Echo was a standout at the PAX Indie Megabooth last weekend. The concept is very cool: You have to infiltrate and explore a futuristic techno-palace. Every so often, the whole place reboots and goes dark. With each reboot, your past playthroughs “echo” as AIs that try to take you down using whatever tactics you used…

Five Anime That Are Better The Second Time Around

Anime is like chocolate: often, easily consumable with a machine-stamped taste and shape; less often, a rich, subtle experience you can’t quite understand after just one bite. The former type of anime, sugar-sweet with fan service, is its own art form. But its obvious character tropes and riffs on past blockbusters can strike too hard,…

Hitting World Of Warcraft: Legion’s Level Cap Is Only The Beginning

Hitting World of Warcraft: Legion’s 110 level cap isn’t the end of the game. In fact, it’s when the expansion really starts picking up speed, dropping an overwhelming amount of activities on the player all at once. The initial series of quest that take players through four of the expansions new zones, searching for powerful…

Two Surprisingly Good Hours With Final Fantasy XV

You’ve gotta wonder how much it cost to make Noctis’s hair. I mean, look at it. It’s a tangled black crown of spikes that sometimes seems to have a will of its own, its strands flowing like octopus tentacles every time Noctis moves. How many animators did Square Enix hire just for those sweet locks?…

Becoming A Raider In Fallout 4: Nuka World Really Pisses Preston Garvey Off

Preston Garvey is famed for sending players on endless settlement liberation quests. Often, these settlements will be threatened by raiders. Incidentally, the latest Fallout 4 DLC lets you become a raider. You see where this is going, yes? The first thing that popped into my mind when I started the new DLC was, “what would…

Pokémon Go Glitches, Turned Into Nightmare Fusions

Sometimes, Pokémon Go borks everything up and displays different monsters merging with one another. One artist is using these glitches as inspiration for completely new (and often disturbing) creations. @BrachyZoid’s Twitter feed has, for the last few weeks, been re-imagining screenshots sent by Pokémon Go fans. Originally the screenshots were just bugs, but BrachyZoid transformed…

The Final Station Never Quite Reaches Its Destination

Perhaps fittingly for a game littered with half-eaten human corpses, The Final Station is a game full of half-finished ideas. A 2D shooter/survival horror experience, The Final Station has you play a train driver on a journey from “regular working day” to “zombie ghost monster apocalypse”. Set in a sci-fi world whose history is hinted…

Biker Mice From Mars Gets An Advance Wars Style Prequel

Classic ‘90s cartoon Biker Mice From Mars follows a trio of alien rodents attempting to save the Earth from the evil army that destroyed their home planet. Mobile strategy game Biker Mice: Mars Attacks tells the story of the Plutarkian war on Mars. Weird. Well, not so weird considering that Biker Mice From Mars has…

In Space, No One Can Hear You Relax

Wangjie Li is an artist based in California who has worked in the video game business. You can see more of Li’s work at his personal site and 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…

Nintendo Took Down No Mario’s Sky Fan Game, So Creators Renamed It DMCA’s Sky

Last week, Kotaku reported on No Mario’s Sky, a procedural game where you could make the plumber leap in a spaceship and explore different worlds. Two days ago, the team received a copyright takedown notice. Undeterred, they rebranded their game and pressed forward. After the team received the takedown notice from Nintendo, the project was…

Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon Will Take Place During Different Times of Day

If you’re debating which Pokémon game to pick up later this year, developers Game Freak just highlighted one of the biggest differences between the games: they don’t take place at the same exact time. As the trailer above shows, Sun and Moon are set 12 hours apart from one another—which means that events will play…

Origin Omni All-In-One Gaming PC Review: Everything In Its Place

I spent my first hour with Origin PC’s Geforce GTX 1080-powered, 34-inch ultra-wide curved screen Omni all-in-one gaming PC just staring at my desk. There’s a lot more of desk now. I didn’t know I had so much desk. Technically I spent the first hour looking for my power screwdriver to extricate the system from…

A Look At Spielberg’s Ready Player One Shoot

Steven Spielberg is bringing Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One to the big screen. The famed director is currently filming in the U.K., and here’s a peek at the production. As The Birmingham Mail points out, the production has turned the city’s historic Jewellery Quarter into a dystopian American future. Our colleagues at io9 already…

Naruto Spin-Off Might Get a TV Anime

Don’t be surprised if Naruto’s son got his own anime TV series. I won’t be. The homepage for the upcoming Jump Special Anime Festa was updated with listings for 上映アニメ (jyouei anime) or “screening anime” during the festival. Included in that was Boruto: The tagline reads, “Watch next-generation ninja!!” (次代の忍見参!！), with Boruto also saying that…