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Top Overwatch Players Fall For The Oldest Trick In The Book
It didn’t make any sense. “What are they doing, dude?” asked Houston Outlaws tank Austin “Muma” Wilmot as the other team, made up of top-ranked players including LA Gladiators tank Chan-hyung “Fissure” Baek, repeatedly crashed against the holo-shield walls of a relatively lackadaisical defense. Then it hit him: Where’d the payload go? Fellow Houston Outlaws…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedDriving Game Recreates The Actual Surface Of Mars
Red Rover is a driving game on Steam that drops you in the seat of a very overpowered Mars rover and lets you explore the actual surface of the red planet. With support for Oculus VR, Red Rover doesn’t exactly give you much to do while you’re down there, but the hook here isn’t the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 19, 2018 - CultureCosplay
YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS WOMAN
Frozone cosplay by ApoIIoCreed
By Luke Plunkett Published June 19, 2018 - CultureCosplay
Oh Boy This Warhammer 40K Cosplay
Here’s Russian cosplayer Polina Vishnevskaya with some absolutely incredible Warhammer 40K work. She’s cosplaying as Saint Celestine, and if you’re wondering what the writing is on her wings, it’s just her Instagram account name serving as a living watermark (probably to help out when 1,000,000 Facebook and Twitter accounts rip the video below). You can…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedLet’s Remember Some Xbox 360 Games
I think we all took the Xbox 360 for granted. Other all-time greats like the SNES and PS2 seem to be remembered more fondly than Microsoft’s console, which tends to be recalled as more of a thing that happened than a platform to be treasured. I wonder if that’s down to recency. It could have…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 19, 2018 - Culture
16 Studios Removing Alleged Spyware From PC Games After Fan Outcry [UPDATE]
In Mario Kart, red shells target your nearest rival and ruthlessly stop them in their tracks. Everybody hates them. Marketing company Red Shell, meanwhile, helps video game companies more accurately target potential customers with their ads. This fact has not sat well with some players who have recently discovered the software in a veritable kartload…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
The Hottest New Doll Accessory Is A Tiny Xbox One S
You can now buy a teeny tiny Xbox One S for your American Girl doll. I might actually buy this. American Girl, an expensive brand of dolls aimed at young girls that want an eighteen inch plastic version of themselves they can take to school and eventually ruin by forgetting to brush their hair, said…
By Gita Jackson Published June 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedSerious Sam 4 Is Aiming For 100,000 Enemies On Screen At Once But It’s Not There Yet
The developers at Croteam, the studio that makes the Serious Sam games, are looking to do the unthinkable with the fourth numbered installment in the series: render 100,000 enemies on screen at the same time. Watching a hands-off demo of the game behind closed doors at E3, I was excited to see that feat in…
By Ethan Gach Published June 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Why Won’t These Hot Demons Seduce Me Already?!
Sometimes I wonder if writing about sex games has ruined me. It’s certainly ruined my experience of Steam, given that my home page recommendations are now made up of roughly 50 percent visual novels that are really just two-hour-long excuses to look at anime boobs. Nevertheless, I was optimistic about the romantic visual novel Seduce…
By Kate Gray Published June 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Sea of Thieves‘ New Event Is All About Exploration
Sea of Thieves is slowly expanding with new monsters and new events aiming to bring excitement and color to a game derided for repetitive content. A new event involving exploring and hunting down hidden thrones throughout the world shows one way the controversial pirate game could build a community. Part of the fun in Sea…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 19, 2018 -
UncategorizedAll The Games Cecilia Played At E3 2018
This was the first E3 I’ve attended IRL, and I spent most of it interviewing producers of games like Splatoon 2, Jump Force and SoulCalibur 6. Between learning tidbits about whether Splatoon 2’s squid kids eat squid and why SoulCalibur 6’s women still look like pin-ups, I managed to play a few upcoming games that…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 19, 2018 - Esports
League of Legends Has Flipped Its Metagame On Its Head
For a long time, League of Legends has had a consistent metagame. But the competitive environment and the individual and team strategies that result have recently changed at a rapid pace, leading to earlier fights, faster games, and a wild shift in the way players try to out-pick and out-play each other. League is one…
By Eric Van Allen Published June 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Stressful Games Help Me Relax
Every day after E3, I loaded up my run of Stardew Valley on Switch. I optimized my crop layouts, looked up which plants were most profitable, and grinded in the dungeon until I could upgrade all my farming tools twice over. It was probably the most stressful way to play the game, but it was…
By Gita Jackson Published June 19, 2018 - Uncategorized
Fortnite just got Stink Bombs, super-rare grenades that deal five damage every half-second anyone is in the stink cloud. We don’t know yet whether they’ll pass our sniff test—they’re hard to find—but we hope we won’t get hurt in the process!
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published June 19, 2018 - CultureSplitscreen
All The Podcasts We Did At E3
At E3 in Los Angeles last week, we recorded a lot of episodes of Kotaku Splitscreen. For your convenience, here’s a roundup of all of them. Of course, you don’t need a roundup if you subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or your other favorite podcast feed. Which I assume you do. But…
By Jason Schreier Published June 19, 2018
