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CultureGTA Online‘s Casino Will Have Horse Racing, Private Arcades, And Penthouses
GTA Online’s casino update launches July 23. The update is about the opening of the Diamond Casino & Resort in Los Santos. Rockstar has revealed more information about the long-teased update via a separate website, a first for GTA Online expansions. The update sounds ambitious and potentially very expensive, with slot machines, horse track betting,…
Riley MacLeod & Zack Zwiezen Published July 18, 2019 -
CultureRole-Locking Is Coming To Overwatch, According To Leaked Video [UPDATE]
Today, a pre-recorded Overwatch League video leaked sharing news that Blizzard is apparently implementing role-locking in Overwatch and the Overwatch League. [Update—4:45 pm ET]: Overwatch’s game director Jeff Kaplan confirmed that players will now queue for specific roles in Overwatch games, too. Starting soon, all team compositions in the Overwatch League will consist of two…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published July 18, 2019 -
CultureSea Of Thieves Gets Monthly Updates And The First One Is Pretty…Explosive
Sea of Thieves, Rare’s chill pirate hangout game, has been on the upswing lately. After an expansive (and excellent) Anniversary Update that brought story quests and cooking to its cartoony high seas in May, Sea of Thieves is upping the ante yet again with monthly updates. Log into the game now on Xbox One or…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 18, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe western release of SINoALICE, the smartphone game from Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro scheduled to launch worldwide today, has been delayed indefinitely, publisher Nexon announced on Facebook. For now, the game remains exclusive to Japan.
By Joshua Rivera Published July 18, 2019 -
Kotaku EastK-Pop Pick Of The Day: Shower
It’s always a fun, if slightly down-the-rabbit-hole-esque time whenever the irreverent rock duo Norazo releases a new song. Shower is no different. Shower is basically more of the same thing that Norazo has been known for since their debut in 2005. Even a quick glance at their previously-featured songs on this column, like Superman and…
By Seung Park Published July 18, 2019 -
Kotaku EastJapanFree!, Kyoto Animation’s popular swimming anime series, was supposed to get new info tomorrow about its upcoming Free! feature film. Those announcements have been canceled. [Update July 18 – 5:06 am: An earlier version of this story stated that the movie itself had been canceled. That is incorrect. We regret the error.]
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 18, 2019 -
CultureDota Underlords‘ Meta Is In An Awkward Spot
Ideally, Dota Underlords, like its auto-battler kin, plays out as a game of slow-build strategy in which you amass an army of heroes based on synergies between them. Maybe that means a chanting brood of surprisingly survivable warlocks. Maybe that means a beefy team of brawny boys who are even beefier together than they are…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 17, 2019 -
CultureFormer Magic: The Gathering Pro Arrested On Sexual Assault Charges
Conley Woods, a former Magic: The Gathering pro and contributor to the game’s official website, has been arrested in Santa Fe on charges of “criminal sexual penetration, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and other crimes.” The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Woods had spent Saturday with a woman he claims he had been…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 17, 2019 -
CultureTwitchBernie Sanders Finally Appears On His Own Twitch Channel—During Amazon Boycott
Last time we checked in on endearingly grouchy democratic socialist uncle and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ Twitch channel, it was notably lacking in Bernie Sanders himself. It also felt more like a campaign commercial than any sort of broadcast Twitch viewers were used to seeing. Yesterday evening, Sanders and company finally addressed one of those…
By Nathan Grayson Published July 17, 2019 -
CultureSwitch Owners Share Horror Stories Of Trying To Fix Joy-Con Drift
“Joy-Con drift,” which results in a thumbstick that reads movement without player input, has been an ongoing problem for Nintendo Switch owners since the console’s launch back in early 2017. Without large-scale fixes from Nintendo, however, players have taken to fixing their $80 controllers themselves, sometimes with disastrous results. The jury is still out on…
By Ian Walker Published July 17, 2019 -
CultureA Mysterious Storm Is Brewing On Anthem‘s Horizon After Weeks Of Nothing
BioWare hasn’t announced when Anthem’s upcoming Cataclysm event will begin in earnest, but recent clues have players hopeful the game’s next phase is imminent. It doesn’t take much these days to get Anthem’s remaining players excited. On Monday one player discovered a countdown timer in the game that indicated that it was seven days and…
By Ethan Gach Published July 17, 2019 -
OpinionGet To The Orange Door Is Basically 1980s Titanfall 2
When it comes to first person shooters, my preferred style is super fast and acrobatic. As much as I love throwbacks like Amid Evil, I’ve been wanting something that feels like Titanfall 2. Get To The Orange Door is an early access shooter with a 1980’s aesthetic and all the wall running, double jumping chaos…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 17, 2019 -
CultureBug-Riddled Update Shows Why Fallout 76 Needs A Public Test Server
This week marks eight months since Fallout 76 released as a buggy mess. Since then, Bethesda’s online survival game has improved a lot. But while it has had a lot of good days, the arrival of patch number 11 yesterday was not one of them. Instead, it’s renewed players’ calls for Bethesda to try updates…
By Ethan Gach Published July 17, 2019 -
CulturePlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Just Got A Completely Bananas Backstory
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the 2017 Early Access hit that kicked off gaming’s battle royale craze, has never really had a backstory. Why bother? The appeal was immediate: You’re thrown from a plane with 99 other people onto an island full of weapons. This being a video game, everyone is going to try and kill one another.…
By Joshua Rivera Published July 17, 2019 -
UncategorizedTim and Stephen are streaming the impressive new Assassin’s Creed Odyssey DLC The Fate of Atlantis Chapter 3, over on our Twitch channel. Join us in the chat to see it in action, or just to hang out. And as always, subscribe to us onTwitch for more streams as they happen.
By Chris Person Published July 17, 2019 -
ReviewsToysHasbro’s New Overwatch Figure Shows Off Reinhardt’s Pretty Face
Out of all the characters recreated in plastic for Hasbro’s first wave of Overwatch action figures, the hands-down, hammers-up best is the super-sized Reinhardt with his gorgeous mech suit and dinner plate-sized shield. The only way it could be better would be if we could see the old man’s pretty face. Oh hi there, San…
By Mike Fahey Published July 17, 2019
