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Fans Unhappy As Some Amazon Xbox One X Pre-Orders Miss Launch Day

Some frustrated Amazon customers are complaining that their Xbox One X pre-orders aren’t scheduled to arrive today, which is the launch day for the spanking new console. Fans rushed to pre-order the “world’s most powerful console” months ago so they’d be able to scale 4K pyramids in Assassin’s Creed Origins moments after getting home from…

In Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico, This Used Game Store Is A Welcome Escape

Returning to his classic video game shop Neo Japan Games in the weeks after Hurricane Maria, Jerry Robles thought business would be quiet. But he opened his doors just south of San Juan to find more customers than usual crowding around to look at old game cartridges and classic consoles. “The day we reopened at…

The follow-up to Defiant Development’s outstanding 2015 hybrid card RPG, Hand of Fate 2 is available today on the PlayStation 4, PC and Steam. The sequel adds enhanced real-time combat, dice rolling, companion characters, character creation and a ton of new and inventive encounters.

Ingress Players Use Unofficial Tools To Stalk One Another

In May, Nicci Kay and her wife moved 25 miles south to the port city of Tacoma, Washington where, in time, they planned to overtake the Resistance’s hold on the area. Kay is an Ingress player, an agent in a great and invisible cyberwar over territory that spans the globe, involving two factions: the Resistance…

Six Of The Best Looks From Super Mario Odyssey

There are dozens of outfits for Mario to wear in Super Mario Odyssey, and the game will even comment on your fashion sense. Mario isn’t what I would call a stylish guy, but I have to admit he almost looks cool in some of these outfits. Here are my favorites. Sailor Outfit Seems like a…

Here’s A Ton Of New Info On Xenoblade Chronicles 2

We’re just over three weeks away from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and to celebrate, Nintendo today offered a bunch of new details for the upcoming Switch role-playing game, including a spotlight of the combat system and the reveal of a season pass. In a Nintendo Direct this morning, the publisher showed off a new trailer and…

Ronda Rousey’s Xbox One X Spot On Conan Is Painful To Watch

FormerMMA champion and all-around gamer Ronda Rousey appeared on Conan O’Brien last night to “demonstrate exactly what it feels like to experience true 4K gaming on the Xbox One X.” The two-minute segment, with promotional consideration paid by Microsoft (i.e. it’s a paid ad), is awkward and embarrassing. Conan brings Ronda and friend up on…

First Look At Rebooted Version Of Long-Delayed Lineage Game

Originallyannounced in 2011 as Lineage Eternal, this years-in-development massively multiplayer online role-playing game gets a new trailer and a new name. Called Project TL (“TL” means The Lineage), the game is now being developed on Unreal Engine 4. I’m assuming the title is a temporary one. The game is supposed to be a sequel to…

Man Sells Valuable Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards For His Daughter’s Future

Raising kids ain’t cheap. Neither are rare Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Twitter user KnightMiyabi decided to sell his super rare ones to pay for his daughter’s pre-school. These are Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards, but not the standard issue. These are the highly rare promos given out at the Jump Festa in Japan in the year 2000. As…

The Reason Why The Xbox One X Is Selling Out In Japan 

Early this morning, a sign went up in front of the Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo’s Akihabara. It read 完売 (kanbai), which means “sold out.” This is just one of several stores across Japan that have sold through their stock. There is a reason for that, and that reason is that they’re only selling preorders. As…

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Overwatch’s newest hero, Moira, is now playable on the game’s PC public test realm. Announced at BlizzCon on Friday, Moira is a mad scientist support hero who looks kinda like David Bowie and fires beams of pure energy from her hands (also like David Bowie). In other words, she’s mad fun to play

There’s a very good story on PC Gamer today about an EVE Online graveyard, which contains both the floating bodies of dead characters, along with memorials to those who have passed in the real world.

Blizzard Built A ‘Strike Team’ To Put An End To Overwatch Jerks

These days, it’s hard to talk about Overwatch without mentioning its ongoing struggles with sexism, racism, griefing, match throwing, andworse. At BlizzCon, game director Jeff Kaplan told Kotaku that fighting toxicity is now more of a priority than ever, to the point that Blizzard has formed a “strike team” to do so. In recent months,…

Second Destiny 2 PC Ban Wave Has Some Players Crying Foul Again

Just weeks after developer Bungie erroneously banned a wave of players on Destiny 2 for PC, a new wave of bans has hit the first-person shooter. And with that, a new round of players is claiming that they were banned unjustly. After a banwave during Destiny 2’s PC launch, numerous players claimed that they were…

The Xbox One X’s Hard Drive Can Fill Up Pretty Fast

Games optimized for the Xbox One X can look better on the new console than they do on older hardware, but adding HDR support, 4K textures and other enhancements takes a bit more space. With three games taking up over a third of my console’s drive, 1TB of storage isn’t gonna cut it. I’ve spent…

Super Lucky’s Tale is a delightful take on Nintendo 64-era 3D platformers. The titular fox hero wanders through a mix of free-roaming 3D and 2D platforming levels, searching for coins, letters and other collectibles in a very pretty game with responsive controls. It could use a bit more personality, but otherwise it’s lovely.

Bot Studies Mario Kart Videos, Learns To Play

Ever wonder what it would be like for a bot to learn how to play Super Mario Kart? YouTuber and programmer SethBling’s newest creation MariFlow uses machine learning to create a bot that can zip through Donut Plains 1 just like a human. SethBling’s done some pretty impressive stuff before now. He’s put a working…

Injustice 2 comes to PC on November 14 via Steam and the Windows store. Players eager to see how the superhero battles handle on PC hardware can download and play theopen beta on Steam right now.

Video Games Are Embracing Being Weird

On this week’s Fave This, Gita and guest Heather Alexandra talk about how games can benefit from being campy. Whether it’s Metal Gear Solid’s Vamp or Deadly Premonition’s sinner’s sandwiches, lots of games embrace how weird they are to be more fun. (Get the MP3 here.) With Patricia Hernandez out sick, I’m joined by Kotaku…