Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Download Time, Goodness

Did you get Red Dead Redemption 2? Did you go to a store and buy a physical copy or, uh, get the digital one? My download is taking a while. I bought the digital version because I enjoy waiting around. And like a dope, I didn’t start my download at the crack of dawn. So…

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Red Dead Revolver, The 2004 Game Where It All Began

Back in the year 2000, Angel Studios in San Diego began development on a video game Western. They were making it for Capcom, the Japanese publisher of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil, and I think it’s safe to assume not a single person involved could have predicted what would happen next. An action…

Twitch Streamer Locks Himself In A Cage For 30 Days [UPDATE]

It began with a joke. Twitch streamer Johnny_now resolved to make a mad dash toward his fitness goals ahead of his 30th birthday, but he kept stumbling. He got into a good exercise routine, but couldn’t quit overeating. Then he injured his back and fell headlong back into his vices. “I joked around,” he told…

The “All Your Base” Game Had 32 Secret Japanese Endings

Zero Wing, an old shooter most famous for its “All your base are belong to us” intro, was presumed (at least among Westerners) to have 3-4 different endings. Turns out only the English language version has three; the Japanese one has 35, most of which are absolute nonsense. Legends of Localization dug into the game…

Counter-Strike Pro Banned For Cheating, Now Regrets Ever Playing The Game

Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who was caught cheating at a tournament last weekend. In a video that went viral, he was seen trying to close an aim-assist program open on his computer mid-match Now banned for five years from any Esports Integrity Coalition-affiliated tournaments, Kumawat says he regrets ever…

GameStop Wants People To Switch Their Switch For Another Switch

Every once in a while I go on the prowl for deals. I’m a gamer after all, but also a human being with a car loan and overdue heating bills and a weakness for the artisanal pasta that costs three times as much as the generic store brand. Deals matter—without them I’d be forced to…

Street Fighter V Player Removed From Future Competition Pending Domestic Violence Investigation

According to Panda Global, Street Fighter V champion Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee will not compete again until investigations into allegations of domestic violence conclude. Infiltration has been invited to play at Red Bull Kumite next month, but that appearance is now up in the air. UPDATE 9:15 AM, 10/26/18: A representative for Red Bull France has…

‘Retrogame Roadshow’ Highlights Rare Gaming Collectibles

At the Portland Retro Gaming Expo last weekend, I teamed up with my friends Frank Cifaldi and Steve Lin of the Video Game History Foundation to present the Retrogame Roadshow panel, where audience members could get their collectibles evaluated. What resulted was a fun 45 minutes of chat about the game collecting world, all centered…

My Misadventures In Fallout 76‘s Buggy, Bizarre Beta

Fallout 76’s is hosting its first beta this week, and I streamed my time with it on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. Four hours is a long time to watch someone bumble in a buggy beta, so I’ve assembled my escapes into a short video showing off just how absurd this multiplayer spin-off is. I haven’t sorted…

Troll Characters Are Invading Online Soulcalibur VI Matches

The Soulcalibur franchise has included a special mode that allows players to build their own characters since the release of Soulcalibur III in 2005. Soulcalibur VI is no different, and while most of custom fighters thus far have been pop culture-based orlizardmen with gargantuan dicks, the latest oddity to appear online takes the cake. Last…

Disgaea 5’s Release On PC Has Been A Months-Long Debacle

Disgaea 5, the latest in publisher Nippon Ichi Software anime tactics series, released on PS4 in 2015. Since then, NIS has been working to port it to other platforms, including Switch in 2017 and now, finally, PC. This version, called Disgaea 5: Complete, supposedly included all of the game’s downloadable content. It doesn’t on PC…

Six Amazing Details in Red Dead Redemption 2

The vastness of Red Dead Redemption 2’s world has less to do with the size of its map and more about the zoomed in minute details littered throughout the world. They all add up to something that bugs me out and almost makes me forget that I’m playing a video game. I’ve made a video…

My Quest To Be Gay In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Ancient Greece

Ever since it was revealed that you could have same sex romances in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I’ve been chomping at the bit to be gay in ancient Greece. It’s turned out to be harder than I thought. In the fifth grade, my school went whole hog on ancient Greece. In our overstuffed school, we called…

More And More Game Makers Are Talking About Crunch

When you’ve been reporting on a subject for a long time, you can feel when the winds are beginning to shift, and in 2018 it’s started to feel like game studios are actually having serious conversations about crunch. This week alone we have significant examples from two of the biggest publishers around. Crunch, or extended,…