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My latest Super Mario Maker 2 level took me quite a while to complete. I might actually use this as an example to write a piece about what happens when you way overscope a project. I did a lot of trimming. As always, let me know what you think! [Update: Deleted and reposted the level…

Wraith And Bloodhound’s Backstories Are Apex Legends’ Best Mystery

Every once in a while, Apex Legends players notice that two of the game’s characters, Wraith and Bloodhound, both have a very familiar emblem hidden on their costumes. The emblem appears in Respawn’s previous Titanfall games, which might suggest the characters formerly piloted those games’ giant Titan mechs. It’s not a new theory, but the…

The Highs And Lows Of Spilling Drinks On Your Laptop

A laptop computer is an amazing confluence of technology, condensing an entire desktop full of hardware into a compact space. That space is an easy target for a cup of coffee or can of soda, and there’s nothing quite like watching liquid pour into several hundred or thousand dollars’ worth of electronics. It’s a fact…

Stop Freaking Livestreaming While Driving

A worst-case scenario: being the subject of a video on thesubreddit Livestream Failtitled “Guy wrecks car while reading Twitch chat and driving.” In the 2018 video, a Twitch streamer named Jaystreazy is at the wheel of his car, rapidly shifting his eyes between the road and what is presumably a mounted phone screen displaying a…

We (Jason Schreier and Tim Rogers) are playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 over on Kotaku’s Twitch channel! I gotta say: I thought PLAYING a Dragon Quest was my favorite activity. Then I tried BUILDING one. And buddy are MY arms tired!

Final Fantasy IX Retrospective: The Final Fantasy‘s Final Fantasy

You know when you’re playing around with a new recipe and you fall in love with one particular spice? Call it cumin. You find every recipe that makes sense with cumin, and eventually, you grow so obsessed with it that you just keep adding it to all of your dinners for a month straight, until…

First Look At The New Death Note One-Shot Manga

Death Note ended in 2006, but manga artist Takeshi Obata is bringing it back for a one-shot manga. Obata collaborated with writer Tsugumi Ohba to create the manga back in 2003. At a new art exhibition celebrating Obata’s work, panels from the forthcoming manga were on display. One-shot manga are standalone releases and not serialized…

Big Halo Mod Drags The PC’s 2003 Original Into 2019

There’s an official Halo remaster coming soon, but if you can’t wait that long, you could always try SPV3, a “total overhaul” of the 2003 PC version of the original game that changes…well, pretty much everything. In addition to a visual overhaul (which isn’t as sweeping as MCC’s official work but is still impressive!) there…

Previously Japan-Only Iwata Asks Series Is Being Translated Into English

While Nintendo has an archive section where fans can revisit old installments of the popular Iwata Asks series, not every Q&A the former Nintendo president ever sat down for is there, because not all of them were translated into English by the company. One such example of that is an interview about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles:…

‘Embrace Death’ Twitter Trend Baffles Everyone, Turns Out To Be Video Game Marketing

Yesterday evening, the hashtag “#EmbraceDeath” began trending on Twitter, to the alarm of people who had not heard of the fighting game Samurai Shodown. The grim marketing motto sparked a variety of reactions from baffled non-fighting game fans. As edgy as“Embrace Death” sounds on its face, the slogan does make sense in context. While Samurai…

Xenoblade Developer Once Pitched An EarthBound Sequel For GameCube

The EarthBound, or Mother, series took a lengthy hiatus between the releases of Mother 2 and 3, but that didn’t mean Nintendo wasn’t interested in keeping the series going. In fact, at one point, the developer that would eventually create Xenoblade was asked to pitch Nintendo on a sequel to the beloved role-playing game series…

Last night Timothy ‘oLARRY’ Anselimo accepted the ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) Award for his return to competitive NBA2K. Anselimo was one of the victims in the Jacksonville shooting at a Madden tournament last summer. He began competing again last fall after undergoing reconstructive surgery on his hand.   

In response to a lawsuit by metal band Iron Maiden, retro shooter Ion Maiden is now Ion Fury Publisher 1C entertainment cited the lawsuit as the reason for the change in a press release, also announcing that the game would launch out of PC early access on August 15, with Switch, PS4 and Xbox One…

My favorite monster, Glavenus is coming in Monster Hunter World’s upcoming expansion “Iceborne.” A developer diary also outlines tons of monster subspecies like an electrified Anjanath. “Iceborne’ releases on September 6th.

Lupin III’s First 3D Movie Trailer Looks…Not Terrible?

Taking Lupin III’s gorgeous 2D style and turning it into a modern 3D animated film sounds like a recipe for disaster, but somehow, this first trailer for Lupin III The First looks OK! I mean, we’re stuck with natural lighting and colour palettes, same with most other 3D films, but the characters themselves look pretty…

What World Of Warcraft Would Look Like Running In Unreal Engine 4

It’s hard to get excited about World of Warcraft in a visual sense, but if you’ve ever held out hope that the game might get a sequel, or at least a more modern makeover, then this is the video for you. Daniel L has spent years remaking some of the game’s environments in Unreal Engine…

Psychonauts 2, originally planned for a 2018 release before being pushed into 2019, is now coming in 2020

The Division 2‘s next big content update, which includes two new story missions and a more puzzle-oriented challenge called Expeditions will be available for free for all players on July 30—and out on July 23 for Year One Pass Owners, who may be wondering why they paid $40 for supposed early access to content that…

Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid gets two new fighters and crossplay between Switch and Xbox One today. Gold Zeo Ranger Trey and Pink Time Force Ranger Jen Scotts join the game’s roster as part of the $14.99 season pass, with Lord Zedd on the way, while a free update allows Switch players to battle…

Amazon Game Studios announced a new Lord of the Rings free-to-play MMO is in the works for PC and consoles. Details, per Entertainment Weekly, are scant, but the game is being developed by the same studio behind Amazon’s New World MMO.