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The New Shazam Movie Has Some Odd Video Game References

This weekend the newest DC superhero film, Shazam, was released. Critics enjoyed it. I liked it a lot too. Though while the action and jokes are strong in Shazam, there are some weird video game references that caught me off guard. To be very clear, I don’t have screenshots of most this stuff because of…

Star Wars Battlefront II Players On Opposite Teams Work Together For A Brief Moment

During a match of Star Wars Battlefront II, a player found an enemy player trapped in a small hallway behind some doors. They could have left the other player, the trapped player was in the enemy spawn after all and would die if they moved closer. But instead, something else happened and created a fun…

Bethesda has announced that early access to Elder Scrolls: Blades is now available to anyone with a Bethesda account. They also hinted at changes coming to those annoying chests.

Two days after the Borderlands 3 Epic Store exclusivity review bombs began, Steam’s new anti-review bomb system has kicked in. The scores of Borderlands 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and Borderlands: Game Of The Year Edition have been marked with asterisks that denote “off-topic review activity” and returned to their pre-April 3 scores. The offending reviews,…

Photographs Is A Clever Puzzle Game With A Disturbing, Misguided Story

For the first two hours I spent with it, Photographs came close to being one of my favorite puzzle games of the year. It was everything I could want: Aesthetically beguiling, with a surprising story and puzzles that offered the perfect amount of challenge. Then the story took a turn that was so fucked up…

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Ubisoft Just Made A Lot Of Notable Changes To The Division 2

Players of The Division 2 received a new endgame mission called Tidal Basin that extends the game’s story today, but that’s just part of a raft of changes included in the game’s first big patch. The developers have revamped two of the game’s more controversial systems—Skill mods and Weapon mods—and, hey, as per the patch…

Mobile fighting game Transformers: Forged to Fight is two years old today, and I still don’t have Waspinator, dammit. Developer Kabam celebrates the milestone with an update featuring revamped mission maps, new challenge maps, updates to many fighters and never giving me the robots I want.

Doom Mod Turns The Game Into One Extremely Long Hallway

Tired of getting lost in the original Doom while hunting for ammo packs and teleporters? Well there’s now a mod that takes everything in the game and unravels it along a single, unwavering path, and it’s called Linear Doom. Created by modder DeXiaZ and uploaded to ModDB, Linear Doom takes all of the game’s clever…

Fortnite To Add ‘Reboot Vans,’ Which Are Pretty Much Apex Legends‘ Respawn Beacons, Except Vans

Epic finally confirmed that reboot vans are coming to Fortnite next week, putting an end to players’ speculation. Reboot vans are a new feature, but they’ll seem familiar if you’ve played Apex Legends Here’s how they work: Dead squadmates will drop “reboot cards” that any surviving squad member can take to reboot vans, which will…

This Phone Game Is All About Summoning Sexy Anime Versions Of Food

One day I was scrolling through various cat videos on Instagram and was advertised a game featuring what appeared to be a hot dog personified as a sexy lady. Despite being patently ridiculous, this game is entertaining as heck. Gacha games like Fate Grand Order and Otogi Spirit Agents are a little bit silly. In…

The Games This ‘Boy Band’ Makes Are Almost As Cute As They Are

The Sokpop collective, made up of game developers Tijmen, Rob, Aran, and Rubna from the Netherlands, started calling themselves a boy band as a joke, but they didn’t start it. “It was something people joked about at events,” Tijmen told Kotaku, “mainly because of our looks.” Even if it’s kind of a joke, their cute…

How Battlefield V’s New Microtransactions Work

Battlefield V received microtransactions this week, almost five months after the first-person shooter was originally released. Players can now use Battlefield Currency, which can only be bought with real money, to customize the look of their characters, guns, and vehicles. Prior to the update, players could buy common, uncommon, and rare cosmetics using an in-game…

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Odd Tease In The Division 2 Spills The Beans On The Next Assassin’s Creed

An unusual teaser in Ubisoft’s loot shooter The Division 2, highlighted weeks after the game’s release, reveals that the next Assassin’s Creed game is all about Vikings. Kotaku can independently confirm the same. The Division 2 launched on March 15, but it wasn’t until this week that discussion about a possible teaser located within the…

Marvel Science: How Controlling Ants Would Really Work

Animal communication is a key innovation that allows a species to find resources, perceive danger and respond to it as a group. When these interactions scale up into complexity they start to define how the species’ social structure and collective behavior. When we consider behavior in ants, we see the management of hundreds of thousands…

Warframe’s first big open world area, the Plains of Eidolon, has been remastered. The graphical overhaul comes to PC today and will hit consoles sometime later on. The update also includes some new terrain for players to grind their scifi skateboards on as well as new badges for animal conservation.

Hideo Kojima has a cameo in the upcoming crime series Too Old To Die Young. You can see him (briefly!) in the debut trailer at around the 1:54 mark, swinging a katana. The show debuts this June.

Gabe Newell’s Likeness Is Still Selling Underwear In China

Several years ago, someone spotted Gabe Newell’s face on packaging for China’s “Long Dian” underwear. Now in 2019, his likeness is still being used. Redditor ChggnNggts recently published a photo on r/pcmasterrace of packaging with Gabe Newell’s Photoshopped mug. The source photo the underwear maker is using isn’t current.  According to Chinese site Sohu, these…

Mario Odyssey, Breath Of The Wild Will Support Labo VR

Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will support the Labo VR Kit shortly after it launches this month, Nintendo said today. The games will get free updates on April 25 that add virtual reality support, using Nintendo’s $40 Labo VR goggles, which launch April 12 The VR support will…