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Valve Teases New VR Headset, More Info Coming In May

Valve has released the first official image of their upcoming VR headset. Based on the photo and the name of the Steam page, the headset seems to be named The Valve Index. There isn’t any more infoavailable on the site beyond a date for when Valve will, I assume, share more info about this new…

Androids 16 and 18 have made peace with Cell for the day. Fortunately for them, I haven’t spotted any Super Saiyans at PAX East yet.

Every member of FTWin at PAX East’s Splatoon 2 tournament will walk away with a gold-skinned Switch Pro controller after taking first place. They’ll go on to represent North America at the World Championship at E3 in June and make Nintendo collectors everywhere extremely jealous. 

Driveclub Servers Shutting Down In 2020, Game Delisted From PSN Later This Year

Sony has announced that servers for Driveclub, Driveclub VR and Driveclub Bikes are all being shut down on March 31, 2020. The games and all their DLC are being pulled from the PSN Store later this year, on August 31, 2019. Players who own these games will still be able to play the single player…

SEGA Announces Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 For Switch & Arcades

Sega announced a new Mario & Sonic At The Olympic Games for Nintendo Switch. They also revealed three other titles based on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The news came from Sega Fes 2019, an annual fan event held in Tokyo. Sega has listed all four of the upcoming Olympic games they are developing…

Sega announced the latest in its Sakura Wars series at Sega Fes this weekend in Japan. It also confirmed that the PlayStation 4 game, tentatively titled Project Sakura Wars, will be released in the West in Spring 2020.

Sega Will Release The Genesis Mini On September 19

Sega will release its Sega Genesis Mini worldwide on September 19, it said today. It will include 40 games, including Sonic The Hedgehog, Gunstar Heroes, and Castlevania Bloodlines. Sega made the announcement on stage at Sega Fes 2019, its annual fan event in Tokyo. There, it announced games for the Japanese Mega Drive Mini, including…

At Bethesda’s PAX Fan Event, The Fallout 76 Faithful Gather

“I’m a little worried,” I overhear someone say while we wait in line for Bethesda’s fan event at PAX East. “There’s a live Q&A.” The line-waiter was talking about an upcoming panel discussion with some of Fallout 76’s developers, including director Todd Howard. But the live panel came and came and went without incident. No…

‘Skyrim Grandma’ Will Be An NPC In The Elder Scrolls VI

Shirley Curry, the 82-year-old grandmother and YouTuber known for her Skyrim videos, will make an appearance in The Elder Scrolls VI. Bethesda will use photogrammetry technology to scan the legendary Skyrim enthusiast and add her to the game. Bethesda revealed new information about the technology behind The Elder Scrolls VI today at PAX East during…

Pro Removed From $1 Million Magic Tournament Accused Of Harassing Women

On Wednesday, one of the most prominent players in the Magic: The Gathering scene was unceremoniously dropped from this weekend’s first-ever $1 million tournament for the strategy card game. Since then, as questions have been raised about the unspecified reasons behind Turtenwald’s removal, sources have told Kotaku that the player has engaged in inappropriate behavior…

A Filmmaker Thinks He Can Turn Clicker Universal Paperclips Into A Movie

Clicker-ish game Universal Paperclips may be getting a feature-length film treatment, the New Yorker first reported yesterday. Intrigued and a little confused, Kotaku spoke with the filmmaker over e-mail this morning to get more details. When the average person thinks of a video game movie, they might recall Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Resident Evil,…

Far Cry 4 Director’s New Game Is About Exploration And Commercialism

Journey to the Savage Planet was a bit of a surprise when it was announced at the most recent Game Awards. The development studio, Typhoon Studios, comprises several Assassin’s Creed alumni, and the wacky science-fiction antics in the trailer were a far cry from those games. It was hard to grasp exactly what the game…

Marvel Science: The Challenge Of Domesticating War Rhinos

Some 12,000 years ago, humans chose to domesticate much of the world that surrounds us. This intervention steered our evolution and the evolution of many plants and animals, transitioning our hunter-gatherer society into settled agriculture. Can we domesticate any animal? How does domestication work? And most importantly, can we domesticate rhinos as war mounts, as…

Swatter Tyler Barriss has received a 20-year prison sentence, according to Associated Press A longtime swatter, Barriss pled guilty in November to crimes that ultimately led to the fatal shooting of a man over a Call of Duty dispute. Prior to that, Barriss had called in phony bomb threats to the FBI, the FCC, schools,…

I (Tim Rogers) am playing Assassin’s Creed III: Remastered over on our Twitch channel right the heck now. Please get all over the chat and yell as many obvious jokes as you can, such as “More Like Assassin’s Threed Three: Threemastered!”

Square Enix is trying to get players back into Final Fantasy XI by helping them reactivate their old accounts. At PAX East in Boston, the company has a tiny station next to its giant Final Fantasy XIV showcase where someone will use your original email or other info to try and perform some internet archeology.

The Underground, Activist Gaming Scene In Communist Czechoslovakia

In the ’80s in Czechoslovakia, a Soviet-dominated state under a communist regime, a small contingent of gamers were cannibalizing ping pong balls, drawer handles and calculator keys to use as track balls, joysticks and buttons. At that time, video games were “the least censored media in the country,” according to Jaroslav Švelch, author of Gaming…

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Season 2 of anime The Promised Neverland has been announced! It will begin broadcast in 2020. The first season one debuted this past January.

District 9 Is Getting A Board Game [Update]

Fresh off their success with last year’s GKR, Weta are now working to turn the studio’s 2009 sci-fi classic District 9 into a board game as well. At first glance, it’s pretty similar! The same punchy art style is there, there are hexes to move on and loads of very cool miniatures included in the…