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UncategorizedBlock, Yoda Can Finally
Star Wars: Battlefront II came out 17 months ago. In all the time since, Yoda hasn’t been able to block attacks with his lightsaber. Luke Skywalker was able to block. Obi-Wan Kenobi was able to block. But not the Jedi master who taught them. Until now. Today’s Battlefront II update adds a new costume for…
By Ethan Gach Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedAssassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s New Expansion Is Pure Sci-Fi Nonsense And I Love It
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s newest downloadable content, “The Fate of Atlantis,” focuses on the strange and magical. From ancient gods to hidden paradise worlds that may or may not be holographic prisons, “Fate of Atlantis” embraces the more far-out science fiction elements of the franchise. The first episode is a web of scheming alien gods and…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedBlack Ops 4 Variant Maps Are Pretty, But Don’t Change The Game
Treyarch has been adding lots of map variants to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, changing the time of day and weather patterns in some of the previously existing maps. They can be a nice change of pace, but they don’t change the gameplay, and are clogging up the map rotation, too. On the one…
By S.E. Doster Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedFallout 76 got a new update this week adding a manual in-game camera. The game technically already has a camera mode, but this way feels a little more personal. Of course you’ll have to find plans for the camera and than craft it first. Here’s a helpful map of where it spawns.
By Ethan Gach Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedStarlink‘s Toys Are Finished, But The Game Is Getting Bigger Next Week
Free and paid updates are coming to Ubisoft’s uneven sci-fi game Starlink on April 30, just in time to deliver on the promise of a big update this month. The update, called Crimson Moon, was detailed today in a trailer that shows signs of life for the young Ubisoft game that just recently had its…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedOverwatch is getting a “workshop” mode, which will certainly make the custom mode’s sexy role-play community happy. On the PTR, players can make text and rule scripts and add custom play conditions for game modes, like changing heroes’ movement or abilities. Cutely, Blizzard suggests trying out “floor is lava.”
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedAnthem’s New Stronghold Mission Has One Really Cool Moment
I’m playing Anthem, and I’m flying through a tunnel. There are a lot of those in the game. This one happens to be filled with water. At the other end I can make out some light. I fly closer to it. Eventually I break through the surface into a sandy, sun-bleached arena surrounded by massive…
By Ethan Gach Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedLeave My Sims Alone, You Damn Dracula!
It’s 3 a.m. and your Sims are asleep. They’ve had a long day helping out the kids with homework, making sure the cat doesn’t destroy the furniture, and taking an entire hour to eat meals. They need this rest, badly, or else the kids will be cranky for school and the adults will go to…
By Gita Jackson Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedHindsight 20/20 is a cool-looking action adventure game coming to consoles and PC sometime in 2020. Announced by Triple-I Games, an indie studio founded by former BioWare, ArenaNet, and Sucker Punch devs, Hindsight is being pitched as a Zelda-like that incorporates morality-based decision making into the gameplay.
By Ethan Gach Published April 24, 2019 -
CultureKotaku Game DiaryFinding The Metagame In Atlantic City
While visiting Atlantic City’s greige boardwalk last Sunday, I set foot in my very first casino, a come-as-you-are joint called Bally’s with years’ worth of cigarette smoke ground into its red carpet. It was Easter—not a great day to commune with sin—but a day off nonetheless. Passing the ringing slot machines, I sat down at…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe Strange Things Nintendo Asked Players To Do To Play Its Handheld Games
For decades, Nintendo has enabled people to play games on the go. It’s been great, but it’s also been silly at times. Seriously, how did any of us even tolerate playing games on the Game Boy Advance’s dim screen? As much love as I have for the systems that brought us Advance Wars, WarioWare, Phoenix…
By Stephen Totilo Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedPersona 5 The Royal Adds New Phantom Thief, Comes Stateside Next Year
After way too many teases, Atlus has revealed details about Persona 5 The Royal. The upgraded edition of the 2016 RPG hit will add a new party member and expand on social elements like confidants and city exploration. The Royal was outlined in a trailer today, which dropped details on what to expect from this expanded…
By Heather Alexandra Published April 24, 2019 -
UncategorizedDiscovery Of A Secret, Fan-Run City Of Heroes Server Causes A Community Meltdown
It turns out that when superhero MMO City of Heroes was shut down at the end of 2012, it was only mostly dead. For six years, it was kept alive by fans on a secret private server. In the wake of that server’s discovery last week, the City of Heroes community has been thrown into…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedThe AAF May Be Dead, But Its Spirit Will Live Forever In Sports Video Games
In the real world the Alliance of American Football, a shitshow of a league that was shut down before it could even complete its first season, will never have a champion. But a mod for a PC game can let the truly dedicated/curious try and decide one anyway. Axis Football, which I very much did…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedModder Gets Custom Quests Working In The Witcher 3
rmemr has created a set of tools called radish that allow for the creation of new, custom-made quests for The Witcher 3, something fans have been dying for since the game’s release back in 2015 The good news is that the tools are up and ready for download! The bad news is that they’re pretty…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedNickelodeon Releases Official Spongebob Meme Figures
In a “how do you do fellow kids” moment for the ages, you can now buy officially licensed Spongebob figures based on the series’ memes. From “Handsome Squidward” to “Surprised Patrick”, there are six figures in all, though sadly the best one—which I hope is just called “sPOngeBoB”—is already sold out. They’re going for around…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedFinal Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Has Designed A Magic: The Gathering Card
War of the Spark, Magic: The Gathering’s next expansion, features the game’s largest collection of Planeswalker cards to date. Wizards of the Coast has tapped a number of different artists to create alternative versions of the cards for Japan, including Yoshitaka Amano of Final Fantasy fame. Amano produced concept art for the series up until…
By Ethan Gach Published April 23, 2019 -
UncategorizedRage-Quitting Is Appropriately Bloody in Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat wouldn’t be Mortal Kombat without extreme violence, and the look of the game has only gotten more and more gruesome as home consoles have become more powerful. The most recent game in the series, Mortal Kombat 11, kicks things up to, well, 11 in the way it displays bloodshed. Naturally, this brutality also…
By Ian Walker Published April 23, 2019
