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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Creators Drop Lawsuit Over Fortnite

Last month, Kotaku reported that South Korea’s PUBG Corp., the studio behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, was suing Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, for copyright infringement. PUBG Corp. has now withdrawn its lawsuit. Earlier this week, PUBG Corp. sent a withdrawal letter to Epic Games, the studio behind Fortnite. According to Bloomberg, the court case is…

Level-5 announced Yokai Watch World, a Google Map based AR game filled with Yokai Watch characters. That sounds familiar! The game is available for download today in Japan for iOS and Android.

An Abandoned Village. 田舎, Japan. By Lee Chapman | Tokyo Times JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!   

David Hayter Returns To Metal Gear For A Bomberman Game

Super Bomberman R kinda came and went last year, but Konami have since decided to go the Smash Bros. route with the game and start hyping up post-release guest appearances like wrestler Xavier Woods and some guys from Metal Gear, including Snake, who will be voiced be series stalwart David Hayter. Hayter—synonymous with the role,…

Kingdom Come Gets Town-Building Expansion, Hardcore Mode

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a game you can have a tough time with, partly because of its difficult approach to “realism”, partly because it’s a very busted video game. As of today, anyone looking to make the former even tougher can play through a new “hardcore” mode. It does all of these very fun and…

Nintendo Made Some Labo-Themed Switches, And I Want One Real Bad

Starting next month, Nintendo is running a contest for people to design their own Labo creations, and the prizes include these very nice custom Switch units. Painted in a pale shade of cardboard brown, and with a docking base to match, it’s one of the most unique—and gorgeous—custom consoles I’ve seen from a platform holder…

Deadly Standing Is The Next Masterpiece From Genius Developer Kojumbo

Hideo Kojima? Never heard of him. Now, Hodeo Kojumbo—that guy’s a legend. This is what I would say if the only video game I’d ever played was Deadly Standing, an unbelievable but somehow extremely real mobile game that’s clearly parodying the upcoming game Death Stranding You might be thinking to yourself, “But wait, how can…

Lumines Remastered Feels Better Than Ever On Switch

Lumines Remastered takes the puzzle game classic that debuted in 2004 and brings it into 2018 for pretty much every platform out there. What makes Lumines so fun to play is the way it remixes the puzzle format and introduces rhythm game elements. Blocks are comprised of four squares in one of two colors, and…

GTA Online‘s New Modes Are More Creative Than You’d Expect

Grand Theft Auto Online is always being updated. Every week new events and discounts go live, and many recent updates have also added new modes. Here’s a roundup of some of the modes added in the last few months. Many of these newer modes show GTA Online continuing to head into an interesting direction, including…

Captain Spirit Is A Two-Hour Gut Punch

In The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, nine-year-old Chris Eriksen sets up a tower of his father’s beer cans for his superhero alter-ego, Captain Spirit, to blast into the abyss. He had to practice his aim for that day’s big, imminent fight against his arch nemesis, Mantroid. While his dad slept in a drunken stupor,…

EVE Online Elections Probably Involved Vote-Buying, But That’s OK

Players suspect that the election results for EVE Online’s thirteenth Council of Stellar Management may have been tainted by dirty tricks, including out-and-out vote buying. Of course, this being EVE, dirty tricks are perfectly legal. Players from all over the world recently cast their votes to elect representatives from amongst their ranks to sit on…

The Punch-Out-inspired boxing duck game Pato Box is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop on July 9. It was already a pretty fun mix of puzzle solving and boxing on Steam, and now it will have Joy-Con motion controls to boot.

It seems like Fortnite is gonna have a missile launch in the near future. Players have been setting their clocks forward to July 1 and finding that in-game TVs display the word “launch,” among other telltale signs. If leaks are any indication, the missile could modify the map, like the comet at the start of…

Let Queer Characters Be Happy

When The Last Of Us Part II’s new trailer debuted at this year’s E3, protagonist Ellie enjoyed a slow dance and kiss with another woman. My queer friends and I confessed to one another that we were assuming the worst. That happy girl will probably die, because while games allow us to be many things—space…

Overwatch’s long-awaited Symmetra overhaul is now live. The game’s latest patch, which spent most of this month in testing on the PC PTR, also includes new social features like a looking for group tool and a slew of balance tweaks.

We’re playing the new Donkey Kong Adventure DLC for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle on Switch, live on YouTube. Come join us! 

How Final Fantasy XIV‘s Giant Moogle Boss Came To Be

One of Final Fantasy XIV’s most memorable bosses is Good King Moggle Mog, a giant demonic moogle whose Tim Burton-inspired theme song has been haunting players since the game’s earliest days. As it turns out, the king of the Moogles has an unlikely origin: one of Japan’s biggest natural disasters. At E3 in Los Angeles…

PUBG‘s Event Pass Drops, Lands Badly [UPDATE]

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players have been through a lot since the game’s release early 2017. Although the survival shooter went viral and earned the love of millions of fans, players had, and still have, lots of complaints. The game’s been buggy. It’s been full of cheaters. And now, the rollout of a $10 Event Pass has…

That Floor Is Lava Game We Played As Kids Works Really Well As A Video Game

At first glance, Hot Lava seems little more than YouTube reaction fodder, a tricky platformer with plenty of things to make entertainers mug and scream for their audience. But playing reveals a movement-based game as fun as Mirror’s Edge or Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. It’s silly. but the thrill of completing a level really does…

Getting Bored And Walking Away Is How Most Games End For Me Now

Last week, I realized I have a problem. I’d just finished browsing the Nintendo Switch’s entire eShop for a second time in search of a new game. That’s a weird thing to do, especially considering that I still haven’t finished Breath of the Wild. I should finish it, but I can’t bring myself to do…