Podcast: GameStop’s Circle of Life

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re talking about Nioh, E3 going public, and GameStop’s controversial, aggressive Circle of Life program First up, Kirk and Jason talk about the past week’s big news. Then, Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra joins the show for some Nioh and Resident Evil 7 talk. We wrap things up by answering a couple of…

The PS4 Pro Will Soon Improve All Games, Not Just The Patched Ones

Games built or patched to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 Pro’s extra power run significantly better on the newer console. Boost Mode is an upcoming feature that puts that power to work on non-optimized PS4 games, and as Digital Foundry discovered, it works pretty well. Coming in PlayStation 4 firmware update 4.50, Boost Mode…

The NBA Is Launching Its Own Esports League 

Today, the National Basketball Association announced plans to partner with publisher Take-Two Interactive for an official NBA 2K esports league, which led NBA commissioner Adam Silver to deliver this fantastic quote to the Wall Street Journal: “Think of eBulls against the eKnicks.” The league, Silver explained, will operate just like the NBA: It’ll have a…

It Just Got A Bit Easier To Earn Feathers In Fire Emblem Heroes

The reward for Nintendo’s Fire Emblem Heroes tweet promotion—10,000 hero feathers—is now live. The game has also added additional quests for arena duels that can earn you a few more feathers. Two days ago, Nintendo promised 10,000 feathers to all Fire Emblem Heroes players if a tweet of theirs reached 10,000 retweets. That promotion reached…

D.va From Overwatch Has Become A Symbol of Hope In Real Life

According to Overwatch lore, D.va is a pro gamer who serves and inspires her country. In real life, D.va’s role is starting to mirror her in-game persona, as she becomes a symbol of hope for women in South Korea. While millions protested and gathered worldwide for the Women’s March on January 20th, sharp-eyed fans such…

Online Shooter Leads To Surprise Bromance Between Japan And America

In H1Z1: King of the Kill, there are 150 players gunning to be the last man standing. This isn’t exactly the place you’d expect to see a friendship bloom. But for one American dude and one Japanese guy, that’s exactly what happened. As pointed out by GameOver, Japanese player Koumai ran into some dude from…

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Old Man’s Journey is an adventure game about shifting painterly landscapes to solve puzzles. Its story focuses on themes of life, loss, and hope, and it’s being developed by a studio that helped make games like And Yet it Moves, Secrets of Raetikon, and Guacamelee. It’ll be out sometime this year.

A Game Where Everyone You’re Trying To Kill Is Invisible

Invisigun Heroes is very similar to Bomberman. Only there’s more shooting. Oh, and everyone is invisible I first wrote about the game last year, but it was finally released this week, so I jumped into the launch build to take a look. It’s pretty good! It works like this: four players face off on a…

Obama Is Now Free To Dunk All Over NBA 2K17

Now that his term is up and he’s off into the sunset, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, has enough spare time to pursue the NBA career he’s always dreamed of. This vid, by NykeFaller, made Obama as NBA 2K17’s MyCareer player, meaning that you get to play the game’s singleplayer…

Adventures In Elder Scrolls Online House Hunting

Between the recently announced Morrowind expansion and this week’s release of the free player housing update, I decided it was time to venture back into The Elder Scrolls Online. I might be a little out of practice. To be honest, I’ve not played much of The Elder Scrolls Online since the first couple of months…

Some Big-Ass Call Of Duty Cosplay

Since its cast is mostly made up of [GENERIC ARMY DUDES], it’s tough cosplaying as someone from Call of Duty and having it look like, well, Call of Duty cosplay, and not just some guy playing military dress-ups. Unless you’re smart like Tyler Cairns, and opt for the Juggernaut. Tyler put this together for a…

The Seven Stages Of Spending Too Much Money In Games

“I was like you once,” says an old man with a beard down to his belt, sitting in the corner of a bar. You think he’s talking to you, but maybe he’s shouting in hopes that someone will listen. “I told myself I’d never buy loot boxes or heroes or none of that,” he whimpers.…

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Pulls Through For 9th EVO 2017 Slot

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Pokken Tournament fans just closed out a weeks-long, neck-and-neck donation competition over a primetime spot at the prestigious Evolution Championship Series tournament. It seems that Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will make an appearance at EVO 2017, having raised over $71,000 of the total $150,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation. But Marvel’s…