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Red Dead Online’s grindy economy is gettin some changes In a tweet today, Rockstar Games confirmed the economy will be adjusted alongside bug fixes. The goal is to “ensure all activities are appropriately rewarding and fun,” with updates coming potentially as early as the end of the week.

Modders Are Making Fallout 76 Less Frustrating To Play

Fallout 76’s launch has been plagued with problems. The game is buggy, despite two meaty patches so far, with another on the way tomorrow, and its multiplayer is a far cry from what was described when the game was revealed in June at E3. Fortunately, that hasn’t stopped the modding community from slowing trying to…

Call Of Duty’s Blackout Mode Keeps Getting Better

Black Ops 4’s Blackout is a fantastic battle royale experience, but even the best game can be made better with the right updates. Treyarch design director David Vonderhaar has recently said that more changes are coming to Blackout. Since launch, we’ve seen stability updates and minor changes to improve the overall quality of Blackout. For…

This Adapter Is The Easiest Way To Connect A PlayStation 2 To HDMI

As television technology evolves, it gets more difficult to connect classic consoles to modern television sets. Hooking up my PlayStation 2 for gaming and streaming via HDMI was particularly difficult, until Pound’s PlayStation 2 HD Link cable made it simple. My original attempt at connecting my PlayStation 2 (and original PlayStation) to my capture box,…

Tekken 7 Player Wins World Championships With Panda, Of All Characters

Hyeon-ho “Rangchu” Jeong is the new Tekken 7 champion after winning the Tekken World Tour finals over the weekend at an event in Amsterdam. His victory was the culmination of a year’s worth of competition, but at times it felt like he was fighting against history and even his own character en route to earning…

Tumblr Will Ban Adult Content This Month

Beginning December 17th, the digital scrapbook Tumblr will ban all visual adult content on its site. It’s the latest step in the platform’s struggle with adult content. Tumblr’s new community guidelines are very specific. “Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos,…

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Starbreeze CEO Steps Down As Company Files For Reconstruction

Due in large part to poor sales of co-op first-person shooter Overkill’s The Walking Dead, Swedish video game developer and publisher Starbreeze today filed for reconstruction with the Stockholm District Court, with CEO Bo Andersson leaving his position and resigning from the company board of directors. The company that brought us The Chronicles of Riddick:…

Making Senran Kagura Is No Longer So Simple 

For years, Kenichiro Takaki has been making Senran Kagura games. These days, he says, doing so has increasingly become difficult. Akiba Souken asked Takaki how development on recently announced PS4 game Senran Kagura 7Even was going. “Recently, regulation of sexual depictions has gotten stronger globally and taking that into account, it’s been said [games] need…

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Mutated Australian Possum Now Named “Pikachu”

Last month an orphaned possum was handed in to a wildlife rescue service in Melbourne. Born with a “genetic mutation”, its bright colour scheme has earned it a very fitting name: Pikachu. The Age reports that the possum—remember, Australian possums are not American possums—has a specific mutation that “results in low levels of melanin”, meaning…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Doesn’t Ship With A Manual, So A Fan Made One For Everyone To Print

Nintendo games don’t ship with paper manuals any more. Bad news for anyone who likes to learn from their lap on the fly, but OharaLibrarianArtur is here with the perfect workaround: they made their own, and it looks just like the real thing. While this may seem like a lot of work to go to for…

Removing The Film From A 30-Year-Old Console Is Satisfying And Horrible

The Sega Master System was available in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and this particular console has existed since then with its anti-dust film intact. Until now. Reddit user the_starship posted a video in the Game Collecting subreddit showing the plastic removal, and it makes me feel Some Feelings. On…

Caesar III‘s Best Mechanic Is Pissing Off Your Boss

I’ve been playing Impressions Games’ 1998 classic Caesar III this week. While I love it for a lot of reasons (some of which are nostalgia related), what has really got me excited is how much you can piss off your boss. Caesar III is a game that puts you in the shoes of a city…

MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries is another entry in the giant robot combat series, and it looks pretty cool. A new trailer premiered at MechCon this weekend, and you can watch it here. PC Gamer reports that the game will release on September 19, 2019.

Firewatch is coming to the Switch eShop on December 17. Developers Campo Santo announced in a tweet that the game will be available in the Americas, Japan, Australia, and Europe.

Sunday Comics: Boomerang Maester

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published November 29. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Developer Shows How To Write Good Game Dialogue Using Blade Runner

At last month’s AdventureX 2018 conference, game developer and Inkle Studios co-founder Jon Ingold offered a practical skills workshop about writing better dialogue for games. It involved a lot of Blade Runner. In the talk (which has now been uploaded to YouTube), Ingold claims that game writing isn’t always the best, especially when put up…

Anodyne 2 is looking very cool and very weird. In a video released this week, developer Sean Han Tani revealed that the game’s 2D and 3D worlds are connected by a mechanic that asks the player to shrink down and “clean” the inside of enemy bodies. Anodyne 2 will release in 2019. 

The developers of Battlefield V are looking into rebalancing the game’s time-to-kill and time-to-death. In a post on the game’s official Reddit, the devs wrote: “We’re seeing players die too often/too quickly and get frustrated because of it. So, we’re looking at how we can improve the experience for new players and veterans alike.” While…