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I Love The Posters Found In Control

Control is a wonderful game. I can’t stop thinking about it and I can’t wait for the weekend to end so I can get back to playing it instead of working. But while many are talking about the incredible visuals or exciting action, I want to take a moment to showcase a small part of…

The Mobile Port Of GTA San Andreas Contains New And Secret Cheat Codes

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was ported to mobile devices back in 2013 and then this version of the game was ported to PS3 and Xbox 360, as well as a few other places. GTA fans and modders have recently found that in this mobile version of the game there are a host of new…

Night In The Woods Designer Alec Holowka Dies

Alec Holowka, a developer on Night in the Woods and other independent video games, died Saturday morning, according to his sister. The news comes days after allegations began to circulate against Holowka, as multiple people accused him of abusive behavior. “Alec Holowka, my brother and best friend, passed away this morning,” wrote Eileen Holowka in…

Sighted outside PAX West: Satanists. The Seattle chapter of the Satanic Temple was looking for new recruits outside the Seattle-based convention earlier today, bearing signs with phrases like “Love thyself” and “Love is never a sin.” I was surprised to see them orbiting PAX until I remembered that Satanists love video games. I do not,…

Mario Maker Contest: Pipes,Pipes And More Pipes

Mario loves pipes. He travels in them, jumps on them and leaps over them. As a plumber, pipes and Mario are forever linked together. So let’s celebrate Mario and his wonderful pipes. Your Challenge This Week: Create levels that feature pipes! Theme: Pipes You can use any theme and game, just make sure your course…

Watching an artist sing their own song in the fake language found in The Sims series is always a treat. Even better when that artist seems super excited and happy while recording the gibberish. Beau Young Prince is featured in this clip on their Twitter account singing in smilish and reading the lyrics from a phone.

Back To The Future With Only Half-Life Sound Effects Is Wonderful

The sound effects from the original Half-Life are burned into my brain after playing the game nearly every year since it came out back in 1998. So hearing these iconic sounds and voices inserted into famous scenes from classic 80s films creates a weird mix of nostalgia and humor. And surprisingly this mash-up actually works.…

I (Tim Rogers) am streaming Astral Chain over on our Twitch channel! Let’s get wild with these hot cops and their demon dogpeople! Yell at me and crime, in the chat!

Fallout 76’s Raid Missions Feel Like Chores

In gaming parlance, the phrase “raid” implies some grand story, an epic boss fight, and the promise of great rewards at the end. Bethesda has called Fallout 76’s latest addition to the game a raid, but it lacks those things. Instead, it takes the base game’s worst quests and repackages them the most grindy, punishing…

YouTuber Jared “ProJared” Knabenbauer has posted a video denying allegations from three months ago that he supposedly had exchanged nude photos with two underage fans. Knabenbauer acknowledged that he did exchange nude photos with other fans, clarified that this was “consensual,” although there was a “power imbalance” between himself and his fans.

Untitled Goose Game comes to Switch September 20, Nintendo tweetedtoday. We liked what we played of it a few years ago.

Jason Schreier and I (Tim Rogers) are continuing our glacial spiral into the Japanese wall of text that is Chrono Trigger. Sound out every syllable alongside us in the chat! I’ll learn you all some Japanese, yet!

Remedy Entertainment says it’s looking into how to improve Control’s performance on console but that it will take time. The studio also says that an on/off toggle for Motion Blur and Film Grain will be coming in the next update, along with improvements to the map display. 

This Cute Kaiju Rampage Is The Best Dreams Level I’ve Played So Far

There’s plenty of games about fighting and hunting monsters, but not enough games about being a monster and smashing things up. Thankfully there’s Dreams, the incredible creative game that’s led to everything from serialized puppet shows to playable Final Fantasy VII Remake battles. Some intrepid Dreams players have even teamed up to make the perfect…

Turn-based survival game Overland finally has a release date and it’s not that far off, arriving on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch on September 19. In Overland you travel across a post-apocalyptic landscape Oregon Trail-style in-between getting in tactical fights. We’ll find out soon if it’s as good as it sounds. 

It’s Final Fantasy XIV patch day and it’s all about buffs! Ninjas are getting much needed love and Samurai attacks have tons of potency increases. Arcanist and Summoners have changes to how Ruin works too. You can read all the changes here.

We’ve corrected yesterday’s story about the recent PlayStation Vita update. The hacker has now said that the h-encore² hack does, indeed, work with the latest Vita firmware. Kotaku regrets the error.

Ahoy! Gita and I are playing Man of Medan, a spooky game by the creators of Until Dawn, right now on Twitch! Come join chat to talk about ghoul, wendigos, fashion, and what you had for lunch.

The Soulcalibur World Invitational is heading to Las Vegas on November 2. Seven of the world’s best Soulcalibur VI players will be joined by one challenger from an open qualifier to compete for a prize pool of $25,000.

Two People Who Didn’t Work At Telltale Games Say They’re Bringing Back Telltale Games

Telltale Games is back—well, at least the name is. A group of investors announced plans today to revive the iconic studio, which shut down last September, although with the company’s staff having scattered to the winds, this seems less like a revival and more like one of Clementine’s enemies. Today, Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle,…