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Ironman Completes All Five Souls Games Without Taking A Hit
As tough as it is, The_Happy_Hob has just put the Dark Souls series well and truly in its place, completing all five games—the three Dark Souls, Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne—in a row. Without taking a single hit Just finishing them back-to-back is a Herculean task in itself (it took over 12 hours!), but doing so without…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 21, 2019 -
Is Super Ultrawide Too Wide?
If you thought gaming on a normal, 21:9 ultrawide monitorwas ridiculous, wait until you get a load of a 32:9 superwide. Viotek’s SUW49C is a 49-inch curved “super” ultrawide display, capable of playing many games at 3840 by 1080 resolution. Too much? Just when I thought my Ikea office desk was long enough, along comes…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2019 -
Seemingly Unbreakable Getting Over It World Record Turns Out To Be A Fake
In Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, a man in a pot tries to climb a mountain with a sledgehammer. A Chinese speedrunner named Ccfst recently seemed to help that man climb the mountain faster than anyone before him, setting a new world record that struck some as impossible. The skeptics were right. Over the…
By Ethan Gach Published March 21, 2019 -
Divinity Original Sin 2 had a disastrous production, according to director Swen Vincke, who said in a postmortem panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that they didn’t finish the writing until months before the game came out. They even changed a chunk of Sebille’s origin story one week before launch. Yet it’s still,…
By Jason Schreier Published March 21, 2019 -
Nintendo Reveals The 10 Current Best-Selling Indie Games On Switch
Indie games make up a crucial and vibrant part of the Switch’s great library of games, as evidenced by yesterday’s Nindies showcase. At the Game Developers Conference event today, Nintendo shared which indie games have sold best on Switch up until now. While many of them are familiar faces, like Stardew Valley, a few new…
By Ethan Gach Published March 21, 2019 -
The technical director of Bluepoint Games, the tech wizards behind the Shadow of the Colossus remake, just said he would show the GDC audience “what’s next,” and then just showed this slide instead. He did say that its next project would be more than a remaster or remake—more of a “re-envisioning.”
By Chris Kohler Published March 21, 2019 -
Neo Cab is an upcoming narrative game about the ride-share gig economy in the far future where drivers compete with self-driving cars. The player must regulate protagonist Lena’s mood, displayed on her biofeed bracelet, while also balancing her Neo Cab driver rating—two things that might come in conflict when a passenger’s throwing a fit in…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 21, 2019 -
Blaster Master Zero 2 Is An Amazing Sequel To A Rebooted Classic
Two years ago, Inti Creates released Blaster Master Zero, an outstanding remake of Sunsoft’s NES classic about a boy, a frog, and a futuristic combat vehicle. This week’s surprise sequel, Blaster Master Zero 2, sees Jason and the crew of the SOPHIA taking the battle against evil mutants into deep space. It’s the follow-up I’ve…
By Mike Fahey Published March 21, 2019 -
BloodRoots Lets Players Fight With (Almost) Everything In Sight
Upcoming hack-and-slash RPG BloodRoots is all about its verbs: “smash, slice, crush, blast, crack, slam, burst, break, split, slit, gut, tear, gash, gouge, scoop, cut, chop, dice, hash, grind,” it promises. BloodRoots premiered yesterday at Nintendo’s indie games GDC event in San Francisco, where I met Raphael Toulouse, co-founder of developer Paper Cult, who explained…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published March 21, 2019 -
Return Of The Obra Dinn Wins Lots Of Awards At GDC, While God Of War Wins Game Of The Year
This week is the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The conference features two awards shows, the Game Developers Choice awards and the Independent Games Festival awards. Here are the winners. Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope’s latest game, the ocean mystery Return of the Obra Dinn, had a strong showing in both awards. The game…
By Riley MacLeod Published March 21, 2019 -
You can watch me play Square Enix’s new Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy for an hour here (or on YouTube!) and you can read Kotaku’s Michael Fahey’s impressions here. I liked it on the Wii, and I like it even more (with new core features) on the Nintendo Switch!
By Tim Rogers Published March 21, 2019 -
Hayao Miyazaki Seems To Hate Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones And Hollywood Movies
Hayao Miyazaki may like many things, but the Lord of the Rings movies and the Indiana Jones series don’t appear to be among them. In an interview that dates from a few years back, Miyazaki not only criticized Hollywood, but those who enjoy its films. The interview has recently been appearing on major Japanese blogs…
By Brian Ashcraft Published March 21, 2019 -
Epic Says Its Store Won’t Sell ‘Porn Games Or Bloatware’
It’s been a big day for the Epic Games Store. During its GDC keynote, Epic announced a boatload of new exclusives (including Detroit: Become An Epic Games Store Exclusive) and a deal with Humble. Momentum appears to be on the store’s side, with Epic now touting strong early sales and a more curated approach than…
By Nathan Grayson Published March 20, 2019 -
The super-twitchy, theory-crafting rich roguelike Wizard of Legend got a massive free update on every platform today. There’s a new Sky Palace stage, a new Council of Magic wizard, a bunch of new enemies, relics, and arcana, and an endless mode. The full patch notes are available here
By Ethan Gach Published March 20, 2019 -
Goat Simulator Developers’ New Game Is About Building The Perfect Factory
The opening track “Ever” on the band Flipper’s classic first album, Album, contains the lyric, “Ever look at a flower, and hate it?” As I was playing Satisfactory, the new game from the developer of Goat Simulator, I realized that lyric pretty much sums up what the game is about. While Goat Simulator was about…
By Gita Jackson Published March 20, 2019