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The $270 ‘Ultimate’ Version Of Final Fantasy XV Doesn’t Come With A Season Pass

To be fair, the $90 ‘Deluxe’ edition of Final Fantasy XV doesn’t contain a DLC season pass either, but then it’s not calling itself ‘Ultimate.’ Answering questions as part of a Gamescom event, game director Hajime Tabataconfirmed the fears of fanswho laid down $270 for the incredibly limited version of Final Fantasy XV. While they…

Shadow Complex Remastered gets a physical release tomorrow, courtesy of Limited Run Games. 6,900 copiesgo on sale in two waves tomorrow. Considering every previously released Limited Run game has sold out. collectors might want to camp this one.

New Overwatch Test Update Filters Popular Insult Into Polite Confessionals

If you’ve just wrapped up a hard-fought multiplayer match, it’s polite to say “gg” to all involved as a show of sportsmanship. Jackasses, however, have taken to corrupting it by adding “ez” to the end, essentially saying, “Beating you losers was a piece of cake.” As of yesterday’s new test server patch, Overwatch now filters…

Touchingly, Blizzard dedicated today’s new Bastion-centric Overwatch short to Yvain Gnarbo, a Blizzard animator who died in a motorcycle accident last June.

Inversus Is The Most Fun I’ve Had Shooting Other Players In Ages

Inversus is a simple black and white strategy shooter that pits players against each other in an ever-changing battle for territory and survival. As minimalist competitive shooters go, it’s pretty much perfect. Created by Ryan Juckett, AKA one-man game studio Hypersect, Inversus started off as a game jam idea and developed into something that’s a…

Black Cosplayers Talk About Self-Doubt

Shannon I., 23, didn’t want to leave her Baltimore hotel room. For months, she had been looking forward to Otakon, Baltimore’s annual anime convention, and especially to cosplaying Takumi from Fire Emblem Fates. Trimmed in fur, embellished with red string and topped with a white wig, Shannon’s cosplay was impeccable. She had been striving for…

Blizzard Tries To Humanize Bastion With New Overwatch Video

The animated Overwatch short nobody but Bastion players wanted, “The Last Bastion,” just premiered at Gamescom. According to Overwatch Project Director Ben Dai, Bastion,“an artificial intelligence programmed to do one thing, and one thing only—to fight—comes face-to-face with a choice to alter his destiny” in the short. That’s right, one thing: posting up in a…

The No Man’s Sky Hype Dilemma

It’s become clear, a week after the launch of No Man’s Sky, that the much-hyped space game has not lived up to many players’ lofty expectations. But whose fault is that? Does it matter? And how could the backlash have been avoided? Critical assessment of the game’s achievements aside—go read Kirk’s excellent review if you…

This is Little Nightmares. It’s from Bandai Namco, slated for PS4, and Steam, and the game is scheduled for release next year. Check out the English trailer on Kotaku UK.

Anyone For A $27,000 Super Mario Bros. Watch?

Anyone? No? Designed by Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome—who has done this sort of thing before—there will only be 85 of these made, and they’ll only be available during the rest of August as part of a “World Watch Fair” at Japan’s flagship Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi store. And no, that headline isn’t a typo. They’re selling for…

Gremlin D.Va Is Now Overwatch Canon

Gremlin D.Va, one of Overwatch’s most beloved fan creations, is canon now thanks to a new emote on the game’s test server. She’s got her Doritos, Dew, and a custom stream overlay. She’s the hero we deserve and need right now. (Thanks, David!) Here’s a video, courtesy of Seba: This is the most overt instance…

Gotta [No Man’s Sky] Fast

Oh boy.

Pewdiepie To Overeager Fans: “Don’t Come To My House”

This seems like common sense, right? Don’t be weird; don’t put people in an uncomfortable situation, no matter who they are. And yet… YouTube’s biggest star says that he constantly has to deal with the problem of fans visiting his house, even though he’s moved multiple times across the years: “I’ve even had parents coming…

Overwatch Test Patch Nerfs Genji, Buffs Mei And Mercy 

Overwatch’s competitive season two patch just hit the public test servers, and it’s a doozy. Nerfs, buffs, laughter, tears of delicious, delicious salt—it’s all here. The centerpiece of this PTR patch is, of course, competitive season two. The skill rating system has been overhauled and divided up into tiers, and sudden death is dead, unloved…

Serious D&D Player Chugs Wine Underwater To Settle Rules Dispute

Game Masters can be nit-picky sticklers with wands up their butts. It’s a respectable mode for navigating the endless charts and dice rolls and idiosyncratic mechanics of tabletop RPGs. Seriously, I respect you, stickler GMs. Without you, I wouldn’t know the difficulty class for reaching across the table and grabbing a Cheeto. Is that a…

Watch Us Play The Dream-like PS4 Game Bound

Bound is a visually striking game that comes from small Polish studio Plastic. It’s out this week on PS4. It’s a little plain in terms of gameplay but looks fantastic. It has a great in-game photo mode, and with good reason. Every scene in this game is a stunner. There’s a story being told in…

We recently played a bit of the upcoming BioShock collection: all three BioShocks, all the DLC, everything but BioShock 2‘s multiplayer. No gameplay tweaks; just graphical polish so that it looks as good as it looks in your memories (see above). Out Sept. 13 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC.

Majora’s Mask In-Game Ocarina Is A Surprisingly Versatile Instrument

I wasn’t initially impressed with PuppetMaster9‘s compilation of popular tunes played using the in-game Ocarina from The Legend of Zelda: Major’s Mask for the 3DS. Then he got to “Baker Street.” Such a sucker for that song. You may have seen some of PuppetMaster9’s performances when they started blowing up on Twitter back in March.…

Man Finds ‘Arrow To The Knee’ Joke In Skyrim‘s Big New Mod, Reacts Appropriately

One of the most ambitious mods in Skyrim history, Enderal, is now out in English. It’s really good! But it makes reference to A Certain Inescapable Meme, A Dragon From Our Collective Past, and there’s only one thing that can be done about that. Streamer Cryaotic stumbled across The Gag We All Swore We’d Never…

Why Overwatch Players Hate Genji Now

Some relatively minor tweaks aside, Overwatch’s cyborg ninja dragon blender Genji hasn’t changed much since launch. Over the past few weeks, though, I’ve come across dozens of threads begging Blizzard to nerf Genji so hard he starts throwing rubber ducks instead of ninja stars. What happened? In hero-based games like Overwatch, there’s always a “nerf…