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Nine Let’s Plays That Can Turn A Bad Mood Around

Sometimes, when I’ve had a bad day or when the weather is horrible, I go on YouTube and find a Let’s Play to watch. On days where I just want to cry, I especially like tuning in to Let’s Plays that will make me laugh. I no longer feel alone, and the negative thoughts that…

The beautifully animated action adventure game Iconoclasts lands on Switch August 2 Think of it as a fusion of Metroid and Mega Man that controls like a dream and explores the role of religion in shaping a society. You can watch Kotaku’s Tim Rogers interview the creator here.

Konami Updates Metal Gear Solid V: TPP, Makes Quiet Playable On FOBs

In July 2017, Konami updated Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, making Ocelot playable. Now a year later, the game has been updated once again. This time, Quiet is playable. It’s not possible to change the character’s outfit, and the character has no other head options. The update also brings new items, such as…

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Fan Keeps Tracking Down Popular PUBG Streamer And Serenading Him

For many popular streamers, stream snipers are just a fact of life. Streamers can take measures to minimize their impact, but a dedicated handful slip through the cracks and find ways to be annoying as hell. Or, every once in a while, downright endearing. Stream snipers track streamers’ locations by watching their streams and then…

Dungeons & Dragons & Dogs

Dungeons and Doggies is a miniature release from Animal Adventures that lets anyone who plays D&D—and wants to go on quests with very good boys—have some cute dogs join their party. The set includes 13 adventuring dog miniatures, as well as a “bespoke set of fifth edition compatible rules for using your Animal Adventure miniatures…

Pandemic Getting A Very Fancy Re-Release For Its 10th Birthday

Pandemic has been one of the biggest board games on the planet since its release in 2008, so to celebrate its 10th birthday its getting re-released in a big metal box that’s full of new cards and miniatures. Pandemic 10th Anniversary will be $100. For that money you get a very good game, plus a…

A God Of War (And Boy) For Your Desk

In November, NECA will be releasing this action figure two-pack that includes both Kratos and Boy. Advertised as a “7” scale action figure 2-pack”, obviously only Kratos is actually clocking in at that height. The pack also includes a bunch of weapons, fire and frost effects and Mimir’s head. They’ve captured Kratos’ joyful and optimistic…

Fortnite’s Slurp Juice Removed Because It Was Making People Invincible

Fortnite’s newly improved Slurp Juice—basically a healing potion—has been temporarily removed from the game after players discovered an animation bug that let them run around with full health and boosts. As this video from Fortnite Insider shows, players found that by cancelling the drinking animation before it was finished they’d be able to both attain the…

Did you know that Forsaken is getting a remastered PC release on July 31? I’ll bet you didn’t. Nightdive Studios, currently working on remastering System Shock, appears to be looking for some extra cash by reviving the 1998 dystopic shooter few remember beyond its haunting box art. 2018 continues to amaze.

In World Of Warcraft‘s New Communities, It’s Easy To Troll And Hard To Ban

World of Warcraft’s new “communities” feature just launched. These communities are a lot like guilds, except they’re unconstrained by servers, which should be an easy win. Unfortunately, players have found some easily exploited blind spots in the new feature, as well as some drawbacks for marginalized players. WoW communities exist independently of guilds, so you…

Porn Game Developers Are Making Big Money Thanks To Crowd-Funding

Akabur, one of the true frontiersman of porn games, is finally cashing in. His two most popular erotic games, Princess Trainer and Witch Trainer, remain free for anyone to download on his website, but the public is paying him over $5,000 a month to facilitate his work. Both of his hits follow the same straightforward…

No Man’s Sky’s Latest Update Makes Everything New

Playing No Man’s Sky after the latest big update is like landing on completely foreign terrain. I didn’t know what to expect in Next, today’s much-anticipated No Man’s Sky update. Past updates have added or overhauled features, but the game still felt familiar. Not so with this one. Next brings true multiplayer to No Man’s…

GTA Online’s After Hours Expansion Almost Feels Like Single-Player DLC

The latest update for GTA Online, After Hours, was released today. At first glance the update might seem like it’s all about parties, nightclubs and music. But After Hours is one of the biggest updates the game has ever received. And, after two hours of playing, I think it might be one of the game’s…

Ghost Recon Wildlands’ new Rainbow Six Siege cross-over mission is now live in the game as part of this week’s free Special Operation 2 update. In “Operation Archangel,” more extra-judicial, paramilitary stuff goes down in Bolivia as you assist Twitch and Valkyrie in finding a missing operator.

Anatomy Of A Brutal God Of War Boss Fight

Weekends are a great time for relaxing, reading, or spending time with loved ones. Or, if you’re me, you can spend an entire weekend trying to beat the Valkyrie Queen in God of War Valkyrie fights are among the more straightforward of the many challenges in Sony Santa Monica’s fantastic Nordic murder-fest. Each one is…

The Shin Megami Tensei Mobile Game Embraces The Hell World Of Social Media

“This is the world of the downloaders,” says one of the characters early on in Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2, Sega’s mobile adaptation of the Atlas JRPG series. That was the moment I started to like this game, despite the fact that it’s free-to-play, chuck full of microtransactions, and limited to Android and iOS. Where…

I Can’t Bring Myself To Delete The Sim Of My Ex

Whenever I get a crush on someone, I usually secretly add them to whatever game of The Sims I’m currently playing. Despite this being an incredibly weird thing to do, it’s a ritual I’ve followed for years. Normally it doesn’t get so complicated. The last time I talked about this at all, I was bonding…

Epic Commemorates Failed Fortnite Rescue Attempt In-Game

Remember that daring, failed rescue attempt in Fortnite from last week? Well Epic has added a tribute to it to the game, as well as a way to prevent other battle royale-ers from meeting the same fate. Last Tuesday, the streamer Muselk noticed something weird in his game of Fortnite. There was a player trapped…

Guacamelee 2 will release August 21st The sequel was first announced at Paris Games Week last year.