My, My Cid, How You Have Changed

While each Final Fantasy tends to be set in a different world, there are a few staples you can expect in each one—most prominently, a character named Cid. And the newest game in the franchise, Final Fantasy Explorers, is no exception. Over the years Cid has gone through some changes since his first appearance back…

The Left 4 Dead Arcade is Basically Left 4 Dead 2, But Worse

This past weekend, needing a bit of zombie killing in my life, I joined some friends at a local arcade to spend some time with Left 4 Dead Survivors. Honestly, I wish I’d just stayed home and played Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead Survivors is largely a port of Left 4 Dead 2…

Nintendo Closing Club Nintendo (But Don’t Panic)

For years now, Club Nintendo has been offering special goodies to fans. But as of today, it’s going away. But don’t fret. Not yet. Nintendo is planning a new loyalty program with new rewards. Official notices have been posted by Nintendo in Japan, Europe, and Australia. The U.S. site is currently closed for maintenance. Kotaku…

PlayStation Making Up For Downtime With A 10% Off Sale This Weekend

As first detailedearlier in the month, Sony is making up for some Christmas-related downtime with a sale on pretty much everything on the PlayStation Store. That sale has a catch: you’ll get 10% off almost anything on the store, provided you lump it all into the one purchase and buy it all at once. The…

Pro Teams Implicated In Huge Counter-Strike Match Fixing Scandal

It has not exactly been smooth sailing (or terrorist blasting, given the lack of boats) in Counter-Strike land lately. First there was the big pro cheat tool bust right before Dream Hack 2014, then there was foul play at Dream Hack 2014, and now we can add a team purposefully losing a match to the…

GTA V’s San Andreas vs 2004’s San Andreas

We’ve seen charts, and galleriesfrom the street, but it’s only when you see the size of the game world in both GTA titles laid bare that you start to appreciate a few things you might have otherwise missed. Like how small the modern Los Santos, which feels like an endless metropolis, really is. Or how…

Destiny Player Builds Robot To Grind For Him

Playing Destiny can be time consuming, especially if you want to level multiple characters. Naturally, players are finding low-effort ways to get the job done, some of which don’t require physically playing the game at all. A player that goes by the handle yavin427 recently shared a method with Reddit, and it involves using a…

After unlocking “The Void,” the Mario Kart 8 hackers have started to put stuff inside of it. In their latest video, the fraternal modding duo MrBean35000vr and Chadderz show what happened when they started dropping odds and odds (like giant stacks of goombas) into an empty track they found in the game. Neat! Also just…

One man keeps unearthing hidden, secret parts of Team Ico’s games and one of NomadColossus‘ most recent finds reveals extremely moody beta sections of Ico that didn’t make it into the final version. Well worth a look if you love this PS2 classic game.

Fan-Made Silent Hill Game Is Nearly As Creepy As The Original

In case you forgot, Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima and horror movie maestro Guillermo del Toro are making a new Silent Hill together. If you’re not excited/weeping in terror at the prospect, you might actually be one Silent Hill’s soulless denizens. Sadly, it’s still a long way off. Thank goodness for fan games. Silent…

People Really Want The Smaller New 3DS

Last year in Japan, Nintendo released two new models of the New 3DS. Next month in Europe, Nintendo will release two new models of the New 3DS. And on February 13 in North America, Nintendo will release… one model of the New 3DS. Yep, instead of getting to choose between two different versions of Nintendo’s…

New League of Legends Mode Lets You Be A Jerk, Goes Predictably Awry

Like any popular competitive multiplayer game, League of Legends has its go-to characters and its…less well-loved ones. To shake its champion selection up, the game recently started testing a new gameplay mode that has people choose the opposing team’s lineup, rather than their own. What could possibly go wrong? The new mode, known as “The…