Sega Lets Sonic Mania PC Fans Play Offline After DRM Backlash

Sonic Mania released on PC yesterday, bringing its colorful levels to even more players. However, many of them were inconvenienced by protection software that is currently preventing them from playing offline. Sega has responded to concerns and fixed the issue following outcry from players. Denuvo is a digital rights management program meant to prevent players…

Video Game Attributes, Ranked

Many video games, usually RPGs, contain a system by which the strengths and weaknesses of your character are defined by a set of attributes. Here is my definitive ranking of common video game attributes, ranked from worst to best. 17. Luck 16. Empathy 15. Piety 14. Alertness 13. Willpower 12. Charm 11. Magic 10. Charisma…

Fans Love The Way This Street Fighter V Character Walks

It’s not everyday that the way a character saunters is interesting enough for players to take notice. With Street Fighter V character Menat, they’re doing just that. Fortune teller Menatwas just released in SFV’s second season of DLC. She has an excellent gait. See? So good. The way she fights does look cool. Some pros…

The Ways Brock And Misty Have Changed Over The Years

Next month, Brock and Misty are returning to the Pokémon TV anime. The trainers appeared in the original series, and just as Ash has changed over the years, so have they. The art style for subsequent series evolved and changed, so when Brock and Misty made appearances, they did, too. As Kotaku previously reported, both…

Awkward Adventures In Sega’s Digital Horse Racing Game

“First you need to register,” the staffer at Club Sega tells me. “Then after you do that, you can put money on your IC card.” The lowest option is 1,000 yen ($9), and the highest one is 200,000 yen ($1,817). The staffer adds, “And this machine only accepts cash. But first, I need to take…

Fushimi Inari-taisha. Kyoto, Japan. By Akbar Hussain. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Warning, This Playstation 4 Bundle Has a PS3-Only Game In It 

Tipster Cody Brown directed our attention to a“Complete Bundle” for this week’s Rock of Ages 2, which includes Atlus’ boulder-rolling strategy sequel plus the original game. The listing says it’s playable on the PS4. That’s half right. There is absolutely no mention of the Playstation 3 on the Playstation Store listing for the Rock of…

The Art Of Darkest Dungeon

What do you get when you mix a little of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy with some pure despair? You get Darkest Dungeon, one of the most visually distinctive games on the market. Below you’ll find some examples of the art that has gone into the game. I mean, yes, thanks to its visual design you could…

There’s A Tiny Spot In Zelda Where Cel-Shading Doesn’t Work

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a very distinctive cel-shaded look. That, for some reason, breaks if you climb inside one tiny little space. Rangers_of_the_North noticed it around a month ago (thanks, @MaxOfS2D) after climbing into the area, which you can find halfway up the gatehouse on the bridge over Lake Hylia.…

WW2 Game Picks A Fight With Gandhi

I’m a big fan of the Order of Battle series, and while that’s mostly down to its snappy turn-based strategy, it’s also because the games dare to visit theatres of the Second World War that competitors never even consider. The latest example: asking you to take a break from a war against Japan to go…

Friday The 13th Patch Brings New Maps And Fresh Bugs

The latest patch for Friday the 13th The Game went live earlier this week on all platforms. It introduces smaller versions of the game’s three existing maps as well some new mechanics, graphical improvements, and a number of bug fixes. Unfortunately, it also introduces a slew of new bugs and glitches. The game’s current matchmaking…

Fans Prepare For The End Of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

As soon as Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite comes out on September 19, every copy of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will evaporate into a fine mist, never to be played again—OK, not really, but you’d never know it from the approach taken by players’ farewells to the game. This week, UMvC3 player Amongst Shadows put…

In This Dress Up Game, Your Clothes Evolve Like Pokémon

Dress up games, while a fun diversion, are ubiquitous on mobile devices. Love Nikki is one of those games, but it’s much weirder and much denser than you’d probably expect. Love Nikki is a game that has been advertised to me on Facebook for months, and I resisted downloading it. I am adult, I had…

Overwatch Finally Gets A Reporting System For Consoles And Here’s How It Works

A year after release, Overwatch players on PS4 and Xbox One now have recourse for the trash Mei who won’t stop icing her teammates into the spawn point. Overwatch, a pleasant game that recently has taken a turn for the toxic, has gotten flack for how long console players waited to get their reporting system.…

Call of Duty: WWII Beta Gets Back To The Series’ Roots, And It Works

We’ve been playing the PlayStation 4 beta of Call of Duty: WWII, and it’s been a welcome trip back to classic Call of Duty gameplay. The popular first-person shooter series got its start in the Second World War, but Call of Duty has evolved over the years with a gradual increase in high-tech gadgets and…