Konami’s Latest PC Port Is Terrible

What is going on here. The PC versions of multiplatform games are supposed to look better, not worse. As you may remember from last year, Konami’s big sports series Pro Evolution Soccer now runs on the Fox Engine. As you may also remember from last year, for reasons unknown, the PC version of PES 2016…

ReCore: The Kotaku Review

Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox…

The PC Version Of BioShock Remastered Has Issues

Continuing a grand tradition that began when BioShock first came out in 2007, the remastered versions of BioShock 1 and 2 did not emerge from the bathysphere plunge to PC unscathed. On the upside, the remastered BioShocks are functional, albeit janky in places. The most overt issue is a lack of graphical options that would’ve…

Someone Put Harambe In Street Fighter, Because Why Not

Harambe vs Capcom is a real video game that you can play. Not only does HvC bizarrely place everyone’s favorite gorilla (RIP) in a fighting game, it also gives the crossover a story to go along with it. In this rendition of reality, a shadow agency wants to kill Harambe because he has psychic powers.…

Nightmare Super Mario 64 Mod Replaces Every Texture With Toad’s Face

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A Closer Look At The Best Mission In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Adam Jensen has a lot of work to do in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Side quests and smaller stories are where the game really shines. “The Harvester” questline has all the things required for a great experience. We take a closer look in this video. On a whole, I have very mixed feelings about Mankind…

Poland Makes An Official Witcher Postage Stamp

Hey, I know that guy! The Witcher, a series about a monster hunter who’s perpetually dour because Obama won’t play his video game, is a bit of A Thing over in its native land of Poland. Poctza Polska, Poland’s biggest postal operator, is collaborating with Witcher developer CD Projekt to turn Geralt’s lusty mug into…

Road Trip!

Emilie Stabell is an artist working at Media Molecule, the developers behind the LittleBigPlanet series. You can see more of Emilie’s work at her 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 of…

Team Rocket’s Boss Is Hunted In The First Installment Of Pokémon Generations

Pokémon Generations is a new weekly animated series that aims to flesh out the events from 20 years of Pokémon games. In the first full episode, the international police track mysterious Team Rocket leader Giovanni to the Viridian City gym. Technically this is the second episode of the new animated series. The first, also released…

Undertale‘s Unused Music Is Pretty Sweet

For the past week, infamously reclusive Undertale creator Toby Fox has been celebrating the RPG mega-hit’s first anniversary with tidbits and snippets (but sadly no butterscotch cinnamon pie). The best part? Music that never made it into the final game. First up, an early version of Alphys’ lab: Here’s a version of Undyne’s theme before…

Game Developer Sues 100 Anonymous Steam Users For $18 Million [UPDATE]

When we last saw the game studio Digital Homicide, they were suing game critic Jim Sterling for $10 million, charging him with libel and slander for harshly criticizing their games. Now they’re pursuing legal action against 100 anonymous Steam users, calling them a “hate and harassment group” in recent court filings. UPDATE – 9/17, 2:01pm:…

If you’re gonna climb a ladder, climb a ladder My character in Divinity: Original Sin 2 might be a downtrodden prisoner, but that doesn’t mean she can’t crest a laddertop with style. And the dismount! Even better!

Rage Was Actually Pretty Damn Good

I’ve been thinking a lot about Rage lately. Last week, I dove back in. Minutes became hours, and I soon realized I was having a blast. When I was finally done, I had to ask: why doesn’t Rage get the love it deserves? This post originally appeared 7/2/15. When Rage was released in 2011, it…

The Heroic Lengths You Have To Walk To Evolve Buddy Pokémon

The buddy system is Pokémon Go’s latest cloying grab at my ‘90s kid nostalgia. Think about it: you, your favorite Pokémon, together, walking into the sunset; growing as one and traversing the unknown. It’s just like Ash’s journey in the Pokémon TV show, except if you’re attempting it with the IRL buddy system, you might…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Progress Report: Ever Questing

Three weeks into World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion, and I’m still logging into my Druid every day to go on adventures. It’s nice when daily questing doesn’t mean doing the same quests every day, isn’t it? The idea of dailies, repeatable quests players perform every day in order to grind reputation and earn faction-exclusive gear,…

Sony Boss On No Man’s Sky: ‘It Wasn’t A Great PR Strategy’

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida knows how you feel, No Man’s Sky players. He says he enjoyed the game, but understands why people are so upset about director Sean Murray’s tendency to over-promise and under-deliver. No Man’s Sky, which came out in early August, immediately drew controversy when players discovered that features Murray had…

Now that’s he’snailed gameplay, developer Ryan Juckett can finally add some color to his minimalist shooter. The latest Inversus update adds 45 unlockable color palettes, 250 emotes, persistent leveling and leaderboards. The updatehit Steam today, with the PS4 version’s release TBD.

The Mildly Overwatch-ish Paladins Enters Open Beta

Hi-Rez Studios’ free-to-play hero shooter Paladins enters open beta today, and while its collectible card-based character customization system sets it apart from other games in the genre, Androxus here is pretty much Reaper with horns. I was putting together a little rotator GIF for the top of the post, planning to talk about what is…