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Gabe Newell Really Likes Resident Evil 2 And Confirms Valve Is Still Working On VR Games 

Gabe Newell, the president of Valve, has been answering a lot of emails lately and sharing some interesting information about his gaming tastes, the state of Valve, the future of VR and more. The YouTube channel Valve News Network, a popular channel that covers Valve news, has been collecting and sharing Newell’s responses. Gabe Newell…

The Google Stadia Backlash Has Begun

While people are still grappling with the technical ramifications of Google’s Stadia platform, gamers have begun asking deeper, more troubling questions. What do mods look like in a world of game streaming? What happens to game preservation? What happens if Google dwarfs gaming the same way it has with search, browsers and advertising? And most…

A Glitched Staircase Is Causing A Lot Of Drama In The Division 2

The Division 2 is a huge and highly detailed world, filled with museums, parks, historical buildings and even accurate parking lots. Though players exploring the virtual D.C. wasteland have found an element that literally sticks out from all the rest. A set of stairs is currently blockedby a floating piece of untextured geometry. These blocked…

Atlus Officially Reveals Persona 5 The Royal, Trailer Features A New Character

Atlus has officially revealed Persona 5 The Royal, a new RPG coming to the PS4. The trailer features a new woman who seems to be the playable character. The game was originally teased as Persona 5 R. The official Persona 5 website has been updated and now features the new trailer as well as some…

Dancers are coming to Final Fantasy XIV The new class will release with the Shadowbringers expansion, and is a ranged DPS class that can also buff allies. I… was really expecting it to be a healer, honestly.

Blizzard Says Overwatch Toxicity Is Down 40 Percent

Not so long ago, Overwatch was a poster child for toxicity run rampant in competitive multiplayer games. People regularly trolled and spewed vitriol while a barebones report system did little to stem the tide. Oh, what a difference a couple years (and a smartly implemented endorsement system) makes. Overwatch, like pretty much all competitive games,…

Crunchyroll Responds To Concerns About Rising Prices

Today, subscribers to the largest anime streaming service, Crunchyroll, were hit with a 15 percent price hike monthly—spurring complaints from longtime users. Paying Crunchyroll subscribers received an email midday alerting them to the price change, which will come into effect for new users May 1, 2019, and for existing users, Aug. 1, 2019. Prices will…

My friend Frank Cifaldi, producer of many retro game collections like SNK 40th Anniversary, sums up his company’s philosophy in two sentences in a GDC session today.

Anthem, One Month Later

It’s been one month since Anthem released, though it feels like a lot longer. So much has happened: a lot of it bad, but also some of it good. Despite all of the game’s issues, it has a small but solid foundation for BioWare to build on. There are also a lot of frustrating things…

No, Cuphead On Switch Won’t Be Any Easier

The retro-themed, hand-animated indie darling Cuphead is headed to Switch on April 18, and its developer is excited for a whole new group of players to try it, and maybe even play some impromptu two-player at a rooftop party with single Joy-Cons. But the studio isn’t about to make the notoriously difficult action game any…

We’re streaming Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice over on our Twitch channel. Wow! Join me and Tim Rogers as we pick up where we left off. As always, subscribe to us on Twitch for more streams as they happen.

Will Google’s Stadia Make Consoles Obsolete?

Google’s upcoming video game-streaming service Stadia aims to eliminate the middleman by letting you play games in 4K and 60 frames-per-second on almost any device as long as you have a decent internet connection. While this sounds pretty incredible on paper, it leaves us with a ton of questions. I sat down with Kotaku’s Ethan…

Fate/Extella Link Is Delicious Hack And Slash Popcorn For My Soul

I don’t know a lot about Fate/Stay Night, a 2004 adult visual novel about stylized historical figures battling over the Holy Grail that spawned an anime, manga and video game empire. But I like over-the-top anime nonsense, and Marvelous’ Fate/Extella Link has that in spades. In proper anime style, the story of Fate/Extella Link takes…

The words “video game addiction” elicit reactions ranging from disbelief to outright rage, and especially from gamers who feel their hobby is being unfairly criticized. Yet first-person stories of compulsive gaming exist. In The Atlantic’s new animated documentary I Was A Winner, published today, interviewees “are embodied in animated re-creations of their gaming avatars” as…

Battlefront II is getting a capital ship assault mode. The 20 vs. 20 mode is called Capital Supremacy and will involve both a ground phase and capital ship assault. Doesn’t sound like there’s much starfighter combat though, so don’t expect a 100% repeat of 2005 Battlefront II’s fabulous ship takedown mode.

Sony is launching a new PlayStation video series called State of Play, the first episode of which is set to air March 25 at 5:00 p.m. on Twitch and YouTube. There will be trailers, gameplay footage, and new game announcements, making it sound an awful lot like a Nintendo Direct.

Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines Is Getting A Sequel, And It Looks Pretty Good

Cult classic Vampire: the Masquerade– Bloodlines is getting a sequel. The 2004 roleplaying game left a lasting impression on roleplaying fans despite some clumsy gameplay. I spent time with the folks at Paradox Interactive and developer Hardsuit Labs to ask questions and see the game in action. It captures much of the original’s mysterious mood,…

Ladykiller in a Bind creator Christine Love gives a talk at GDC about sex as a reward in games. “The problem with ‘the chase’ is that it’s one-sided,” Love explained to a room of Sexy Microtalks attendees. Love instead suggests making sex a crucial and indispensible aspect of gameplay, not just a reward. When sex…

At their GDC talk this evening, Devil May Cry 5 director Hideaki Itsuno, producer Matt Walker, and senior producer Mitcheru Okabe showed up dressed as the main characters. I really want that Nero jacket!

Unions Stole The Show At Last Night’s GDC Awards

“I’m not anti-union, but I don’t really think we need them, right?” said Double Fine head Tim Schafer while hosting yesterday evening’s Game Developers Choice Awards in San Francisco. “We’re all great here and in this show. No one here is union and…” Then the stage lights went out. “Oh, right,” said Schafer after the…