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Arms Players Are Fed Up With Throw Spammers

Nintendo’s slinky boxing game Arms has come down with a cheese plague. A popular, cheesy playstyle of Arms’ (probably) most popular fighter is pissing off a lot of players in the game’s Ranked mode. Ninjara is Arms’ chain-clad ninja. When his chain throw attack is paired with a jump and his Teleport dodge, Ninjara’s speedy…

Breath of the Wild‘s New DLC Has Fans Debating The Zelda Timeline Again

Breath of the Wild’s new DLC offers another hint as to where the game fits on the Zelda timelines, and in doing so, also raises more questions than it answers. The new DLC comes with new costumes for Link—ever wanted to dress like Tingle? Well here’s your chance. In order to find where these costumes…

GTA Online players have discovered how to legitimately activate the secret alien mission. Based on the requirements, it seems clear that Rockstar wants alien egg collecting to be a rare event.

Stormblood Makes Final Fantasy XIV A Better Game

Here stands Clan Destine, level 70 red mage, ready to take on the ultimate story battle in Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion. She’ll get to it eventually, but there’s a lot more to Stormblood than epic battles and new job classes. While I’ve spent a lot of time over the past week working my way…

Final Fantasy XII Is Way Better Than I Remembered

In 2006, when I first played Final Fantasy XII, I thought it was just fine. In 2017, I realize how silly that was. Final Fantasy XII is not “just fine.” It is tremendous. For the past week I’ve been playing an early English copy of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, the remastered PS4 version…

Players Are Trying To Unlock A Mysterious Steam Achievement For A Game’s Source Code

Sean Walton, the developer of the ecosystem-creation game Intelligent Design, promises that he will release some of the game’s source code if someone manages to unlock the game’s final Steam achievement. Despite being out since May, no one has cracked the mystery yet. Intelligent Design: An Evolutionary Sandbox is a game where you play as…

A Silent Voice, which won Japan’s Movie Critics Award for Best Animation, finally got an American release date: this coming October It’s a drama about a deaf girl and her elementary school bully who are reunited years later.

Assassin’s Creed Is Getting An “Anime Series”

Adi Shankar, producer of the animated Castlevania series starting on Netflix this week, has just announced his next project: an anime adaptation of Assassin’s Creed In a Facebook post, Shankar writes: I’m happy to let you guys know that I’ve selected my next project! I played the first edition of Assassin’s Creed the year I…

Epic Sax Guy, Meet Dark Souls

When Old Memes go up against Popular Video Games, courtesy of a mod for the PC version of Dark Souls, who comes out on top? It’s the mod. Mostly for that keyboard shield. Via Kotaku Australia

If you can’t go see the fireworks tonight, you should get your butt over to our Twitch channel where we’re starting up our playthrough of Heavy Rain.

Zynga Co-Founder Wants To Make American Politics More Like FarmVille 

Do you remember Mark Pincus? He co-founded Zynga and led the burgeoning online games company as CEO until 2013 when he was replaced by then czar of Xbox entertainment, Don Mattrick. After returning to the company for a short stint in 2015, Pincus now has a new pet project: making the Democratic Party more like…

Final Fantasy IX Had Some Spectacular Backgrounds 

Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi recently reiterated which Final Fantasy was his favorite. Hint: it was the last one he happened to work directly on. While Final Fantasy IX isn’t at the top of my list, you can’t deny it had some really beautiful backgrounds. With Sakaguchi playing favorites again, illustrator Kevin Hong took it as…

Project To Curate A Thousand Small Indie Games Is Finally Complete

“One Thousand Voices” is Steve Cook’s freeware curation project. It’s a Twitter thread of hundreds of experimental games by unique individuals that tries to highlight all of the amazing work being done in the game’s space that doesn’t get the attention it deserves, and over the weekend he tweeted out the 1000th and final game.…

Blizzard Teases New Lore Surrounding Overwatch‘s Enigmatic Doomfist 

An update on Blizzard’s Overwatch blog adds more more details about Doomfist, long suspected to be the game’s next hero. Pointing to an “incident at Helix Security International’s classified maximum security installation,” the post states, “it can now be confirmed that what occurred was an attack by the Talon organization with the express purpose of…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a new desert map. The developer tweeted as much yesterday, revealing two screenshots of the new battle royale locale. It looks beautiful and was probably inevitable.

Rebellion Is Working On A Sequel To Evil Genius

The cult-PC classic came out in 2006, and in a video interview released today, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley announced that Evil Genius 2 is currently in the works.  Kingsley says that development only began last spring but wanted to stress the upcoming game is not simply a remaster of the original. “Evil Genius 2 will…

How People Are Cooling Down The Nintendo Switch 

If you’re hot this summer, you can bet the Nintendo Switch is, too. The hardware already gets heated and is bound to do more so as the temperature rises. Here’s how folks have been trying to cool down their Switches. Note: these are not recommendations! An Opolar laptop cooler has been shoved onto a Switch.…

Final Fantasy‘s Creator Picks His Favorite FF

You might have your favorite Final Fantasy. Well, so does series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. He likes Final Fantasy IX the best. Sakaguchi has mentioned this before, saying it’s the “closest” to his ideal of what Final Fantasy ought to be. Sakaguchi recently called the game, which he wrote and produced, his favorite when speaking with…

In the latest episode of the wonderful Toco Toco TV, the final in the first series, they sat down with Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi for a chat about his work and inspiration.

Assassination Plot Discovered By Video Game Forum

A 23-year-old man has been arrested after his plot to try and assassinate the French President was uncovered by the users of a video game forum. The man, who was arrested last week, threatened police with a knife when they arrived at his home, and had planned to kill the newly-elected President Macron during France’s…