Hideo Kojima Gives an Update on His New Game

Late last year, Hideo Kojima set up his new studio and started work on a brand new title. In a recent Famitsu interview, he talks about how things are progressing. Granted, this past February, the former Metal Gear maven also talked a teeny bit about his upcoming title, saying it was “big” and has “lots…

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Rooster Teeth Launches Card Game Kickstarter, Hits Goal In Two Minutes

The comedy team at Rooster Teeth have decided to make a card game based on their Million Dollars, But… series of web videos. It’s current Kickstartersuggests it’s going to make a lot more than that. Million Dollars, But… was looking for $10,000 in funding. It hit that in just two minutes, and only a few…

Here’s The First Assassin’s Creed Movie Trailer

There have been good video game movies, but a great one? Michael Fassbender x Assassin’s Creed are going to take a swing at it. The Spain stuff looks very Assassin’s Creed. That Animus? Less so. The movie’s out in December.

Big Games Can Take A LONG Time To Get Made

While we get little snippets here and there, for most outsiders, our knowledge of how a video game is actually made is fairly limited. Especially when it comes to how long it takes to make one. I was flicking through the Killzone art book over the weekend, and came across a timeline of the series’…

Giant Animals Fighting Is Always A Good Look For A Video Game

It’s coming up on two years since Gigantic—a very colourful arena battle game—was announced for PC and Xbox One. It’s got two things going for it: it looks amazing, and instead of just fighting in lanes towards a base, your base is a giant animal that fights alongside you. Earlier this year the game’s developers…

Fabular is an open-universe medieval space folktale set in a surreal galaxy. It’s got a techno-classical vibe, randomly generated text-based elements with strange characters, and a spaceship that can PUNCH other spaceships. Assuming it does well on Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter, it’ll be out next year.

XCOM 2 Mod Gives The Game Its Own Survival Mode

Usually, XCOM 2 is a game where you battle aliens in missions, pray to god (who is probably also an alien) that your precious troops don’t get perma-killed, and purchase upgrades between missions. This mod changes that entirely. This week’s popular new XCOM 2 mod is called Wave COM. It’s a survival mode, but with…

Pour One Out For Popplio, The New Pokémon Starter That Nobody Likes

Shortly after the starters for Pokémon Sun and Moon were revealedyesterday, the internet exploded with love for the new monsters. Well, mostly. While Rowlet (the owl) and Litten (the cat) were showered with seemingly endless positive tweets, comments, and enthusiastic fan art, one Pokémon seemed to be left on the sidelines: Popplio, the water seal/dog.…

Bootleg Toy Company Makes Damn Good Celebrity Likenesses

Virtual Toys, aka VTS, does not have the license to be making toys based on Mad Max, but their “Wasteland Ranger” figure sure looks like Tom Hardy. They’ve also made bootleg toys based on everything from The Division (“Darkzone Agent”) to Dredd (“Epoch Cop”). See also: their “Agent Hunter” bears a damn fine likeness to…

Disney Infinity Died Just As It Was Getting Good

Disney Infinity was an excellent showcase for company’s vast stable of beloved characters, from Pixar to Marvel Comics to Star Wars, as well as an excellent creative outlet for kids of all ages. The one thing the series never got right was gameplay, and with yesterday’s cancellation it never will. The toys-to-life genre is a…

There’s A Sim Game Just About YouTubers

Youtubers Lifeis just like The Sims. If The Sims could sit in front of a computer and record themselves playing video games for a living. Coming soon for the PC, it’s a full-blown life sim, in that you can leave the house, meet people, get married, etc. But the key appeal is right there in…

Even Undertale‘s Official Merchandise Has Secrets

Undertale is a game jam-packed with secrets, to the point that players are still discussing them and hunting for new ones. They’re even in official merchandise. Thanks to Dominic Tarason, I heard that you can cut open the official Toriel plush, dig through the stuffing, and find a white heart. I did a little searching…

From Software Says Dark Souls 3‘s Seemingly Useless Poise Stat Is Working As Intended

Poise, which allows players to take hits without staggering, has been one of the more important stats in the previous Dark Souls games. In the weeks after Dark Souls 3‘s release,players discovered the poise stat doesn’t seem to impact anything. Was it glitched? From Software has an answer: no. “The poise stat is working as…

She Sits, Resplendent On Her Throne

Mark Van Haitsma is a veteran concept artist who has worked on games like Mass Effect 2 and Doom 4. He is currently at Bungie, where he’s worked on Destiny Which means, yes, I’ve added some of his stuff to the biggest art post we’ve ever run here on Fine Art You can see more…

I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but Super Mario vs. Mecha Bowser in Mario Maker looks like a delight. Who knew it was possible to build a mech?!