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Control‘s Clever Combat Tweaks Make Every Fight Feel Fresh

Control mixes Remedy’s signature quirkiness with mind-bending architecture and super-powered combat. One of the first things protagonist Jesse Faden does is find a transforming gun call the Service Weapon, a paranormal device with regenerating ammo and other tricks. It removes busywork from combat and makes each encounter exciting. In order to establish a solid rhythm,…

Man Quits Job To Focus On Buying Dragon Ball Merch

You might love Dragon Ball. You might be a big fan. But you do not have more Dragon Ball merch than Hitoshi Uchida. For example, one room in his house is dedicated entirely to Goku and filled with 4,000 Gokus! That’s not even the full extent of his collection. “I quit my job in order…

Weathering With You has been submitted for the Academy Awards’ International Feature Film Awards. This was the first anime Japan has submitted for an Oscar since Princess Mononoke in 1988. In case you missed it, read the Kotaku review.  

One Monster RPG is a game in which you raise a slime as though it was your own… so you can kill it. You play as a level 99 hero who’s on the tantalizing cusp of level 100, but there’s only one monster left in the world, and it’s history’s scrawniest slime. So you lead…

Apocalyptic ice age simulator Frostpunk got its first expansion today adding a new map for the game’s endless mode called The Rifts. The game is also getting a few more updates later this year, including a new scenario and a handful of other endless mode maps. 

I’m jumping into Creature In The Well, a fascinating blend of dungeon crawler action with… pinball. Yes, it’s as wild as it sounds and I’m playing it live right now. Join us in the chat.

There’s a Mega Man Zero / ZX Legacy Collection (yes, that’s the official name) and it’s coming to PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on January 21, 2020. It’ll include Mega Man Zero 1 through 4 as well as both Mega Man ZX games which are more Metroidvania-inspired.    

EVE Online Hosted A Fan Festival At One Player’s House

Player meetups for EVE Online are as much a part of the game’s culture as its spaceships. These gatherings run the gamut of size and spectacle, from small groups drinking with friends at their local bar to the massive annual Fanfest gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland organized by the game’s publisher, CCP. This year saw something…

Fortnite’s 10.20 patch includes a Borderlands crossover that resembles the game’s planet Pandora. It also adds a new item, the Shield Bubble, that defends against projectiles and explosives. Sounds a lot like Apex Legends’ Gibraltar’s dome, doesn’t it..

Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo’s next mobile game, is getting its full release on September 25

Six Counter-Strike Players Arrested Over Match-Fixing Allegations

Victoria Police announced on Friday afternoon that six Australians have been arrested in connection with an investigation into rigging Counter-Strike: Global Offensive matches, the first major case of its kind in Australia. An investigation began in March this year after a betting agency tipped off police about suspicious activity around a CS:GO tournament. “It’s alleged…

Super Mario 64 Is Being Remade Inside Super Mario Odyssey

If you ever wondered what it’d be like to play through Super Mario 64, only with Cappy doing his thing, here’s your chance to (hopefully) find out. Super Mario 64 Odyssey is a new project being worked on by a team of Mario modders that’s trying to rebuild every level from the 1996 classic inside…

Emulator Can Now Use Machine Learning To Translate Games (Poorly)

The developers behind RetroArch, the popular one-stop shop for retro gaming emulation, announced a new feature over the weekend: translating Japanese text to English on the fly. The results aren’t great, but they’re better than nothing and likely to improve over time. RetroArch’s new “AI Service button” uses a Google API to scan whatever is…

Dragon Quest Builders director Kazuya Nino has announced he’s leaving Square Enix, where he’s been for the past seven years. According to Nino, his next career move has already been decided and he’ll be discussing that in the near future.

Enako, Japan’s most popular cosplayer, recently threw out the first pitch for the Chunichi Dragons. Previously, Enako revealed that she has made up to $90,000 a month thanks to her cosplaying, promotional activities and patrons.

Little Kid’s Hand-Written Xbox Fan Mail From 2002 Is Very Wholesome

Seamus Blackley, one of the key people involved in the creation of the original Xbox console, was going through some old stuff the other day when he came across an adorable piece of fan mail written 17 years ago by little Mitchell Riley. Realizing he’d never replied, Blackley decided to track him down and make…

The Haunting Discoveries Of Outer Wilds

My Outer Wilds journey had me awash in emotions from fear to joy to sadness. There was one discovery, however, that made me unexpectedly queasy. It also left me with a lingering sense of overwhelming dread that morphed into much more. Mobius Digital’s game, which was released earlier this year on Xbox One and PC,…

Psst. Hey. Ben here. If you’re in need of a fun gaming podcast, you should definitely check out my newest show — Memory Card. Every episode covers the history surrounding a weird and wonderful character, console, accessory or game. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Spotify

I Played Breath of the Wild With My Sister And Put Her Through Hell

It’s not often I replay games, but when my sister asked for something to play together, I suggested The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. More than two years had passed since I completed Link’s adventure on my own, and I wanted her to experience it ahead of the recently-announced sequel. Let me recount all…

What Is Your Favorite Game Sequel?

There are great sequels. And then there are all the crappy ones that seem like little more than cynical cash grabs. I’m going to focus on the former. Sometimes, the best sequels take a classic formula and evolve on them. I loved Final Fantasy II (IV in Japan), Uncharted II, Mass Effect 2, Super Mario…