Uncategorized

Firestorm‘s Terrifying V1 Rocket Makes The Game Stand Out From Other Battle Royale

Firestorm, the gritty battle royale recently added to Battlefield V, can’t quite stand with the competition due to clumsy inventory management and UI. But it does have mass destruction, including the powerfully satisfying V1 rocket. Firestorm’s spectacle could set it apart from the pack. The Battlefield series has always been, in part, about destruction. Crumbling…

I am streaming Final Fantasy XIII over on our Twitch channel. I’m playing it in English, which is fun, because I have never played it in English. I first played it in Japanese, 10 years ago. That’s the opposite of my video series in which I played Final Fantasy VII in Japanese after first playing…

Cyber-Attackers Are Making Phony Epic Games Accounts With Other People’s Emails

For months, an unspecified number of users trying to register an account with Epic Games have found that their e-mail addresses were somehow already linked to accounts. Today, Epic Games told Kotaku that the culprit is an ongoing cyber attack and that the company is working to delete those accounts, though they would not say…

Game Developer To Guest Judge On Game-Themed Project Runway Episode

Game developer Robin Hunicke is set to be a guest judge on next week’s Project Runway, where the contestants will be designing video game characters. Project Runway is maybe the perfect reality television competition show, pitting fashion designers against each other for a chance to show at New York Fashion Week and a grand prize…

Ubisoft Removes Slur From Artwork In The Division 2

Ubisoft has apologized for the inclusion of street art in The Division 2 which contained a homophobic slur. The artwork was spotted by a player documenting odd and misspelled graffiti within the game. The image has since been removed from the game. As reported by Eurogamer, the artwork in question features an exaggerated portrait of…

Designer Re-Imagines Google’s Stadia Controller In Whimsical Mockup

I can imagine what the responses would have been if Google had unveiled this as the controller for its new video game streaming platform back when it was announced at GDC. No d-pad? No way! I can’t help but appreciate designer Daniel Cheung’s experimental take on the future of gaming peripherals. Prior to GDC, there…

Beloved HQ Trivia Host Scott Rogowsky Leaves The Show

Scott Rogowsky, longtime host of trivia app HQ Trivia, has left the show in favor of hosting a Major League Baseball show, ChangeUp Rogowsky told TMZ, “Nothing in my decade-plus entertainment career has meant more to me personally and professionally than my involvement with HQ.” Rogowsky’s face as host has long been seen as synonymous…

The Pinkertons have dropped their lawsuit against Take-Two over its depiction in Red Dead Redemption 2. Pinkerton Consulting & Investigation wanted royalties for every time the word “Pinkerton” appeared in the game. Take-Two said no and counter-sued. In a new statement, Take-Two said all claims have been “withdrawn.”

Trading Steam for the Epic Games Store Creates More Problems

The Epic Games Store has a surprising amount of exclusives coming over to their platform that used to be on the default one-stop shop on PC: Steam. And everyone lived happily ever after. Oh wait, actually, it led to Steam users “review-bombing” games like Borderlands 3 and Metro Exodus after they went to the Epic…

Comfy gaming chairmaker SecretLab is making chairs based on Batman, a superhero with a literal secret lab. Celebrating the Dark Knight’s 80th anniversary, it’s the most on-brand gaming chair marketing tie-in ever. Now somebody make me a Batman power wheelchair. 

Snowy city-builder Frostpunk is coming to Xbox One and PS4 this summer. The console version will contain all the free updates as the PC version.

Back In The Day, Japanese Gaming Magazine Showed Link As A Girl

In 1986, Japanese magazine Shonen Captain did an article on the newly released Legend of Zelda. Instead of depicting Link as a boy, the article shows the character as a girl. As Yakyusoku points out, Twitter user Kazzycom discovered the article and its accompanying art, which can be seen below. The story behind this art…

University Professor Compared To Final Fantasy Character

Professor Hiroaki Miyata recently appeared on NHK show Close Up. He’s not only on the medical school faculty of the prestigious Keio University, he also looks like a Final Fantasy character. Others thought he looked like a visual kei band member or someone from Ready Player One. He certainly stands out among the rather conservatively…

Some Nier: Automata Fans Made An Awesome Cartoon

A team of just six people is to thank for this Nier short, whose mix of game-related action and 1990s Liquid TV-ish style is very good. The actual short (excluding credits) only runs for just over a minute, but there’s so much going on—and so much animation—that it feels a lot longer. The short’s director was…

There’s a new Destiny 2 comic live on Bungie’s site, which I’m mentioning here because it’s got a cover and art done by Steve Lichman’s Dave Rapoza.

Sony Is Automatically Changing Offensive PlayStation Usernames

We used to live in a world where someone with an offensive username was just outright banned from an online service. With the coming of PlayStation’s ability to edit names, though, things have now changed, and those offensive names are changing along with them. Gamasutra spotted a notein the move’s FAQ that reveals what happens…

Celeste Is Way Easier When You’re Playing As Kirby

During these dark times of difficulty discourse—in which brothers tear down brothers and Sekiro purists get memed to heck and back—hit platformer Celeste stands out as a bastion of both brutality and accessibility, pushing players to the limit with devious level design but also allowing them to dictate the terms of engagement with a multifaceted…

Yakuza Kiwami 2 is the latest game in the series to be making the jump from PlayStation to PC. It’ll be out on May 9.

The Vita is still getting new physical releases. Nicalis today confirmed that it’s publishing a physical version of the puzzle platformer VVVVVV for Vita alongside 1001 Spikes for PS4. Cases for both games had previously surfaced on Ebay, which Nicalis said were promotional copies intended for Sony employees and not for resale.

Anthem Players Are Playing Dress Up While Waiting For The Next Update

With Anthem currently in a holding pattern as players wait for BioWare to add more content, its community has taken to dressing up like characters from other video games, comic books, and movies to help pass the time. For several days now, players on the game’s subreddit have taken a break from the usual topics—how…