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CultureYakuza: Like A Dragon Battle Menus Now Spell ‘SEGA’ Thanks To Joking Tweet
Game development is a collaborative effort between designers, programmers, and writers, which on big productions can number in the hundreds. It can take years to get a specific mechanic or cutscene right, and even then, it might still fall flat with players. But in the case of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, some of the best…
By Ian Walker Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureEven Lapsed Overwatch Players Love Pharah’s New Lifeguard Skin
It’s summer. Per tradition, this means that the Overwatch team must give somebody abs, or face dire consequences. So Pharah is a lifeguard now. Cue the entire internet dramatically leaping into the ocean and pretending to drown in hopes that somebody—nobody specific, of course—might come save them. It would be an understatement to say that…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 4, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Unlock The Rest Of Paper Mario: The Origami King’s Settings
For a modern game, Paper Mario: The Origami King’s settings are archaic. When you first start out, you can adjust the brightness, or the rumble in your Joy-Cons. You can toggle the motion controls on or off. There are three other options, but they’re listed, literally, as “????” To find out what they are—as well…
By Ari Notis Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureHow’s It Going?: Lost Edition
It’s a very rainy Tuesday! Welcome back to our daily open thread. I stayed up far too late last night looking for a document from my past that I don’t think I have anymore but I know I wouldn’t have purposefully thrown away. I could clearly picture it folded up and shoved into some book,…
By Riley MacLeod Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureSnowman’s incredibly chill snow/sandboarding games, Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Oddysey, are coming to consoles and PC. The two games are combined into one as The Alto Collection, launching August 13 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC via the Epic Game Store, with a Switch version coming at a later date.
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2020 -
UncategorizedCarrion‘s Switch Icon Is Less Horrible Now
Phobia Game Studio’s Carrion is a cool little game in which players terrorize scientists as a hideous tentacled monster. It used to have a Switch game icon that looked like a grotesque body opening. Now its icon looks like mutant lobsters at play. It’s a definite improvement. The biggest improvement to the Carrion Switch icon…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureXbox Game Pass Ultimate Adds Cloud Gaming September 15
As announced in July, Microsoft’s Project xCloud game streaming service is becoming part of the $15-a-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription service on September 15, allowing users to stream more than 100 Xbox games to their Android phones and tablets. In a pair of posts on Xbox Wire, Microsoft details the games subscribers can play…
By Mike Fahey Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureSushi Used To Be Much Larger In The Past
During the Edo Period (1603-1868) of Japan, sushi was between two and four times larger than it is today. But why? One of the biggest reasons is that Edo (present-day Tokyo), where sushi was invented, was a metropolis from which large numbers of people were passing in and out. They needed food they could take…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanGaming Masks Help Fight Covid And Exist In Japan
Gaming products love LED. If a company wants to make a gaming PC, a gaming keyboard, or a gaming mouse, light-emitting diodes are a constant. So these “gaming masks” should be no surprise. According to Famitsu, these Illumi-on branded gaming mask covers are outfitted with LED lights charged by USB. They come in black and…
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Labyrinth | Artist: Mondo Grosso | Album: Labyrinth – EP
By Brian Ashcraft Published August 4, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallThis 1990 TV News Report Is For The Monkey Island Fans In The House
Amateur games historian Eon Fafnir posted a clip of this 1990 local news story about LucasArts (then still known as LucasFilm Games) yesterday, and while it’s fascinating getting a look behind the scenes of the studio during some its golden years, Monkey Island fans can squint and see some stuff that never made the finished…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2020 -
CultureSuper Mario 64 Took 622 Days To Develop, Suggests ‘Gigaleak’ Document
Super Mario 64 is arguably one of the best games of all time, not only due to how fun it is but also because of the technological leap it represented for the platforming genre. According to a document included in the recent “Gigaleak,” however, this monumental project took less than two years of actual development.…
By Ian Walker Published August 3, 2020 -
CultureCosplayOverwatch Cosplay Lights Up The Darkness
Cosplayer Zibartas—who we’ve seen here before with some top-tier Overwatch work—has truly outdone himself here, building a complete set of Mercy’s wings made out of steel and aluminium, that move and really light up. Here’s the finished product: God damn If you’d like to see how something like this was put together, Zibartas has made…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2020 -
CultureTotal RecallLet’s Talk Fields Of Glory, A Forgotten RTS Pioneer
When people hail the pioneering classics of the RTS genre, they go through a list of usual suspects. Games like Cytron Masters, Dune II, Command & Conquer, Sega’s Herzog Zwei…but there’s one I don’t think ever gets its due, and that’s Spectrum Holobyte’s Fields of Glory Released on the PC in 1993, and designed by…
By Luke Plunkett Published August 3, 2020 -
CultureCall Of Duty Is Finally Blowing The Top Off The Warzone Stadium
Warzone’s stadium explosion was officially revealed with today’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare trailer. The teased eventwill finally come to fruition with Season 5, which kicks off on August 5 across PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Call of Duty’s Warzone makes a great companion to Modern Warfare’s standard multiplayer, but the battle royale map…
By S.E. Doster Published August 3, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published August 3, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsFrog Fractions‘ New $8 Hat DLC Contains A Lot More Than Just A Hat
Yesterday, Frog Fractions, the notorious 2012 browser game that is much more than it appears, came to Steam with a new Game of the Decade edition. There is also a new $8 DLC pack that is, purportedly, just a hat. You will not be shocked to learn that it is more than just a hat.…
By Nathan Grayson Published August 3, 2020
