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Star Wars Battlefront II Lets You Pay Real Money For Multiplayer Advantages

Star Wars Battlefront II has everything you love from the movies: lightsabers, starfighters, and loot crates. These crates are crucial to the game’s multiplayer structure but even after being tweaked in response to widespread criticisms during the beta, they’re a mess that affects balance in negative ways. Battlefront II’s progression system is tied to equippable…

We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Keyboard

A standard mechanical keyboard switch is about .75 inches tall and .6 inches wide and deep. NovelKeys’ “Big Series” switches are four times that size. Why? If I had to guess, I’d say it was for the clicks. Currently available for preorder at $25 apiece and expected to ship out in time for Christmas, the…

The Game With The Best Character Creation Tool Is Going Mobile

Black Desert Online is famous for its character creation tool. There is an upcoming mobile version of the Korean massively multiplayer game, and it also has an impressive-looking character creation tool. Wait, there’s a mobile version of Black Desert? Yes, there is! Black Desert Mobile was announced last year, and you can see game play…

Your Name Anime Director On The Live-Action Hollywood Adaptation 

The mega hit anime Your Name is going to be a Hollywood movie. What does Your Name creator Makoto Shinkai think about that? It’s kind of like your children leaving home. When speaking at a recent press event, Shinkai talked about the Your Name adaptation. “I often compare my works to my children,” he said,…

A Cat In Angkor Wat. Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia. By Kent Kee. 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!   

Why Overwatch‘s Moira Runs Like Naruto

There’s a lot to like about Overwatch’s newest hero, Moira. She looks like David Bowie. She fires energy beams out of her hands like Goku. Tragically, however, she also runs like Naruto. Naruto, a demon-possessed orange crayon best known for being Boruto’s dad, runs like he hasn’t a care (or spinal cord) in the world.…

Superflight Is A Fast Game About Dying A Lot

Superflight is a PC game I’ve been having a lot of fun with this week. To get an idea of what it’s like, imagine if Tony Hawk could fly. Inspired by wingsuits (think Far Cry, or maniacs sponsored by Red Bull), the game is about controlling a blocky little figure as it descends—real fast—down a…

Look At These Nier Action Figures

It’s taken a little longer than I was expecting, but Nier: Automata’s first proper action figures are finally on the way, and they look great. There are two double packs coming for Square Enix’s Play Arts line in April 2018: one has 2B and a robot (which costs around $80), and the other has two…

Battle Chef Brigade hits Switch and PC on November 20. Like Iron Chef if it were animated by Studio Ghibli, the it’s a match-three game where you flavor profiles (i.e. colors) to cook the perfect dish. But there’s also a side-scrolling action part where you collect your ingredients. It’s pretty wild looking.

Blizzard’s Plan To Take WoW‘s World PVP Back To Its Glory Days

For years, Blizzard has been trying to put the “war” back in Warcraft. During an interview at Blizzcon last weekend, game director Ion Hazzikostas told Kotaku he thinks he’s finally figured out how to make it happen. But first the designers have 13 years’ worth of problems to work out. Soon, the WoW team will…

EA Is Buying Titanfall Developer Respawn For Over $400 Million

Mega-publisher EA has purchased a new studio—Respawn, the developer of Titanfall. The news comes just weeks after the publisher shuttered Visceral Games. EA said in a press release that the deal is worth $455 million, a number that includes cash, equity, and performance milestone payments. Respawn staff have spent the past few weeks exchanging whispers…

Guy Who Just Quit His Job To Stream Battlegrounds Explains Why

Jake “ChocoTaco” Throop was making a decent living as an educator in Chicago, but he’s decided to leave it all behind for a career streaming PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on Twitch. Just a few weeks ago, Throop, 29, put in his notice. Mere months ago, he was streaming for five viewers, if he was lucky. Then, ChocoTaco’s…

Warframe‘s Fish Are Acting A Little Strange

The shooter MMO Warframe recently added fishing to the assortment of activities you can spend your life grinding through. The fish are big and beautifully weird and can be turned in for various rewards. They also like to warp space and time and render themselves immune or sometimes swim through solid rock. The Warframe community…

The Xbox One X Runs The Witcher 3 At 60fps, If You Don’t Patch It

When The Witcher 3 launched for the original Xbox One back in 2015, it only ran at 900p (1600 x 900) resolution and had trouble maintaining a stable 30 frames per second. The same unpatched version of the game, running fresh from the disc, hits 60 frames per second more often than not on the…

A Guide To The Real-Life Figures In Nioh

Nioh takes a lot of liberty with its historical setting but still maintains a large cast of famous warlords, samurai, explorers, and ninja. Every one of them has a story. Here’s a quick primer on what history tells us about these individuals. This post initially appeared 2/16/17. Works of historical fiction have always fascinated me…

It Sucks To Find Out Someone You Game With Is A Jerk

Trust is the goopy bonding agent in the petri dish that is an online gaming team. Toss a bunch of strangers in a Call of Duty, DOTA 2, or Overwatch queue and you’ll find that the team that’s communicative or empathetic or just plain likes each other pulls through more often than not. Trust isn’t…

Battlefront II Brings Back Star Wars‘ Most Iconic Character: Bossk

The Star Wars Battlefront II trial is available to EA Access players, which means we get the chance to run through the multiplayer as Bossk, the famous bounty hunter who is certainly not scum! That’s right. Because someone demanded it (was it you?) Bossk has returned for this sequel. Battlefront II’s multiplayer allows players to…

New Rating Requirement Makes Life Harder For Smaller Game Publishers

A recent mandate by Sony that requires new games being published for its platforms to be rated by the ESRB has created obstacles for physical versions of indie games. In at least one case it’s led directly to the cancellation of a project that was already underway. In the past, special edition physical runs of…

The Sims 4 Now Has Good Dogs, Brent

The Sims 4 expansion Cats & Dogs comes out tomorrow. When you check out the new town, Brindleton Bay, you may notice a family that seems a little familiar. Dog Rates is an incredibly wholesome Twitter account that tweets out pictures of dogs, and then gives them a rating. Every dog is a great dog,…

Rockstar Changed Truth/Doubt/Lie For The L.A. Noire Remaster

One of the most bizarre quirks in the detective game L.A. Noire was that choosing the “doubt” option—out of “truth/doubt/lie”—would transform protagonist Cole Phelps into a raging psychopath. For the remastered version, publisher Rockstar has changed those options entirely. As evidenced in a new trailer for the Switch version of L.A. Noire, which comes out…