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Samsung Gets GTA V Video Taken Off YouTube, Because It Turned A Note 7 Into A Bomb

Earlier this month, a mod that added Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 to Grand Theft Auto V started making the rounds. The twist? In the game, it was meant to be used as a bomb, because the real Note 7 can get a little explode-y from time-to-time. Samsung, apparently, did not love the joke. If you…

A Weed App Company Wants To Get Esports Lit

Esports tournament Smash Summit 3 is going to be lit. Now, with medical marijuana app Weedmaps as a primary sponsor, this year’s Summit might be lit up. Weedmaps has been called “Yelp for pot.” It’s a hugely successful weed hook-up app that matches medical marijuana license-holders with dispensaries in weed-legal states. Medical marijuana is legal…

Glitch Ruins Destiny Players’ Attempt At Raid Glory

A bug in Destiny’s Rise of ‘Wrath of the Machine’ raid prevented a top clan from getting the world’s first completion on the newly released Hard Mode difficulty. Per Eurogamer: Redeem was the first clan to defeat ‘Wrath of the Machine’ when it was released, blazing through the endgame raid with ease. They seemed a prime…

Survival Game Frost Looks Great, Doesn’t Play As Well

The mobile game Frost is about a group of migrants in an ambiguous apocalyptic scenario making their way to a refuge from the cold. It’s beautiful, but doesn’t work well enough as a game. Frost is a card-based game. Cards in your deck represent the migrants and their supplies. As you play you are tasked…

The Impossible Problem of Where Minecraft Goes Next

It’s been two years since Microsoft bought Minecraft, and the new owners are faced with a conundrum: what do you do with a game that is already a phenomenon? Complicating things further, Minecraft is now a seven-year old game. While lot of work has been put into keeping the game current, Minecraft is also beginning…

Drama Over Music Video Inflames Argument About What Anime Is

Yesterday, acclaimed American electronic musician Porter Robinson released an anime. Shelter is the short and tender story of a girl living alone in virtual reality, rendered by Japanese animation studio A-1 Pictures. Over the last 24 hours, it has received overwhelming praise. And, after its swift removal from Reddit’s 420,000-strong anime subreddit, Shelter has also…

DLC for December’s Xbox One and PC release Dead Rising 4 will include an 18-hole golf mode called Super Ultra Dead Rising 4 Mini Golf. There will also be an expansion subtitled “Frank Rising” about protagonist Frank West getting infected with a zombie virus. Plenty more details here.

A Western Game Where Players Literally Shoot The Story

It is the Wild West. Gun drawn and at the ready, you prepare yourself for the next unfortunate collection of words to stumble across your path. You level your pistol, fire, and branch off to the next bit of narrative. This is Words Must Die. Created as part of The Pippin Barr ‘GAME IDEA’ Game…

Pokémon Sun and Moon’s Devs Respond To The Popplio Backlash

Earlier this month, Kotaku asked the folks at Game Freak which starter Pokémon they prefer in Sun and Moon. Unfortunately, poor Popplio didn’t make the cut. I got a chance to speak over the phone to Junichi Masuda, producer on Sun and Moon, as well as Shigeru Ohmori, director on Sun and Moon, and they…

The next Wolfenstein game, presumably subtitled New Colossus, as it was teased by publisher Bethesda in June, is a step closer to being officially announced. In an interview with Two Left Sticks, the voice actor who had the lead role in 2014’s acclaimed Wolfenstein: The New Order, said of that teased title, “Perhaps we’re working…

Here’s What The Creators of Pokémon Sun and Moon Think About Fan Games

The recent controversial takedowns of high-profile yet unofficial Nintendo-related creations paints a picture of an aggressive corporation that punishes fans. But Game Freak, the creators of Pokémon, actually seem remarkably chill about the existence of fan games based on a recent conversation with Kotaku. As some of you know, 2016 has been a fraught year…

The Joker’s Long List Of Ridiculous Crimes, According To Rocksteady 

“My only regret is I didn’t do more,” the Joker cackles, in this terrific scene from newish PS4 game Batman: Arkham VR. The Bat-computer is listing all of the crimes that the Joker has been convicted of. Torture… unlicensed dentistry… arson… even improper labeling of meat products. That bastard. It’s quite the list and one of…

Be very afraid, The Amnesia Collection arrives on PlayStation 4 November 22. Collecting Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the Amnesia: Justine DLC and sequel Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the horror compilation should have been released in time for Halloween. Maybe they just forgot.

One-On-One Jump Scare Game Hide And Shriek Launches Next Week

Comingto Steamon October 25, Hide and Shriek is an online game that tasks two players with scaring the living shit out of each other. Developer Funcom has released a new trailer demonstrating exactly how that works. Are jump scares more frightening when someone else is controlling them directly? On one hand there’s the element of…

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Stardock is rebooting Star Control. Here’s hoping this turns out OK, because I remember II being cool as hell.

Brexit Is Going To Make A Sports Game Awesome

Brexit, a waking political nightmare for the United Kingdom, isn’t all bad news. After all, it’s managed to spice up this year’s version of Football Manager, low-key one of the biggest game series on the planet. As The Telegraph reports, while the actual details of Britain’s exit from the European Union are being worked out,…

Overwatch Players Are Sick Of The Sombra ARG [UPDATE]

Update 10/18/2016: After two months of inching forward, the Sombra-related countdown site hit 100 percent. And nothing big happened. People are now more fed up than ever. Upon completion, the countdown site read, “…Carga finalizada. Unidad Bastion E-54 comprometida…,” implying that Bastion has been compromised in some way or another. Apparently there’s now some funny…

Mini Metro, a beautiful little game about building a subway system, is now out on iOS and Android. They’re the perfect platforms for its chill little brand of strategy.