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How about a game of Lucky Hit? Chris and I are streaming the (actually real game) Shenmue 3 right now on Twitch. Come and join chat!

Say No! More is a colorful-looking office sim about telling your bosses to shove it that got announced earlier today It’s coming to iOS, PC and Switch sometime in 2020 and looks like a delightfully cathartic way to blow off some steam. 

According to TV Asahi, a 51-year-old man has confessed to calling his former employer, saying, “If I sprinkle gasoline [at the office] like Kyoto Animation, everything will burn down.” The man previously worked at the company, which is based in Nagoya, and said he had a grudge about how he was bullied at work. 

The Yakuza 7 mobile is on the streets of Seoul, hoping to get PS4 owners excited for its January release in South Korea. In case you missed it, read Kotaku’s impressions of the game from this year’s Tokyo Game Show. [Thanks, Sang for the tip!]

Huh, They Even Redesigned Sonic’s Sneakers

Sonic’s well-received cinematic make-over didn’t just make changes to the hedgehog’s eyes, nose and mouth. Even his sneakers, done in collaboration with Puma, got a rework. In the original, nightmarish trailer, Sonic was wearing a very real pair of Puma Speed 500s (pictured above), and back in May there were plansfor Puma and Sega to…

There’s an Assassin’s Creed “audio drama” coming in 2020 starring Rogue One’s Riz Ahmed, set “in the late 1600s” while “familiar characters from the games will also make appearances”.

I’m streaming some of the launch games on Google’s Stadia right now on our Twitch channel. That’s right, we’re streaming some game streaming. Join us in the chat!

Minecraft Dungeons Is The Kiddie Diablo

Blizzard hasn’t tried to hide the fact that it’s going very, very dark on Diablo 4. In the game’s announcement trailer, shown at BlizzCon earlier this month, a trio of adventurers were eviscerated, their insides woven into a hideous flesh cape to be worn by the demon Lilith. Minecraft Dungeons doesn’t go quite so hard…

It’s Been Three Years And I Still Hate Solas

This piece was first published on November 1, 2017. We’re bumping it today for the game’s five year anniversary. Solas is one of the best-written characters in video games. It’s hard for me to think of a character whose loathsome worldview is so well developed, who, even when he’s on your side, manages to be…

How To Choose Your D&D Character Class

“What Dungeons and Dragons class should I play?” is the kind of question you could answer with a cursory quiz, but that would be a mistake. You owe it to yourself—and to your D&D dungeon master—to think holistically about character class, maybe the most important choice you’ll make in a D&D game. Picking the right…

Google Panics, Adds 10 More Games To Stadia’s Launch Lineup

Perhaps spooked by the fact the only people who seem to care about the impending launch of their Stadia home streaming platform are those noting everything wrong with it, Google has at the 11th hour—this thing is released in two days, on November 19!—almost doubled the number of games that’ll be available when it goes live.…

Twelve months after the release of the first issue, the team behind boutique games mag A Profound Waste of Time is back with a second. This time around there are features with Keita Takahashi and Tetsuya Mizuguchi. You can get it here

The Dreamcast’s VMU Was The Coolest Memory Card

Memory cards are something we don’t really need anymore. The Switch does use SD cards, but these are universal storage items that can be used on PCs, phones and other hardware. No, the days of dedicated memory card units are long gone. But back when we did use memory cards, the coolest of them all…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Is Filled With Gonk Droids And That’s Great

Star Wars has been around a long time and over the decades a lot of things have been created for the franchise. New aliens, ships, weapons, planets, etc. And at this point there are probably hundreds, maybe even thousands, of different varieties of droids that have appeared. But my favorite will always be the humble…

The Rockstar Games That Still Need PC Ports

Red Dead Redemption 2 was finally released for PC earlier this month, nearly a year after it was first released for PS4 and Xbox One. It has had a rough launch, but a few patches and fan mods will turn it into the best way to play RDR2. But while most of Rockstar’s recent games…

Baba Is You is getting a level editor next year and players will be able to share their created levels online. The news came via a Tweet from the official Baba Is You Twitter account. No specific date beyond 2020 was given, but the level creator and sharing features will be supported on all platforms,…

Happy Pokémon Sword & Shield day! Now that a Pokémon version named after a pointy object exists, does that mean we can finally poke the monsters? (No.) Find out today, when Gita Jackson and me play over on Kotaku’s Twitch channel! I’m gonna catch her a Farfetch’d and she’s gonna catch me a Ponyta. It’s…

Sources: BioWare Plans A Complete Overhaul For Anthem

Recent silence and a couple of high-profile departures from BioWare have led fans and pundits to speculate that the studio has abandoned its most recent game, Anthem, but the opposite is true. For the last few months, BioWare and parent company EA have been planning an overhaul of the online shooter, according to three people…

Halo: Reach is coming to the Halo: Master Chief Collection on Xbox One and PC on December 3, Microsoft announced today. It’s the first of the collection’s games to come to PC, and the first Halo to make that journey in a very long time.

Players Find Holy Grail Of Majora’s Mask Speedrunning

Every game has the one trick that speedrunners are searching for, the one trick that completely changes the game. Famously, Wind Waker speedruns were blown open once players found a way to break through an impassable barrier. For Majora’s Mask, the Holy Grail has always been warping directly to the final dungeon on the moon.…