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A Perfect Mario Odyssey Moment

One thing I love about Super Mario Odyssey is how often it anticipates me. Odyssey seeks to strike a balance between structured challenges and open-ended play. It achieves that balance with remarkable consistency. Each level is a toy-filled sandbox, loaded with springs, levers, and buttons for you to bounce, pull, and press. The game feels so…

Bungie Details Destiny 2 Curse Of Osiris’s ‘Infinite Forest’ And ‘Raid Lair’

Today on a livestream, Bungie showed off footage and discussed some details surrounding Destiny 2’s next DLC, Curse of Osiris, which comes out December 5. Curse of Osiris will include “new raid content” and a new area called the Infinite Forest. The Infinite Forest is actually a simulation created by the Vex. Referred to by…

Barret’s Sailor Suit In Final Fantasy VII Is Slightly More Hilarious In Japanese

I’ve been playing Final Fantasy VII in English and Japanese at the same time. I’ve been noticing a lot of tiny little differences. I’ve been pointing them out in a series of videos. Whoa: here is the latest episode of that series! In today’s episode, our Final Fantasy VII buddies will meet a little girl…

People Are Gambling With Battlegrounds Skins Now

Last year, Valve issued 23 stern cease and desist letters to sites that ran Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling sites. A year later, not only are a handful of sites still taking bets for CS:GO skin roulettes, but the market has spread into great, wide world of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds skins. Since the beginning of this year,…

Disney Shuts Down Marvel Heroes [UPDATE]

Today, Marvel (under Disney) said that it is ending its relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, who makes Marvel Heroes. In an e-mail, a Marvel representative wrote: “We regret to inform our Marvel Heroes fans that we have ended our relationship with Gazillion Entertainment, and that the Marvel Heroes games will be shut down. We would like…

The Curious Case Of The ‘EA Game Dev’ Who Said He Received Death Threats [UPDATE]

Earlier this week, a man with “Game Dev @EA” in his Twitter profile wrote that he had received death threats from angry Star Wars Battlefront II fans. His story was covered by news outlets like USA Today, the BBC, and Yahoo. Vice wrote an editorial about it, CNBC ran a headline about it, and the…

This is a clip of rapper Lil Yachty streaming Call of Duty and farting into his mic. You’re welcome.

Switch launch game Super Bomberman R might not have been everyone’s favorite, but it’s still getting love.Today’s 2.0 update adds a brand-new 3-on-3 Grand Prix battle mode, fixes some bugs, and adds characters and accessories based on Konami classics like Rumble Roses and Silent Hill.

ThatGameCompany’s Latest Game Is Like Journey With Friends

“We want you to feel like a kid going to a magical theme park,” says ThatGameCompany’s Jenova Chen in IGN’s new gameplay video of his latest game, Sky. Coming first to iOS, the “global social adventure experience” is giving off serious Journey vibes. Those vibes make sense. One of the ideas behind Sky is to…

The mysterious new fighting game from Akira now has an official name and it’s…Fighting EX Layer There’s also a trailer. Akira Nishitani, the developer behind Fighting Layer andStreet Fighter EX announced the news over at PlayStation Blog. The game is also getting a two week beta test on PS4 starting December 11.

Dead Or Alive Xtreme Has The Sexiest Glitches 

Today, Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation was released in Japan. Like any new game, there are bound to be glitches, but few games have ones as sexy as these. Announced at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation is a PC browser version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. Some…

Tecmo Koei Defeats Major Chinese Piracy Group 

In May, Tecmo Koei sued popular cracking-group 3DM Game in China for copyright violation. This month, Tecmo Koei announced it had won the lawsuit. Kotaku reported last year that 3DM’s leader Bird Sister posted on her personal blog, “We just had an internal meeting. Starting at the Chinese New Year, 3DM will not crack any…

To mark Kirby’s 25th anniversary, these buns will be available at Lawson convenience stores across Japan starting November 21 for a limited time. The buns come in two different expressions and are stuffed with a “Maxim Tomato” inspired filling. 

Inside Japan’s Coolest Video Game Rooms

Do you have a video game room? You know, a room dedicated to playing video games. Some folks in Japan do, and they are very, very cool.  For example, Twitter user Hakuna showed off his gaming room, which is hidden in the closet, adding the hashtag #ゲーマーのお部屋見せてください (#geemaa no oheya misete kudasai or “Show me…

What a View. Mt. Fansipan, Vietnam. By Philipp Teich. 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! 

Artist’s Cyberpunk Project Gets Turned Into An Action Figure

Here is something very cool: Johnson Ting, an artist we featured on Fine Art a few years back, has had a character from his personal project Neo Japan 2022 made into a big, detailed action figure. It’s by Devil Toys, and will be out in Q1 2018, selling for around $180. You can see more…

Fan-Run EVE Online Tournament Canceled After Community Team Layoffs

Layoffs at EVE Online publisher CCP Games weren’t supposed to affect players, but they have led to the cancellation of a popular fan tournament. The Anger Games, a player-organized tournament with a massive pile of in-game credits at stake for the winners, was supposed to have its third annual run last weekend. Set up in…

Hori’s Portable Gaming Monitor Isn’t Pretty, But It Works

When there’s no usable television in sight or your eyes just aren’t good enough to share the Nintendo Switch’s 6.2 inch screen with a friend, a portable gaming monitor is a nice thing to have around. I’ve spent the past couple of weeks fiddling with Hori’s aptly-named Universal HD Gaming monitor, a 15.6 inch 720p…

Russian Military Uses Video Game Screenshot To Allege US Support For ISIS

A post on the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation’s Facebook page earlier today purported to show photographic proof that the US was aiding ISIS fighters in Syria. It turns out that one of the photographs included was from a video game. According to the post, Russian air power was used to help Syrian…

L.A. Noire: It Was A Weird Game

When I heard that the 2011 detective game L.A. Noire was getting remastered for current consoles, my first thought was, “Oh, cool! That was an interesting game.” Then I remembered that L.A. Noire was a very weird game, and one I didn’t even like back when I first played it. A thousand years ago in…