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Telltale Employees Left Stunned By Company Closure, No Severance [Update]

Telltale Games employees were surprised when CEO Pete Hawley announced the closure of the company at a staff-wide meeting. One employee, a source told Kotaku, had been working until 3 AM the night before with no inkling that the studio was about to let them and over 200 other employees go, leaving behind a skeleton…

World Of Warcraft Keeps Me Coming Back

Having spent the past decade reviewing World of Warcraft expansions, I’ve gotten into a certain rhythm. The expansion launches, I play for a month or so, post a reviewand then I move on. Yet I’ve logged into WoW every day since my review of the Battle for Azeroth went live. What can I say? The…

New Death Stranding Trailer Stars A Very Golden Troy Baker

Kojima Productions closed out this year’s Tokyo Game Show with a Death Stranding presentation, complete with a short new trailer starring Troy Baker and his very expensive mask.

Here’s Another Adidas x Dragon Ball Sneaker: Shenron

Adidas keeps rolling out looks at the official Dragon Ball sneakers that’ll start releasing soon, and the latest is probably the best of the bunch: Shenron. These shots froms.sam.group show that the EQT Support ADV Primeknit Shenron’s shoe is based on has had its colour palette sharpened up to match the dragon’s appearance, while there’s…

Flotsam Is Waterworld: The Strategy Game

Flotsam is an upcoming town-builder on PC set in a desolate future where everything has sunk beneath the waves. Players are left to scrounge the surface (and the depths) for construction materials, while avoiding things that are trying to trash your floating settlement. This could be a total downer, but developers Pajama Llama have wisely…

$200 Overwatch Sword Is Not Messing Around

Blizzard is selling a $200 replica of Genji’s sword, and anyone willing to practice with the blade while everyone else plays Overwatch will at least find it full of techy features. In addition to looking like the actual in-game weapon (except for the fact this is made of plastic), it also lights up, and has…

And Now For Some Videos From The Telltale Archives

With adventure studio Telltale closing up, former employees are starting to share and upload all kinds of stuff from their time with the company. One of those is Jake Rodkin (now at Campo Santo/Valve, but was key to the success of Monkey Island and Walking Dead S1), who is uploading all kinds of old videos like…

Arkham Knight Is Full Of Amazing Staging

The newest episode of YouTube show Boundary Break jumps behind the scenes of Arkham Knight. It shows off how great the staging of the game is. There are lots of spoilers about Arkham Knight in this video. When I write “staging,” I mean it in the theatrical sense. While every game requires its developers to…

Ultimate Guard Pro Team won the 2017-2018 Magic Pro Tour Team Series today over Hareruya Latin. The team was stacked with some of the best Magic players of all time, including Jon Finkel, who has the most Pro Tour Top Eight finishes in Magic history.

Fan Remakes Rock Song Using Battlefield V Sounds

A fan with a lot of time on their hands has recreated The White Stripes’s classic “Seven Nation Army,” which was released 15 years ago, with the sound effects from Battlefield V I have a fascination with this kind of thing. I love the idea of recreating recognizable music with tools that definitely were not…

Final Fantasy VIII is getting a crossover event with Mobius Final Fantasy, the mobile and PC free to play game. There is no release date yet, but it is “coming this winter.” 

Wandered into an Akihabara store last night and had an amazing score: Nintendo’s 1970s electro-mechanical Duck Hunt toy! This was what inspired the NES game. The store, notorious for its high standards, had it marked at 3000 yen ($27) because it was missing the battery cover.

The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics

You can do a lot of things with city builder games. You can replicate real cities, or you can simulate massive natural disasters. A YouTuber going by the name of “donoteat” uses Cities: Skylines to explain the politics and power behind the creation of American cities. The world of Cities: Skylines “builder” YouTubers is substantial.…

Sunless Skies Now Has A Tabletop RPG

Sunless Skies, the follow up after Sunless Sea from Failbetter Games, now has a free tabletop RPG called Skyfarer that you can download from Tabletop Gaming After perusing through the rules, I can say that the game is more Dungeon World than Dungeons & Dragons. It is more concerned with telling interesting stories between players…

Android 17 is coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ alongside Cooler in the next DLC release on September 27. 

Mysterious New Creature Appears In Pokémon Go, Confuses Everyone

A new creature has appeared in Pokémon Go, and no one seems quite sure what it is or what it is doing. Yesterday, IGN reported that a data miner had pulled a potential new Pokémon from the files of Pokémon Go. As of this morning, Eurogamer and IGN have both reported that the regional Chikorita…

There is new X Games DLC coming for Steep on October 30. It is going to bring “a series of new ski and snowboard events across the Big Air, SuperPipe, and Slopestyle disciplines, as well as new freestyle challenges scattered across the Alaskan mountains.”

The Games That Drew Big Crowds At The Tokyo Game Show

Today was the first public day of the Tokyo Game Show. The crowds were massive, and the lines were long. Let’s look at which games were drawing the biggest crowds. It’s always hard to get around the show floor on the public day. Between noon and 12:30, which are peak show hours, I tried to…

Kojima Productions Has Things It Wants You To Buy

While Kojima Productions doesn’t have a game demo booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, it does have a merchandise booth. You can buy Kojima Productions branded t-shirts, key chains, logo figures and more. The studio sure is good at churning out merch. Looks like there is plenty of people who want to buy it.

Hands On With Yokai Watch 4 

In 2014, Yokai Watch’s popularity exploded in Japan. The 3DS game and its anime became a nationwide phenomenon, with kids singing the theme song (and doing its catchy dance) and begging their parents to buy them Yokai Watch toys. It seemed like Yokai Watch was on track to surpass Pokémon, but by late 2016, the…