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CultureKotaku Game DiaryThanks For The Lovely Birthday Party, Animal Crossing Friends
I’m not normally one for elaborate birthday celebrations, but the party held for me this morning by a trio of Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers was exactly the pick-me-up I needed today. My ideal birthday is good food with family and friends and maybe a new Transformer or Lego set to fiddle with. I commemorate…
By Mike Fahey Published May 1, 2020 -
Tips & GuidesHow To Make Short Work Of Gears Tactics’ Frustrating First Boss
Gears Tactics, the don’t-call-it-an-XCOM strategy game out this week for PC, flips the long-running Gears of War series on its head. Where mainline franchise entries are all about shooting big guns and having big biceps, this game offers headier fare. Surviving the lengthy turn-based battles calls for a little bit of patience, a lot of…
By Ari Notis Published May 1, 2020 - Uncategorized
Gizmodo The Space Jam Sequel Has Found Itself a New Title | The Root More Love for Mom: Mother’s Day Gifts to Help Make Staying-at-Home a Sanctuary | Jezebel Sorry, This Image Is Cursed | Deadspin Story Of The First All-Black Rowing Team Is Absolutely A Must Watch | Lifehacker Please Don’t Try to Disinfect…
By G/O Media Published May 1, 2020 -
CultureWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
The weekend is for making apple butter out of my abundance of farm share apples, just in time to get more apples and have to figure out what to do with those. It’s also for playing video games. I went on a rant about how great Euro Truck Simulator 2 is to a Jalopnik colleague…
By Riley MacLeod Published May 1, 2020 -
CultureSlay To The Beat In Rhythm Action Shooter BPM: Bullets Per Minute
Coming to PC this summer and consoles this winter, BPM: Bullets Per Minute is a first-person shooter where everything happens to the beat of an epic rock opera. Shoot to the beat. Dodge to the beat. Jump to the beat. Reload to the beat. Players progress through procedurally-generated levels as a Valkyrie defending Asgard from…
By Mike Fahey Published May 1, 2020 -
CultureTrack: Don’t Stop… (Demo) | Artist: Oasis | Album: N/A
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Wonderful 101: Remastered’s physical release for North America and Europe has been delayed due to coronavirus covid-19. The digital release is still on track for May 19 and May 22 respectively, but the physical version won’t be out until June 30 and July 3. In case you missed it, check out our previous coverage…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2020 -
Kotaku EastSouth KoreaDemon Slayer Ripoff Game Released In South Korea
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a smash-hit manga. It has been adapted in an anime and an upcoming animated feature film. Late last month, an online game launched in South Korea with art that evoked Demon Slayer. But five days later service for the game ended. The demon-battling game launched on April 24. It…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanNew Pokémon Clothes Launch In Japan, Social Distancing Goes Out The Window
A state of emergency has been declared in Japan, but new Pokémon threads have gone on sale at GU clothing stores in Japan, with folks lining up for them. At stores in Japan, such as supermarkets, there are now markers so people can ensure they are far enough apart from each other while they line…
By Brian Ashcraft Published May 1, 2020 -
CultureThe Internet Agrees That Elon Musk Is Deus Ex‘s Trillionaire Villain, Not JC Denton
Today, noted embarrassing smoker, bad driver, and worse tweeter who is also somehow a billionaire Elon Musk has decided he’s JC Denton, the hero of 2000’s genre-defining cyberpunk immersive sim Deus Ex. Nobody agrees with him. Musk has spent the past couple days yelling to his 33.4 million Twitter followers about how it’s time to…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 30, 2020 -
UncategorizedSomewhere, Out There, Is A Timeline Where These Nintendo Games Exist
It is time, as it is around this time every year, for Japanese game store Meteor to hold their Famicase exhibition, where artists from all around the world are invited to create cartridge art for non-existent video games. This is one of my favourite parts of this job, because I’ve somehow managed to write this…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2020 -
CultureOld Build Of Switch Game Released Early, Publisher Calls It A “Happy Surprise”
Action RPG Indivisible, from Skullgirls creators Lab Zero, is great! The version that was reportedly released on the Switch this week, though, has been a very weird story. The game came out on April 28 with absolutely no advance notice whatsoever, to the point where even the game’s developers had no idea: That’s odd, and…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2020 -
OpinionImpressionsMoving Out, A Game About Trashing Someone’s House
Moving Out is a new game out this week on PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It’s a singleplayer or co-op experience, full of wacky arm-bending and physics gags, and depending on how you’re involved with the process is also an eerily accurate simulation of the art of moving house. As we’ve reviewed previously on…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 30, 2020 - Uncategorized
Lifehacker What to Watch Tonight | The A.V. Club “If you love me, you’ll drink this”: 7 movie cocktails you shouldn’t try at home | Jalopnik How To Become An Automotive Engineer At A Major Car Company | The Root The Real Coronavirus Hoax: Republicans Are Using COVID-19 to Make the Black Vote Disappear |…
By G/O Media Published April 30, 2020 -
CultureGTA Online Players Are Picking Sides In A Giant Alien War
There is a war raging in Grand Theft Auto Online, but not between drug dealers or criminal kingpins. Instead, players are donning green, purple, or white suits in a war of different colored aliens. It’s weird, even for GTA Online. As with most wars and conflicts, it is impossible to pinpoint a specific moment when…
By Zack Zwiezen Published April 30, 2020 -
UncategorizedHuh, SNK just released Gals’ Fighter on Switch Neo Geo Pocket Color’s cool clicky stick let it host some strangely good fighters, and this was the cutest. Nice to see NGPC games reappearing, and $7.99 is a lot easier to swallow than the $450 a U.S. copy of Gals’ Fighter recently fetched.
By Alexandra Hall Published April 30, 2020 -
UncategorizedPlayers Disliked Valorant‘s New Headshot Sound So Much That Riot Is Changing It Back
A headshot is like a tiny home run, or the world’s most densely packed bowling strike. You hit the target as perfectly as possible. Briefly, you are akin to a god, or at least one of history’s least-awful monarchs. These moments should stand out, especially when bullets are flying and chaos reigns. Valorant’s new headshot…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 30, 2020
