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A History Of Bowling In Video Games

How many bowling games do you think have been made? I looked around and via the Giant Bomb wiki it seems like there have been almost 100 bowling games or games that include bowling mini games. Which seems like a lot. How many different versions of bowling games does the world need? It seems like…

A Free-To-Play Titanfall Battle Royale Game Will Be Out Soon

A new Titanfall spinoff is in the works, and it’ll be out sooner than anyone could possibly guess. In fact, internet rumors (and word from our own sources) suggests that it’ll be out this Monday. The game isn’t officially announced just yet, but word leaked out this morning thanks to esports journalist Rod Breslau. As…

Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son Is A PSVR Game And A Sequel To The Bill Murray Film

Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son is a new PSVR game that is a follow up to the 1993 comedy film, Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray. The game is being developed by Tequilla Works and MWM Immersive and published by Sony Pictures Virtual Reality. Groundhod Day: Like Father Like Son will tell the story of Phil…

The GTA San Andreas Mission So Bad, Rockstar Had To Fix It

There have been a lot of missions in the Grand Theft Auto series. Hundreds of various missions tasking players to kill drug dealers, steal cars, destroy rival gangs and even do some yoga. Not all of these missions have been great and a few of them are completely awful. But one mission in Grand Theft…

Square Enix has announced that the next raid in Final Fantasy XIV will be based on Nier: Automata They revealed the news at FFXIV Fan Fest 2019 and also announced that the new raid will be designed by Nier creators Yosuke Saito and Yoko Taro 

Resident Evil 2 Stats Reveal Players Have Seen Millions Of Cockroaches & Killed Lots of Zombies

Capcom has released some new stats about Resident Evil 2. Most of these stats are what you would expect, number of kills or time played. But Capcom is also tracking some weirder in-game actions, like how many players are staring at a specific dead body. RE2 has been out for just over a week and…

Fortnite Players Create Obstacle Courses That Play Beautiful Music And Also Smash Mouth

Oh, Overwatch has pianos now? Well, Fortnite scoffs at that musty 18th-century instrument, with its corporeal ivory keys and termite-vulnerable wooden body. Fortnite players can create entire worlds that are instruments. Fortnite’s creative mode allows players to deploy and arrange music blocks, which make certain sounds when characters move past them. A recent update added…

Four Months After Release, Super Mario Party Has Never Gotten An Update

These days, most video games get a regular stream of updates full of bug fixes, balance tweaks, and new content. Even Nintendo has made a habit of patching all of the games it publishes. There’s just one glaring exception: Super Mario Party, which is still on version 1.0. Few major first-party Nintendo games have felt…

What I Learned From Watching A Great Deal Of Overwatch Porn

Last week, I stumbled upon Overwatch porn. I wasn’t looking for it—I know as much about Overwatch as I do about sports, cars, or how to talk to my parents about what I write—but it’s not hard to stumble across porn when browsing the gigantic nudity repository that is the internet. NSFW Warning: This post…

What Can Anthem Learn From Other Online Games?

Despite Anthem’s confusing release schedule and rocky demo last weekend, it’s got potential to go toe-to-toe with the growing selection of games that want to keep you around for a long time. But what’s it going to take for Anthem to start strong? On this week’s Viewpoints, I talked with Kotaku’s Ethan Gach, who also…

Someone Got Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Working On A Sony Watchman

Sometimes gaming enthusiasts are so preoccupied with whether or not they can, they never stop to think if they should. How else to explain one Smash Bros. fan’s decision to create an elaborate retro electronics setup so they could play 10 rounds of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on the 1.8 inch screen of a Sony…

The Best Gummi Ships Players Have Made So Far In Kingdom Hearts III

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when you give someone a chance to customize anything in a video game, they will try to make a dick. Players have made the requisite penis out of their Gummi Ships in Kingdom Hearts III, and thankfully a lot of other, varied creations. Gummi Ships are basically the…

Chris and I are putting on our future suits and playing the Anthem demo right now on Twitch There will be explosions, obscure movie trivia, and hopefully no server instability. Come join chat!

Japan Now Has Chocolate Ramen

To help celebrate Valentine’s Day, ramen chain Kourakuen is serving up “chocolate ramen” for a limited time only. According to NariNari, the chocolate ramen is made with a shoyu (soy sauce) ramen base, but added cacao oil and an added chocolate bar. It looks tasty! Twitter users report that chocolate ramen is unexpectedly good According…

Ubisoft Sends Out Political Email For The Division 2, A Game That Is Definitely Not Political

Ubisoft would like you to know that The Division 2, a game with a deeply political setting, is not a politicalstatement. Which is weird, because earlier today the publisher sent out a political email about it. Two emails in total were sent to fans of the game. The first was advertising the upcoming private beta,…

A Frighteningly Accurate Analysis Of Smash Bros. Ultimate’s Politics

Wii Fit trainer does kinda seem like she’d call the cops on black teens. Just as they did with Mario Kart, Art House Politics have assembled the roster of Smash Bros. Ultimate and tried to nail down each character’s political leanings. And once again the results seem terrifyingly accurate.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Sea Shanties Are Actual Greek Poems

Hi, Luke Plunkett here, your resident sea shanty enthusiast. And I’d like you to know that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a game featuring mythical creatures, immortal leaps and the most perfect human being ever created (not you, Alexios), takes its sea shanties of all things very seriously. To recap: like a few games in the series…

German Stores Are Giving Fallout 76 Away In Very Sad Promos

GameStop are running a promotion in Germany, Austria and Switzerland where anyone buying a used PlayStation 4 or Xbox One controller gets a free copy of the online shooter. It’s not even a used copy. It’s a brand new copy of the game on PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, and all you need to do…

Overwatch‘s New Paris Map Has A Piano And Everyone Is Playing It

Yesterday, Blizzard surprise-dropped a new Paris map onto Overwatch’s PC public test server, and players were thrilled to discover that their guns, hammers, and hamster balls can do more than just claim lives in this ravaged city of romance. They can also play piano. Players have been using the new piano to fire bullets into…

Anthem‘s Fragmented Launch Risks Ruining What Makes Online Games Great

Remember when games used to just, come out? They had a release day. On that release day, or potentially the night before, you’d go to the store, hand a person some cash, the same amount as everyone else, and walk out with a game that you could then go home and immediately start playing. That…