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Report: Amazon Uses Games To Keep Warehouse Workers Engaged

While Amazon’s efforts to get into video games haven’t panned out, there’s one arena where the company has managed to release multiple titles: its own warehouses. According to a report from The Washington Post, Amazon has a number of its warehouses outfitted with optional games playable from screens at workers’ desks. The games, which come…

The Sims 4 Is Free Right Now, So Here Are The 4 Most Essential Expansions

The base game for The Sims 4 is currently free from now until the 28th of May. You should get it. Yes, you! If this frees up a little cash for getting an expansion as well, here are a few suggestions. The Sims 4 base game has been criticized for not having much content in…

After Nearly 40 Years, Video Games Still Don’t Do Lord Of The Rings Justice

For decades, The Lord of the Rings has been one of the world’s most influential and revered stories. While J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy series has been successfully adapted into a beloved film trilogy, the track record of video games set in Middle-Earth has been a bit more dubious. From text-based adventures to movie-licensed tie-ins, from MMORPGs…

All The Video Games You Can’t Play When You’re Pregnant

There are plenty of fun things you can’t really do when pregnant: waterslides, alcohol, trampolines, staying up past 10pm. You’d think that video games would be a totally unaffected pursuit, but as I’ve discovered, even cherished sofa-time is not safe. The first time I found out I was expecting a baby, for instance, I was…

PC gaming platform GOG Galaxy has announced GOG Galaxy 2.0, which will allow players to “install and launch any PC game you own, no matter the platform,” chat with friends across PC and console, and add their console games to their library. Closed beta signups are open now.

Riot Games To Make Mobile Version of League Of Legends With Tencent

Riot Games is developing a mobile version of League of Legends alongside Chinese tech company Tencent, Reuters said today in a report confirmed by Kotaku A source with knowledge of the upcoming mobile game told Kotaku that it “plays differently” from League of Legends, although it retains the hit MOBA’s general appearance. “The game is…

Microsoft has announced the next batch of games to get added to Game Pass starting with Metal Gear Survive on May 23. The first game in The Banner Saga series will get added that day as well, with indie shooter Void Bastards coming day and date on May 29.

Lapis X Labyrinth Lights Up My Life

In Lapis X Labyrinth, NIS America’s new dungeon crawler coming to PlayStation 4 and Switch on May 28, a totem-like stack of four adorable adventurers dive into dungeons, seeking their fortune. It’s cute and chaotic, until the fever meter fills, at which point it gets even more cute and chaotic The music changes, the scenery…

There are “currently no plans” to change the difficulty for The Division 2‘s notoriously tough raid, community developer Chris Gansler said in an official developer stream today. “We know the raid is… harder on consoles, but we are happy with where we are at. We’ve seen multiple people clear it.” Currently, 36 teams have beaten…

Ouya, the tiny, Kickstarted Android console, is officially dead. Razer announced that all services will be shut down June 25, 2019. So long, Ouya, and thanks for Towerfall

Fortnite’s 9.10 patch adds a new sneaker-themed LTM, “hot spots” that have more loot, and unvaults the semi-auto sniper rifle. There are also tweaks to shadow bombs and the combat shotgun.

How The China-USA Trade War Could Impact Game Hardware

During the 1980s and 90s, Nintendo made its game consoles in Japan. Now, they are made in China and could get more expensive for American consumers. Since late January of last year, the US and China have been in a trade war. As The New York Times reports, the Trump administration has plans to tax…

Fancy Logos For Games That Don’t Actually Exist

For the past few days, I’ve had the pleasure of reading a copy of Raid, a magazine featuring a bunch of super talented artists and graphic designers coming up with logos and briefs for games that don’t actually exist. A bit like Famicase, then, but just the logos, and not the entire cover/cartridge art. And…

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron Looks Great In HD

A team of fans have been working for over a year on an Unreal Engine 4 version of the original Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, and it is looking absolutely delicious. First released in 1998 on PC and N64, later games in the series—developed for the GameCube—looked a lot nicer, but the original suffered from low-res…

Modiphius is releasing a tabletop wargame based on The Elder Scrolls universe Weird choice, seeing as this is an RPG series in which combat is usually a small-scale solo affair, but whatever, licensing! 

Clever No Man’s Sky Players Are Trying To Add Cities To The Game

No Man’s Sky players are pretty used to doing everything by themselves. Before the game’s revitalizing Next update, players who stuck with the game since it launched turned its universe into a series of sprawling civilizations, many with their own government, police forces and even wars. Now that more players are joining the game with…

Question for readers: What do people think of Death’s Gambit? I tinkered with it briefly on my PS4 and wasn’t sure whether to make more time for it. How is it? Have its many patches changed it much?

Pokémon T-Shirt Contest Winners Are The Very Best, Like No One Ever Was

The Japanese clothing company Uniqlo has announced the winners of its Pokémon-themed T-shirt design contest. While the first-place design will be included in this year’s Pokémon Sword and Shield games, the rest are really cool-looking as well, and already have me searching for my old Game Boy Color and link cable. Each entry was judged…

As some fans have been requesting, the developers of The Division 2 have decided to add the player names of the first teams to beat the game’s tough, first raid on PC, PS4 and Xbox one in the game’s virtual White House. The developers had originally planned to only do it for the world’s first…

U.S. Senator Says His Anti-Loot Box Bill Has The Video Game Industry Worried

Is Republican senator Josh Hawley an advocate for video game players or an ambitious politician with a savvy staff who know a win-win argument when they see one? The freshman senator from Missouri, who plans to soon introduce a bill that will ban loot boxes and pay-to-win microtransactions, spoke to Kotaku yesterday about his plans.…