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Sony is working on a Twisted Metal TV show The chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Tony Vinciquerra, confirmed it was in production during a Q&A with investors earlier today. Hopefully it’s a reality TV mockumentary about a contest where everyday people battle in deadly car duels in pursuit of the American dream.

The short, excellent 2013 game Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons is coming to Switch on May 28, according to its publisher. The game’s unusual control scheme assigned control of one brother to one analog stick on a controller, the other brother to the other stick. The Switch version will also support co-op.

Codemasters is rebooting Grid, the pro racing series that’s been dormant since 2014’s Grid: Autosport. The new Grid arrives September 13, 2019.

YIIK: A Postmodern RPG developer Ackk Studios will add a “works cited” section to the game’s credits after Ackk was accused of plagiarizing novelist Haruki Murakami.Full story here

Tokyo DisneySea Is Getting A New Area Called Fantasy Springs

Is Tokyo DisneySea the best Disney Park? Perhaps! It’s going to get better—and bigger. NHK and Mainichi News report that construction has started for a DisneySea expansion known as Fantasy Springs. It will have three areas based on Peter Pan, Tangled and Frozen. There will also be three restaurants and a new hotel.  “We’d like…

Sony Shows Off PS5 Loading Times

We’re still a while away from getting an official look at Sony’s next PlayStation console, but the company has provided an early glimpse at some of its capabilities today during a meeting in Japan. The Wall Street Journal’s Takashi Mochizuki is there tweeting about the meeting, and captured this footage showing the same scene being…

Very Fast Walk Across Skyrim’s Map Is Literal Fast Travel

These videos are so soothing We saw Enigma do a couple of them last month, taking a stroll across both The Witcher 3 and Red Dead 2, but there’s something about Skyrim—perhaps its age, perhaps the sheer amount of time we’ve spent trudging its frozen wastes—that makes this particularly relaxing. It’s not one of those…

Epic Games Store Will Block Your Account If You Buy Too Many Games Too Quickly

There’s a big sale on right now at the Epic Games Store, a time when many users—conditioned by Steam’s frequently generous discounts on a huge range of titles—go nuts and buy a ton of stuff real quickly. On Valve’s store that’s enough to get you a pile of shame, but on Epic’s it’ll just get…

Rage 2 Has Already Been Beaten In Under Two Hours

Rage 2, Bethesda’s new post-apocalyptic shooter, takes place in a big, open world full of enemy outposts to clear and quests to grind through. That hasn’t stopped one speedrunner from already beating it in under two hours. Over the weekend, speedrunner CreeperHntr set the Any% world record for Rage 2 with a time of 1:53:26…

Popular Streamer Shroud ‘Interviews’ An Apex Legends Cheater

Yesterday evening, while playing Apex Legends, Twitch star Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek got killed by a player who was using an aimbot to cheat. When you spend the majority of your waking hours playing video games, it’s not abnormal to encounter cheaters and stream snipers. This one, though, agreed to stick around and chat with Shroud.…

Indie Developer Accused Of Plagiarism Says It Was An ‘Intentional’ Reference [UPDATE]

A Reddit user’s Sunday post comparing lines in the 2019 indie game YIIK: A Postmodern RPG to passages from novelist Haruki Murakami has led to charges that the game plagiarized the award-winning writer. The post from Reddit user malphasia places screenshots with dialogue from a YIIK character named Proto Woman above parts of the first…

Newly Discovered Fallout 76 Secret Hints At Connections To Other Fallout Games

New holotapes have led players on a hunt for clues about one of Fallout 76’s most recently-added vaults, and what connection the gamemight have to the rest of the series. Fallout 76’s May 7 update added a number of new features, including player-owned vending machines and a new vendor for legendary items at train stations.…

My Seven-Year-Old’s First MMO

After playing massively multiplayer online games for over two decades, it’s time to pass the legacy on to my offspring. My seven-year-old son Seamus is playing Adventure Academy, a new educational MMO that teaches him important skills like quest log management, maximizing experience point gain and buying cosmetic items. And probably some math, science, and…

Sub-Zero Can Turn Invisible In Mortal Kombat 11 With A Very Specific Glitch

Several characters in the Mortal Kombat universe can turn invisible, but none to the extent of Sub-Zero in Mortal Kombat 11. Since the game’s release last month, players have discovered a bug that allows the cryogenic combatant to completely disappear, and the issue lingers within Mortal Kombat 11 to this day. The glitch in question…

Socialist Twitch Streamer Says He’s Changing Minds

Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker guested on the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, and told the Chapo hosts that he’s breaking through to the insular, potentially reactionary teens on Twitch. Hasan Piker, who works for the left-wing news YouTube news show The Young Turks, is a pretty popular Twitch streamer with over 90,000 followers. He’s…

Top Streamers Said To Earn $50,000 An Hour Playing New Games

Top Twitch streamers can make $50,000 per hour streaming new video games, the Wall Street Journal said in a weekend report. Kotaku spoke with industry sources who confirmed the report, adding that $50,000 per hour wasn’t even the highest figure they’d seen. The report claims that publishers like Activision Blizzard, Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Electronic Arts…

A new Sony division called PlayStation Productions aims to be the Marvel Studios of PlayStation, developing and producing movies based on Sony’s game franchises, the Hollywood Reporter said today. Rather than license out the rights, Sony has decided to produce the films itself and retain creative control.

The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, says the platform is committed to fighting the “growing toxic stew of hate speech, bigotry and misogyny” people experience in their digital lives in a blog post today. It goes on to lay out the principles and actions Xbox will pursue to be inclusive environment.

Days Gone Patch Fixes Some Audio And Progression Problems, Leaves A Few Others

After receiving daily patches removing (and in one case adding) a number of bugs in its first week, Days Gone spent nearly three weeks without any further needed fixes.. There’s good news out in the freaker wastes, though: Patch 1.08 was released last Friday, addressing a few more issues, and announcing a change to the…

Two Mordhau Players Wreck Opponents Without Using Weapons Or Wearing Shirts

Mordhau is a game in which players slaughter one another online with medieval weaponry. Within those parameters, there’s still a lot more that players have discovered they can do, from role-playing as fencing referees to taking a break from the fight to shred their brains out on a mandolin. Two players are now making names…