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Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Is My Favorite Way To Experience A Sherlock Holmes Story

My mom loves mystery stories, but I’ve never really seen the appeal. While we both love reading, she likes to puzzle out the mystery as she reads along. I can’t help myself from flipping to the back of the book. Now that I’ve played Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, however, I finally understand the thrill of…

Early Impressions Of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild

My emotional journey over my first four hours of playing the new Zelda: liked it, grew skeptical of it, doubted it, regained appreciation, now hooked on it. If you love the Zelda formula you may take this same ride when you start playing The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild, which comes out for…

Overwatch Wins Game Of The Year At The DICE Awards, Surprising No One

Overwatch took home peer-based voting panel DICE’s “Game of the Year” award in a move that was never going to go any other way. Also the Game Awards’ Game of the Year, Overwatch made a clean sweep of 2016 awards cycle. In DICE’s 20th year, only three games won multiple categories: Overwatch, Inside and Uncharted…

Player Finds Incredible Way To Push Pokémon Yellow To Game Boy’s Limit

This might be the wildest thing I have seen in 2017 so far, holy cow. Watch in wonder as someone uses Pokémon Yellow to push the boundaries of what a Game Boy is capable of. Earlier this month, MrWint uploaded an incredible tool-assisted speedrun where he uses “arbitrary code execution” (ACE) to launch the visuals…

Trying To ‘Make It’ As A Twitch Streamer Could Have Killed Me

Some days, I wake up and everything feels just okay. By the time I get down to my office, I have some water and take 12 of my 19 daily medications, check my blood sugar and check my e-mail. My wife and two kids are upstairs, still sleeping. I don’t sleep so well anymore. Most…

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A Very Pretty Cyberpunk Video Game

We wrote about The Last Night back in 2014, when it was a very small but good-looking cyberpunk game. Now, in 2017, it’s back, and is looking incredible Odd Tales have been working on the “proper” version of the game for three years now, and are trying to really nail the kind of cinematic platforming…

Civilization VI Finally Has Proper Mod Support

Civilization VI has had a strong launch, but there’s been one thing holding it back lately: Steam Workshop support didn’t ship alongside the game in October, which means the modding scene hasn’t really taken off. It will now, because the game’s “Australian Summer 2017″ updateis now live. Alongside multiplayer teams (also part of the update),…

Play Banner Saga On Twitch And The Developers Get Paid

Streaming service Twitch and Stoic, creators of The Banner Saga, have a very weird deal going on right now where if you play either of the turn-based strategy games (which are very good), Stoic will get paid. Between Feb 23-28, Twitch Prime subscribers can download the original Banner Saga via Twitch for free. Starting March…

Elite: Dangerous Planets Turned Beige By Mistake

Last year, following the release of its 2.2 patch, Elite: Dangerous players started noticing something weird: some of the game’s planets, normally detailed and full of alien colour, had started looking a little more drab. While ice planets were unaffected, worlds with high metal content had turned beige everywhere you looked, and even some rocky…

Blizzard’s own Overwatch league is coming in Q3 2017, with Nate Nanzer telling Korean media some of the first details on the competition.

The Man Behind Blinking White Guy Is Just Happy To Be Here 

Drew Scanlon is a video producer at Giant Bomb. He’s also a blinking white guy and the face attached to thousands of social media posts and jokes. What is is like to suddenly become the face of the internet’s latest meme? Scanlon sat down with Kotaku to talk about it. Scanlon’s journey to memedom started…

One Month Later, Guy Recovers $10,000 Worth Of SNES Games That Were Lost In The Mail

Last week, I reported on Byuu, an emulator developer and game archivist who was trying to preserve every single SNES game ever made. He declared his plan “dead,” however, after $10,000 worth of rare games went missing in the mail. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. Today, Byuu finally received his package. A European…

Getting Started In Anarchy Online After A Decade Away

Norwegian developer Funcom has been making waves lately withConan Exiles, but for me they’ll always the studio behind science fiction MMO Anarchy Online. The 16-year-old game finally hit Steam this week, so I hopped back in to create my first new character in a long, long time. I first played Anarchy Online during its infamously…

YouTube’s Edgy Jokes Are Part Of A Bigger Debate In The Comedy World

The conversation surrounding what is or isn’t “over the line” in comedy isn’t new. More recently, the conversation has shifted from young comedians fighting for freedom of speech to older comedians decrying political correctness. The latest controversial jokes from Felix “Pewdiepie” Kjellberg sit at the crossroads of that ongoing debate: is there a line you…

GTA Online YouTubers Are Sick of Bigger Channels Stealing Their Ideas

There’s tension brewing in the GTA Online YouTube community, where competing creators often use similar ideas. The smaller channels involved don’t think it’s a coincidence: they accuse the bigger channels of stealing their creativity, profiting off their hard work, and in some extreme cases, shutting down channels that dispute anything. RZEDis a GTA V Youtuber…

For Honor’s Anti-Cheat System Is Allegedly Banning Innocent Players

For Honor players claim they’re getting banned from the online fighting game because of a haywire, or over-sensitive, anti-cheat program. Players are getting kicked from matches after receiving the EasyAntiCheat 0006000043 error code, which means Ubisoft’s software detected “an authorized hacking program.” It’s a problem players have encountered since For Honor’s beta Following its February…

Early Impressions Of My Very Own Nintendo Switch

I carry the thing around in a big wool sock and finally had the nerve to play it on the beleaguered C train this morning, fearful someone would try to snatch it. This is Nintendo’s new console, the Switch, and I’ve had it since Tuesday evening. Not much time, really, so what can I say?…

Fan Alters Code To Newly Discovered SNES Game, Refuses To Share Original

Quik the Thunder Rabbit is a platformer for the Super Nintendo that might have been lost to time if a fan hadn’t found it. Unfortunately, their decision to alter the old game’s code has been met with backlash. TheRealPhoenix of AssemblerGames forums managed to get his hands on the ROM for Quik the Thunder Rabbit,…

Draymond Green Video Game Is About Basketball, But Also Kicking Dicks

Welcome to Draymond Green’s Shut Up And Slam Jam Karate Basketball, a basketball game where you must score, but also kick dudes in the figs. Made for Ludum Dare 37 late last year (but only released online earlier this week), it supports four players in local multiplayer, and is not screwing about with the combat…