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A Lot Of Work Goes Into Adding Just One Suit To Spider-Man

Sometimes when you see a skin or an alternate costume in a video game, you think “hey, that’s neat!” and don’t give it a second thought. Xavier Coelho-Kostolny, a 3D character artist at Insomniac Games, actually broke down the process of getting a cool piece of video game art from concept to your television screen…

Monster Hunter World’s Mega Man Quest Is Terrific

While Monster Hunter: World’s Spring Blossom Festival brings back old event quests, the game keeps adding new and absurd rewards as well. The latest event quest offers one of the most exciting arena battles yet and transforms your palico cat companion into Mega Man. “A Rush of Blood” is a new hunter rank 13 quest…

Fortnite Players Are Using The New Port-A-Fort For More Than Just Defense

It’s not easy to make the perfect Fortnite fort, especially in the time it takes to save your butt from 360 degrees of bullets. Earlier this week, developer Epic Games gifted port-a-fort grenades to Fortnite players, which instantly spawn glorious defense towers right at players’ feet. Sure seems like a great way to defend yourself…

A Way Out Sold More In Two Weeks Than EA Apparently Thought It’d Sell Total

A Way Out seems like a tough sell. The cooperative narrative game, which requires you to play the whole thing alongside a second person, probably isn’t for everyone. But it sure was for a lot of people—more than EA seems to have expected. This morning, developer Hazelight Studios announced that it had sold a million…

The strike at strategy game makers Eugen Systems based in Paris ended earlier this month. With negotiations going nowhere, the striking workers—close to half of the studio—decided to pursue the matter in court. “We will continue to fight for our rights with the legal means at our disposal,” they said in a statement.

How The Makers Of Mafia III Lost Their Way

In mid-2016, a few months before the release of their first game, Mafia III, the developers at Hangar 13 in Novato, California gathered for an all-hands meeting. There, according to two people in attendance, Christoph Hartmann, president of the game’s publisher, 2K, told employees that their bonuses would be tied to the game’s aggregate review…

YouTuber’s Animal Tier Lists Are Brilliant

I never really thought about this, but dinosaurs were kind of OP. That’s probably why they dominated the earth for so long. In a video on the YouTube channel TierZoo titled “Earth’s Worst Balance Patch,” I got to hear why. It’s a video about the Triassic Period, which, he explains, was “an expansion sandwiched between…

After Donkey Kong Controversy, Guinness Removes All Of Billy Mitchell’s Records

Guinness World Records will remove Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong scores, as well as his records for Pac-Man, from their database following Mitchell’s disqualification from the Twin Galaxies leaderboards yesterday. Mitchell is one of the world’s most famous arcade game players, at one time holding world records in Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, and Pac-Man. Yesterday,…

Stardew Valley Is The Perfect Hangover Game

After a friend’s boozy Dungeons and Dragons brunch last week, his apartment transitioned straight into a party. Although we ordered pizza and had plenty of carbs, we had begun drinking at 11am, and I continued to drink until the early hours of the morning. Suffice it to say, the next day was a struggle. In…

The People Behind Gwent Are Fixing All The Things Players Hate

Today, CD Projekt Red co-CEO Marcin Iwiński and the directors of Gwent laid out the studio’s six month plan to rehab the Witcher-based card game for its official release and the launch of its single-player story campaign later this year. In an “open letter” on the Gwent website, the team wrote, “We need 6 months…

Rockstar says that GTA Online’s “money freezing” exploit, where players sprout huge stunt tracks onto Los Santos, has been patched on PS4.

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 will bring back micro-transactions on April 18th as part of a large game update. Crystals will be purchasable and used for cosmetics only. The update also adds an Ewok hunting mode. Yub-nub?

Promoting Avengers Reaches New Levels Of Annoying In Japan 

It often feels like the way movies are promoted in Japan are…peculiar. But Japanese moviegoers do complain about how posters are changed for their market. The same goes for commercials. Walt Disney Japan has released a series of ads for Avengers: Infinity War that awkwardly riff on Japanese internet culture. There are announcers saying “Very,…

Slowpoke Is Unexpectedly Fast When Crossing City Streets

Slowpoke is called that for a reason. It’s a slow Pokémon! Except when crossing the street, because then Slowpoke speeds up. This is how you imagine Slowpoke moving down the street. But that changes when the character crosses and intersection. All that running has to make Slowpoke tired. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian…

Looking Up. Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. By Ben Wagner. 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! 

Puma’s New Sonic The Hedgehog Sneakers Are Very Hairy

Puma has a new sneaker coming based on Sonic, and…well, they got the colours right? It has a childish look to it, which I guess works for the subject matter, and I suppose the design fits the overall Sonic aesthetic. The gold rings on the laces are a nice touch. But what’s up with that…

How Privacy Settings Compare Across Xbox Live, PSN, And Other Platforms

Earlier this week, Steam introduced a handful of new privacy options and, in a move that doomed number-crunching megalith Steam Spy, changed its default settings so that only friends can see which games you’ve been playing. In this one particular area, Steam is now ahead of the rest of the pack. If you want, you…

Game Collector Finds Drugs Hidden Inside NES Cartridges

Julian Turner, a collector of retro video games, went to a market earlier this month and bought some old NES games. When he got home, he discovered that he’d got more than he paid for: two of the cartridges were packed with illegal drugs. The two games in question were Rollergames and Golf. Alarm bells…

A Free Game That Makes Math More Scary

Edutainment games like Number Munchers or Big Thinkers! always felt like they had a sinister side. There’s something weird about someone emphatically telling you how cool learning is. As I perfunctorily did math equations in games like these I always kind of felt like I was being brainwashed. Baldi’s Basics, a hilarious horror-parody of edutainment…

Some Far Cry 5 Players Are Stuck In A Never-Ending Credits Loop

Far Cry 5‘s latest patch released this week on consoles. Although it addressed a number of minor issues with online multiplayer, mission progression, and overall stability, it doesn’t appear to have addressed one unique and particularly pernicious bug where some players who complete the game get stuck in a never-ending loop of the end credits.…