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By Nathan Grayson Published February 16, 2016 - Culture
Jet Set Radio And Other Sega Games Are Free On Steam Right Now
If you grab them right now, Jet Set Radio and a handful of other Sega games aren’t just free for the moment; they’re yours to keep. Sega’s running their third annual Make War Not Love strategy game marathon on Steam this week, but regardless of who wins, everybody else… also wins. Already, the showdown between…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedGoofy Dad Recreates Final Fantasy VII Summons With His Butt
My five-year-old daughter, just now: “I like it when he was shaking his tush-tush.” Papa Luciano is at it again. After hilarious turns making his body a vessel for Smash Bros.’ taunts and Street Fighter victory poses, the middle-aged man is interpreting the summons from the beloved JRPG. You will believe a man can chocobo,…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 16, 2016 - Tips & Guides
Tips For Playing XCOM 2 (Now With More Tips!)
It’s a long, grisly war out there, commanders. These alien occupiers are tough bastards, and you’re gonna lose a lot of good men and women. We’re here to help you keep casualties to a minimum. [This article originally ran on 2/8/2016. We’ve updated it with new tips and refined some old ones.] My colleagues Nathan…
Kirk Hamilton, Nathan Grayson & Luke Plunkett Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedStreet Fighter V’s Ridiculous Breast Physics Are Still In The Game
Last year, Capcom (hilariously) assured us that the bouncy jiggle of Chun Li’s breasts was actually just a glitch.Eventually, Capcom said, they’d fix it. Well, now the game is out, and… uh, the exaggerated breast physics are still in there, as you can see in this video by Eurogamer: As we reported in 2015, the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 16, 2016 - Culture
Why A Game About The Devil Couldn’t Sell For $6.66 On Steam
We Know The Devil is a game that involves, well, the devil. Obviously, it deserves to be sold at a price point of $6.66. Obviously. Unfortunately, that’s not something Steam allows. We Know The Devil, a Really Quite Good visual novel about queerness, summer camp, and religious horror, has been available on publisher Date Nighto’s…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 16, 2016 - Uncategorized
When Cosplay Saved Doctor Doom’s Life
Frank Castle was cruising through New York City looking for criminals to kill, as he does. Hey, look, it’s the Supreme Monarch of Latveria! Time for some punishment! Or is it? The current storyline in Squirrel Girl has the title character stuck in the past trying to foil the world-conquering machinations of Dr. Doom. (This…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 16, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Witness Puzzle That Broke My Spirit
I spent three hours staring at this puzzle, wondering if I was losing my mind. Warning: We’re going to spoil a single puzzle in The Witness, but this puzzle sucks, so whatever. If there’s a single refrain in people’s observations about The Witness, it’s that you shouldn’t look up solutions to the puzzles. Walk away,…
By Patrick Klepek Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedSmart Way To Keep Players From Getting Lost Underwater, Dying Light
It’s easy to get lost when you’re swimming underwater in a video game. You’re moving in the right direction, but you look down for a moment, lose your bearings, swim some more and wind up back where you started. I guess you accidentally turned yourself around. Whoops! Come on, that never happened to you? Not…
By Stephen Totilo Published February 16, 2016 -
ReviewsStreet Fighter V: The Kotaku Review
Playing Street Fighter V at launch feels like being at a construction site where the foundation is being poured. The structure we’ll eventually all recognize isn’t there yet. But if the foundation is cracked or uneven, that future architecture won’t work as intended. So far, the bedrock of Street Fighter’s evolution feels mostly solid, if…
By Evan Narcisse Published February 16, 2016 - Uncategorized
Everything You Need To Know About Fallout 4’s DLC, Which Starts In March
Robots, monsters, and mysteries are all coming to Fallout 4 as DLC—and the added content looks pretty sweet. First, we’ve got “Automatron,” which will retail for 9.99 and will have a launch window of March 2016. Per the Bethesda blog: The mysterious Mechanist has unleashed a horde of evil robots into the Commonwealth, including the…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedThe Most Terrifying Enemy In Fallout 4
What is the scariest monster roaming the Commonwealth, dear wanderer? Is it Deathclaws? Supermutants? Perhaps ghouls are the worst the wasteland has to offer? No. Of course not. Nothing quite compares to the horrors pointed out by sohoshuffle in this video: Ha. Then again, that’s not quite as bad as this mod showcased by FluffyNinjaLlama,…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 16, 2016 - Uncategorized
Project X Zone 2 Is A Stupid Fun Party With All Of Your Friends
Say you have several groups of good friends. Work friends, neighborhood friends, online friends; each group great in their own way. You throw a shindig to get them all together. Why? It doesn’t matter, as long as everybody gets together and has a good time. That’s Project X Zone 2 Top GIF from the Japanese…
By Mike Fahey Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedTen World of Warcraft Zones No One Visits
Whether it’s the lack of things to do, boring quests or depressing aesthetics, WoW has some zones everyone tries to skip or avoid. Here’s a top ten from WoW veteran Crendor, and it’s a list of abandoned places that could be easily extended to 15. There are so many zones in the game. Luckily, though,…
By Gergo Vas Published February 16, 2016 -
UncategorizedHow To Create The Face Mask From Mad Max
It’s the mask the War Boys put it on Max when they captured him, and the folks Awe Me created black thermal plastic version of it to be exact. Looks comfy! And the end result is indeed something similar and shiny enough for a Mad Max prop. To contact the author of this post, write…
By Gergo Vas Published February 16, 2016 - Uncategorized
The Theory That the Lupe vs. Daigo Fight Was Staged [Update]
Last night, Lupe Fiasco beat Daigo Umehara in Street Fighter V. The result was unexpected, and some believe, perhaps, staged. There could be other factors the contributed to this outcome. Maybe Daigo was jet-lagged, maybe he’s still not that familiar with Street Fighter V, or maybe he was being polite. Or maybe, you know, Lupe…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 16, 2016
