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Animal Crossing Horror Short Getting Full-Length Feature

Don’t Peek, a six-minute horror movie about a monster trying to escape from Animal Crossing into the real world, premiered this week at SXSW Online and will soon be coming to a theater near you in full-length form. Reported in Deadline, Don’t Peek, directed by Julian Terry and uploaded to YouTube back in October before…

By Ash Parrish Published March 18, 2021

Culture

GeForce Now Video Game Streaming Service Doubles In Price

Nvidia is raising the price of its GeForce Now game streaming service from $5 a month to $10, the company announced in a blog post this morning GeForce Now has two tiers. A free version lets users stream games they own in sessions of up to one hour, while a premium tier lets them stream…

By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2021

Culture

X-COM’s Beloved Tactical Gameplay Took Months To Get Just Right

Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game designer Julian Gollop and the making of the original X-COM, and is funding now on Kickstarter. In this excerpt from the book, Julian and designers from publisher MicroProse UK reveal how the atmosphere of…

David L. Craddock Published March 18, 2021

Culture

PS5 VR Controllers Ditch The Magic Wand Look

Sony shared a glimpse of the new controllers that will be apart of its next-gen VR add-on for the PS5 in a blog post today and they look nothing like the glowing wands used for the company’s existing PSVR headset. The new controllers almost look like an optical illusion, and also have a lot more…

By Ethan Gach Published March 18, 2021

Anime

Demon Slayer Anime Film Slapped With R-Rating In The US

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train is the highest-grossing film in Japanese movie history. Now, the movie is headed to US theaters. With an R-rating. Released last fall, the animated feature became a box office juggernaut, surpassing the previous earnings king Spirited Away. As Deadline reports, the movie made $100 million at…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Super Nintendo World Finally Opens In Japan

After not one but two delays, Super Nintendo World finally opened today. As Being Kansai reports, lines started forming by 6:30 AM, with a good crowd forming within an hour. Although Osaka lifted the state of emergency earlier this month (Tokyo is currently still under one), with people congregating, waiting inside, and eating in restaurants,…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Coca-Cola Is Launching A Vending Machine Subscription Service In Japan

Like Coke? A lot? Well, according to Nikkei (via Gearoid Reidy), the drink maker is rolling out a special subscription service in Japan. For 2,700 yen ($25) a month, subscribers get one Coca-Cola from any of Japan’s 340,000 vending machines per day. That would save about 900 to 1,000 yen ($8-$10) a month on a…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2021

Kotaku EastJapan

Tokyo Olympics Creative Boss Resigns For Derogatory Suggestion About Naomi Watanabe

Hiroshi Sasaki is resigning as creative director of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics after suggesting that comedian and fashion icon Naomi Watanabe should appear as a pig during the opening ceremony. Sasaki’s derogatory suggestion was apparently that the famed comedian and fashion model should appear as the “Olympig,” a wordplay on the word “Olympic.” “There…

By Brian Ashcraft Published March 18, 2021

Culture

Reports: Nier: Automata’s New PC Version Is Better Than The Busted Original Release

A new PC version of Nier: Automata, part of the Become As Gods Edition, has just been released on the Microsoft Store and Game Pass. And early reports are that, unlike the version available on Steam, this one actually works The game’s original PC release on Steam back in 2017 was a notoriously poor port,…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2021

Culture

A Modern Take On Masters Of The Universe

Artist Eddie Del Rio, who we last featured here with his contributions to Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ attempts to get a Metal Gear movie made, spent a bunch of time last year, like everyone else, stuck at home. Unlike most other folks, though, he decided to spend that time reimagining iconic 80s series Masters of the Universe…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2021

Culture

WW2 Rebuilder Has You Fixing Cities Instead Of Blowing Them Up

WW2 Rebuilder is an upcoming PC game set after the Second World War where you’re tasked with visiting a number of devastated European cities and, with your bare hands (and some big tools), bring them back to their former glory. While the trailer focuses on London, the game’s website says you’ll also be visiting locations…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2021

Opinion

Dying Light 2‘s Developers Are Indulging Toxic Gamers

As promised, Polish developer Techland put out a video today updating the world on the state of zombie parkour thriller Dying Light 2. It’s actually an extremely concise look at one of the most toxic cycles underlying the video game industry. In the first half of the roughly three-minute video, various Techland developers read expletive-filled…

By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Please Enjoy Breath Of The Wild In 8K (If You Can)

A few years back I was marvelling at Breath of the Wild in 4K. Now we are all free to admire the game running in 8K, and with some (shaded) ray tracing to boot. That’s if you’ve got an 8K monitor. Since that’s almost nobody, the video here by Digital Dreams still looks incredible in…

By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2021

Culture

Valheim Mod Lets You Tame Any Creature, Including Trolls

While playing Valheim the other night, a friend and I spent an ungodly amount of time digging a trench and physically pushing Greylings through it, into a house, so they could be our pets. It was fiddly, sometimes infuriating work. Also, deeply unethical. If we had this mod, it would have at least been easier.…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2021

CultureOdds and Ends

Go, Fortnite Chicken, Go

Perhaps you, like me, forget which games have fall damage and which don’t. You get spoiled by the invincibility of Apex Legends, only to switch to something else and plummet to your death. At least you won’t be doing that in Fortnite anymore, if you can catch a chicken. Fortnite Season 6launched yesterday. Along with…

By Riley MacLeod Published March 17, 2021

Culture

Xbox Gets New Suspend Feature To Help With Slow Download Speeds

Download speeds on consoles are notoriously bad, especially if your internet isn’t lightning fast to begin with. A new feature rolling out now on Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S for Xbox Insiders is aimed at improving them by making it easier to suspend existing games while downloading new ones. “Suspend in the queue will…

By Ethan Gach Published March 17, 2021

Culture

More Game Companies Take A Public Stand Against Anti-Asian Racism Following Atlanta Shootings

A white man entered an Atlanta, Georgia spa yesterday and opened fire, killing four people and wounding another. He then drove across town and repeated this heinous act at two more locations, killing four more people. Six of the victims were Asian women, four of them of Korean descent. These shootings came hours after Bandai…

By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2021

CultureTwitch

Twitch Star’s ‘Never-Ending’ Stream Shows No Signs Of Stopping, Despite Need To Eat, Sleep

Ludwig Ahgren, a Twitch streamer with nearly 2 million followers, has never been one to shy away from stunts. His latest is especially audacious, albeit probably not great for his long-term health: He’s running a “never-ending” marathon stream powered by subscriptions. Each subscription adds another 10 seconds to the total amount of time he’s required…

By Nathan Grayson Published March 17, 2021

Culture

PSA: Next Week, You’ll Be Able To Claim A Bunch Of Free PlayStation Games

Earlier this month, Sony revived last year’s Play At Home initiative, a program designed to provide free games to PlayStation players in the hopes of promoting social distancing. Next week, Sony will expand the initiative by offering a whole bunch of games. Starting on March 25, you’ll be able to add the following PS4 games…

By Ari Notis Published March 17, 2021

Culture

Disco Elysium’s Beefed-Up Director’s Cut Coming March 30

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut will launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, and Stadia on March 30, developer ZA/UM announced today. The cerebral adventure game, which was first released to critical acclaim in 2019, puts you in the shoes of a complete mess of a detective as he and his partner investigate a murder…

By Ian Walker Published March 17, 2021