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South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee has rated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered. The country’s ratings board often inadvertently leaks unannounced games it rates. This is probably no exception. [Thanks Sang for the tip!)

The Bleach Anime Is Coming Back Next Year

In 2016, the Bleach manga ended after a 15-year-run. The original anime series had wrapped up a few years earlier in 2012, meaning that the animated series never concluded. But that will change because now it’s been announced that the Bleach anime is coming back. The manga’s closing arc “Thousand-Year Blood War” will be adapted…

Nike Made More PlayStation Shoes, But You Can’t Buy These Ones

Nike’s recent PlayStation collabs have been some of the most successful video game tie-ins of the last decade, from the classic AF1to the more recent PG2. This next sneaker, though, won’t be available to buy. These Air Max 90s are limited to just 50 pairs, and will go to winners of an in-game sweepstakes in…

The Half-Life Games That Don’t Star Gordon Freeman

The latest Half-Life game comes out tomorrow. But unlike Half-LIfe 2 and its episodes, where you play as Gordon Freeman, Half-Life: Alyx has players taking on the role of Alyx Vance. While it has been a while since this last happened, this isn’t the first time a Half-Life game has ditched Gordon Freeman. Half-Life: Opposing…

GameStop Finally Closes Stores To Customers

GameStop will close all of its stores to customers tomorrow, switching to a “delivery at the door” service for locations that remain open, company CEO George Sherman said in a letter to employees today that was obtained by Kotaku Shoppers will be able to order games online, by using the GameStop app, or with QR…

Animal Crossing Players Are Cluttering Their Islands With So Many Cages And Crates

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a peaceful game about living on an island and slowly building up a small town, complete with its own museum. But the museum, where you can donate animals and other items, doesn’t open up until you play for a few days. And because Animal Crossing is in realtime, that means…

Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition has been removed from Steam A notice on the game’s store page states it was removed “..at the request of the publisher.” WB Games originally published Mortal Kombat back in 2011. The game can still currently be bought on PS3 and Xbox 360.

GameStop Shuts Down Stores In California

GameStop is shutting down its stores in California, Kotaku has learned. This news comes one day after the struggling retailer told all of its U.S. employees to ignore state lockdown measures in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, insisting that it was an “essential retail” business. “We are closing our stores in California,” the company…

Track: Think About Things | Artist: Daði Freyr | Album: Söngvakeppnin 2020

Nioh 2 Shocked Me At The Buzzer With A Throwback To The Original

Nioh 2 isone of the most exciting gamesI’ve ever played. A lot of that is thanks to a fantastic combat system where each battle is a tense yet intuitive slash-fest. But Nioh 2 is also a smart prequel that plays around with characters that players might know from Nioh. That playfulness comes to a head…

The Game Developers Conference has announced GDC Summer, currently set for August 4-6 in San Francisco. The scaled-down event will feature “a new series of microtalks and fireside chats, as well as a dedicated space for comprehensive career development sessions.”

Staaarrrs! I’ve made the questionable decision to stream the Resident Evil 3 demo right now on Twitch. Come for zombies and scares, but also to relax and chat. Let’s chill and play some games, y’know?

Due to the effects of coronavirus covid-19, Funimation will delay simultaneous dubs for the spring anime season. The company is temporarily halting production so all staff to work from home. Simulcast subs, however, will not be impacted.

Smash Bros. Creator On How Coronavirus Covid-19 Has Impacted Game Development In Japan

Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Smash Bros., devoted his latest Weekly Famitsu column to how coronavirus covid-19 is impacting the game industry in Japan. About three paragraphs in, Sakurai lists an array of stats and factoids, including the number of global deaths, how Hokkaido Prefecture declared a state of emergency, that masks and toilet paper are…

A LEGO Sound Blaster Wouldn’t Be As Hard To Install

If LEGO can make money off our nostalgia for the old days of toys and movies, then surely it’s not too big a leap to start milking our feelings for old video game hardware as well. This LEGO Ideas campaign, by British artist Bhaal_Spawn, wants to recreate in brick form perhaps the most iconic piece…

We’re Liveblogging The Independent Games Festival Awards [Update: It’s Over! Here Are The Winners]

This week’s GDC may have been cancelled, but the conference has still been streaming talks online. I’m home; maybe you’re home? Let’s watch tonight’s Independent Games Festival Awards and Game Developers Choice Awards together! OK, so the liveblog is just me, Riley. But I’m fun, I promise! The show starts at 8pm ET over on…

The Steam Game Festival Has Free Demos Of GDC Games

The Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition is live today through March 23. The special Steam page features indie games that were going to be showcased at this week’s Game Developers Conference, which has been cancelled to help reduce the spread of covid-19. Some of the games have been available for a while, while other upcoming…

Phantasy Star Online 2 Shows Its Age, But It’s Still Great

Phantasy Star Online 2’s open beta kicked off on the Xbox One last night. The loot-gathering, monster-bashing multiplayer game originally released in 2012 but never came to the West. How does it feel eight years later? A little clunky but oddly addictive. Phantasy Star, which started on the Sega Master System in the 1980s, is…

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean and Jon “dekillsage” Coello have signed with esports team Evil Geniuses. These fighting game veterans, often considered two of the best Dragon Ball FighterZ players in the world, were previously part of Echo Fox. SonicFox is also the reigning Mortal Kombat 11 champion

While the original MapleStory gets an official chair, the Japanese version of MapleStory 2 gets shut down. A post on Nexon’s Japanese website (via Siliconera) informs players the 3D sequel will be ending service on May 27, just short of a year after launch. The English version of the game is safe for now.