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Valve’s Amazing VR Showcase Ends Too Quickly
Valve’s VR demo reel The Lab is extremely cool. It’s also frustrating. It’s got some of the most impressive virtual reality demonstrations I’ve seen, but I wish there were more to it. Here’s a video of me playing some of the best demos: What it is: The Lab is a free collection of minigames playable…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 7, 2016 -
There’s A Bunch Of Hidden Features In PS4’s Latest Firmware Update
The PlayStation 4 got a significant firmware upgrade yesterday, and as more people have dug into it, people are finding little tweaks that didn’t show up in the patch notes. Remember the big kerfuffle over Sony removing the ability to stream music through a USB drive? It’s been resolved with this update, according to a…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 7, 2016 -
Hyper Light Drifter, As Told By Steam Reviews
The devilishly difficult Hyper Light Drifter has been tearing up the Steam charts since release, meaning that players have flocked to the reviews section talk about why they love Heart Machine’s creation so damn much. Broadly speaking, players cite the air of mystery, intrigue, wordless world-building and intense difficulty as things they enjoy in Hyper…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 7, 2016 -
Dead Or Alive Xtreme 3 Isn’t Worth All The Drama
Gamers have spent the past several months arguing over whether Dead or Alive’s third bikini-clad vacation simulator deserves a Western release. That’s a lot of time and energy wasted on the worst game in the series. I have some impressions of the game to share, but first, a bit of history: The Dead or Alive…
By Mike Fahey Published April 7, 2016 -
Shut-Down Metal Gear Solid Fan Remake Reborn as Virtual Museum
Lots of Solid Snake fans got sad when the folks making the Shadow Moses HD re-make of Metal Gear Solid suddenly announced that they were stopping development last month. It turns out that all of that work isn’t just evaporating into thin air. You’ll be able to walk around the environments of what could have…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 7, 2016 -
Superhot‘s Time-Stopping Mechanics In Real Life
The folks over at Rocket Jump gave some further thought to Superhot’s unique mechanics, where the game only progresses when the player moves, and how that’d work in real life. Things get a bit more complicated when you fight something other than the faceless red enemies from the game, and there’s a world out there…
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2016 -
Naked giant-killing simulator get! Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom will be coming to the West on August 28. The Koei Tecmo game will land on Xbox One, Steam and last-gen and current PlayStation platforms. You can read about the Japanese version of the game here and here
By Evan Narcisse Published April 7, 2016 -
When Mario Kart Meets Rocket League
Shrinking characters, enlarging the ball or throwing out banana peels sure would spice up Rocket League’s already intense gameplay. Crashing with transparent 2D sprites would be problematic though. Here’s a Mario Kart and Rocket League mashup from The Pixel Kingdom To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]
By Gergo Vas Published April 7, 2016 -
A Minecraft Tribute to Monument Valley
Monument Valley is a pretty great iOS game. It’s so great, in fact, that it inspired a pretty great Minecraft map to go with it, and it does invoke the game’s visuals quite well (that is, until you go first-person, like you tend to do in Minecraft.) According to its creator, dennisbuilds from PlanetMinecraft, the…
By András Neltz Published April 7, 2016 -
Blizzard Shuts Down Fans Running Old Vanilla WoW Server
Blizzard’s lawyers in both the US and France have shut down a group of fans running a server for classic, “vanilla” World of WarCraft, a version of the game that regular players hadn’t seen in a decade. Nostalrius, a group started up last year by a band of around 30 fans, had over 800,000 registered…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 6, 2016 -
New Overwatch Update Adds Ranked Play, Seasons
The latest Overwatch update didn’t just give Tracer a different, slightly more in-character butt pose; it also gave players a reason to fight until they can’t fight anymore (that isn’t butts). I speak, of course, about competitive play. Now, if you so choose, you can play Overwatch’s beta to rank up throughout monthly seasons and…
By Nathan Grayson Published April 6, 2016 -
All of Street Fighter V‘s Costumes So Far, In Every Color
Street Fighter V’s online shop just opened last week, a month after the game’s launch. Here’s all the clothes you can get for your favorite World Warrior. As first spotted on Reddit, one intrepid PC user has thrown up images of every color and clothing option for the current roster of Street Fighter V. Looking…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2016 -
VR Game At A Glance: Shootin’ Robots In Space Pirate Trainer
Look, I just want a VR game to make me feel like Neo from The Matrix. Does Space Pirate Trainer do that? It does! Sign me up. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game on HTC Vive: What it is: Space Pirate Trainer is an early access shooting gallery game that basically…
By Kirk Hamilton Published April 6, 2016 -
Spoiler Space: More from Ta-Nehisi Coates on Black Panther
I had a long, entertaining chat with Ta-Nehisi Coates two weeks before the first issue of the new Black Panther series came out. It was so fun that I’m putting the majority of our talk here. Warning: it’s long and has spoilers Kotaku: Tell me about the maps and why you’re pissed off about the…
By Evan Narcisse Published April 6, 2016 -
Donald Trump’s Second Life Mansion Is Owned By An Anime School Girl
Because of course it is. SL Newser – Places recently took a trip into everyone’s favorite off-kilter MMO, Second Life, where they found a replica of Donald Trump’s Florida mansion, Mar-A-Lago. Turns out, some Second Life players are campaigning for Trump within the game by building areas dedicated to him. SL Newser went the extra…
By Patricia Hernandez Published April 6, 2016 -
A Quick Test Of PS4’s New Remote Play Capabilities
Starting today, it’s now possible to stream your PlayStation 4 to a PC or Mac. That sounds pretty awesome in theory, but how’s it actually work? I’ve spent the morning playing around with Remote Play to find out. Remote Play is a technology that allows a PS4 to become a hub device that spits a…
By Patrick Klepek Published April 6, 2016
