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Nintendo’s Best Selling Switch And 3DS Games To Date
Nintendo has released sales data for its biggest selling Nintendo Switch and 3DS games. Which ones do you think came out on top? Oh, the suspense! Here are the Switch games. And the 3DS ones There shouldn’t be any surprises, no?
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 31, 2018 -
R-Type Is Getting An Excellent Statue
Classic side-scrolling shooter R-Type is getting immortalized in a poseable Figma statue. Of course, that’s Dobkeratops, which is R-Type’s most infamous boss. This is an unpainted prototype. According to Figsoku, the final piece doesn’t yet have a release date. Pricing is also TBA. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 31, 2018 -
Lifetime Sales For The Nintendo Switch And Nintendo 3DS
Wonder how Nintendo’s current gen game machines are doing? The Kyoto-based company just released life-to-date tallies for both the Switch and 3DS, as well as software totals for each. For comparison’s sake, Nintendo included lifetime sales figures for its other game hardware. Have a look.
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 31, 2018 -
Man Beats Fallout: New Vegas Without Getting Hit Even Once
T Ronix has managed to complete Fallout: New Vegas—and the game’s DLC—without taking a single hit, all the while playing on Very Hard difficulty. The whole run took around six-and-a-half hours, and included some basic ground rules. T Ronix couldn’t: Take a hit from an enemy, whether it be melee or projectile Take a direct…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2018 -
EA Kills “Open Source” Version Of SimCity 2000
Earlier this year, a game called OpenSC2K was released on GitHub, claiming to be a free, open source version of Maxis’ classic. Turns out it wasn’t as open source as it could have been, though, because EA have had the game removed from the platform. As TorrentFreak report, the art assets used in OpenSC2K were…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 30, 2018 -
Hell Is Watching Smash Bros. Characters Dance Like They’re In Fortnite
Our time on this planet is limited, but please spend a moment of it feasting on the internet’s latest abomination. YouTuber Master0fHyrule has made a lot of videos about Super Smash Bros. Usually they’re just lists, like this one showing off every character’s taunt or this other one showing off every character’s taunt in reverse.…
By Ethan Gach Published July 30, 2018 -
Annual EVE Online Tournament Kicks Off With A Daring Bluff
On the opening day of EVE Online’s annual Alliance Tournament, one team used a clever bluff to secure its first win. The official once-a-year tournament is unlike all other EVE Online combat, since all competitors start with the same set of equipment. The fights take place on the main EVE server, but in unreachable star…
By Lee Yancy Published July 30, 2018 -
Five Ways Video Games Make Failure Matter
Video games are constantly trying different ways to make you feel like the game you’re playing has exciting, tangible stakes. Some are more creative about it than others. Without some sort of stakes or risk, victories in a video game feel hollow and unexciting. That can be fine for a low-stakes, low-impact game, but can…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 30, 2018 -
A Team Of Role-Players Is Transforming Destiny Into A D&D Game
A group of intrepid Dungeon Masters are building a Dungeons & Dragons campaign based on the world of Destiny, a sci-fi franchise about shooting aliens in space and hoping that they drop things that will let you shoot aliens in space even more efficiently. The project, D&Destiny, aims to be a totally free guide to…
By Jason Schreier Published July 30, 2018 -
Love Island Game Is All About Six-Packs, Banter, And Random Hookups
Love Island is a British reality TV show in which several glistening, muscular men with sleeve tattoos and unaddressed anger issues are sent to a sunny island villa along with several glossy-haired, incredibly basic women who I’m pretty sure have their perma-bikinis sewn onto their skin, and are then expected to “couple up” in order…
By Kate Gray Published July 30, 2018 -
The new 1.52.1 PC patch for No Man’s Sky fixes base reclamation, among other things. I spent uh, a while trying to scare up a base location over the weekend, so I’m glad to finally be able to continue progress in the base building quest. Hello Games says the fixes are coming to other platforms “as soon…
By Kirk Hamilton Published July 30, 2018 -
Conflicted Feelings About The Mobile Game I’m Playing
If I’m commuting on the subway and don’t have two hands free to play Switch or 3DS games, I play a mobile game. Usually, it’s Threes, but sometimes another game takes its place. That’s the case now. The new game is Holedown I feel good about playing Holedown, because, really, I’ve played way too much…
By Stephen Totilo Published July 30, 2018 -
Gran Turismo Sport Gets Microtransactions A Year After Series Producer Said It Wouldn’t
Gran Turismo Sport’s July update is now live, adding a new race track and more cars. It’s also introduced microtransactions, something the series producer said last summer the game wouldn’t have. As of today, players can now purchase cars outright for cash as long as they cost less than 2,000,000 in in-game currency. The change…
By Ethan Gach Published July 30, 2018 -
How To Make Lots Of Money In No Man’s Sky Next
Unless you’re running tons of side missions, it can be difficult to raise funds in No Man’s Sky. If you’re not interested in farming or running errands, you might want to consider investing in cryo-pumps. They’re easy to craft and sell for obscene prices. The first thing I did in No Man’s Sky after the…
By Heather Alexandra Published July 30, 2018 -
Pokémon The Movie: The Power Of Us is an upcoming Pokémon movie starring Ash and Pikachu that’s heading to theaters for four days only. On November 24, 26 and 28 and December 1 you’ll be able to watch Ash and his buds visit a island town and summon a Lugia. If you want to find…
By Gita Jackson Published July 30, 2018 -
Unlike in Pokémon, Digimon Humans Keep Aging
In the Pokémon anime, Ash is ten years old. Eternally. But in the Digimon anime, the human characters are getting older. The upcoming Digimon movie, which marks the franchise’s 20th anniversary, stars a 22-year-old Taichi (“Tai”) and Yamato (“Matt”) When the anime started, both characters were boys and now, years later, they’re adults The fact…
By Brian Ashcraft Published July 30, 2018 -
Adidas’ First Two Dragon Ball Sneakers Are Goku & Frieza
OK, we’re pretty much done with leaks: these are some of the first official shots of Adidas’ anticipated upcoming collaboration with Dragon Ball Z, and they show the first two pairs are running with a Goku vs. Frieza theme. As Sneaker News reports, the Goku shoe is a modified ZX500 RM, which is not just…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018 -
Civilization IV’s Theme Was On America’s Got Talent, And It Was Excellent
Last week, the procession of pop songs on TV show America’s Got Talent was interrupted by a massive group performance of Baba Yetu, the Grammy-award winning Civilization IV theme Sung by the Angel City Chorale, it’s one hell of a performance of Christopher Tin’s work, which despite its surprise contemporary prominence (it won its Grammy…
By Luke Plunkett Published July 29, 2018