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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…

Scuf Gaming’s Vantage, the$200 officially licensed PS4 answer to the Xbox Elite Controller, now comes in four cosmically-inspired new colors, just in time for black hole photo season. More importantly, the Scuf Vantage now works perfectly on PC, thanks to a newly-released driver. Check out the whole Cosmic line at Scuf’s website

PlayStation Is Really Bad At Suggesting New PSN Names

Yesterday, Sony announced PlayStation Network name changes were officially ready for primetime. While a lot of people might have crappy user names they want to get rid of, they might not be sure what to replace them with. Fortunately, PlayStation provides suggestions. Most are terrible. Some are secretly amazing. For some people, a new PSN…

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Red Dead Online‘s New Modes Are Hit And Miss

Over the last few weeks, Red Dead Online has received four new game modes, all focused on player vs player competition. These modes come at a time when many players are frustrated with what they see as the game’s lack of content. These new modes are, at least so far, the main way Rockstar has…

Breaking Out Of Bounds In Sekiro Makes It Even More Beautiful

Sekiro makes it a point to push back at players. From difficult bosses to winding world design, there’s friction that players need to fight against. Speedrunners and glitch hunters buck that trend. Last night while playing it, I broke out of bounds and it was a reminder of how even the most tightly composed game…

Apex Legends Players Finally Like Gibraltar Thanks To His Sticky Shield

Apex Legends players aren’t too impressed with tank character Gibraltar, whose large hitbox and somewhat unexciting loadout don’t make him a lot of players’ first pick. Recently, though, some players have found a reason to bring him into rotation again. Turns out you can stick things to Gibraltar’s gun shield, which is a tool that…

The battle against giant alien insects intensifies in Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, out today for the PlayStation 4. It’s a different sort of EDF game, more intense, more difficult and more personal, thanks toits new character creation system. You can watch Kotaku Dot Com’s Tim Rogers play the game right here.

Want to cosplay as Saitama from One-Punch Man? But don’t have a costume? And don’t want to shave your head? This August in Japan, a one-size-fits-all Saitama costume is going on sale in Japan for 13,500 yen ($121). 

Every Battlefield Map, Ranked According To Size

DICE senior designer Niklas Åstrand has been sharing some Battlefield facts on Twitter recently, capping them off with a chart comparing the size of every multiplayer map from the series, from the original all the way through to Battlefield V Halvoy is obviously top, as it’s a Battle Royale map, so it doesn’t really count.…

Ni No Kuni Movie Gets Its First Trailer

Announced back in February, we’ve just got our first proper look at the upcoming Ni No Kuni animated film. Studio Ghibli may not be working on it, having only helped out on the first game in the series, but that trademark look is still very much apparent here. In no small part because former Studio…

15 Years Later, There’s New Footage Of The Biggest Street Fighter Moment Ever

This year will mark the 15th anniversary of the legendary 2004 Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike matchup between Daigo Umehara and Justin Wong—dubbed EVO Moment 37, or the “Daigo Parry”—and just in time, there’s some brand new footage of the legendary matchup, thanks to EVO’s Mark Julio. In the newly-unearthed footage, you can see the…

Report: Activision Blizzard Wants To Know How Its Employees’ Pregnancies Are Going

A story published by the Washington Post Tuesday night revealed that game publisher Activision Blizzard has been offering third-party fertility and pregnancy tracking services to its employees—and then receiving their anonymized data back in return. Ovia Health offers a suite of wellness apps for family planning, allowing users to input their personal information to keep…

Moschino Is Releasing A Sims-Inspired Fashion Line And WTF At These Photos

The Sims 4 is collaborating with fashion giant Moschino for a line of Sims-inspired IRL clothing, and the photos they released for it are bugging me out. Ever since irreverent fashion designer Jeremy Scott took over Moschino in 2013, it’s become a wonderland of bright colors, bold graphic prints, and the word “Moschino” in all…

The Good And Bad Of Fortnite‘s New Respawn System

Fortnite’s reboot vans are here, and now I have even more time to yell “please get over here!” at my teammates. Last week, Epic announced reboot vans for Fortnite. The vans let teammates in the popular battle royale game respawn each other. They were added to the game today, appearing at points of interest around…

Sea of Thieves‘ Producer Outlines A Promising Year-Two Plan

Sea of Thieves’ first year had as many ups and downs as a boat in a storm. A rough launch gave way to numerous updates and events that expanded the game world. The Anniversary Update, to be released April 30, will add a story mode and competitive PVP. I spoke with the Xbox One and…

Every Punch-Out!! Opponent, Ranked

I’ll make a deal with you, Nintendo: I will promise to buy any console that you release, if you will promise to release a new Punch-Out!! game on it. This post originally appeared 1/4/16. We’re bumping it today for the game’s release on the Nintendo Switch From a critical standpoint, there are games far superior…

New Street Fighter V Glitch Lets Chun-Li Float Off Into Space

A newly-discovered Street Fighter V glitch gives series mainstay Chun-Li the ability to float upwards and off the screen, putting her, for the most part, out of harm’s way. The best part? It’s super easy to pull off with just a few button presses. The first known appearance of the glitch happened during a competitor’s…

Hyperbolic Tweet About Game Difficulty Turns Into Wonderful Internet Joke [UPDATE]

When you love something a lot, it can sometimes turn into a kind of passion that is overwhelming to other people. When you express that on the internet, it becomes fodder for jokes. Now, one man’s passion for not cheating in video games has become grist for the internet joke mill. The debate about whether…

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