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Jesse Jackson’s 1988 Presidential Campaign Lives On In South Korea

Jesse Jackson might have lost his 1988 bid, but his campaign lives on in South Korea as youth fashion. If you’ve spent any time in Asia, you’ll know that it’s not uncommon to see interesting English slogans and expressions on t-shirts and sweatshirts. (Likewise, the English speaking world does the same with foreign languages!) Earlier…

Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories has been delayed a month. The game was originally slated for October 25 in Japan but has been pushed back to November 22 because it’s not quite ready for release. The developer apologized for the delay.

Hunter x Hunter‘s Creator Keeps Making Secret Pop Idol References

When not on hiatus, Yoshihiro Togashi brings Hunter x Hunter to life. And in that famed manga, it appears he keeps making secret references to idol girl group Keyakizaka46. Featuring a slew of members, Keyakizaka46 debuted in 2015 and is the sister group of Nogizaka46, which is AKB48’s official rival group. As Hachima points out,…

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Playing Super Mario Bros. With A Live Band Doing The Soundtrack Behind You Must Be Nice

While you or I would play Mario with the game’s original soundtrack chirping out of TV speakers, George Salazar got the chance to play recently with a “full sized jazz big band, orchestra, and choir” providing the tunes. The death music is wonderful

A 1:1 Scale Zelda Bike For Nintendo Labo

We’ve seen some ingenious Labo designs lately, but this one from an Australian contest winner takes the cardboard cake. Not content with building something small and cute that sits on a desk, Jordan Booth from Australia won Nintendo’s local Labo competition with this life-size replica of Zelda’s Master Cycle Zero, complete with moving handlebars, rocking…

Stardew Valley is coming to mobile, publisher Chucklefish announced today. The game will be available first on iOS on October 24. There are more details in this blog post

Ubisoft Explains Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Microtransactions And Some Of The Math Behind Them

The presence of microtransactions in a big video game can poison the player’s experience, leaving them to wonder if things have been designed in a way to drive them to pay extra. So it goes with Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a very good $60 game that launched with at least $80 in microtransactions. Odyssey’s optional microtransactions,…

Major Win Gives Peruvian Player An Outside Shot At Tekken World Tour Finals

Last weekend, a Tekken 7 player from Peru shook up this year’s Tekken World Tour standings with a big win that gives him a shot at the international finals later this year. Tekken Extreme Tournament is a longstanding event in South America, and this year they were chosen as a Master-level event on the Tekken…

Someone Did The Math On Which Dice Are The Best In Super Mario Party

Curious to find out which of the new character-specific dice in Super Mario Party was the best, a math teacher in Ohio decided to research their underlying statistics. While he found that some characters are better for rolling higher numbers on average, the game is overall too random for character choice to always matter. In…

We’re playing this year’s Halloween event for Overwatch live on Twitch. Come watch!

Bayonetta Destroyed By Toon Link, Of All Characters, At Smash Major

While Leffen was busy spiking his controller in the Super Smash Bros. Melee finals, last weekend’s The Big House 8 tournament also hosted a high-level Super Smash Bros. for Wii U competition. A former Evo champion competed alongside 280 other players in Detroit, but even with the supposed strongest character, he found himself on the…

Sources: Microsoft Is Close To Buying Obsidian

Microsoft is finalizing a deal to acquire the independent development studio Obsidian Entertainment, according to three people briefed on the negotiations. We don’t know if ink is on paper yet, and plenty of major acquisition deals have fallen apart in the final hours, but those close to the companies believe it is all but done.…

New Sims Expansion Adds A Grim New Job: ‘Influencer’

The Sims 4 next expansion will be called Get Famous. It’s set to release November 16th, and your Sims will be able to, you know, get famous. Get Famous comes with a new world, the Hollywood inspired Del Sol Valley, and two new careers: acting and the nebulously named “influencer” career. The Sims’s team has…

Did you know EverQuest II has averaged at least one expansion pack a year since its 2004 launch? Today Daybreak announced EQII’s 15th expansion, Chaos Descending, goes live on Tuesday, November 13. Players can explore new elemental planes and start gearing and leveling up their mounts. Weird.

Death To Fall Damage

One of the things I love about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, a game full of things to love, is this: You can’t die from fall damage. No matter what. From the start of the game, your main character (Kassandra, or Alexios if you’re basic) will take reduced damage from leaping off mountains or buildings, no matter…

Chef Andrew Rea of the show Binging With Babish has recreated some of the best recipes from Spider-Man from Peter’s dumplings to Aunt May’s wheat cakes. Maybe try cooking them yourself?

Left Alive will come to PS4 and PC on March 5, 2019, Square Enix announced today. The military soap opera was revealed at last year’s Tokyo Game Show and is set in the Front Mission universe with Armored Cored V’s Toshifumi Nabeshima directing. The Mechonaissance continues apace.

Inside The Mind Of A Viral Comedian

Gabe Gundacker, the comedian and musician who crafted the nonsensical earworm “Zendaya Is Meechee,” wrote his Wii Sports-inspired album by accident. “I thought I was writing a new song,” he said over the phone. “It was really good, I was like ‘oh, this melody’s awesome.’ Then a day later I played it back and I…

Streamer and speedrunner Trihex has explained the actions that led to his recent Twitch ban to Kotaku. The face of the notorious “Trihard” emote said that he is very aware of how much harm homophobic slurs like the one he dropped over the weekend can cause, but he overdid it during a Super Mario Party…