Lona, An Adventure Game About Being Trapped By Art

Lona: Realm of Colors is an adventure game in development from a small team based in Sweden. There’s a strong Miyazaki vibe running through the game’s art style, and it looks cool as hell. Here’s the pitch: What happens if you could escape from life difficulties that you can do nothing about? What if you…

Upcoming MMO’s Cryptocurrency Marketplace Was Inspired By Other Games’ Black Markets

When black markets develop on the sidelines of most massively multiplayer online role-playing games, most developers would panic. But with today’s rise of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, a growing group of game-makers are embracing some gamers’ tendency to turn in-game currency into real-world money. In general, publishers often take steps to prevent the selling of in-game…

A Substantial And Interesting Discussion Of Pyre, Feelings, Dogs, Mustaches, And God

Every character in Pyre has a story. Some are about the nature of freedom. Others focus on religion. Others invite you to scrutinize systems that purport to offer justice while privileging a select few. But the story that helped the game find its voice and its heart was the unlikely story of a dog’s mustache.…

Sonic Mania Has An Irritating Home Button Bug On Switch

Sonic Mania may just be the best Sonic game in years, but it also seems broken in a small but annoying way on the Nintendo Switch. If you’re playing Sonic Mania on the Switch you may have already noticed a weird flaw. According to multiple Switch owners, there’s a delay with hitting the Home button…

Growing Up, I Bonded With My Older Brothers Through Games

As a kid, when I told people that I was the youngest in my family and had three older brothers, they would often say, “Three older brothers? Oh, you poor thing!” My brothers Bob, Mike, and Joe are 11, 10, and 7 years older than me, respectively. At first, I didn’t understand why adults thought…

A Silent Voice Is A Sensational Anime Movie About Bullying

In anime movie A Silent Voice, deaf girl Shoko Nishimiya’s sixth-grade notebook is full of apologies to the classmates who keep throwing her hearing aids in the river. Her bullies’ ringleader, Shoya Ishida, later watches his guilt-ridden mother offer $15,000 dollars to Nishimiya’s mother in compensation. The cycle of hurt continues until it reveals itself…

Tips For Playing Agents Of Mayhem

Saints Row spin-off Agents of Mayhem is out today, and it’s a very different game than its over-the-top, gang-banging, devil-taunting predecessors. It can be daunting, but worry not — we’ve got tips. Here are some helpful suggestions from getting the most out of the struggle between the heroic agents of MAYHEM and the global terrorist…

25 Years Later, ‘Disgusting’ Night Trap Is Incredibly Tame

Night Trap, the FMV game that U.S. Senators once called “sick” and “disgusting,” is now available in a spruced-up edition on PlayStation 4 and PC, 25 years after its original release on Sega CD in 1992. There’s even a few special, delightfully cheesy, bonus gifts. Before getting to the nitty and the gritty of the…

New Ocarina of Time Glitch Shakes Up Speedrunning Community

Ocarina of Time has been turned inside out by speedrunners who are still hungry to find new glitches that could improve their times. Yesterday, a new glitch was discovered that could make some major changes to speedrunning the game. Last year, a glitch blew Ocarina of Time open by letting players summon an empty bottle…

Sonic Mania Has A Secret Joke Mode, And It’s Perfect

Sonic Mania hides a few goodies, and this one in particular shows that SEGA knows exactly how to meme. Presenting “& Knuckles Mode,” where you can play as the lovable red Echidna while also accompanied by another Knuckles, who acts as your buddy. (You can also play as other characters paired with Knuckles, but that’s…

H1Z1: Just Survive, the companion game to H1Z1: King of the Kill, is now simply called Just Survive, separating it from the H1Z1 universe. The rebranding arrives with today’s massive update, which introduces player-built strongholds to the game. Check out the update notes here.

Why We Like That Undertale Is On Consoles Now

It’s a VGChat! I’m here with Kotaku’s editor-at-large Kirk Hamilton to talk about Undertale, which came out for PC back in 2015, but is available today for PlayStation 4 and Vita. Hence our renewed interest. Spoilers ahead! Do not get spoiled! Chris Kohler: Kirk, you played through the game on PC, yes? Kirk Hamilton: I…

Popular RPG Undertale releases on the PS4 and Vita today, and there are a lot of achievements to unlock for the game—  many of which seem to be quite easy to obtain. There are also 15 separate achievements you can get simply for donating money to the dog shrine. To check out the full list…

The Secret World Is Getting A TV Series

Funcom’s supernatural conspiracy MMO recently got a reboot, and now it’s getting its own television show. Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and G4C Innovation have teamed up to produce a live-action TV series based on The Secret World. Or Secret World Legends. Whichever. Set in the modern day and revolving around a power struggle between a…

What It’s Like To Attend The Biggest Dota 2 Tournament In The World

The first thing I felt after the conclusion of The International 7, the seventh annual Dota 2 event that caps off every season of play, was whiplash. The day had gone by so fast, I had barely noticed it. As I walked in through the press entrance in the morning, I saw Team Liquid in…