Xbox One, and PS4. This sequel to 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order appeared during a tense time in US politics, promoted and released while racism and white nationalism were at the forefront of Americans’ minds. Here’s how things have gone six months…

What Someone Who Spent 1,800 Hours In The Witcher 3 Actually Did

The Witcher 3 is a sprawling single-player RPG with so much to do it can be overwhelming. The game world is huge. Points of interest litter the map. Dialogue trees mean you can play through pivotal scenes in different ways. I can think of far worse games to be stuck on a desert island with…

The Golden Age Of Bad Movies Based On Horror Games

I’ve played horror video games so scary they aged me beyond my years. I’ve watched horror movies so scary they had me hiding under a blanket like a child. But I’ve never seen a horror movie based on a video game that’s made me do either, and that’s a shame. Gamers who love horror have…