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Rare Says Sea Of Thieves Will Run Well Even On Crappy PCs

Usually, when developers talk about PC ports of big games, they emphasize top-tier performance. The best possible graphics, the highest resolutions. God rays, 4k, a million frames per second. Rare, though, has taken a different approach with Sea of Thieves The game, Rare says, will run capably on a whole host of different PC configurations…

Game Developer Adam Rippon Is Having A Good Time Right Now

Yesterday morning, Adam Rippon got a rude message from an anonymous Twitter account. “You have shown to all just what a complete I.D.I.O.T you are!” wrote Grumpygrampa22. “You’re an embarrassment!” Here’s the bad news for Grumpygrampa22: Unless he meant to insult a 37-year-old game designer in Oakland, California, he got the wrong Adam Rippon. For…

For My Third Time Through Dragon Age: Inquisition, I Promise I’m Not Gonna Romance Iron Bull

Yesterday I made the hardest choice in Dragon Age: Inquisition. I decided not to romance Iron Bull. This is my third playthrough of Inquisition. I wasn’t a big Dragon Age person when I started it the first time around. In fact, I’m not really a big fantasy fan, but the game had come highly recommended…

Fox is pushing back Alita: Battle Angel’s premiere date from July 20th, 2018 to December 21st, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Hopefully, that will give them enough time to fix those freaky eyes

New Anime Season Is Killing It With Shows About Ordinary Girls

Sex and the City is a guilty pleasure for a reason, but it might not be the reason you think. The pleasure half comes from its voyeuristic look into how four hot women navigate careers, sex and, like totally, more sex. The guilty half is because these four women are fake as hell and we…

Four Years Later, Twitch Is Playing Pokémon Red and Blue At Once

The iconic streaming experiment Twitch Plays Pokémon is not only still alive and kicking, it’s now taking on a new challenge: controlling two games in one go. After playing nearly every Pokémon game imaginable, it’s impressive that the channel continues to find new ways to keep the social experiment alive. A quick recap, for those…

The Radiant Historia Remake Lets You Skip All The Battles

The underappreciated Nintendo DS role-playing game Radiant Historia gets new life today on 3DS, and with it comes a feature that should probably be in every role-playing game: You can skip every non-story encounter. I’ve been playing Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology on and off for the past few weeks, as tough as it is to…

The official Metal Gear Twitter account states that Metal Gear Solid V’s recent nuclear disarmament was a false alarm Servers were sent false numbers that concluded there were no nukes. Looks like you need to invade a few more FOBs, soldier!

Dawn time at Battery Spencer. San Francisco, California. By Martin Tan. 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! 

Dragon Ball FighterZ Mods Introduce Sonic, Nic Cage

It’s the question that’s been asked by fan fiction since the dawn of time: who would win in a fight between Goku and Sonic The Hedgehog? And, more importantly, what would happen if all the purple parts of Frieza were Nic Cage’s face? Thanks to Dragon Ball FighterZ modders, we’ll soon know the answers to…

We’re continuing our playthrough of Deadly Premonition right now on Twitch. We’ve almost cracked the case. You’ll help us solve the rest. right Zach?

Armed Fan Invades YouTube Stars’ Home [Update]

YouTube stars Megan Turney and Gavin Free were forced to hide in their closet and call 911 last month after a fan armed with a handgun invaded their home and fired “at least one round inside the house”. He was then shot dead by police in the couple’s driveway. The Albuquerque Journal reportsthat the intruder…

Kingdom Come: Deliverance Has A 20+GB Day-One Patch

Kingdome Come: Deliverance, a historical RPG that has had folks excited for a long time now, is finally out this week. And when it hits, anyone picking it up will have one hell of a download waiting for them. The PS4 and Xbox One versions will both have day-one updates clocking in at over 20GB.…

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Is Like Doing Your Taxes On The Moon

In 2008, I wrote the Kotaku review of Dissidia Final Fantasy for the Sony PlayStation Portable. Well, now it’s 2018. I made a video about Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, which is available now for the PlayStation 4. In 2008, I said Dissidia Final Fantasy was “like doing your taxes on the moon.” I meant that…

EVE Exploiters Will Soon Face Harsher Punishments

EVE Online is under siege. The invasion isn’t masterminded by one of EVE’s infamous misanthropes or some grand armada worth hundreds of thousands of dollars— it’s an invasion of exploiters, botters and hackers. This time, instead of the players battling in space, CCP Games’ Security Team is on the front line. Since the Ascension expansion…

After 70 Hours, Monster Hunter: World Is Still Teaching Me New Things

My Monster Hunter: World save file says I’ve played for about 70 hours. You’d think I’d have learned everything this game has to teach me. You’d be wrong. Last night I sat down with World for the first time in a few days. I’m currently making my way through the early “High Rank” missions that…

Why Ubisoft Is Obsessed With ‘Games As A Service’

Wondering why big video game publishers are so enamored of games as a service? The answer may not shock you: It makes them way more money. Wayyyyyyyyyy more money. This morning as part of a quarterly earnings report, Ubisoft put out a slideshow full of interesting nuggets for anyone who’s curious about the future of…

A Twitter Bot Is Searching For More Lost Games

Preserving video game history can be a tricky affair as time marches on and older games become unplayable. A game preservation organization recently restored lost artwork from forgotten games with the unlikely aid of a Twitter bot. @gifs_bot is a Twitter bot that post images from the GIFs Galore CD-ROM, a massive collection of images…

My All-Bard Dungeons & Dragons Session Went Up In Glorious Flames

Yesterday one of the regular members of my Dungeons & Dragons group had to cancel, so the rest of us decided to roll some new characters for a one-off campaign. Shortly before our gathering, one of them texted to ask if it was alright if we all played as bards. “We’ll be like a traveling…

Alto’s Odyssey, the follow-up tosuper-chill endless snowboarding game Alto’s Adventure, is launching for iOS devices on February 22 for $4.99. Originally scheduled for release last summer, the game was delayed in August as part of a sinister plot to make me cry.