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Pretzel After Dark Is A Sexy Take On Twister
There’s something very saucy about playing sexy board games. It feels like redefining innocent childhood memories, like reading Harry Potter slash fiction where Ron and Malfoy get busy on the roof of the Hogwarts Express, or finding out that The Hunchback of Notre Dame was about Frollo having a raging anger-boner for Esmeralda. NSFW Warning:…
By Kate Gray Published November 9, 2018 - CultureKotaku Game Diary
PSVR Remains My Sixth Choice For Gaming
When I’m in the mood to play a video game, I’ll grab my Switch, a PS4 controller, maybe my Xbox One controller or my 3DS or perhaps my phone. I’ve got lists of games I’m eager to start or continue on those devices. None of them require me to unwrap the cords of a special…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 9, 2018 -
ReviewsPS4Tetris Effect: The Kotaku Review
Tetris Effect takes the pure, near-perfect game design of the classic puzzle game and injects a cocktail of hallucinatory visuals mixed with a sublime soundtrack. It’s a refreshing, modern update to a classic with an optional virtual reality component and more than anything, it’s also the kind of game that I think we desperately need…
By Paul Tamayo Published November 9, 2018 - Culture
Strategy Guide Company Prima Games Is Shutting Down
Prima Games, the publishing company that has printed video game strategy guides since it was founded in 1990, is shutting down, parent company DK said yesterday. The label will no longer publish new guides starting now, and it will officially shutter in the spring. Thanks to the rise of sites like GameFAQs—and major gaming publications…
By Jason Schreier Published November 9, 2018 - Culture
Warframe Fans Ask Developers To Avoid Crunch
This year, game players have learned many uncomfortable truths about video game crunch. If what happened on the Warframe subreddit in the runup to the increasingly MMO-ish co-op shooter’s latest expansion is any indication, we’re starting to see players push developers to take better care of themselves, even if that means slower game releases. Warframe…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 8, 2018 -
UncategorizedCloudpunk, A Cyberpunk Game Where You’re A Courier
This is Cloudpunk, a PC game where you play as a courier for a “semi-legal delivery company”. Seems like it’s set during the events of a single night, and has you meeting “a diverse range of characters including androids, AI and unscrupulous humans at every level of society” as you move around both on foot…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 8, 2018 - Culture
Black Ops 4 Zombies Won’t Stop Crashing, Frustrating Easter Egg Hunters
Frequent blue-screen crashes in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode has made it much more difficult for the community to find the game’s Easter eggs. After 25 frustrating days, the “Classified” map has been solved—but the players had to use exploits to do it. Black Ops 4 marks 10 years since Treyarch introduced…
By S.E. Doster Published November 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
Activision Says It’s Not Happy With Destiny‘s Sales
Sales for Destiny 2: Forsaken have not lived up to Activision’s expectations, the publisher said today on an earnings call, promising investors a faster content model and new forms of monetization for the game. This comes at a time when the Destiny fanbase is as happy as it’s ever been, which raises serious questions about…
By Jason Schreier Published November 8, 2018 - Culture
Bethesda Says It Plans To Fix Fallout 76’s Item Storage Problem
Fallout 76 players are running out of room in their inventories, and the game’s not even out yet. Fortunately, Bethesda is promising a fix. Finding and crafting the best equipment is a major part of Fallout 76. The game’s world is full of junk you can pick up, useful for creating everything from guns and…
By Ethan Gach Published November 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
Overwatch Probably Won’t Get A Hero Wackier Than Wrecking Ball
There was a time, hard as it might be to remember, when Overwatch’s wackiest hero was a peanut-butter-loving science ape from the moon. Earlier this year, however, he was usurped by a mech-piloting, robo-voiced, Thunderdome-battling hamster who’s also from the moon. How do you top that? Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan isn’t sure he wants to.…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 8, 2018 -
UncategorizedWhen Hearthstone Pros Get Bored, Out Come The Wacky Decks
Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has been live for two months now, and as tends to happen at the end of the expansion cycle, the game is beginning to feel like a waiting room for the December 4 launch of the next set, Rastakhan’s Rumble. Iterations of Hearthstone’s most powerful decks have reigned for months, and…
By Joshua Calixto Published November 8, 2018 -
UncategorizedDC Universe Online‘s Atlantis Update Takes Players Under The Sea
Darling it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from Aquaman, the half-human Atlantean monarch who’s fighting for his crown in today’s massive edition to Daybreak’s long-running superhero MMO. Man, what took the game so long to get wet? One of the earliest missions I remember in DC Universe Online when it launched back in…
By Mike Fahey Published November 8, 2018 -
UncategorizedNew PS4 Pro Models Seem Much Quieter
While the PlayStation 4 Pro has been out in the wild for two years now, it’s recently undergone some slight hardware refinements that change how loud it is. According to a recent analysis by Digital Foundry, the noise reduction in the latest iteration of the console, currently only available as part of a Red Dead…
By Ethan Gach Published November 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
YouTube is now available on the Nintendo Switch, bringing the console’s total app count up to two. The only other app currently available on the platform is Hulu (which, thanks to Hulu’s live TV, I actually use a lot). This also means you can officially watch the next Nintendo Direct on Switch.
By Ethan Gach Published November 8, 2018 - Uncategorized
What To Do When Falling Asleep While Gaming
So, uh, does anyone know what happens in the Red Dead Redemption 2 stranger mission with the photographer and, was there a coyote in it? I may have fallen asleep while playing it last night. Readers, I am not knocking RDR2, which I’m happily sauntering through. I’m instead recognizing my limits as a tired father…
By Stephen Totilo Published November 8, 2018
