Maddy’s Top 10 Games Of 2017

Every game on this list served as a balm for the depression cave that I lived inside throughout 2017. I’m pretty sure these games happen to be good even if you’re not depressed, since most of them popped up on my coworkers’ own best-of lists, but I had such a dire need for escapism this…

Overwatch Fan’s Cairo Map Looks Good Enough To Be In The Game

Overwatch already has one map set in Egypt, but fan Joshua llorente has made a very good case for the addition of another. llorente spent two months creating his own Cairo map from scratch in Epic’s Unreal Engine. “All assets including textures and models are created by me,” he said on Reddit. “No downloaded content.” It’s…

Cecilia D’Anastasio’s Top 10 Games Of 2017

My game of the year for 2017? Obviously Overwatch. Oh—sorry. *Puts finger to earpiece*. That came out last year? Well. Hm. In all honesty, I’ll echo the “2017 was a stellar year for games” consensus. This was a year for experiments that worked and exceeded expectations. So many games blew me out of the water.…

In 2018, PUBG Developer’s Priority Is A ‘Competitive,’ ‘Crash-Free’ Game

It was a photo finish, but the team developing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds made good on their promise and “launched” the game before the end of 2017. During an interview last week, I spoke to Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene about what’s next. Throughout our conversation, Greene repeatedly stressed that the team views 1.0 as “the end of the…

Man Loses Switch, Meets Person Who Found It Via Reddit

A Frankfurt, Germany man who lost his Nintendo Switch at one of the busiest airports in the world was reunited with his console in mere hours after posting about it on Reddit. Juan, who asked that we not use his last name, was looking forward to whiling away the time on his flight with Floor…

Bloodborne Hackers Find Way To Fight Two Hidden Bosses

Bloodborne’s chalice dungeons offer hundreds of thousands of possible crypts to explore. Dedicated players have found lost enemies and keep looking for more. Thanks to dataminers searching the game’s files, a new group of dungeons have been found containing developer test areas and unused bosses. Earlier this month, dataminers finally managed to unlock Bloodborne’s files…

Why We Love The Disaster Artist

The Disaster Artist, the incredible true-ish story behind the making of one of the worst movies of all time, came out in theaters earlier this month. Allow me and Gita to tell you why it’s fantastic. Jason Schreier: Gita, today we are going to talk about The Disaster Artist, which might be my favorite movie…

Forget Bitcoin—These Guys Invest In Magic Cards

Rudy stands in front of his regal mahogany bookcase stocked full with classics like the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Arabian Nights. He holds a shrink-wrapped booster box parallel to his messy plume of hair. It’s Dark Ascension, the 57th expansion for the card game Magic The Gathering. “Anytime I could get these boxes for $70…

Assassin’s Creed Origins Is Better If You Play It Slowly

Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re revisiting our predictions for 2017 and seeing what we got right (aka: mostly wrong). We also talk about Danganronpa V3, Leeroy Jenkins, and the delights of Assassin’s Creed Origins First up, Kirk and I go through the news of the week, talking about Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, the truth behind Leeroy…

The Adventures Of Bruce Lee And Freddie Mercury Figures 

For years, collectors have been taking amusing photos of their figures. So while this isn’t new, these images show how well the S.H. Figuarts versions of Bruce Lee and Freddie Mercury go together. These images are from Twitter user Suekichiii. They are wonderful, with the top image set being retweeted over 20,000 times. Of course,…

How Anime Has Changed Over The Past 100 Years

Can you believe it? Japan has been making animation for over a hundred years. Let’s see how things have changed! As Japan Trends points out, the clip below begins with Namakura Gatana, a silent four-minute short made in 1917 but only discovered in 2008.  Other cartoons and stop motion animation follow for a total of…

InnerSpace, an exploration flying game I highlighted way back in 2014, is finally coming out in January. I’ll admit that this one fell off my radar for a while, but it still looks great, mixing vast worlds with dreamlike visuals. Will it handle like a dream, though? Here’s hoping.

Experts Have A New Reason To Debate Whether ‘Gaming Disorder’ Is Real

Ask veteran gamers whether it’s possible to get too hooked on a game and they might have stories of a World of Warcraft raiding buddy who used to pee in a can that lived next to his Alienware tower. Or they might confess they got so into their Zelda: Breath of the Wild playthrough that…

How To Get Into Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Fortress is a two dimensional fortress-building game about dwarves, which often breaks in fascinating ways. Nothing about it should work, but somehow it comes together. I wish everyone could experience Dwarf Fortress, but it’s a punishing game for people who like to be frustrated. Dwarf Fortress isn’t for everyone. It’s a game about losing.…

Modder Creates PUBG-Style Mode In Counter-Strike

Despite how different they are, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is, in some ways, the new CSGO. It’s the big Steam shooter du jour, and it’s stolen Counter-Strike’s realistic gun porn crown. But there’s one thing CSGO has CS-going for it that PUBG doesn’t: the ability to consume all other games, thanks to mods. Go 4 The Kill…