Nintendo’s New Amiibo Stands Are Terrific

Nintendo Japan are selling these things for people who want to display their Amiibo with a little pizazz. The Kirby one is cute, but the Smash stage one is amazing Going on sale later this month, they’ll run for ¥864 (which is around USD$8). Best part? That’s nice.

Teleportation Kinda Ruins Baseball, Huh

Today on Highlight Reel we have magic catches, Quantum breaks, fire keys, last-second Battlefront power-ups and much more! Watch the video above or on our Youtube Page, then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below MLB The Show…

Steam’s Latest Hit, Enter The Gungeon, Kicks A Lot Of Ass

Enter The Gungeon has been near the top of the Steam best-seller list for the past couple days, and I get why: it’s the type of roguelike shooter you can lose hundreds of hours to. Also the enemies are bullets. You get to kill bullets… with bullets. Enter The Gungeon is a roguelike (or roguelite,…

VR Game At A Glance: Screwing Around In Job Simulator

Sure, they call it Job Simulator, but they could’ve called it Not Being Very Good At Your Job Simulator Here’s a video of me playing some of the game: What it is: Job Simulator is a fumblecore simulation comedy game where you take on a handful of different jobs as imagined by robots in the…

VR Shipping Woes Continue With The Vive

I’ve been on the VR hype train for years. When HTC opened up pre-orders for the Vive, I plunked down my credit card and started waiting. But the Vive’s launch has come and gone, and…I’m still waiting. When is my Vive gonna show up? I don’t really know, and it seems like I’m not alone.…

Steam Rival Itch.io Is Trying To Get Its App Onto Steam

On April Fools Day, indie-focused PC gaming storefront itch.io posted a listing to Steam Greenlight. Everyone assumed it was a joke, and a pretty solid one at that. Turns out, they were deadly serious. OK, maybe not deadly, but indie gaming’s favorite mom ‘n’ pop shop, where many smaller games release before making it onto…

Valve’s Amazing VR Showcase Ends Too Quickly

Valve’s VR demo reel The Lab is extremely cool. It’s also frustrating. It’s got some of the most impressive virtual reality demonstrations I’ve seen, but I wish there were more to it. Here’s a video of me playing some of the best demos: What it is: The Lab is a free collection of minigames playable…

There’s A Bunch Of Hidden Features In PS4’s Latest Firmware Update

The PlayStation 4 got a significant firmware upgrade yesterday, and as more people have dug into it, people are finding little tweaks that didn’t show up in the patch notes. Remember the big kerfuffle over Sony removing the ability to stream music through a USB drive? It’s been resolved with this update, according to a…

Nintendo’s asked the makers of that lovely 3D Legend of Zelda tribute game to pull it down. Over on their Facebook page, the developers say that they’re pulling any copyrighted material from the release and making the code available for folks to learn from.

In Defense Of The Flood, Halo‘s Most Hated Enemy

Kotaku editor-in-chief Stephen Totilo called The Library Halo: Combat Evolved’s most notorious level. An entry on Halopedia referred to it as one of the least popular levels in the Halo series. The Library is the hardest level in the game by far, a cruel gauntlet featuring seemingly never-ending waves of Halo’s toughest enemies. I love…

Hyper Light Drifter, As Told By Steam Reviews

The devilishly difficult Hyper Light Drifter has been tearing up the Steam charts since release, meaning that players have flocked to the reviews section talk about why they love Heart Machine’s creation so damn much. Broadly speaking, players cite the air of mystery, intrigue, wordless world-building and intense difficulty as things they enjoy in Hyper…

Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 Isn’t Worth All The Drama

Gamers have spent the past several months arguing over whether Dead or Alive’s third bikini-clad vacation simulator deserves a Western release. That’s a lot of time and energy wasted on the worst game in the series. I have some impressions of the game to share, but first, a bit of history: The Dead or Alive…

Shut-Down Metal Gear Solid Fan Remake Reborn as Virtual Museum 

Lots of Solid Snake fans got sad when the folks making the Shadow Moses HD re-make of Metal Gear Solid suddenly announced that they were stopping development last month. It turns out that all of that work isn’t just evaporating into thin air. You’ll be able to walk around the environments of what could have…

Superhot‘s Time-Stopping Mechanics In Real Life

The folks over at Rocket Jump gave some further thought to Superhot’s unique mechanics, where the game only progresses when the player moves, and how that’d work in real life. Things get a bit more complicated when you fight something other than the faceless red enemies from the game, and there’s a world out there…

When Mario Kart Meets Rocket League

Shrinking characters, enlarging the ball or throwing out banana peels sure would spice up Rocket League’s already intense gameplay. Crashing with transparent 2D sprites would be problematic though. Here’s a Mario Kart and Rocket League mashup from The Pixel Kingdom To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]