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UncategorizedSome People Made An Entire Sci-Fi Game Inside Of Fortnite
Fortnite’s creative mode is home to a lot of clever player-made maps, challenges, and obstacle courses. Yesterday, a team of creators released a full-blown Creative campaign called The Fourth Dimension, which features a storyline, multiple maps, and lots of mysteries to uncover. YouTuber Mustard Plays, who showcases Creative maps on his channel (and is also…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryGrid On Stadia Runs Well And Reminds Me What I Love About Racing Games
I’ve been flirting with the idea of playing a racing simulation again, so when Stadia finally launched with Grid, I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone: test out how smooth the game runs on Google’s new streaming platform and satisfy my motorsport craving. Turns out both are super effective. I remember fondly the…
By Paul Tamayo Published November 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedTitanfall 2 and Monster Energy Supercross Are December’s PS Plus Games
If you haven’t played Titanfall 2 yet, I only played it recently, but that means I can now be appalled at you for not playing it. Lucky for us all, it’s one of December’s PlayStation Plus games. Alongside Titanfall 2, PlayStation Plus members can get Monster Energy Supercross—The Official Videogame, which appears to be about…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureGoogle Says It’ll Give Refunds To Anyone Who Bought Stadia’s Free December Games
The Stadia launch games Tomb Raider and Farming Simulator 19 will be free to Pro subscribers of Google’s streaming platform in December, the company said yesterday. This would have been a raw deal for anyone who has purchased either game since Stadia went live, on November 19, but Google added last night that it will…
By Ethan Gach Published November 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedHere’s December 2019’s Xbox Live Games With Gold Lineup
December’s Xbox Live Games with Gold are a good mix, especially if you like movie tie-ins. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active Xbox Live Gold subscription. December’s Games with Gold are: Xbox One Insane Robots (December 1-31) Jurassic World Evolution (December 16-January 15) Xbox 360 (compatible with Xbox One)…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 27, 2019 - Uncategorized
The developers of Death Stranding say they’re releasing an update in mid-December that adds, among other things, an option to increase your text size. This is welcome news, given that it’s currently tough to play Death Stranding without squinting so hard that your eyes start tearing up like you’re in Death Stranding
By Jason Schreier Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureInside The Long Dark
“I never feel like The Long Dark is done,” Hinterland Studio founder Raphael van Lierop told me of the Canadian studio’s long-in-development wilderness survival game. The Long Dark first appeared as a Kickstarter campaign in 2013, with the earliest gameplay video showing just a small clearing, basic survival mechanics, and a wolf. Since then, the…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 27, 2019 -
UncategorizedSure, Let Cows Use VR
Half Life: Alyx is on the way, and it’s maybe time to accept that virtual reality will be a part of how we approach games going forward. But VR isn’t just useful for fighting Combine soldiers; it can be very relaxing. Which is exactly why a Russian farm strapped VR headsets to its cows. According…
By Heather Alexandra Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureNew No Man’s Sky Update Lets You Upgrade Your Ship
Tomorrow, No Man’s Sky will get a new update, called Synthesis, which incorporates long-asked for features and almost 300 bug fixes. It’s not as huge as the last update, but it will make changes to ships, the terrain manipulator, and building. The last No Man’s Sky update, Beyond, overhauled the game, especially multiplayer. “Beyond was…
By Gita Jackson Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureTrack: Ride Me Back Home | Artist: Willie Nelson | Album: Ride Me Back Home
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 27, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanPro And Amateur FPS Players See Differently, According To Comparison
Have you ever wondered why some people are better at first-person shooters than others? One important difference might be how people see while playing. Nikkei recently posted a clip tracking a professional FPS player’s vision while playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and compared the data to the vision of an amateur player. Both players…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureCosplayGalleryOur Favorite Cosplay From BlizzCon 2019
BlizzCon 2019 had a different feel to previous years, as big game announcements shared the weekend with protests against the company’s political actions. One thing that remained constant, though, was the quality of cosplay that fans brought to the show. Maybe it’s the focused nature of the con, maybe it’s just the fact that Blizzard’s…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 27, 2019 -
CultureLook At This Beautiful Game Of Pathfinder
A group of Australian friends just wound up an epic game of tabletop RPG Pathfinder, and I mean, I already said this in the headline, but just look at the thing. Overseen by DM Paul Houlihan, who also did all the painting (the terrain is a mix of stuff, most of it from Dwarven Forge),…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2019 -
CultureTotal RecallThere Was An F-Zero Novel, And Its Art Sure Was Something
In January of 1992, a novel—not a manga, a novel—was released in Japan based on F-Zero. And anyone used to how the series looked and felt on a console will notice it’s quite…different. With a title roughly translated to F-Zero: And Then, To The Gods Of Speed, these scans and info were all uploaded by…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 26, 2019 -
CultureValve Is Not Making Any More Steam Controllers
We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the Steam Controller, the little gamepad that could in some cases, but couldn’t in others, because it made people’s hands hurt. Its haptic pads are tickling the fingers of angels now. Currently, Valve’s maiden foray into the world of long-distance game manipulation is on sale for…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 26, 2019 -
CultureTwitchTwitch Loophole Is Still Inflating Views
Saqib “Lirik” Zahid, who has 2.5 million followers on Twitch, is the last streamer to need a viewbot. Nevertheless, over the last couple of days, his fans and followers wondered whether he’d somehow succumbed—this week, his average 27,000 viewer count for November shot up to a huge 76,000 for no discernable reason. Zahid felt the…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published November 26, 2019 -
CultureDota 2 Gets Total Overhaul
I’ve spent over 1,000 hours playing Dota 2 and reading through the game’s latest set of patch notes is breaking my brain. The game’s Outlander’s update went live today, adding not just two more heroes but upending massive aspects of the game, including item delivery, teleportation, late game advantages, and item progressions. The base game…
By Ethan Gach Published November 26, 2019
