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This Week In The Business: Wasting VR
QUOTE | “I wouldn’t want to see virtual reality wasted on a few hardcore gamers because it has such a big opportunity to offer something to everyone” – Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm calls on developers to make VR games for wider audiences, saying it will be a long time before hardcore crowds get the…
Brendan Sinclair Published December 10, 2016 - Culture
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
It’s the weekend! I’ve had a heck of a week and am looking forward to only emerging from my bed when I absolutely have to. Though I also just got an iPad, which means I could technically play FTL in bed, so leaving bed at all is up for grabs. I’m going to (finally) make…
By Riley MacLeod Published December 9, 2016 -
CultureOneShot Is A Game Where The Main Character Knows Who You Are
OneShot first freaked me out when it said my name. My real name. I don’t know how it got my name. I didn’t give it my name. It’s not even part of my Steam profile. In OneShot, an adventure game that just came out on Steam, you play as a cat creature named Niko. However,…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedFive Great And Very Weird 2016 3DS Games You May Have Missed
You had your Pokémons and your Fire Emblems and your (really, really good) new Kirby game, but the games I most enjoyed playing on my 3DS this year were smaller, less hyped oddities. Do you like weird, great games? Here are some of my favorites from this year: Pocket Card Jockey From Game Freak, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
A Career Waiter’s Journey To Twitch Cooking Star
In 2014, it seemed like chef Justin Warner’s star couldn’t rise any higher. He was on Zagat’s 30 under 30, he had won season 8 of Food Network Star, which would net him at least a pilot of his own cooking show, and he ran a successful restaurant, Do or Dine. By 2015, he’d lose…
By Gita Jackson Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedWhat Being On Fire In NBA Jam Would Really Be Like
Popular production company Rooster Teeth posted a new video in their Immersion series. Looking at game myths, this newest episode sees what would happen if one of the best things about NBA Jam was real. Rooster Teeth tossed Achievement Hunters Gavin Free and Michael Jones into flame retardant suits and covered some basketballs in rubber…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 9, 2016 - Culture
Building Some Of The Biggest Things In Video Games
EVE Online’s Citadels are some of the biggest, most impressive objects in all of video games, some of them designed to be 150km tall. Which presented quite a challenge for the people who actually had to design them. One of those people is artist Pavel Savchuk, who has shared some of his early work creating…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2016 -
EsportsA Modern Controller Is Splitting The Smash Bros. Melee Community
A popular Super Smash Bros. Melee controller’s potential ban from big-time esports tournament Genesis 4 has sparked a debate throughout the Smash community over what constitutes a tournament-legal controller for a 15-year-old game. The controller’s creator says its ban would be “devastating” for his business. Over a dozen years after Melee’s release, nearly everything about…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedEverybody Poops, Including The Last Guardian‘s Cat Beast
The Last Guardian is filled with magical moments, but none quite as magical as when the legendary winged cat beast takes a massive rolling poo off the side of a treacherous bit of scaffolding. Without giving too much away, Trico’s digestive tract plays a pretty big role in The Last Guardian, and why shouldn’t it?…
By Mike Fahey Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
Blizzard Saves Overwatch Player From Loot Box Disaster
Imagine that, after buying hundreds of loot boxes, you finally had all the Overwatch skins you spent so long coveting from afar. Then imagine that they started slowly disappearing. It’s like something out of a very dorky (yet EXTREMELY terrifying) Twilight Zone episode, but that’s exactly what happened to Kaleptik. Over the course of a…
By Nathan Grayson Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
As they did last summer, the makers of The Division are inviting fans to provide in-person feedback regarding some changes to the game. This time, they’re flying fans to Red Storm in North Carolina this January in preparation for changes to The Division’s most controversial component: The Dark Zone. More info here
By Stephen Totilo Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedPewdiepie Trolls Everyone, Deletes Alternate Channel
When YouTube’s biggest star swore that he was going to delete his channel after gaining 50 million subscribers, fans didn’t know what to believe.Some thought he was really going through with it, and prepared for the worst. Today, Felix Kjellberg comes clean, revealing that it was just a joke all along. Well played, Kjellberg: Just…
By Patricia Hernandez Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedTwitch Will Stream Gaming Event Live From The White House
Twitch announced that they will be hosting a gaming event live from the White House on December 12th. The ‘White House Competitive Gaming Event’ is meant to raise awareness about health insurance. The event will last from from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST. You will be able to watch the stream here. It is…
By Heather Alexandra Published December 9, 2016 -
UncategorizedSilence Is A Beautiful Adventure That Begins In A Dark Place
Silence, the long-awaited sequel to Daedalic Entertainment’s The Whispered World, begins with a World War II bombing raid that sends 16 year old Noah and his little sister into the magical world that exists between life and death. It’s a sad way to begin a beautiful adventure. Originally published 11/15/2016. Repubbed to mark this week’s…
By Mike Fahey Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
Ubisoft Executives Fined $1.2 Million For Insider Trading
French stock market regulators have issued sanctions against five Ubisoft employees for insider trading, fining them a total of €1.2 million (around $1.26 million). Ubisoft is appealing the judgement. The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), a body that monitors and regulates the French stock market, had accused Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat and four other…
By Jason Schreier Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
Super Mario Run Won’t Be Playable Offline
Super Mario Run, a mobile game many would love to play while in the subway, will require an always-on internet connection. Bummer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario creator and the producer of Super Mario Run, told Mashable that the endless runner mobile game will require an internet connection to play on all of its modes. He said…
By Gita Jackson Published December 9, 2016 - Uncategorized
Guy Steals $1 Million From Work, Spends It On Bad Video Game
Kevin Lee Co, a 45 year-old man from Rocklin, California, pled guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering, having been caught stealing $4.8 million from his employer between 2008 and 2015. Some of which he spent rather poorly. Co, who used to work in the accounting department of Holt of California before being…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 9, 2016 - Culture
Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino
Live from New York, it’s Snacktaku, featuring special guest Cecilia D’Anastasio. Watch us drink Starbucks’ Pokémon Go marketing tie-in as we ponder whether or not they skinned the Pokémon before grinding them up. The video below was filmed in front of a very small studio audience at Kotaku headquarters in New York City, and was…
By Mike Fahey Published December 9, 2016
