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CultureNintendo Just Very Quietly Announced A Brand New Game
Nintendo doesn’t always need a big Direct to announce a new first-party game. Sometimes they can just drop a trailer and say, hey, here’s a new thing, which is exactly what just happened with Game Builder Garage Coming to the Switch in June, it builds off the company’s recent work with everything from the Labo…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsResident Evil Village Mod Does Something To Lady Dimitrescu, But I Can’t Put My Finger On What
PC modders have done something to Resident Evil Village’s resident tall lady, Countess Alcina Dimitrescu, but I can’t figure out exactly what. Can you? Take your time. I know: It’s a real head scratcher! Alright so, I just got off the phone with experts at the intersection of tall ladies and trains, and they’ve informed…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureReturnal Patch Aims To Reduce Crashes, Increase…Corpses? [UPDATE: Save Corruptions Reported, Patch Pulled]
Update: May 6, 9:45 a.m. ET: Housemarque released patch 1.3.4 overnight. Here are the notes Update: May 5, 5:20 p.m. ET: The latest patch for Returnal has been pulled and the game reverted to the prior patch, developer Housemarque announced via Twitter. “We are fixing the issue now and a new patch will be published…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsBRB, Making My Own Mass Effect Legendary Edition Logo
BioWare must have sensed that I had thoughts about the Mass Effect companions on my spirit today, as it released a new tool that lets you pick and choose among the Mass Effect companions to make your own version of the Mass Effect Legendary Edition logo. Would-be custom logo recipients answer a handful of questions…
By Ash Parrish Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureHumble Bundle Rethinks Unpopular Charity Split
Two weeks ago, Humble Bundle announced a controversial plan to remove sliders that allow users to customize what percent of their game purchase goes to charity. Today, Humble announced that it’s rethinking that plan. “We’ve heard everyone loud and clear and apologize for the way these changes were rolled out,” the company wrote in a…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureFlashback Getting A New Sequel For Its 30th Birthday
With its gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds, stunning (for its time) rotoscoped animation, and engaging science fiction storyline, 1992’s Flashback is one of gaming’s all-time greats. Now original game designer Paul Cuisset is back, supervising a team of developers creating Flashback 2, coming in 2022 for consoles and PC. There’s not a lot of information on the…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureGamesCom Wises Up, Goes Fully Digital
GamesCom 2021 will be a fully digital event this year, GamesCom officials announced in a press release today. The move is a reversal of earlier plans for a semi-live event, inadvisable given the, y’know, roiling pandemic that’s still an ever-present aspect of everyday life. Held annually in Cologne, Germany, GamesCom is one of the more…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureLatest Outriders Bug Is Killing Players Instantly
To follow Outriders’ post-launch journey is to watch an Olympic game of whack-a-mole. Developer People Can Fly will stamp out one issue, only for another to pop right up. The latest: Some players are apparently getting instantly killed by attacks that otherwise would not cause instantaneous death. “We are aware of the issue whereby damage…
By Ari Notis Published May 5, 2021 -
EsportsChinese Overwatch Teams Threaten Boycott Of Korean Player For Statements On Taiwan And Hong Kong [Update: Teams ‘Resume Normal Activities’]
One of the most beloved players in the Overwatch League is facing backlash over political comments he made in a stream. On Chinese social media site Weibo, several members of the Chinese Overwatch League teams stated they would boycott any events that include Korean player Jong-ryeol “Saebyeolbe” Park due to his apparent stance on Hong…
By Ash Parrish Published May 5, 2021 -
ReviewsMultiplatformResident Evil Village: The Kotaku Review
I remember vividly the first time I played one of my favorite games of all time, Resident Evil 4 While not what I would call a huge fan of the survival horror series before then, I voraciously devoured every bit of Resident Evil 4 info I could get my hands on leading up to its…
By Ian Walker Published May 5, 2021 -
OpinionI Can’t Stop Thinking About This New Hot Wheels Game
Ever since the joy-inducing Hot Wheels expansion pack for Forza Horizon 3 I’ve been craving a high-quality game about racing my favorite toy cars through real-world locations. I’m really hoping September’s Hot Wheels Unleashed is it. Coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, PC, and Switch on September 30, Hot Wheels Unleashed is part racing game, part creative tool.…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureCS:GO Players Can Now Pay A Buck A Month To Access Better Statistics
Why use free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stat tracking websites like csgostats.gg or Leetify when you can now pay a $.99 monthly subscription fee for Valve’s official and less comprehensive CS:GO 360 Stats service? Because they’re free and more comprehensive? Ah. CS:GO’s Operation Broken Fang recently came to a close, but the operation’s stat tracking lives…
By Mike Fahey Published May 5, 2021 -
CultureNike Has Some New PlayStation 5 Sneakers Coming
Following on from their 2018 collaboration, Sony and Nike have announced a new pair of NBA star Paul George’s signature shoes are on the way, once again with PlayStation stuff all over them. This time the Sony collab will feature on a pair of PG5s (the last time around they were PG2s), and in keeping…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2021 -
CulturePlease Enjoy Epic’s Tim Sweeney Apologising Profusely To Ubisoft For Fucking Up
While the documents and emails being released as part of the Epic v Apple case are often important and full of detailed information, I am very much enjoying the ones—like this—where billionaire executives are forced into embarrassing apologies when their company fucks up. Here for your enjoyment is an email Tim Sweeney had to send…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsRadiohead Lyrics Spotted In The Resident Evil Village Demo
While many players keep occupied with seeing as much of Resident Evil Village as its one-hour demo allows, some folks go the extra mile. Someone on the Resident Evil subreddit discovered that the opening lines of the mega-popular Radiohead song “Creep” are written on a plastic bottle sitting in one of Village’s homes. At this…
By Ian Walker Published May 4, 2021 -
CultureGoogle Stadia’s Head Of Product Has Left The Company
Vice President and Head of Product at Stadia, John Justice, who only joined Google in early 2019, has not just left his role at the streaming game platform but the company itself. The news was originally reported by The Information, and later confirmed by 9to5Google. It comes only a few weeks after Google made the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2021 -
CultureApple’s Tim Cook On Epic’s Tim Sweeney: I Do Not Know This Man
Another day, another collection of very funny and insightful documents being released as part of the Apple vs Epic lawsuit. For tonight we have a 2015 email from Epic’s Tim Sweeney to Apple CEO Tim Cook, where one executive issues an impassioned plea for marketplace reform, and the other says, “Who is this man?” The…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 4, 2021 -
CultureDestiny 2 Players Are Losing Their Minds Over Fallen Babies That Look Like Grenades [UPDATE: Plushies Incoming]
If you’ve ever played Destiny or Destiny 2 for more than 15 minutes, you’ve probably killed at least several Fallen. The bug-eyed bad guys frequently stand between your Guardian and whatever they’re trying to accomplish, and they just crunch so good when you thwack ‘em with a giant hammer. But I swear to god, if…
By Nathan Grayson Published May 4, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsOculus Homes Ransacked
Yesterday I donned my three-week-old Oculus Quest 2 and decided to check in on Oculus Home, a personal 3D space that each Oculus user can customize with furniture and any number of faux-domestic polygonal accessories. But when I rezzed in, something was amiss. Or rather, everything was missing: My Home had been stripped bare. At…
By Alexandra Hall Published May 4, 2021
