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This Game Is Called Fuck Everything, Which Pretty Much Says It All

Usually, dating games offer some kind of soft introduction: you’re a high school kid, or a sexy divorced dad, or a bird-caterpillar hybrid looking for love. In browser game Fuck Everything, you are thrown, in media res, into a bar populated by a strange cast of characters, with your only instruction being the title of…

Mario Odyssey Players Are Breaking The New Balloon Mode

Growing up, you probably played hide-and-seek, and you probably had one friend who was so good at hiding that it felt like they’d vanished. Well, imagine that they could literally phase through walls in order to win, and you’ll have an idea of how Mario Odyssey players are feeling right now. Mario Odyssey’s new mode,…

Master League StarCraft II Player Shows Off His Incredible Skills

I’ve been getting back into StarCraft II recently, so I really appreciated this new video from streamer Evan “Winter” Ballnik, showing off some of the precise mechanical skills you’ll require if you want to play Blizzard’s popular real-time strategy game at the highest levels. Here it is: Happy Friday.

Payday 2 On Switch Will Be Rough Without Voice Chat [UPDATE]

Payday 2 arrives on the Switch next week, nearly five years after its initial release on PC. A lot of questions have already been raised about how it will be missing a large chunk of the additional content that has come out since 2013, but a bigger head-scratcher remains the lack of proper voice chat.…

Subnautica, As Told By Its Bug Reports

In Subnautica, pressing F8 allows players to give the developers feedback and attach a screenshot. Since early access, all of these feedback reports have been anonymized and made publicly available. They show glitches, offer suggestions, and praise the cool things players find. They’re also a rare insight into what players do when they have a feedback…

Riot Discloses Loot Box Odds For League of Legends

Riot Games revealed the drop rates for League of Legends’ loot crates yesterday, offering transparency for a system that until now has been opaque. This comes during a time when loot boxes have triggered a great deal of outrage among players, pundits, and even politicians. League of Legends’ loot crates, called Hextech Chests, allow players…

The 12 Best PC Virtual Reality Games

So you just bought a new PC VR system. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, whichever. You’ve plugged it in, adjusted the cameras, cleared out some room, and you’re ready to play some games. Which are the best? This list works a little bit differently from our other “Bests” posts. It focuses on PC VR, which includes…

People Are Still Trying To Make Final Fantasy VI Look Less Awful On PC

One of the biggest shames in modern gaming is how badly Square Enix mangled its ports of Final Fantasy V and Final Fantasy VI to the PC. Fortunately, modders are still working overtime to try to fix them. “A World Reborn,” for example, is an in-progress mod by ESN23 that adds more character to the…

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ first expansion accidentally came out a week early. Its newest one, the bigger Curse of the Pharaohs, has been delayed a week to March 13. A new official video shows the mystical expansion, hyping a new city, an elaborate new enemy system and even seven new character skills. Looks impressive.

I Can’t Stop Playing This Action-Stealth Shooter

Deadbolt strips stealth down to the essentials and I can’t stop playing it. One hit and you’re dead in this side-scrolling shooter—not ideal for someone like me who prefers to rush through a level guns blazing over methodically planning my strategy and route ahead of time. And yet Hotline Miami-style quick restarts meant this sort…

Coming in 2018 to iOS and Android devices, Ghostbusters World is an augmented reality game in which players catch specters, ghosts and the odd free floating, full torso, vaporous apparition. It sounds like Pokemon Go, only every monster is ghost type and there’s no Team Valor. Perfect. Here’sthe official website

Blizzard Let Zenyatta Walk And It Was A Mistake

Oh, unholy day. Overwatch’s floating monk Zenyatta has found his feet and it is entirely unsettling to watch. So far, we’ve only seen Zenyatta hover cross-legged a few feet above the ground. Yesterday, Blizzard’s Twitter account noticed an Overwatch League sign demanding “Let Zen Walk.” Well, be careful what you ask for. Blizzard came back…

Eevee From Pokémon Makes Macarons Look Cute And Delicious

Twitter user Tsurutan turns iconic characters into adorable macarons. Character macarons are certainly a thing, and as IT Media points out, Tsurutan’s have been tearing up Twitter. Don’t you just want to bite their faces off? Or maybe gobble up those tales? Yum! For more, check out Tsurutan’s Twitter account Kotaku East is your slice…

Why The Men Of BlazBlue Don’t Have Nipples

Have you ever wondered why shirtless dudes in BlazBlue like Bang Shishigami don’t have nipples? There is a reason for that, and Arc System Works says it’s cultural. “I heard that overseas it wouldn’t be too well received, so we intentionally abstracted that,” BlazBlue director Toshimichi Mori told PC Gamer. “I think in the US…

“Nintendo Guy” Is Excellent At Accepting Nintendo Awards

At today’s DICE Awards, Nintendo cleaned up. The Kyoto-based game company didn’t send their development teams to the ceremony. Instead, it was up to one man to collect all the trophies. His name is Nintendo Guy. Of course, that’s not his real name (it’s Nate Bihldorff), but tonight, it was. Bihldorff, who works as a…

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Breath Of The Wild Wins Big At 2018 DICE Awards

The 21st D.I.C.E. Awards—voted on by over 30,000 members of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences—just wrapped up in Vegas, and among the winners are Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn and Cuphead Breath of the Wild won four awards (Game of the Year, Outstanding Achievement In Game Direction, Outstanding Achievement in Game…

Color Blind Players Are Concerned About Rainbow Six Siege‘s New Operator Ability 

Olivier “Lion” Flament is a French service member who’s special ability involves using a drone to survey hostile areas and detect movement. Unfortunately, the way this works involves a red aura around opponents that some players won’t be able to see. Part of Rainbow Six Siege’s Operation Chimera update arriving March 6, Lion will be…

Witcher Birthday Cake Features Hot Tub, Dick

For @Klutar’s birthday, his partner made him this Witcher 3 cake. It is a wet, naked, hairy work of art. WARNING: NSFW IMAGES BELOW I’ve seen Collector’s Edition statues with less detail than this, so this is really something. And yes, before you ask, yes, it got eaten. Even (especially?) that bit.

Floor Kids, the breakdancing game for the Switch, has some A++++ music by Kid Koala. Who is not only releasing a huge soundtrack for the game, but is taking it on tour as well.