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Mario Maker Contest: Going Up!

For a long time, Mario went left to right and sometimes right to left. Life was good but simple. But over the years vertical sections and levels have become more a thing in Mario games. Let’s add some verticality to this week’s Mario Maker contest. Your Challenge This Week: Create vertical levels! Theme: Going Up,…

Every Game Needs A Studio Trigger Anime Opening

Today Skullgirls studio Lab Zero Games debuted the animated opening to Indivisible, the eagerly-anticipated action role-playing game. I thought I could not get more excited about this game. I was wrong. Flashy animated intros from Studio Trigger, the folks behind Kill La Kill, have that effect. Every game should have one. Founded by former Gainax…

Farewell To My Cat

I put my cat to sleep on Tuesday afternoon. She sat on my lap, swaddled in a medical blanket and a favorite scarf of my wife’s. A veterinarian injected anesthesia to knock her out and then delivered a fatal shot. I knew Quimby the cat for 15 ½ years. Some readers of this site may…

World of Warcraft‘s Greatest Tragedies Look So Much Cuter In A Pop-Up Book

Last year, in the lead-up to World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth expansion, Horde leader Sylvanas Windrunner went a bit more evil than usual. She set the world tree ablaze, destroying the night elf capital of Teldrassil and murdering countless innocents in the process. It was one of the most horrific events in the online…

Afterparty, the latest game from the developers of Oxenfree, releases October 29. You can learn more about the game on the PlayStation blog

Jurassic Dream Lets You Peacefully Explore A CryEngine Jurassic Park

Jurassic Dream is a fan-made CryEngine project that imagines a Jurassic Park where the catastrophic events of the novel/movie never happened, and everything is just fine. It’s beautiful, with the only catch being that there are no dinosaurs. Being a fan project handled almost entirely by one person (LifelessTapir, who started it when he was…

Please Be Kinder To Shitty Teams, Sports Games

I got to choose a lot of things in my life. My job, my wife, my friends, my dog—all have been good and wonderful. Some things, though, I have been born into, and supporting Aston Villa Football Club is sadly one of them. My grandmother was born and grew up a block away from Villa…

The next Total War game—a Saga title,like Thrones of Britannia—is called Troy. Here’s the debut trailer.

Borderlands 3 Patch Removes Screaming From Boss Who Screamed Too Much

Borderlands 3 is fun, but it’s had some problems since launch. It takes an absolute lifetime to boot up and occasionally hangs during simple actions like opening the menu. This morning, developer Gearbox pushed out a hot fix that deals with the most pressing issue of all: the incessant screaming of an endgame boss. WARNING:…

Modern Warfare Makes Night Vision Goggles Mandatory (And Fun)

Night vision goggles in first-person shooters often felt like a gimmick, so I was surprised to find myself actually enjoying them in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare beta over the weekend. The PlayStation 4 beta featured two maps, “Azhir Cave” and “Hackney Yard,” in a nighttime setting with night vision goggles that you toggle…

In the wake of complaints from developers earlier this week, Valve is conducting an experiment with game pages’ “More Like This” sections. Developers of unreleased games, especially, complained that recommendation sections were no longer surfacing their creations, leading to significant drop-offs in page traffic and wishlists. Valve’s experiment, which it told Kotaku has gone out…

Devil May Cry 2 Is Out On The Switch So Here’s The Deal

Devil May Cry games kick ass. The stylish and over-the-top antics of demon hunter Dante and his cohorts helped define the action game genre. This year’s Devil May Cry 5 made everything sleeker, sexier, and energetic. Dante’s had great games over the years, but there’s one game that doesn’t shine. Devil May Cry 2, whose…

Apex Legends‘ Third Season Will Bring A New Character, Changes To Ranked Mode

Respawn has officially revealed the next champion slated to join Apex Legends. Players can get their hands on hacker Crypto, a brand new weapon, and a slew of battle pass goodies alongside extensive changes to the game’s Ranked mode when season three, called Meltdown, arrives October 1. Today’s “Stories from the Outlands” cinematic isn’t the…

I’m streaming the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare open beta right now on our Twitch channel. Come join me in the chat!

Turn-Based Survival Game Overland Is Like An Indie Rock XCOM

In my couple of hours with turn-based survival game Overland, I’ve lived multiple short, doomed lives in the post-apocalypse. These lives unfolded in in gas stations and on street corners, and they were filled with the pursuit of gas cans and pieces of garbage, like potted plants and lighters. Overland’s art is minimalist, but the…

Chris and Jason are playing (for exactly 15 minutes) the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.Join us in the chat for this brief stream!

Disco Elysium, an off-kilter detective RPG I’ve had my eye on for what feels like forever, finally has a release date. It’s coming to PC on October 15 and boasts an inventive dialogue system rooted in a tremendous number of skills, where your character’s thoughts talk to you and tempt you. You can make your…

Forgetful Dictator, out later this week on Steam, looks like the greatest educational video game I never got to play at school. Dressed as a strategy game, you’re actually learning about geography, capital cities and flags while you fight a giant dinosaur (and your own lack of knowledge of the world around you).

Two Months After Turning Off Local Chat And Angering Players, EVE Online Is Back To Normal

After 66 days in darkness, EVE Online is turning the lights back on: The infamous Nullsec blackout came to an end on Monday, enabling players to once again use the “local” chat channel to see other nearby players. The blackout was one of the first changes implemented in the game’s so-called “Chaos Era,” a time…

Riot has revealed the new logo for League of Legends (pictured). The game will celebrate its 10th anniversary on October 15 and, according to Riot, sees about 8 million concurrent players every day. That’s a lot!