Fans Beautifully Remaster One Of World of Warcraft‘s Greatest Moments

It’s been a decade since World of Warcraft players stormed Icecrown Citadel to take down the Lich King Arthas Menethil once and for all. Blizzard’s ending cinematic to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion is a powerful piece, but it’s showing its age. Nothing new models, textures, lighting effects, and some very dedicated fans…

I’m Already Having Nightmares About The Whirling Blades Of Disc Room

Last night I dreamt I was being relentlessly chased by spinning saw blades. Yesterday, Devolver Digitalrevealed Disc Room, a game coming to Steam later this year in which a scientist dodges his way through an alien deathtrap made up of rooms filled with spinning blades. It’s a collaboration between developers Kitty Calis, Jan Willem Nijman,…

Japanese Idol Group Charging Fans Who Don’t Wear Sickness Masks Because Of Coronavirus

Numerous events scheduled for the next few weeks have been canceled in Japan and abroad. Idol group 2o Love to Sweet Bullet isn’t rescheduling upcoming events, but rather charging extra for fans who don’t wear masks. 2o Love to Sweet Bullet isn’t a mainstream idol group. It’s what’s called a chika aidoru (地下アイドル) or “underground…

Nintendo Comes To The Rescue After 95-Year-Old Grandmother’s Game Boy Breaks

In the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, 70-year-old Kuniko Tsusaka recounted how her mother always had a Game Boy nearby to play Tetris. But when her mother turned 95 and her health started to suffer, her Game Boy stopped working. This was her mother’s third Game Boy, and Tsusaka, who lives in Chiba, wasn’t…

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Let’s Just Enjoy How Realistic Red Dead Redemption’s Animals Are For A Second

This video by Red Dead Online Guides pulls the camera away from the player and just watches Red Dead Redemption 2’s animals go about their daily business, revealing tricks and habits you’d probably never pick up on if you were just pushing Arthur Morgan around all the time. Like, I had no idea that the…

The Only Artist Ever To Sculpt Spider-Man’s Nipples In A Video Game Wanted Them To Be ‘Hot,’ But Not Distracting

Nipples. They’re like fun little slices of pepperoni on the vast pizza that is the human body. Most people have them. Video game characters, though? Not so much. In fact, former Insomniac artist Xavier Coelho-Kostolny thinks there’s a credible case to be made that he’s the only person ever to sculpt Spider-Man’s nipples in a…

Fist Of The North Star Player Lands Killing Blow At Last Second

Last weekend’s annual Hokuto no Ken championship in Japan was full of incredible moments, but one match stood out thanks to the winner successfully landing the finishing blow right as the timer reached zero. Hokuto no Ken, also known as Fist of the North Star outside Japan, is a silly, silly fighting game. High-level play…

YouTuber Banned From Every EA Game And Online Service After Rants, Threats

Kurt “Kurt0411” Fenech, a FIFA Pro who is probably more notorious/famous for his YouTube presence, has been hit with one of the most severe online punishments I’ve ever seen, having been banned by EA from playing any of the company’s games online or even accessing any of their online services. The ban comes after Fenech’s…

Guilty Gear Director: Strive Will Be The Deepest Game In The Series

Guilty Gear Strive is Arc System Works’ upcoming sequel to Guilty Gear Xrd, which reinvigorated the series’ competitive scene as the first new entry in 12 years. The competitive community has a lot of expectations for Strive, and they haven’t been afraid to point out issues they’ve seen in early builds. Kotaku spoke to Guilty…

Someone Spent 7 Years Making Metroid Fusion In Minecraft

There’s a popular video of Samus running down corridors, hopping between platforms, and shooting parasites. It looks like any other piece of Metroid Fusion gameplay—until the camera slowly zooms out to reveal that the entire simulation is happening inside Minecraft That moment feels like an epiphany, in part because of how the fluid pixel animations…

Overwatch League Cancels South Korea Matches Over Coronavirus Concerns

Late last month, Blizzard’s Overwatch League cancelled all matches scheduled to take place in China in February and March due to coronavirus fears. Now it’s cancelled matches for South Korea as well, just days before games were set to begin. The league made fans aware of the cancellations viaTwitter, writing, “In order to protect the…

New Checkpoints Make The Mega Man Zero Legacy Collection Worth It

The excellent Mega Man Zero and ZX games have always been trapped in the shadows of their more popular Mega Man and Mega Man X predecessors, but thanks to Capcom’s latest collection, the unique side-scrolling run-and-gun platformers finally get their due. Out tomorrow on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, the Mega Man Zero/ZX…

Transformers Cyberverse Has The Best New Toys

For the past few years, Hasbro’s been juggling two main lines of Transformers toys: the complex, expensive, collector-aimed War for Cybertron line and the simpler, cheaper Cyberverse line, with its kid-friendly designs and lighthearted animated YouTube series. Hasbro revealed the latest toys for each line at the New York City Toy Fair this weekend, and…

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Series X Specs And Shares Some Cool Details

Did you know the Xbox Series X runs on a custom next-generation processor with four times the power of the Xbox One? How about the fact that it can save and quick resume from multiple games at once? Well now we know those things, along with the rest of the specs and details Microsoft shared…