Fans Remaking Tomb Raider 2 In Unreal Engine 4

The new Tomb Raider games are great, but sometimes you just want to go back and play the classics. And sometimes you want to go back and play the classics but with very modern visuals. That’s why Tomb Raider fan Nicobass is leading development on The Dagger of Xian, a complete remake of the second…

If you’re not100% burned out on hearing Sabotage in a trailer by now, Destiny 2’s live-action clip is pretty good.

Blizzard Fixes “Culturally Insensitive” (Not Really) Overwatch Sign

Blizzard “upset” (not really, but bear with me) many Australians recently with a “culturally insensitive” sign in the new Junkertown map on Overwatch. That sign has now been fixed, and we are all free to get on with our lives. As first detailed in this Kotaku Australia story, the map—which is set in a desolate…

Quake‘s Creators Can’t Agree On Who Invented Multiplayer-Only Maps

These days, we take the distinction between single-player and multiplayer first-person shooter maps for granted, but it wasn’t always so. Back in the ancient ‘90s, somebody invented multiplayer-only maps. Today, in the soon-to-be ancient year of 2017, the question is who. During last weekend’s QuakeCon show in Dallas, id Software creative director Tim Willits told…

Angry Birds collapses upon itself. One of the most creative games spawned from the mobile gaming boom begets a match-three game featuring characters from the animated film. Angry Birds Match is out today for Android and iOS devices.

Music Makes Magic In This Rollicking Rhythm RPG

The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor is what happens when a dance party breaks out in the middle of a turn-based role-playing game. In Puuba’s The Metronomicon, released last year on Steam and this week on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, a party of newly-graduated students of the “rhythmic combat arts” sets off in search of…

Don’t Get Your Hopes Up About Esports In The Olympics

On August 9, the co-president of the Paris Olympic bid committee announced that the 2024 Games would consider including esports as a medal event, saying: “There is some time to look at it, to interact, to engage. The IOC will have the last say, if they want esports on the program.” This week, International Olympic…

2K Is Temporarily Pulling XCOM From The App Store, Removing Sid Meier’s Pirates For Good

“Nothing lasts forever,” my mother told me when I was a child. “Not even 2K’s library of games—a few of which are pretty solid—on the App Store. In advance of iOS 11’s launch, 2K has announced that it’s doing some renovations on its lineup of iOS games, upgrading a couple to 64 bit and removing…

Recent Patches Are Bringing Rocket League Back To Basics

Rocket League has been steadily growing as a scene, both fostering its own league and spotlighting on networks like NBCSN. It’s easy to see why—rocket-car soccer is inherently simple to understand as a spectator. The high-flying automotive game has space for wild plays, but when it comes to competitive action, simple has proven better. Though…

Upcoming Horror Game Looks Cool, Makes Me Wanna Ralph

You’ve heard of side-scrollers, but what about depth-scrollers? DARQ, an upcoming psychological horror game, allows you to bend physics in order to solve puzzles. In DARQ, you play as Lloyd, who wakes up in a zero-gravity dream that quickly becomes a nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to survive the nightmare world by relying…

YouTubers Are Broadcasting Their Perspective Of Hurricane Harvey

Last week, Hurricane Harvey touched down in Texas, causing unprecedented amounts of catastrophic damage to the area and killing at least 38 people according to the New York Times. Entire sections of Houston, the United States’ fourth largest city, are underwater. The storm has been chronicled on the news and social media. It’s also shown…

Somehow, There Hasn’t Been a Crappy Game of Thrones Mobile Strategy Game Until Now

If ever there was an entertainment property ripe to be transformed into a Game of War-style mobile multiplayer strategy game, it’s Game of Thrones. It looks like Warner Bros. and Turbine have finally gathered enough clip art to make Game of Thrones: Conquest happen. In testing in select markets and now accepting pre-registration at its…

Overwatch Fans Are Losing It Over A Character Who Has Barely Appeared

The Overwatch fandom’s favorite new character has only appeared within an in game poster, but that hasn’t stopped players from drawing fanart of her, cosplaying her, or declaring her as their wife. A week ago, Bizzard previewed a new map for Overwatch, Junkertown, and dropped a new short featuring Junkrat and Roadhog. In the short,…

Trippy Rollerskating Game Is The Perfect Dreamcast Tribute

“Make the games you wish to see on the Dreamcast.” The quote is placed dead center on the website for Arcane Kids, creators of the absurdist Sonic Dreams Collection. Their game Zineth lives up to this aspiration. It’s a wild trip with rail grinds, wall rides, and social media shenanigans. It’s this week’s Indie Pick.…

50 Weeks Later, Major Update Improves Flawed Xbox Exclusive ReCore

It’s been a summer of major updates to disappointing games from last year. No Man’s Sky is finally delivering on its promises to PC and PlayStation players a year since it came out. Over on Xbox, ReCore has done penance for its flawed launch with a six gigabyte update that makes the game better, though…

Capcom Is Making a Mobile Puzzle Fighter 

Street Fighter’s awesome tile-matching spin-off is getting a sequel, and everybody’s invited. Capcom’s announced an all-new Puzzle Fighter game coming to Android and iOS devices later this year. In the new mobile Puzzle Fighter players collect fighters from all corners of Capcom’s pantheon—Street Fighter, Mega Man, Dead Rising, Resident Evil, Darkstalkers and more—and use their…

Players Dislike GTA Online’s Expensive New Planes, But They’re Actually Not That Bad

GTA Online’s newest update, Smuggler’s Run, is all about planes and over-the-top action. After months and months of car updates, Smuggler’s Run makes GTA feel fresh again. Even so, the price tags on some additions are making people wince—but fortunately, you can still have fun with this content without having to be a billionare. In…