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Overwatch‘s Mei Buff Is Useful, But Only If You’re Smart

Yesterday’s surprise Overwatch patch brought with it some balance changes—most importantly (to me), Mei’s buff, a thing of both immeasurable good and evil. Blizzard expanded Mei’s ultimate move, also called “Blizzard,” from 8 meters to 10 meters. Enemies within its circumference are quickly frozen, sitting ducks for a hero like Pharah to blast them with…

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided will receive its first story DLC, System Rift, on September 23rd. The DLC has players reunite with grumpy tech boy Frank Pritchard in an attempt to steal valuable data from a highly secure data vault called the Palisade Blade.

Even In Portrait Mode, Lumines Keeps Shinin’

While it may not be as responsive as it was when it debuted on the PlayStation Portable on 2005, Lumines: Puzzle & Music for iOS and Android is every bit as engaging as the original. Note I mention in the video that the game is free. This is incorrect. It’s a $2.99 premium title. Lumines…

Bethesda Memorializes Fallout 4 Player As A NPC

Two months ago, Redditor NoohjXLVII wrote a post thanking Bethesda for Fallout 4, which helped take his mind off family tragedy. “I have spent over 500 [hours] in this game,” NoohjXLVII wrote on the Fallout 4 Reddit (via Eurogamer). “Partly due to the fun gameplay, the new survival mode, and just the game in general.…

Shadow Warrior 2 will be out this October—October 13, to be exact—on PC. Check out the latest trailer, blood, blades, selfie sticks and all.

Hayao Miyazaki Doesn’t Hate The New Studio Ghibli Film 

Studio Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki is so throughly impressed by the studio’s upcoming co-production The Red Turtle that he wishes he could work with the staff that made it. Of course he doesn’t hate it! His company is releasing it, you might think. Well, with Miyazaki, who retired from feature filmmaking in 2013, that’s not…

Overwatch‘s New Map And Second Season Are Now Live

The Overwatch update that was supposed to land next week just dropped. It’s a biggie. Competitive mode season two has now officially kicked off, and a new map, Eichenwalde, is officially in the game. Originally, Blizzard was planning to launch season two on September 6, but it’s here right now on PC and Xbox One,…

Logitech’s Prodigy Series Wants To Be Everybody’s Gaming Gear

Today Logitech G reveals its new Prodigy series of gaming accessories, two mice, a keyboard and a headset designed with the goal to be “gaming gear made exclusively for everyone.” The idea, as I understand it from a briefing I had on the Prodigy line earlier this week, is that while there will always be…

Broken Reality is a first-person game set in a psychedelic re-imagining of the Internet. You’ll be able to explore and meet characters as you please, and areas will function as representations of online subcultures. It looks weird as hell, like the final dream of a dying Dreamcast. It’s on Kickstarter right now.

The DRM-Free Version Of Armello Won’t Be Getting DLC After All

Armello is an excellent fantasy board/card game that’s been on Steam since 2015. With (Fahey-approved) DLC and console versions recently released, developer League of Geeks made a curious announcement: the game’s DRM-free, non-Steam PC version won’t be receiving DLC. League of Geeks explained in a roadmap post: “We’ve had fantastic meetings with GoG about the…

Website Says Nintendo Threat Forced Them To Pull Hundreds Of Fan Games [UPDATE]

In a mass filing under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Nintendo has apparently flagged over 550 titles for takedown. Focusing on the site Game Jolt, a notice said to come from Nintendo listed a total of 562 titles for removal from the site. The majority of these titles were fan made tributes or independent…

Really Digging This New Pac-Man Design

Giving one of the world’s most iconic video game characters a makeover for his latest mobile game, Bandai Namco have created a Pac-Man that really works with today’s more minimalist cartoon sensibilities. Or he’s just really damn cute. The game is Pac-Man Pop, available today on iOS and Android, which is a free-to-play bubble shooter…

How To Talk To A Woman Who Is Wearing A Headset

Many women today walk around attached to some sort of technology: an iPhone, a Fitbit, a mech suit, a headset. In 2016’s digitally-addicted world, it’s nearly impossible to meet a woman who isn’t either listening to music or a body pillow—clearly, a function of our internet-obsessed society. Some women today, it turns out, are so…

Rainbow Six Siege Has Turned Into One Of The Best Shooters Around

The tactical, tough team-based shooter Rainbow Six Siege has picked up a lot of traction in the past six months. That’s been possible thanks to the release of new maps, new character releases, updates and bug fixes, turning one of Ubisoft’s more low-key releases of the past year into one of the best shooters out…

Journey, Lords of the Fallen Headline PlayStation Plus Lineup For September

If you haven’t played Journey yet, now’s your chance to get it for PS3 and PS4 through PlayStation Plus’ September lineup. Remember, though Sony advertises these games as “free,” an active PlayStation Plus subscription is required to download and play the games featured here. Here’s the lineup for September: Playstation 4 Lords of the Fallen…

Fans Make The 3D Sonic Game We Deserve

Sonic the Hedgehog has always struggled in 3D. From the picky camera of Sonic Adventure to Sonic Unleashed and its odd melee combat, Sega’s mascot has never quite gotten it right. Thankfully, fans are here to make it all better with Green Hill Paradise Act 2 Built using the 3D Sonic Games Development Kit (SonicGDK),…

Court Throws Out Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto V Lawsuit

In 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan filed suit against GTA publisher Take-Two for what she believed was an unauthorized depiction of her image in Grand Theft Auto V. She claimed she was even used in the game’s promotional materials. Today, however, the court tossed her suit. Both Lohan and Mob Wives star Karen Gravano ended up…

There has been no avatar like Bjork’s avatar, which appeared live yesterday in all its strange glory for a London interview London’s Somerset House is hosting Bjork’s Digital exhibit, which Bjork discussed live in cybernymph avatar form, using motion capture and 3D animation. Check out the full video for some amazing Bjork-style weirdness:

Meet The Lawyer Who Quit His Job To Make An RPG

Vidar is billed as an “RPG puzzler where everyone dies,” and yet, developer Dean Razavi is often asked whether that’s true. “I put it on a banner,” Razavi told me in Kotaku’s New York offices. “I don’t know what more you want from me.” Until a month ago, Razavi was a litigation attorney, full-time, which…

Gears of War 4’s new Horde 3.0 mode looks sick thanks to new classes, enemy types, maps, and even vehicles (!). It’s been too long since we’ve had a Gears game with this type of co-op goodness, eh? From the official press release: In addition to ferocious new classes of enemies like the Swarm and…