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CultureShovel Knight Is Coming To Sma–Er, For Honor
Finally, after years of waiting, Shovel Knight is coming to the popular fighting game… For Honor. Oh…that’s fine I guess. I mean, who can think of any other game that needs Shovel Knight? Ubisoft Announced today that new Shovel Knight-inspired outfits, emotes and executions are available in the online fight ‘em up For Honor until…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 18, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsXbox’s New ‘FPS Boost’ Feature Is The Real Deal
Yesterday Microsoft released FPS Boost, a new backward-compatibility feature for the Xbox Series X and S. FPS Boost will…well boost the framerate dramatically in specific, older games when you play them on a next-gen Xbox. After playing around with FPS Boost a bit I’m excited and impressed. This could be a big change in the…
By Zack Zwiezen Published February 18, 2021 -
OpinionImpressionsProject Triangle Strategy Just Became One Of My Most Anticipated Games
Think back to the last argument you had. Did you sway the other person to your side? How much effort did that take? That tug-of-war—the fraught nature of persuasion, and the notion that you don’t initially know if you’ve pulled it off—is the unexpected crux of Project Triangle Strategy, an upcoming tactical game from Square…
By Ari Notis Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureThe New Mortal Kombat Movie Might Just Be A Good Mortal Kombat Movie
In the first 30 seconds of the first trailer for April’s Mortal Kombat movie reboot, Mehcad Brooks’ Jax loses both his arms to the icy grip of Joe Taslim’s Sub-Zero. Then things get violent. In theaters and on HBO Max on April 16, the new Mortal Kombat movie looks to be using every iota of…
By Mike Fahey Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureYou Can Finally Import Your Owned Levels Into Hitman 3 On PC
Hitman 3 PC players who own Hitman 1 or 2 can finally import their owned levels for free, developer IO Interactive announced today. “PC players who own Hitman 1 or Hitman 2 are now able to import locations from those games into Hitman 3 at no additional cost,” the developer wrote in a blog post.…
By Riley MacLeod Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureThe Makers Of Minit Are Back With A Clever New Spin-Off
Minit took the sense of exploration and discovery from a classic Zelda and recreated it in 60-second black and white chunks. The result was fantastic, so it’s not surprising its creators are returning to that world in their latest game: Minit Fun Racer The new side-scrolling racing game, which publisher Devolver Digital describes as a…
By Ethan Gach Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureBravely Default II‘s Developers Don’t Want It To Be Just Another RPG About Making The Numbers Go Up
Final Fantasy I is a game about about four warriors of light collecting ancient and powerful crystals to restore peace and balance to the world. Over three decades later, Square Enix is still telling that story same story, and this time it’s Bravely Default II’s turn, an old-school-feeling JRPG tasked with walking the tightrope between…
By Ethan Gach Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureFinal Fantasy XIV Could Go At Least Five More Years, Director Says
Final Fantasy XIV director Naoki Yoshida recently spoke about the future of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game with The Washington Post, saying that at its current growth rate, users can expect the online world to continue expanding with new content for at least five more years, if not indefinitely. “Even now, [Square Enix CEO…
By Ian Walker Published February 18, 2021 -
AnimeBroken In An Earthquake? Company Offers To Repair Anime Figures For Free
Whenever there’s an earthquake in Japan, inevitably on Twitter come photos of people’s anime statues knocked off shelves. Now one company is saying they’ll fix their ones for free! Recently, north-eastern Japan was rocked by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. No doubt anime figures were jostled about during the quake, which is why, as J-Cast News (via…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2021 -
AnimeFirst Look At Mamoru Hosoda’s New Anime Film Belle
Announced last December, Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and The Boy and the Beast) has a new animated feature coming out this year. As previously reported, the movie is called Belle and tells the story of a young woman in modern-day Japan as she enters a massive virtual world. Below is the brand new…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2021 -
Kotaku EastJapanNintendo Announced A Lovely Looking Summer Game For Japan
During the Japanese version of this week’s Nintendo Direct, a pleasant surprise was announced: a summertime game with everyone’s favorite anime five-year-old from Crayon Shin-chan Called Crayon Shin-chan: Ora to Hakase no Natsuyasumi (Crayon Shin-chan: My Summer Vacation With The Professor), the game lets players enjoy summertime in a small town in Kyushu, Japan. This…
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureTrack: Milk Tea | Artist: Ua | Album: Ametora
By Brian Ashcraft Published February 18, 2021 -
CultureOdds and EndsThank God For Wario
These are trying times we are all living through. If only we could live through them with half the gusto—and fashion sense—of Wario. Look at this screenshot from the upcoming Mario Golf: Super Rush. Look how ready everyone is to play golf. It shows Mario dressed like he votes Republican and lives somewhere featured on…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureSkyward Sword Has A Neat Workaround For Its Motion Controls
The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword, bless it for trying, was a Zelda game on the Wii that went all in with its motion controls, making ports to systems that aren’t the Wii a tricky proposition. The upcoming Switch version, though, has a workaround. Sure, you can use the Joy-Cons to simulate the Wii Remotes,…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureNo Thank You, Animal Crossing Mario
Stay up to watch the Nintendo Direct they said. Help us with the edits as the stories go live they requested. Sure, sure I replied, I was going to watch anyway, why not. And then they said Mario was coming to Animal Crossing. And now I don’t get to sleep. Ever again. Everything is wrong.…
By John Walker Published February 17, 2021 -
CulturePlants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Comes To Switch Next Month
The most family-friendly competitive online shooter this side of Splatoon finally makes its way to the Switch on March 19. Plants vs. Zombies: Battle For Neighborville Complete Edition brings the fight to Nintendo’s console and makes all released cosmetic DLC unlockable in-game without a premium store or microtransactions. Co-developed with QLOC S.A., the Switch version…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureOh Hey, They’re Bringing Back Stubbs The Zombie
Remember Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without A Pulse, the 2005 action game for PC and Xbox about a depression-era zombie eating brains in the late 1950s? Maybe? Either way, it’s coming to Xboxes, PlayStations, Switch, and PC on March 16. It’s not a remake. It’s not a remaster. The version of Stubbs the Zombie…
By Mike Fahey Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureEverything Nintendo Showed During Today’s Direct
Nintendo held its first full-length Direct in nearly two years today, and it was chock-full of smaller announcements and some neat surprises. There was still no news about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, nor the new Metroid game Nintendo teased forever ago, but we did get our first look at Splatoon…
By Ethan Gach Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureNintendo Announces Splatoon 3, Out 2022
When you see dusty backdrops and derelict train yards, you probably think of, well, anything other than the very colorful Splatoon series. But that’s how Nintendo initially showed off next year’s Splatoon 3 during today’s Nintendo Direct. Not gonna lie, of all the games we could’ve seen cap off the first Direct in a bazillion…
By Ari Notis Published February 17, 2021 -
CultureNintendo Sorry There Isn’t Any Breath Of The Wild 2 News
When Zelda boss Eiji Aonuma made a brief appearance on today’s Nintendo Direct, it sparked some brief hope that there might be news on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2. There was not. Indeed, Aonuma—who was actually there to debut Skyward Sword on the Switch—opened his address by apologising for the lack…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 17, 2021