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This Week In The Business: No Country For Kool-Aid Men

QUOTE | “If you’re going to be the Kool-Aid Man, you need to be able to bust through everything. There’s nothing worse than saying, ‘Oh, you can do all this stuff except when it’s actually important. And then we’re going to put up unbreakable walls.’” – Stellar Jockeys’ Hugh Monahan explains the fruit drink-inspired design…

Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare: The Kotaku Review

Another year, another trio of divergent games united under the banner of a single Call of Duty release. It’s this triple-pronged approach that allows Infinite Warfare to advance the series while simultaneously standing still. Call of Duty has come a long way since Infinity Ward launched the first game back in 2003. The first several…

Some Diablo III Announcements You May Have Missed

Despite all those silly rumors about Diablo 4, Blizzard has made it clear that they see Diablo III as a live game that they want to keep updating and expanding for quite some time to come. Over the weekend, they made that even more clear. In addition to the big announcements—the Diablo 1 remake and…

Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Dumbest ‘Press X To Feel’ Moment

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s “Press X To Pay Respects” is a infamous example of the series use of button prompts as a narrative device. Infinite Warfare has a couple as well, including this scene, in which a character’s life fades away as you hold the shoulder buttons. SPOILERS AHEAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Late…

Infinite Warfare‘s Windows 10 And Steam Versions Don’t Play Together

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare launched today, and while it may be tempting for PC gamers to pick it up through the Windows 10 store at a substantial discount, not being able to battle online with Steam players is probably a deal breaker. The basic edition of Infinite Warfare is $59.99 on Steam. On the…

Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s Campaign Is More Sci-Fi Than I Expected

Infinite Warfare’s single-player campaign opens with a stroll across Europa. The sun glints off of the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon, the gas giant looming large in the sky. It’s a fascinating backdrop over which Call of Duty characters do very Call of Duty things. Since its official announcement and subsequent YouTube hate campaign, Infinite…

Netflix is now streaming all 12 episodes of the first season of Skylanders Academy. If it helps, just think of it as Spyro and Friends.

Video Game Actors Once Again Threaten To Strike [UPDATE]

Members of the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) are threatening to strike against eleven game industry employers in a protest seeking changes to their contracts. According to a post from the guild, unless changes are made to voice acting contracts, members will start a strike on Friday against the following…

Skylanders: Imaginators: The Kotaku Review

After a bit of a stumble with last year’s Superchargers, Skylanders is back and ready to go toe-to-toe with Disney Infinity in the creativity side of the toys-to-life battle. Had the competition not folded, Imaginators would have given it a run for its money. Skylanders was always a better game than Disney Infinity. Disney spent…

Toy Time Plays With The First Batch Of Skylanders: Imaginators Figures

Skylanders: Imaginators puts a lot of stock in letting players create their own characters, but they’re only half the battle. The new sensei characters are here to guide freshly-crafted Skylanders on their way. We’ve got the first 17 or so, plus one of the special 3D printed figures. Check them out! Sensei characters serve several…

Character Creation Is The Best Part Of The New Skylanders

The idea was to show folks a quick five minute video of the character creation process in Skylanders: Imaginators while I work on our review. What I ended up is a nearly 20 minute testament to how deep and compelling this year’s gimmick turned out. It’s beyond gimmick, really. Skylanders: Giants had large characters. Swap…

One Of Call Of Duty‘s Greatest Heroes Died Today

Today marks the passing of one of Call of Duty’s finest soldiers. After valiantly fighting his way through nearly three entire Modern Warfare games, one Task Force 141 didn’t make it back from the October 11, 2016 mission to assassinate terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov. Spoilers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 follow. Surely someone…

Modern Warfare Remastered Requires Infinite Warfare To Run

A lot of Call of Duty fans are more excited over the remastered version of the original Modern Warfare than Infinite Warfare’s future shenanigans, but they can’t have one without the other. Either a full digital purchase of Infinite Warfare or the physical disc is required for the remaster to run. Modern Warfare Remastered is…

Skylanders Imaginators Players Can 3D Print Their Custom Characters

The latest installment of Activision’s toys-to-life series series allows players to create their own Skylanders characters. Thanks to a mobile app launching alongside the game later this month, they’ll also be able to make 3D printed figures, playable trading cards and t-shirts featuring their creations. My first question after being introduced to Skylanders Imaginators’ extensive…

Sources: Destiny 2 Coming To PC, Aims To Feel Like A Totally New Game

Destiny 2, the currently unannounced 2017 sequel to Destiny, is coming to PC in addition to Xbox One and PS4, according to several sources. The first game was exclusive to consoles, much to the dismay of Destiny fans with beefy computers. We also hear that Bungie aims to make Destiny 2 feel like an entirely…

Next Call of Duty Has ’80s Zombies With David Hasselhoff And Pee-wee Herman

While Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes place in the future, its initial Zombies experience is firmly rooted in the past. In Zombies in Spaceland, four aspiring actors are transported to a zombie-infested space theme park by Paul “Pee-wee Herman” Reubens. Reubens plays a once-popular horror actor who lures the player characters to an abandoned…

The Marvel Ultimate Alliance PC Ports Are A Disaster

The re-release of Marvel Ultimate Alliance and PC debut of its sequel should be a happy occasion, but wonky controller mapping, horrible sound issues and other problems have folks calling it the worst PC port of the year. I was so happy about thesurprise(ish) announcement made over the weekend about the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance…

Hindu Leader Wants Blizzard To Drop Symmetra’s Devi Skin From Overwatch

Religious statesman and president of the Universal Society of Hinduism Rajan Zed released a statement today, urging Blizzard and Activision to remove an Overwatch skin he said “trivialized Hinduism’s highly revered goddesses.” Devi is the great goddess of Hinduism, worshiped in many different form and names since prehistoric times. While Symmetra’s Devi skin (and its…

The New Ghostbusters Game Plays It Safe

The idea of a video game tie-in arriving without much fanfare the week of a major movie release is scary, but Activision’s new Ghostbusters game is nothing more than a relatively basic, slow-paced twin-stick shooter. See for yourself. While the heroes of the new movie are off saving Washington D.C. from ghostly assassins, a new…

The Orion vs Activision Steam removal saga continues. Trek Industries’ David Prassel says that Activision contacted him with evidence that certain in-game assets were directly ripped from Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The artist responsible has apparently been fired. Check the update to my original story for more.