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Call Of Duty‘s Latest Microtransaction Is A Tiny Red Dot
For a game that’s already taking heat from its player base for the price of its extra cosmetic items, Black Ops 4‘s latest offering seems especially difficult to swallow. A red dot reticle showed up in the Black Ops 4 Black Market on December 25, wearing a price tag of 100 COD Points, or about…
By S.E. Doster Published January 8, 2019 -
Overwatch Fan’s Letter To Jeff Kaplan About Black Women Gets Heartfelt Response
In March 2017, an Overwatch fan wrote to Jeff Kaplan about the lack of black female characters in the game. To her surprise, he wrote back a few months later, saying he hoped that one day diversity would be the norm and promising that there were multiple black characters in the works. “The most important…
By Gita Jackson Published January 8, 2019 -
Final Fantasy XIV upgrades to version 4.5 today with the launch of the expansive A Requiem For Heroes update. New dungeons, new hairstyles, new mini-games and the beginning of the end of the Stormblood storyline are just some of the highlights. Then, on January 15, we get Blue Mages. Finally.
By Mike Fahey Published January 8, 2019 -
Cooperation Cup’s Brutal Format Makes It Pure Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Bliss
Cooperation Cup, a massive Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike team tournament held in Tokyo every year, stands out from the pack because of its punishing and exciting tournament format. The event got 2019 started right this past weekend with two days of fantastic competition featuring over 500 players, grouped into teams of five for a…
By Ian Walker Published January 8, 2019 -
Brock From The Pokémon Anime Might Have A Girlfriend
In the recent Pokémon Sun & Moon episode, Brock is back! And after getting turned down for years, he might finally have a girlfriend. During the show, Brock seems to have hit it off with Olivia. *Brock’s name is Takeshi in Japanese. Like, really hit it off Hope this works out because…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2019 -
Poop Emoji Reborn As Soft Serve Ice Cream
While poop ice cream isn’t new, here’s the poop emoji turned into soft serve ice cream. As Wired points out, Japanese telecom company KDDI first pushed out the unchi (poop) emoji in September 2000. And this month, IT Media and PR Times are reporting that snack shop SweetXO Good Grief in Tokyo is launching Unchi-kun…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 8, 2019 -
GRIS Advertisement Rejected By Facebook For “Sexually Suggestive” Content
Only, there was nothing sexually suggestive about it. Earlier today Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS—one of our Games Of The Year—tweeted this: That scene is…not suggestive of sex. Especially once you see it moving, as part of the launch trailer the image is advertising: A Devolver representative tells Kotaku “this is stupid”. “We appealed…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
Giant LEGO Mario Is Also A Giant Amiibo
Reader Cody got a nice surprise for Christmas: this enormous Mario, which his mum made out of 6000 Lego bricks. And just so nobody could tell her that her baby boy’s new gift wasn’t practical, Cody went and added a base and chip so that it could function as an Amiibo as well. Actually…swapping that…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 7, 2019 -
Modder Releases Battle Royale Mode For Stardew Valley, But It’s Busted
Battle Royalley is a mod that asks a simple question: what would you get if you took Stardew Valley, the nicest thing ever, and added a ton of murder? I don’t know, because I haven’t been able to get it running. As reported by PC Gamer, the wonderfully calm and cheerful Stardew Valley apparently now…
By Heather Alexandra Published January 7, 2019 -
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a free-to-play JRPG coming to iOS and Android on January 28. It’s made in part by Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and while it will have microtransactions and character rarities, it will also have a swordsman frog named Cyrus.
By Ethan Gach Published January 7, 2019 -
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse‘s Best Moment Comes From A Heartbreaking Villain
Kids’ movies often have pretty black and white morality. The good people are good, and the bad people are bad. I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse a lot as a grown adult, and one reason the movie stands out is its portrayal of a more complex system of morality in a film geared towards a…
By Gita Jackson Published January 7, 2019 -
Sexy Medieval Men Are Waiting For You In Robin Morningwood
We’re all aware of the kind of tropes that porn scripts employ to get their actors from point A to point Fisting. Plumbers turn up to help out housewives with no cash; pizza delivery boys decide to take a different form of payment than monetary; your stepsister is weirdly into the idea of having sex…
By Kate Gray Published January 7, 2019 -
Soon, You’ll Be Able To Play Duck Hunt On Modern TVs
The NES Zapper light gun peripheral is an unfortunate victim of the relentless march of technology, rendered inoperable on modern flat-screen televisions. Retro console and peripheral maker Hyperkin aims to solve that problem with the Hyper Blaster HD, an NES light gun for the modern age. The Zapper doesn’t work on modern televisions because the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 7, 2019 -
There’s now an improved version of VGC Online’s Sega Saturn jewel cases on Amazon. I checked them out myself and they don’t have any of the “fall apart immediately” issues of the first run. You can buy with confidence now. (Limited Run Games hasn’t started selling its cases individually yet.)
By Chris Kohler Published January 7, 2019 -
Sims YouTuber Makes All The Game’s Bathrooms Gender Neutral
Sims YouTuber LilSimsie regularly renovates and makes houses for what she calls her Simsie Save, a Sims 4 save file she provides to fans so that they can play with her houses and Sims. This time, she made a notable revision to the bathrooms in the game: they’re now all all gender neutral. People who…
By Gita Jackson Published January 7, 2019
