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]

A Minecraft Tribute to Monument Valley

Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It’s so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game’s visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft.) According to its creator, dennisbuilds from PlanetMinecraft, the…

Bringing Final Fantasy Back from the Edge of Crisis 

Last week, Square Enix showed it wasthrowing all it had behind Final Fantasy XV. This is a big game and has the anime and live-action CGI spin-off to prove it. While Square Enix might seem like it’s back on sure Final Fantasy footing, it was only a few years ago things seemed anything but. In…

You Can Now Rent Goats in Japan

Goat Simulator, this ain’t. It’s the real deal. A few years ago, Amazon Japan began employing goats to take care of its grounds. Now, there’s a new “Yagi Rental” (“yagi” means “goat” in Japanese) service, with each goat costing 15,000 yen per month and more than ready to eat grass and vegetation. The service points…