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Final Fantasy XIV Gets A World From Final Fantasy III On March XIII

Based on the optional dungeon in Final Fantasy III where the game’s most robust equipment can be found, the Forbidden Land of Eureka comes to Final Fantasy XIV in patch 4.25 on March 13, bringing with it brand new gameplay mechanics and powerful new equipment to acquire and enhance. In Final Fantasy XIV, Eureka is…

Detroit: Become Human will be out May 25. The PS4 exclusive has seen its fair share of controversy during development including a trailer last summer that was criticized for its portrayal of domestic abuse. We’ll see whether the Quantic Dream game avoids the pitfalls of its predecessor.

This Local Two-Player Mode Looks Rather Silly

Handy Mah-jong for Nintendo Switch is a budget-priced download game with a budget-looking local two-player mode. Developed by Imaginative Technology Land, Hand Mah-jong’s official website has a PDF download for TV mode (above). It looks rather imaginative and goofy, but so does the PDF download for the portable mode. Hey, whatever works! Kotaku East is…

NIS America has announced that its online store suffered a data breach, sending out an email to customers about the hack. The online store was taken down by NIS America as the company for maintenance to prevent future breaches.

Last Year’s Crappiest-Looking Anime Made Slightly Less Crappy

When Dynamic Chord originally aired on Japanese TV, it looked terrible. Good thing the Blu-ray release cleaned things up! That’s typically what DVD and Blu-ray releases do—fix all the sloppy and unfinished animation that was originally broadcasted. Twitter user Yuru has been obsessively cataloging the dynamic fixes, which you can compare for yourself in the…

The City That Never Sleeps. Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. By Aldair Ortiz | Instagram  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! 

Mods Saved A Game, So They’re Now An Official Product

When flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover was released in 2011, it was…OK. Over the next few years dedicated modders stepped in to make the game great, however, and in recognition of their work the actual studio behind IL-2 has just re-released their work officially. IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover BLITZ Edition is the…

Duke Nukem 3D’s Creators Just Released A New Shooter Built On a 1995 Engine

3D Realms—yes, they’re still around—just quietly released a new shooter called Ion Maiden. It’s notable because unlike a load of modern games that are built to look like they’re using old tech, it actually is: it’s built on the Build Engine, which ran everything from Duke Nukem 3D to Shadow Warrior Ion Maiden is still…

Dragon Ball FighterZ Producer Talks About The Challenges And Thrills of Creating The Game’s Stages

Fists aren’t the only striking thing in Dragon Ball FighterZ. Its stages, inspired by the landmark anime, are gorgeous. Excited about the game’s great stages, we reached out to Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki about what developing them was like. Rendered with immense detail, but also with big, anime-style lines, Dragon Ball FighterZ stages…

Hearthstone Is Finally About To Get A Tournament Mode

Hearthstone is about to get a feature that fans have been begging for since its earliest days—a mode that lets you run your own organized tournaments from within the client. Every year, Hearthstone gets a “soft reset” of sorts: a new competitive season begins, and old cards rotate out of Standard play to make space…

Please Let David Lynch Teach You Typing 

Visionary Twin Peaks director David Lynch is a man of many talents, and now teaching typing is one of them, thanks to indie developers Hyacinth Nil and Luke Palmer. David Lynch Teaches Typing is a free game that envisions a world where quinoa aficionado and transcendental meditation enthusiast David Lynch has taken on the sinister…

Judge Orders Teen To Stop Playing Violent Video Games [UPDATE]

Earlier this week, a student at Lake Park High School in the suburbs of Chicago was arrested for threatening to commit a school shooting on social media. At his hearing, a judge yesterday ordered the teen to forfeit his smartphone to his parents and stop playing violent video games. According to a report by the…

Super Mario Odyssey Players Think They’ve Found New Secrets

Super Mario Odyssey’s latest patch added a highly exploitable balloon hunting mini-game to Mario’s to-do list, but it might have brought secrets as well. Dataminers searching through the new patch have found a handful of hidden images that appear to showcase the location of extra Power Moons. Odyssey’s patch 1.2.0 mostly focused on adding a…

That Time The Final Fantasy Team Made An Aliens Game

The name Square is closely associated with RPGs, and for good reason. But in the days before it had its first huge hit with Final Fantasy, Square tried all kinds of different things, including licensing the rights to the 1986 film Aliens and producing an action game with some now-familiar names in the credits. There’s…

Adding Dick Sizes To Historical Strategy Game Introduces Some Complications

Crusader Kings 2 is a complicated game about conquering Europe through diplomacy and war. It’s a game where characters not liking you can make it hard to expand, or at worst, start a murder plot. One modder added another wrinkle to this already overstuffed simulation: dick sizes. Sex is already a component of Crusader Kings…

Overwatch‘s Newest Hero Is Torbjorn’s Daughter

After a week of teasing, Blizzard has confirmed that Overwatch’s newest hero is Brigitte Lindholm, daughter of bearded turret lover Torbjorn. Brigitte is a support hero who uses a rocket flail to deal damage, sometimes to multiple enemies at once. Her passive ability, Inspire, heals allies over time, and she can supplement that by dropping…

Stardew Valley Is Definitely A Horror Game

If there’s one thing I’ve learned as a seasoned consumer of all things horror, it’s that situations are rarely as innocent as they seem. Dolls will spring to life and kill you. That big, beautiful house you got for a steal is haunted. You know how it goes. I let my guard down with Stardew…

Bloodborne Headlines March’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

If you don’t own Bloodborne, you’re in luck with March’s PlayStation Plus offerings. There are also going to be some changes coming to PS Plus next year. Today’s PS Plus blog includes the announcement that starting on March 8, 2019, PS3 and Vita games will no longer be included in the lineup. It’s not entirely…

My Five Year Struggle To Beat A JRPG 

Every year since 2013, I start a new file in a specific JRPG. I grind, I level up, I do side quests. I pour anywhere from 20-30 hours in, intent on seeing the credits. I get a little further every time, but it’s no use. Something always happens and I leave the game unfinished, dooming…

Nintendo Adds User Reviews, Immediately Pulls Them [UPDATE]

Late last week, Nintendo began allowing users to post reviews on the Switch’s eShop for certain games, with ratings and comments also appearing under each game’s listing on the Nintendo website. This morning, Nintendo suddenly pulled the feature, and it’s not clear why. The new feature, which was originally brought to people’s attention last Friday…