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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…
By Jason Schreier Published February 13, 2018 -
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…
By Gita Jackson Published February 13, 2018 -
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…
By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published February 13, 2018 -
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…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 13, 2018 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published February 13, 2018 -
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…
By Nathan Grayson Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2018 -
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.…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Tim Rogers Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Lee Yancy Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Kirk Hamilton Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Jason Schreier Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Heather Alexandra Published February 12, 2018 -
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…
By Gita Jackson Published February 12, 2018 -
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.
By Mike Fahey Published February 12, 2018 -
A Free Game That Captures Shin Megami Tensei’s Unsettling Atmosphere
Persona games are known for their incredible art direction, but the main series, SMT, is equally if not more striking. Where Persona games are optimistic and bubbly, the main SMT games often depict apocalypses that are stark, surreal, and contemplative. Until now, I’d never played another game that came close to capturing such a specific…
By Patricia Hernandez Published February 12, 2018