May you all have as enjoyable and challenging a holiday as Lady Gaga is having playing Bayonetta

Here’s The Actual Basketball From The Cover Of NBA Jam

The iconic cover to NBA Jam, with its image of a logo-adorned basketball smashing through some paper, is not an illustration. It’s a photo, and this is the model, 25 years later. As trivial as this sounds, I had never even considered this possibility, so excuse my amazement at the wonders of early-90s promotional bootstrapping.…

What Makes Ocarina Of Time Great, 20 Years Later 

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time turned 20 years old today. Link’s first 3-D adventure, for the content-starved Nintendo 64, captivated a whole new generation of players, setting a standard for adventure games and laying a foundation for today’s massive open world journeys. In spite of this, Ocarina of Time remains a unique…

Popular Overwatch Fan Song Has Turned Into An Excuse To Mock Female Gamers

TikTok is a lip-synching app that’s popular among teenagers. If you’re not a teenager, you might be more familiar with this app through “cringe” compilations, which are videos that string together several TIkTok videos, often for the purposes of mockery. Every single “cringe” compilation that I’ve watched contains at least one instance of the Overwatch-themed…

Fallout 76’s Multiplayer: The Promise Vs. The Reality

In the week since Fallout 76‘s release, it since has become one of 2018’s more divisive games. Its Metacritic page is a horrorshow; its official forum and subreddits are battlegrounds between those who have found something to love in the buggy online survival game and those who think Bethesda has taken the series off a…

The Past, Present, And Future Of Diablo

On November 2, 2018, Blizzard closed its annual BlizzCon keynote by announcing, to scattered applause, a Diablo game for phones. It was a baffling marketing decision that immediately set off controversy, as fans of Blizzard’s iconic action-role-playing game franchise loudly accused the company of neglecting its PC players Perhaps Blizzard’s marketing department had expected Diablo…

WWE Star Spends Precious Airtime On Very Relatable PS4 Storage Issue

“I’m thankful for my two terabyte hard drive, so that I don’t have to delete Spider-Man in order to download Red Dead 2,” WWE wrestler Xavier Woods said during a Thanksgiving segment on the Smackdown wrestling TV show last night. You can see him make that statement, which garnered an “amen” from one of the…

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s First Epic Mercenary Isn’t Very Epic 

It’s been over a month since epic mercenaries were originally planned to arrive in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and the game has finally received its first one. These unique battles, which grant special rewards and in-game currency, could be a chance to highlight Odyssey’s combat system and challenge players to adopt new tactics. Unfortunately, the first…

No Man’s Sky To Roll Out Thanksgiving Update With New Biomes And Bizarre Creatures

Count your blessings, interlopers. No Man’s Sky is getting a surprise update, called Visions, for Thanksgiving. This update doesn’t appear to be quite as hefty as previous ones, but it’s still introducing new biomes, outer space creatures, and more community events. The update will launch tomorrow while many Americans are chowing down on turkey and…

Miss Universe Japan Will Compete As Sailor Moon

Representing Japan, Miss Universe contestant Yuumi Kato is dressing as Sailor Moon for the country’s national costume. Makes sense, I guess! Of course, she’ll wear other outfits, but this one is for competition Born in Nagoya, Kato speaks four languages (Japanese, Chinese, English and Malay). She will compete at this year’s Miss Universe on December…

Japan Is Building A Massive, Life-Sized Gundam Statue That Moves

Over the past few years, several life-sized Gundam statues have gone up in Japan. Either they didn’t move at all or didn’t move that much. During a recent press conference, a fourth anniversary Gundam project was announced. At Gundam Factory Yokohama, an 18-meter “moving” Gundam statue will be erected in summer 2020. Above is the…

Currency Screw-Up Leaves Australians Unable To Buy Some Steam Games

Steam made the move from US currency to the local dollarydoo in Australia today, and all publishers had to do to ensure a smooth transition was tick a box saying they now supported the Australian dollar. Loads of them, including Microsoft and Konami, forgot. As Kotaku Australia have catalogued, plenty of big games on Steam…