GameStop Struggling To Handle The Amiibo Craze [UPDATED]

If you wanted to buy the new waves of amiibos at GameStop in real-life or online, that doesn’t seem to be possible right now. Their website is down and in-store registers aren’t working. Pre-orders for the new amiibos began today at GameStop, Target, and other retailers. Reservations started at 3:00 p.m. EST for Ness, Robin,…

Steam Game Turns Gabe Newell Into A Boss Fight

You think you can take on Gabe Newell? Good luck! The GIF above comes fromCrawl, a dungeon-crawling game where your friends play as the monsters. It’s not an April Fool’s joke, either. Gabe Newell is literally going to be in the game as a mini-boss of sorts. The game calls them “statues,” and according to…

Bloodborne: The Kotaku Review

More than 46 hours later, the credits are rolling on Bloodborne. I’m breathing a sigh of relief. The hunt may be over, but I won’t soon forget the city of Yharnam. Bloodborne is a tremendous accomplishment. The latest game from Dark Souls director Hidetaki Miyazaki and his team at From Software, it is both a…

Top Sellers On The Wii U eShop

Why would this be? I’m thinking Zelda is up there because it was part of a bundle that required you to download the game. Mario World is cool and relatively cheap. But Wii Street U? I don’t get it.

Watch Grand Theft Auto V On PC At 60 FPS

Rockstar today released a new trailer for the upcoming PC version of GTA V, which comes out in two weeks. In the video, you can see what their gargantuan open-world game looks like while running at a buttery 60 frames-per-second. Unsurprisingly, it’s stunning. Watch right here while I go look up how much it would…

Wario Turns Pokémon Into Evil Little Creatures

Hoenn would turn into a post-apocalyptic region in days with Wario-like Pokémon running around. And judging by their looks, these little vile creatures, drawn by Justin Hall over at Dorkly, would also act as Mario’s greedy antagonist. Here’s a whole bunch of “WaPokémon”, check out Dorkly’s gallery for more. To contact the author of this…

Diablo III With WoW’s Camera Looks Like a Totally Different Game

Diablo III and all its predecessors have a fixed camera with an isometric view. We can zoom in, but basically that’s it. Monstrousd3 messed a bit with the camera angles and made a short clip showing how the game would look from a different perspective, similar to World of Warcraft’s. It certainly looks a bit…

Nine steps to creating awesome Zelda fanart. EternaLegend’s piece, titled “A Hero’s Hardship,” depicts the Hero of Time with “bad memories haunting [him] well after his adventures are over.” The finished, high-res painting can be found below—check out EternaLegend on Tumblr here and on DeviantArt here for more. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs…

The Man Who Brought Solid Snake To Life

Solid Snake is one of gaming’s iconic characters. And in Japan, his voice is as iconic as his look – if not more so. While the West has David Hayter, and now Kiefer Sutherland as the voice behind the character, Japan has Akio Otsuka, a veteran voice actor whose name has become almost as synonymous…

Big Surprise, Japanese Gamers Like Final Fantasy XV’s Demo

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Duscae came out last month and most people who got it have probably had enough time to process their feelings about it. Japanese gaming mag Weekly Famitsu released the results of their user survey on the Final Fantasy XV demo. What were you looking forward to going into the game? Going…