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Fan Project To Remake Diablo II Using StarCraft II Is Now Playable

The Curse of Tristram: Destruction’s End, a mod that takes the main campaign of Diablo II and recreates it using the StarCraft II engine, has been four years in the making. This weekend, creator Etienne Godbout finally released a playable version to the public on a test server. The good news is, it works. While…

Rumors Suggest That Retro Studios Is Making A Star Fox Racing Game

A piping hot new E3 rumor suggests that Retro Studios, the Nintendo-owned developer behind the Metroid Prime trilogy, is making a Star Fox racing game. These rumors have been floating around gossipy Nintendo fan and writer circles for at least a few weeks now, but they’ve only gone public today, suggesting that Retro’s new game…

Angels With Scaly Wings Is More Murder And Less Dragon Sex Than I Expected

What I was expecting from Angels With Scaly Wings was something like Persona 4, but with fewer confusing dungeon crawls and a lot more dragons making out. What I got was Phoenix Wright, but with even less sexual tension. Angels With Scaly Wings, a game by Radical Phi that is currently out on Steam, bills…

The Worst Song Won Eurovision

This year’s Eurovision was one of the best in recent memory, with the worst possible result. Eurovision is a song contest between countries from the European Broadcasting Union. Each participating country sends one original song to an hours long concert, and then through a combination of a jury of music professionals and a live televote,…

Arc System Works is working on porting Guilty Gear to Switch, PS4, and PC. The studio announced the news during a live stream earlier today. Guilty Gear originally came out on PS1 20 years ago, but hasn’t been available in North America since. Currently, there’s no release date set.

Radical Heights Developer Boss Key Games Shuts Down

Boss Key Productions, the studio behind the recent battle royale Radical Heights and last year’s Lawbreakers, is closing its doors. The news comes from studio co-founder Cliff Bleszinski, previously of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament fame, who said that Lawbreakers had “failed to gain traction” and described Radical Heights, which launched last month to…

A Game Where You Can Eat Your Dates

Appeeling Personality is a dating sim where you can date bananas. It’s a lot like swiping through bad profiles on Tinder, except you eat all the creeps and losers. The incredibly normal premise of Appeeling Personality is that you’re at a banana eating competition. Having come on an empty stomach, you start hallucinating that the…

Hundreds Of Fortnite Players Are Calling A Store Named ‘Epic Loot Games’

Like many customer support reps for Fortnite developer Epic Games, Hunter Davies has heard from hundreds of anxious, frustrated, and furious Fortnite players. Problem is, Hunter Davies doesn’t work for Epic Games. He works for Epic Loot Games, a small hobby shop in an Ohio strip mall that has received a great deal of unwanted…

Stardew Valley is coming to Playstation Vita on May 22nd. Kotaku staff writer Ethan Gach, who is a Vita enthusiast who“rides hard for that piece of junk,” is psyched.

I’m Playing Destiny 2 Again And Don’t Remember A Damn Thing

After playing through Destiny 2’s campaign and conquering the player versus player gauntlet Trials of the Nine, I thought I was done with the game. The release of the Warmind DLC has given me a reason to return, and I’m finding it incredibly awkward to be a powerful Guardian who doesn’t remember game basics like…

The excellent Fortnite Thanos event ends on May 15th, Epic Games announced. If you haven’t terrorized your rivals with the Infinity Gauntlet yet, you have one more day to do so!

Hearthstone’s ‘Best Card Ever’ Really Isn’t

Since Blizzard’s Hearthstone launched in 2014, 1,594 cards have seen the light of day, some incredible, some terrible, and a majority just passing muster as “pretty good.” But which is best? This is the question that Blizzard senior game designer August Dean Ayala set out to answer with a recent series of polls on Twitter,…

Overwatch’s two-year birthday is coming up, and instead of confetti cake, players are getting a competitive mode for “Deathmatch” and a new Deathmatch map called Petra on May 22 . Of course, there will be new skins and dance emotes, too. I cannot wait to see the Doomfist dance.

Milla Jovovich Starring In Live-Action Monster Hunter Movie

Since at least 2016, Paul W. S. Anderson has been working on a Monster Hunter movie. The picture now has a star, Milla Jovovich. According to Variety, Anderson recently delivered the film’s latest draft, and the Monster Hunter movie will start shooting in South Africa this September. Special effects will be handled by Mr. X,…

Special Gold-Colored Famicom Mini Coming To Japan

With the NES Classic and the Famicom Mini both going on sale again, Nintendo is also releasing a special miniature console to mark the 50th anniversary of manga magazine Weekly Jump The gold-colored Nintendo Classic Mini Famicon features twenty Famicom games that were based on Weekly Jump manga. Priced at 7,980 yen ($73), the manga-themed…

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Superhot is getting a sequel of sorts, with the announcement over the weekend of Superhot JP. It’s an all-new game set in Japan, featuring Japanese stages like hot springs and karaoke bars, and is being developed by GameTomo. Superhot JP is coming for PC and PS4

The NES Classic will get a re-issue on June 29, Nintendo said tonight. The SNES Classic should also be around throughout the year. Still no word on an N64 Classic.

The Little Mystery Behind An Unused Door In Bloodborne

When Bloodborne first launched, players quickly discovered a door at the end of the bridge behind the Cleric Beast. There’s no way to open the door, but the alpha version of Bloodborne shipped with a prompt telling users they could only open it from one side. So, what’s behind the door? We’ve written about Lance…

V-Commandos Is Still One Of The Best Tactics Games Around

I reviewed V-Commandos last year and absolutely loved it, but 12 months later I’m somehow finding space in my heart to enjoy it even more To recap, V-Commandos is a board game designed by a bunch of guys who either work or used to work at Ubisoft. It’s a turn-based stealth tactics experience, where you…