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In Super Mario Odyssey Gaming’s Original Damsel In Distress Might Finally Get Her Due
Over three decades ago she was stuck sitting atop steel beams waiting for “the plumber” to rescue her, but in 2017, Pauline has risen to the highest public office of New Donk City, the fictional urban backdrop for Super Mario Odyssey Looking back at the Donkey Kong arcade game from 1981, it’s hard not to…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 -
Portal Looks Great As A Lego Diorama
Look at that orange hole in the wall! adBrickBuilder, who goes by Anthony Wilson on Flickr (where you can see other Lego creations), posted their latest project to Reddit. One commenter pointed out that this wasn’t the “correct solve” solve for the puzzle at hand, but it looks sleek and rad nonetheless. Just look at…
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 -
Neuro Voider is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year it’s co-creator confirmed on Twitter today. The colorful twin-stick shooter you probably missed when it came to Xbox One, PS4, and PC in March features four player coop and will have auto-aim for the Switch version.
By Ethan Gach Published June 17, 2017 -
Vote On All The Best Stuff From E3
E3 is over. It’s time to vote on the stuff that matters most.
By Nathan Grayson Published June 16, 2017 -
E3 Was Different This Year, And It Wasn’t Just The Crowds
It’s the first day of E3. I’m walking the show floor—or more accurately, oozing across it, slug-like, followed by a trail of my own sweat. I’m shoulder-to-shoulder with swathes of people. Across the way, crowds of people whoop and holler, each of them hoping to win swag they can stuff in their floor-length swag bags.…
By Nathan Grayson Published June 16, 2017 -
Final Fantasy XIV’s New Expansion Off To A Predictably Rocky Start
Stormblood launched in early access today, and the servers are getting bodied. As I see it, we wouldn’t have constant lag, frequent disconnects and players forming massive lines in a desperate attempt to get a quest done if Final Fantasy XIV didn’t make such attractive expansion packs. What seems completely ridiculous to folks who haven’t…
By Mike Fahey Published June 16, 2017 -
A Moment That Captures Why Super Mario Odyssey Seems So Special
We’ve written a lot about E3 this week and covered a lot of games, including Super Mario Odyssey. Still, here’s one more post about that game, because it’s too cool not to share with you. The above video is from Nintendo’s Treehouse Live demo of Mario Odyssey’s forest level. In the first six minutes, the…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 16, 2017 -
E3 2017’s Best Dressed Video Game Characters
We’ve seen all the E3 trailers, announcement and gameplay demos, but one question remains: which game characters were the best dressed? Here’ a few of my favorite looks from the games we saw. A Way Out 70s looks are coming back in a big way, and the two main characters from A Way Out embrace…
By Gita Jackson Published June 16, 2017 -
How Many Games At E3 2017 Had Guns? A Scientific Investigation
Clifford “Cliffy B” Bleszinski once described video game guns’ profound appeal with this simple sentiment: “reach out and touch someone . . . with your gun.” Since the early 1990s, guns have pretty much been the telephone of choice for video game characters: they speak to their rivals with bangs, booms, and headshots. Now, however,…
By Tim Rogers Published June 16, 2017 -
The Creator Of Metroid II Fan Game AM2R Isn’t Mad About Nintendo
DoctorM64 spent over ten years remaking Metroid II: Samus Return in his free time, only to have Nintendo send him a DMCA and have to take the project down. Now that Nintendo has announced their own reimagining of the same game, he’s just as pumped as everyone else is. When DoctorM64 was working on Another…
By Gita Jackson Published June 16, 2017 -
I Squished A Bug Inside My Monitor’s Screen And Now I Want To Die
It all started when I thought I saw a bug crawling across my computer monitor. Huh, I thought, it’s a bug crawling across my computer monitor. I reached out to flick it off, and found that I could not. I stared at it, unsure of what I was seeing. The bug was there, but I…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 16, 2017 -
The Six Biggest Announcements Of E3 2017
E3 is drawing to a close, and the rain of game announcements has abated. EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Sony, and Nintendo all did their thing. It’s up to us to sort through the rubble. Among the dozens of hype reels, hardware breakdowns, marketing buzzwords and game announcements, a few things stood out. If you don’t…
By Kirk Hamilton Published June 16, 2017 -
Xenoblade Chronicles X‘s Director On Localization Changes: ‘I Didn’t Mind Much At All’
In the heated ongoing conversation over “censorship” in localization, we’ve heard a whole lot from fans and even translators, but we haven’t seen much discussion from Japanese developers. Which is why, when speaking to Tetsuya Takahashi this week in Los Angeles, I asked him for his thoughts on the matter. His answers were a little…
By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2017 -
The Makers Of Final Fantasy XIV Are Still Deciding How To Add Blitzball
Blitzball is coming to Final Fantasy XIV, but director Naoki Yoshida doesn’t know how to make it happen. He’s torn between two options, he says, and both of them sound pretty good. Blitzball, which is sort of like underwater soccer except players can poison one another, is both a minigame and significant plot point in…
By Jason Schreier Published June 16, 2017 -
God Of War Director, On Kratos’ Beard: ‘It Smells Of Pine And Dead Trolls’
The newest God of War hopes to give Kratos some much-needed depth by focusing on character dynamics and new mechanics. Also new: Kratos’ massive, manly beard. I sat down with game director Cory Barlog to ask some hard-hitting questions about Kratos’ new look. Heather Alexandra, Kotaku: Let’s talk initial design : what made you decide to…
By Heather Alexandra Published June 16, 2017
