GameStop ‘Temporarily Pauses’ Unlimited Used Games Program

GameStop has suspended its PowerPass program, which offers customers six months of unlimited access to used games. The retail chain told employees yesterday to pull down all signage involving the program and store it in their backrooms, according to two GameStop staff. It’s not clear why GameStop is freezing the program, but employees have speculated…

Godzilla Head Appears In Tokyo For The New Anime

Anime feature film Godzilla: Kaiju Wakusei (Godzilla: Monster Planet) opens this month in Japan. This week, a huge Godzilla head went up in Tokyo over a Shinjuku train station entrance. It’s kind of unsettling, no? Like the head has been lopped off or something. But when it gets dark, those eyes are freaky. Kotaku East…

Forget Noctis, Here Are Other Ideas For Tekken 7 Characters

In a surprising announcement, Final Fantasy XV’s Noctis is joining Tekken 7. But fans have their own ideas regarding which characters they’d like to see in the King of Iron Fist Tournament. Namely, Kazuma Kiryu. The one character many fans keep saying they’d like to see in Tekken 7 is the Yakuza protagonist. For a…

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Ready For Anything

Won Bin Lee is an artist from South Korea. You can see more of Lee’s work at his 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 of video game artists, showcasing the best of both their…

Pokémon Fans Are Losing Their Minds At The End Of The New Movie

There is a weird thing about the new Pokémon movie that is kind of a spoiler, so if you’re sensitive to that stuff, look away. If you’re not, here is a room full of adults losing their shit over what happens at the end of the newest movie in the series, I Choose You! WARNING:…

Streamers Reacting To Speedruns Of A Game They Just Rage-Quit Is 😙👌

Last week, I wrote about popular streamers rage-quitting Getting Over It, a game about climbing a junk mountain that represents digital content and probably also Hell. Now for the flipside of that coin: people being extremely good at the game… being watched by people who are extremely bad at it. Getting Over It’s speedrunning scene…

The Challenge Of Designing Two Of Persona 5’s Best Characters

Persona 5’s art book, now available in English, has some…interesting things to say about the design of a couple of the game’s best characters, Takemi and Kawakami. The book—which is incredible, by the way—is full of developer commentary, explaining the design process behind everything from the Phantom Thieves to the game’s boss battles. A lot…

The ‘Free’ CS:GO Skin Industry Is Booming, Following Gambling Crackdown

Gambling for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive skins is so 2016. Now, there’s a burgeoning new industry giving them out to players for free. Well: “free.” For years, CS:GO players have bought and sold virtual weapon skins in Steam’s marketplace. They’re cosmetic finishes players can paste on top of guns. As time went on, rarer skins’ market…

IGN Staff Walk Out After Former Employee’s Sexual Harassment Claims [UPDATE]

Prominent staff at the gaming site IGN say they’ve walked out today in the wake of allegations late last week that a former editor sexually harassed two women at the company. “There won’t be a Daily Fix today because a large group of IGN employees have refused to work until the company issues a statement/apology…

Pro Gamers Should Use Their Real Names 

Here’s some helpful advice from me, a guy with a surface-level interest in esports, to you, the pro gamer: Use your real name instead of some gamer handle. I’m sure that you have heard this before, from some jerk looking down his nose at you, but let me assure you that I do respect games…

EA Cuts Star Wars Battlefront II Hero Costs After Widespread Anger

Star Wars Battlefront II’s heroes were a little expensive to unlock. Responding to widespread criticism, a new blog post from EA outlines a major reduction in cost for unlocking the franchise’s iconic characters. One of the major appeals of Star Wars Battlefront II is the chance to participate in massive battles from the films and…

Overwatch Players Are Sick Of Ult Interruptions

“That’s a nice ult you’ve got there,” Blizzard essentially said when it changed the way Overwatch ult interruptions work last month. “It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.” Ever since the big Halloween update on October 10, Overwatch’s ults have worked a little differently than they used to. Prior to the…

After Two Patches, Call of Duty: WWII Is Still A Mess

Call of Duty: WWII’s release on November 3 marked a welcome return from outer space and back to classic historical warfare, but the joy of returning to the trenches has been marred by a boatload of issues. At launch, the game had constant server issues that took the game offline at various times and across…

Clever New Battle Royale Game Lets One Player Serve As A Master Of Ceremonies

As the seconds counted down in a round of the unusual game The Darwin Project this past weekend, I was aware of three other players still involved in the match. One was my opponent, who, like me, had managed to outlast eight other players in this mix of cold-weather survival and competitive murder. Another was…