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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend is for fast cars in unlikely scenarios. It’s about desperately trying to not make every post about Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, even if that means playing a questionable movie tie-in. It’s about Vin Diesel’s giant, computer-generated face. I have got a lot of cleaning to do around my house this weekend, and what…

A Nintendo-Friendly Studio Takes Their Next Game To Xbox (But Isn’t Exactly Done With Nintendo)

The recent debut of a game called The Gunk during a late July showcase of next-gen Xbox games wasn’t an obvious stunner. But, if you’ve been paying close attention to indie games on the Nintendo Switch, it was a surprise. The Gunk is a third-person action game featuring a pair of explorers who discover a…

Official: Rocksteady Is Making A Suicide Squad Game

The makers of the Batman Arkham games at Rocksteady Studios have finally officially teased their next project: a Suicide Squad game. It’s been five years since Arkham Knight came out, and, ever since then, people have wondered what the hell Rocksteady Studios has been up to. For a long time many assumed it might be…

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President Trump Now Targeting Tencent, Who Own Riot Games And 40% Of Epic [Update]

US President Donald Trump’sattacks on TikTok escalated wildly today, after he signed an Executive Order that not only seeks to prevent Americans from doing business with ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), but also targets Tencent, the Chinese giant that among other things owns Riot (League of Legends), along with partial stakes in everyone from Ubisoft to…

Mod Brings 2003’s NBA Street Vol. 2 Into 2020 With Modern Players, Uniforms

Oh hell yes. NBA Street Vol. 2, released back in 2003 for the PS2, Xbox and GameCube, has recently been updated to feature some of the players and jerseys we’d expect to be seeing in a game released in 2020. Building off a major 2016 update by johnz1 and Mazzochi, agent_michael_scarn has released NBA Street…

The Last Of Us 2’s Zombie Sounds Were Made By Squishy Fruit And Porridge(?)

There’s a great video up on SoundWorks Collection today featuring Beau Anthony Jimenez, sound designer at Naughty Dog, who shows off some of the ways the sounds for The Last Of Us 2 were recorded since there were no actual fungus zombies to stick in the recording booth. While the video deals with all kinds…

PlayStation Showcase Game Was ‘Stolen,’ Say Former Developers [Update]

A group of developers went public today with serious accusations of overwork and theft against their former employer, the Estonian studio Limestone Games. The claims surfaced shortly after a trailer for Aeon Must Die, the game they say was stolen from them, was shown during today’s State of Play broadcast In total, eight members of…

Apple Says Xbox, Stadia Streaming Apps Would Break The App Store’s Rules

Google’s Stadia app can’t stream games on iOS, and yesterday Microsoft said its new xCloud streaming service wouldn’t be coming to Apple devices either. Turns out there’s a pretty concrete reason for both of those omissions: Apple won’t let them. In a statement released to Business Insider earlier today, Apple says “The App Store was…

Here’s How Bugsnax Plays

Today’s PlayStation State of Play gave an in-depth look at gameplay for the “body-horror but make it cute” hit of the summer, Bugsnax. Check out the gameplay trailer below. “Use traps and sauces to capture Bugsnax,” developer Young Horses wrote in a press release. “On top of being tasty, each of the 100 different species…

Fall Guys Players Are Already Unlocking An Achievement That Developers Thought Was Impossible

Fall Guys looks easy until you try it. Then you realize that it’s not about claiming glorious victory over noodle-legged nobodies. Instead, your one and only goal is to avoid accidentally discovering innovative new ways to eat shit. Winning one match is tough. Winning five in a row is darn near impossible. And yet, mere…

Everything PlayStation Announced During Today’s State Of Play

Here’s everything noteworthy that was announced, revealed, or otherwise discussed during today’s State of Play broadcast. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is a direct sequel to Crash Bandicoot: Warped It’s the first new game in the series in over a decade, and will give you the ability to play through the entire adventure as…

All Three Hitman Games Will Be Playable In VR

Revealed today during Sony’s State of Play, IO Interactive is bringing Hitman to VR. The upcoming game, as well as the previous two games in the current trilogy, will be completely playable in VR via PSVR on PS4 when it comes out January 2021.

Striking Lovestruck Writers Challenge Bosses And Win

Today the writers of Lovestruck, a popular visual novel romance game, announced a successful end to their unprecedented strike. Two weeks ago Kotaku reported on a writers strike for the mobile app, Lovestruck. Now, the writers have come to an agreement with their bosses at Voltage Entertainment whereby all of the writers will receive significant…

Beep Beep Whoosh

Fortnite’s latest update yesterday finally brought drivable cars to the game. We’re still finding out all the things we can do with them, but some players have found a weird new form of off-roading: trucks can fly. Players on the Fortnite subreddit, as well as on YouTube, have been posting a glitch that makes trucks…

World of Warcraft Adds NPC Memorial Honoring Twitch Streamer Reckful

Byron “Reckful” Bernstein was a Twitch fixture, transforming himself into an essential part of the platform’s DNA during his eight-year streaming career. Last month, he died by suicide, leaving a whole host of gaming communities mourning in his wake. Now, Blizzard has chosen to honor him with an in-game World of Warcraft tribute. Last night,…

Doom Eternal And Elder Scrolls Online Are Getting Next-Gen Ports

Bethesda announced this morning that Doom Eternal and The Elder Scrolls Online are coming to Xbox Series X and PS5 sometime in the future. The publisher didn’t say when the games would be available on the next-gen consoles, but did note that existing owners of the games will be able to upgrade to the Xbox…

How’s It Going? Clutter Edition

What is all this crap? Welcome back to our daily open thread. I am currently dealing with an overabundance of stuff issue in my living space. There are too many things. Boxes, books, medical supplies, cats, children—there’s too much stuff. Our landlord recently decided that, after seven years of on-time rent payments, too much stuff…

Gundam Is Here With An Important Public Service Announcement: Be Good To Each Other

Gundams and their pilots are here to remind us all not to lose faith in our shared humanity. Over on the GundamInfo YouTube channel, which usually hosts an ever-changing lineup of episodes and movies from the series’ decades-long back catalog, a video titled “Message from Gundam ‘Beyond’” recently went up, full of trippy visuals and…