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Mario’s Real-Life Namesake, Mario Segale, Dies At 84

Mario Segale, the namesake for Nintendo’s Mario character and a successful American real estate developer, passed away on October 27, Kotaku has learned. Segale was surrounded by his family in Tukwila, Washington. He was 84. Segale developed office buildings and malls in Washington state and, in 1998, sold his construction services company to an Irish…

British Website Forced To Pay $1.3 Million Over Red Dead Redemption 2 Leak

The British website TrustedReviews today pulled an article, apologized to publisher Take-Two Games, and said it was donating 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) to charity after publishing leaked information about Red Dead Redemption 2 in February of this year. It’s a radical move that raises serious questions about editorial independence and legal threats against the…

Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s First Post-Launch Fighter Will Be, Uh, Piranha Plant

There’s one more fighter in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: the Mario series’s Piranha Plant, which will be free if you buy the game before the end of January. I’m sure someone, somewhere, is very happy about this. Piranha Plant can spit poison, fire spiky balls, and turns into the massive Petey Piranha for its Final…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate‘s ‘Spirits’ Mode Detailed, And It’s A Whole Lot

Nintendo announced today that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is getting a wild, weird new system called Spirits. Players will be able to assign spirits—cameo characters from other games—to their Smash fighters that will help buff them in battle. Its mechanics are a lot to take in and it’s easy to imagine that, like Smash’s trophy…

Smash Bros. Ultimate Gets Two Final New Fighters, Ken And Incineroar

Nintendo has confirmed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s final starting roster will be 74 fighters, with newly announced Ken from Street Fighter and Incineroar from Pokemon being the last two additions before the game comes out. Ken will be an echo fighter, meaning most of his moves and animations will mirror Ryu’s. He’ll have unique attack…

Brutal Abuse Allegations against Real-Life Mecha Exec

Method-2, the Korean mecha, has captured the tech world’s imagination. However, newly revealed footage seems to show the company’s exec Yang Jin-ho allegedly brutally beating employees and even apparently forcing them to kill animals. Yang was behind Korea Future Technology, a company that’s building a real-life mecha. The venture business brought in Vitaly Bulgarov is…

Sony Releasing a 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro in Japan

Previously, Sony released a limited edition 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro. Now a standard version has been announced for Japan. The 2TB PlayStation 4 Pro comes in Jet Black and will be released on November 21. It’s priced at 44,980 yen ($399). No word yet on an international release.

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Red Dead Redemption’s DLC Got Halloween Just Right

Like most holidays, video games have a lot of trouble doing Halloween justice. Sure there are exceptions—Destiny just did a pretty good job, and Costume Quest is fun—but for the most part it’s a time of year that games struggle to really celebrate. Unless we’re talking about Undead Nightmare, the most Halloween video game experience…

Fallout 76 Beta’s Physics Are Tied To Its Framerate

So the faster your framerate, the faster you move. Which is fine, whatever in a singleplayer game like Bethesda are used to making, but not fine for a multiplayer-only release like Fallout 76, where changing a player’s framerate is as easy as entering a few lines of code. By default, the Fallout 76 beta‘s framerate…

Let Us Pet The Cats, Red Dead Redemption 2

As Nathan said earlier this year, all video games should let us pet the animals. That includes cats, Red Dead Redemption 2 Like horses and humans, when you approach a dog in Red Dead Redemption 2, you’re given the option to interact with it. You can praise it or scold it, but you can also…

Seven Video Game Moments That Scared Me Even Though They Weren’t Supposed To

Cowardice, I have learned in my many years of being a video game coward, comes in many forms. Games often try to scare players, and I’m usually as spooked as anybody else. The greatest dread of all, though, emerges from that potent cocktail of fear and embarrassment from those moments I go ghost-white over something…

The Most Fearsome Beasts In Red Dead Redemption 2 Are The Deer

The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 is filled with dangerous creatures. You can find alligators, cougars, wolves and more that will kill and eat anyone who gets too close. But many players are discovering the most dangerous animal in the game isn’t one of these carnivores, but instead something surprising: Deer. Across socialmedia, Redditand…

What Not To Do When Your Fighting Game Tournament Goes To Shit

Two different fighting game tournaments ran into issues last weekend that discouraged competitors and drew complaints from the larger community. But where one tournament organizer says the event is looking for ways to improve in the future, the other responded with mockery, such as photoshopping fake tears onto a player’s photo and decrying them as…

Here’s the first trailer for that MediEvil remaster Sony mentioned last year. Sir Daniel Fortesque is looking as fine as he possibly can, given his state. While the remake isn’t coming to the PS4 until sometime in 2o19, it’s a good day to remind folks about games starring skellingtons

Smash Bros. Fans Are At War Over Whether The Latest Rumors Are True

Who else will star in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a game that’s already been announced to feature every previous Smash character along with a handful of newcomers? A brand new “leak”—one that’s completely unverified and in fact likely to be fake—is polarizing the Smash community and has led to non-stop drama over the past week.…

No Man’s Sky Underwater Update Opens Up New Worlds

With each update, No Man’s Sky finds new ways to make me obsessed with it. The latest update, the undersea-focused The Abyss, is no different. The Abyss’s patch notes basically sum up to “makes oceans better.” It diversifies the flora and fauna, makes the underwater areas more bountiful in general, and introduces some new missions.…

Gal Metal Is A Very Strange Rhythm Game, Which Is The Best Kind

In an age when most rhythm games are little more than a list of songs, hero game developer Tak Fujii gives us Gal Metal, in which a band of Japanese high school students must save the world from an octopod invasion using the power of rock. Hell yes. Available today for the Nintendo Switch, Gal…

I’ve never played Resident Evil before, and by golly, that’s changing today. (No better day for it!) Come join Paul and me in the chat for some Halloween hijinks.

Here’s November 2018’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

I’ve only just started getting into the Yakuza series, and November’s PlayStation Plus games will help me out with Yakuza Kiwami. I’m also excited to see the delightful Burly Men at Sea on there. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PS Plus subscription. November’s PlayStation Plus games are: PlayStation…