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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…

Disney Shutting Down Both Avengers Alliance Games For Some Damn Reason

After four years of being one of the few Facebook games worth a damn and a fine free-to-play mobile joint, Marvel’s Avengers Alliance and its recently-released sequel will be shutting down at the end of this month, because some part of Disney hates fun. Marvel Avengers Alliance, launched on Facebook back in March of 2012before…

Nobody Knows How The Portals In No Man’s Sky Work

Over the last couple of weeks, No Man’s Sky players have discovered a number of monoliths scattered across the universe. The structures look important somehow, like they are meant to do something, or perhaps trigger something. Except…they don’t. Two years ago, No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games uploaded a video titled “Portal gameplay trailer,” to…

All The Rogue One Lego Star Wars Stuff Coming Out This Month

The first wave of toys based on Star Wars side story Rogue One arrive on store shelves on Friday, September 30. Lego’s bringing three buildable figures and five new sets to the party. Let’s look at them! Sargent Jyn Erso is front and center in the collection, as she should be, charging into battle as…

YouTubers Are Freaking Out About Money and ‘Censorship’

Yesterday, popular YouTuber Philip DeFranco uploaded a video where he claimed that YouTube was ‘shutting down’ his channel due to guideline violations that included ‘excessive strong language.’ Since then, panic and confusion have struck the YouTube world, with some wondering if this is the start of an excessive clamp down that would put channels with…

The 3DS re-release of Dragon Quest VIII, once expected for a late 2016 release will now be out in 2017, according to Nintendo. Not a huge surprise, given that the 3DS verion of DQVII is just coming out this month.

In Nintendo Direct Zelda news, the Phantom Hourglass & Spirit Tracks DLC pack for Hyrule Warriors is available today, and four new Amiibo are coming on December 2, including 8-Bit Link and a Wind Waker two-pack, with special functionality in the upcoming Breath of the Wild Oh yeah, and Skyward Sword is out on the…

Mario Sports Superstars Is All The Mario Sports

Mario’s starred in a lot of sports games over the years—soccer, baseball, tennis and golf. Mario Sports Superstars for the 3DS combines all four and adds some horse racing to the mix when it launches in spring 2017. According to the Nintendo Direct, these are five full games, playable both offline and online with friends…

The 3DS Is Getting A Pikmin Side-Scroller Next Year

Fitting for the game’s first handheld adaptation, a side-scroller rendition of Pikmin is coming to Nintendo 3DS in 2017. Capitalizing on the 3DS’s touchscreen, Nintendo announced today that, in the new Pikmin, “You tap the touch screen where you want to throw [Pikmin].” The original Pikmin was released for the GameCube in 2001. Pikmin 2…

Announced during today’s Nintendo Direct, Yoshi’s Woolly World is coming to the 3DS on February 3rd, 2017. There will even be a special Poochie Amiibo!

Picross 3D Round 2 is finally coming to 3DS… now (or so Nintendo said in a Nintendo Direct… any minute now?). A puzzle game we’ve been dying for here in these Picross-loving parts. It’s all about finding shapes inside cubes by pecking at it based on numerical clues. Amiibo support, too.

3DS Streetpass Plaza Limit Increasing From 10 To 100 With Premium Update

Available after today’s Nintendo Direct, a premium update to the Nintendo 3DS’ Streetpass Plaza will speed up functionality and increase the number of players you can encounter from 10 to 100. Hooray! Anyone who has ever brought their 3DS to a gaming convention will surely appreciate not having to go through new visitors ten at…

Super Mario Maker Releasing On 3DS In December With Some Feature Limitations

Super Mario Maker is coming to the Nintendo 3Ds on December 2nd, 2016. The 3DS game, released on Wii U last year, comes with 100 built-in courses. You can also play courses designed on the Wii U version of Super Mario Maker, although not all will be compatible. You also won’t be able to search…

Nintendo is back with another hype-filled 3DS-focused Nintendo Direct. Will they announce Picross 3D 2 for North America? Dole out more Pokémon Sun & Moon news? Declare next year to be the year of Wario? Watch and find out.

Our Favorite Games From August

August was a busy month for video games! From much-anticipated big titles to smaller fan games, here were some of our favorite games from August. Brutal This ASCII-inspired roguelike dungeon crawler was a lot of fun You can get the game for PS4 Abzu Abzu is a simple but beautiful gamefull of mystery and discovery.…

After ordering the slaughter of surrendering Horde troops and voting to weaponize ancient evil in Mists of Pandaria, the Alliance’s bloodthirsty air commander’s first actions in Legion get her airship cracked in two over the Stormheim Mountains. Sky Admiral Rogers is the worst.

The Importance Of Anime In Persona 5

Persona 5 looks terrific. Especially the animated sequences by famed studio Production I.G, perhaps best known for The Ghost in the Shell anime. In a recent interview with Weekly Famitsu, animator Toshiyuki Kono, who directed those cutscenes, said that Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino first got in touch three and a half years ago. This…

In its first week on sale in Japan, Nintendo 3DS title Metroid Prime: Federation Force only sold 4286 copies, according to Famitsu’s sales data. The game came in at number 20 in the weekly sales ranking. In comparison, The King of Fighters XIV, which also went on sale the same day, sold 23,242 copies that…

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