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Bandai Namco Offers To Extend Dragon Ball FighterZ Beta If Network Issues Continue [UPDATE]

Due out January 26, Dragon Ball FighterZ had its open beta this weekend. Unfortunately, network errors and disconnects have plagued much of the second half of it leading publisher Bandai Namco to discuss extending it beyond Sunday. Early access to the beta started for players who pre-ordered the game yesterday, with everyone else on PS4…

The Salvaged Guts Of Old SNES Consoles Look Great Inside These New Cases

These transparent SNES shells have circulated around for a couple years. As they’re complete, Rose Colored Gaming sells them almost immediately so it’s worth keeping an eye on these beauties as they become available. Instead of creating a cheap SNES emulator and housing it in a sleek new body, RCG actually uses real SNES parts.…

David Cage’s Quantic Dream Accused Of Being A Toxic Workplace [UPDATE]

Reports in three separate French outlets depict a pattern of inappropriate behavior, sexist and homophobic jokes, and an overall toxic environment at Quantic Dream, something the video game studio’s executives strongly deny. UPDATE (3:05pm): In response to a request for comment, co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumière gave Kotaku the following statement: “QD categorically denies the allegations.…

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition arrives on January 16 and brings with it a bunch of new stuff including cross-over costumes like a Captain Commando skin for Nash. A new post over at the PlayStation Blog details other stuff that’s in the latest version, but honestly all I really care about is Nash’s Saiyan armor.

Eurogamer’s video producer Ian Higton recounts a heart wrenching discovery he made when going through some of his old ZX Spectrum games in a recent article. It’s an extremely intimate and emotional (and brief) glimpse into how gaming as a hobby insinuates itself into our lives in unexpected ways.

Splatoon 2‘s Next Update Could Finally Fix Some Issues With Its Warehouse Map 

Nintendo has been keeping up with Splatoon 2‘s development and as such the game’s new version, 2.2.0, is scheduled to go live on January 16 and address a number of existing problems, including imbalances on its Walleye Warehouse map. Following the game’s initial release in July of last year, Splatoon 2 has been getting substantial…

Hyperkin’s new Duke Xbox controller will arrive at the end of March and cost $70. CNET reported the news yesterday, including details on the central OLED sphere which is in fact a working screen that shows the original console startup animation via a video file.

Guy Plays Retro Indie Game The Messenger Using Only His Feet 

You never know who’s going to want to come and demo your game at a convention like PAX South. The Messenger is a modern homage to Ninja Gaiden. As such, it’s a pretty challenging action platformer. But that didn’t stop a streamer who goes by the name Jrocthegod from trying to demo the game at…

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle is coming to PS4, Switch, and PC on June 5. Arc System Works’ fighting game currently has a revealed roster of 20 characters but plans to add 20 more, starting with Blake Belladonna from RWBY, through DLC. That’s outraged a number of fans although it’s unclear how it will all be…

Super Meat Boy Is The Latest Port To Sell Better Than Expected On The Nintendo Switch 

Super Meat Boy’s first day of sales on the Nintendo Switch were apparently “shockingly close” to how the game performed when it was originally released on Xbox 360 back in 2010 according to the game’s developer. The platformer debuted on the Switch last Thursday alongside lots of other games including Furi and Escapists 2. While…

Cosplayers at PAX South put a Nintendo spin on several different classic video game (and Star Wars) characters. Really, Wario with his own Cappy is shocking enough.

In the first Fave This podcast of 2018, Gita Jackson and I discuss the controversy around fans shipping Rey and Kylo Ren as a couple in Star Wars (31:08) what the No Man’s Sky community is up to, and where open world games go next. Listen below. Download the MP3 here.

This Weasel Is The Key To Hearthstone‘s Hottest New Deck

Every once in a while, a formerly crappy Hearthstone card finds its place in a deck and works so well that it starts to look like it might actually be good. A while back, that card was a Hungry Crab. Today, it’s a fedora-wearing rodent called Weasel Tunneler. If there’s one thing you should know…

Overwatch Player Uses Doomfist To Obliterate Pharah And Mercy From Orbit

Doomfist may not be able to fly, but he sure can fall with style. Even in the techno-magical cartoon world of Overwatch, what goes up must come down. Player wahw_ow, however, decided that the laws of gravity needed assistance in grounding a pesky Pharah/Mercy combo, and, in the heat of a gridlocked team fight on…

Lone Echo Lets Me Experience A Beautiful Zero-Gravity Friendship 

With an interesting deep space setting, a clever zero-gravity movement system and plenty of hands-on interaction, Ready At Dawn’s Oculus exclusive Lone Echo ticks all the technical boxes required to be an excellent virtual reality game. But its greatest feat is making me believe a woman could ever love an unfeeling robot like me. It’s…

Man Arrested For ‘Swatting’ Call That Led To Murder Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter

Twenty-five-year-old Tyler Barriss was charged today in Kansas for involuntary manslaughter and two other counts in the wake of a swatting call that led police to kill an unarmed 28-year-old at his home. The maximum sentence varies but if found guilty, Barriss could face a hefty fine and years in prison. Police say that Barriss…

Ten Things Call of Duty: WWII Players Want Fixed

As you might expect, the Call of Duty community is being very vocal about changes they want to see in WWII on social media outlets such as the WWII subreddit. And they have a point: Two months since the launch of the latest Call of Duty, there are still many improvements that could be made…

And The Destiny Merry-Go-Round Spins Again

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: In September, Bungie releases an online first-person shooter. A few months and a disappointing expansion later, the game is in trouble. Fans are mad; lots of people are quitting. Bungie vows to do better and sets about making improvements. Patient fans are eventually rewarded with a better game.…

Xbox One’s Backward Compatibility Is Fantastic

We often criticize gaming platform makers for their missteps, so let us also praise them when they do something great: Xbox One’s backward compatibility feature is nothing short of perfection. Setting up my Xbox One X over the holiday reminded me that I had been meaning to get around to playing Lost Odyssey, an Xbox…

Out today for the Switch, Azkend 2: The World Beneath is an adventure that plays out in a series of enjoyable match three puzzles. It’s a premium game, so there’s no buying power-ups or lives, which is nice. Switch owners can even use touchscreen controls, making it the best console version of the game yet.