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Another Tourist Crashes Real-Life (And Totally Unofficial) Mario Kart In Tokyo

Last night in Tokyo, a 30-something-year-old tourist from Singapore made a wrong turn, driving a rental MariCar (the go-kart company that Nintendo is suing for copyright infringement) up on the sidewalk and crashing it into a restaurant sign. This is not a first. Previously, Kotaku reported that another tourist crashed a MariCar into a police…

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EA’s FIFA 18 World Cup Patch Is A Surprise

Electronic Arts takes a lot of shit from a lot of people for many of its business practices. So its decision to just give away a big FIFA 18 World Cup update—something they used to charge for—is a pleasant surprise. Announced earlier today, the World Cup update will add a ton of new stuff to…

There’s Real History, And Beauty, In The Witcher 3’s Forests

The forests of The Witcher 3 are some of the most lifelike and beautiful in video games. There’s a lot more to them than just looks, though: there’s history coursing through their veins, not to mention connections to Polish folklore. This is an excerpt from the fourth issue of Heterotopias, an online magazine about the…

Elite: Dangerous Player Spends A Month Drawing Game’s Logo In Space

Imagine if you could explore the universe at your leisure. Where would you go? How would you leave your mark? One Elite: Dangerous player decided to draw the game’s logo across the infinite night. It took him a month. Elite: Dangerous is massive. Thanks to procedural generation rooted in actual scientific principles, the multiplayer space…

God Of War Sure Has Been Getting A Lot Of Patches

God of War is a very good game that has been getting an unprecedented number of title updates. The PS4 exclusive launched on April 20 and in its first 11 days of release has been updated eight times. The most recent patch, which upgraded the game to version 1.17, was released on Friday, ending a…

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ got its final booster pack update today. Live on Steam and set to come to PS4 sometime in the future, Booster Pack #5 adds items, enemies, and a boss as well as a completely new character. There’s also an extensive list of bug fixes and other small teaks.  

Draw Your Own Date In Doodle Date, Then Regret Not Having Art Skills

Doodle Date, a game that has been out on Steam for a week, and can be bought for the low, low price of two dollars, is not at all what I expected. I expected a dating sim with more player input than usual. What I got was a surreal journey of attempted murder, identity crisis,…

A Tabletop RPG For Storytellers Who Want To Be Infamous Criminals

If the industrial, supernatural world of Blades in the Dark was the backdrop for anything other than a tabletop role-playing game, I’d have written daily letters to its creator asking them to make it into one. Blades in the Dark’s world is so full of noir curiosities that it begs players to insert themselves in,…

I Love Nintendo Labo’s Extra Little Cardboard Bits

I really like interacting with the Nintendo Labo. I like popping, snapping, folding, and even just looking at each little piece. It’s gotten to the point that I’m having a hard time throwing any of it away. Labo is a fascinating new Nintendo product that combines the Switch handheld system with a collection of cardboard-crafting…

The Division’s Developers Keep Fixing ‘Weird Doors’

If you looked closely at the patch notes for a Division update from way back in November 2016, you would notice an odd sentence: “Fixed a Weird Door.” It would become a trend for Ubisoft’s enormous action-RPG, which would receive many more updates over the coming months. The following May, in Division patch 1.6.1, the…

Far Cry 5 gets its next patch tomorrow when the game goes down for maintenance at 9:00pm EDT. Title Update 5 fixes a number of bugs, including several we’ve written about including the never-ending credits loop and Mary May not spawning in the truck. It also mentions re-balancing some of the weapons.

Destiny 2‘s upcoming Warmind DLC has a cute throwback to the first game’s most infamous line. Watch above. (via Fuzzle_HC)

Everything We Know About Nintendo’s Next President

Nintendo’s next president likes Golf Story, lived in Germany for 11 years, and has a famous dad. Last week, as it reported its (stellar) results for the previous fiscal year, Nintendo announced that its current president Tatsumi Kimishima, who assumed office in 2015 following the death of Satoru Iwata, would step down and be replaced…

Stardew Valley’s Multiplayer Has Been Worth The Wait

Playing Stardew Valley with another person is more fun than I expected. The idea of tilling virtual soil with a buddy was something I was looking forward to, for sure, but actually doing it makes me feel like I don’t want to play the game any other way. The allure of co-op multiplayer was a…

Watch Dogs 2 Had Some Creative DLC For Those Who Stuck Around

Big game gets hype. Big game comes out. No one seems to care. Big game flops. Life moves on. Except, these days, when all that happens, the big game still usually has a few months’ worth of DLC to drop. If that DLC is good, it’s a shame that so few people will play it.…

You Should Be Playing The Brutal City Builder Frostpunk

If you had told me months ago that a city builder about the remnants of 19th century England trying to survive the next ice age would sell hundreds of thousands of copies in its first week on Steam, I’d have guessed you were hallucinating from hypothermia. But that’s exactly what Frostpunk did, and after spending…

Everyone Remembers Their First ‘Take The L’ In Fortnite

Fortnite’s emotes have taken on a life of their own: in the last two weeks, I’ve seen kids and adults replicating the game in real life. If you watch sports, you’ve likely seen goals or good plays celebrated through emotes. And if you play Fortnite, you’ve definitely had some jerk dance over your cold, lifeless…

Angry Over Busted Switch, Guy Files Class-Action Suit Against Third-Party Dock Maker

Several Nintendo Switch owners who purchased a third-party dock from Nyko were furious last March when the dock apparently brickedtheir $300 console. On Friday, one brought a class action lawsuit against Nyko alleging that the company wasn’t vocal enough about the dock’s manufacturing defect. Nyko’s portable Switch docking kit is a cheaper alternative to Nintendo’s…

Rolling A New Character Is My Favorite Part Of Dungeons & Dragons

This Sunday, my D&D group got to the halfway point of our adventure. We all chatted about things we wanted to try in the next half, which means I get to do my favorite thing to do in a roleplaying game: roll a new character. When I joined this game, I took over for a…