Westerns To Watch After Playing Red Dead Redemption 2

While playing Red Dead Redemption 2, a handful of Westerns keep coming to mind. Many of those films are most likely explicit influences, but others simply are evocative or reminiscent. For me, at least. After each round of Red Dead Redemption 2, my list of movies I want to rewatch keeps growing. So far, it…

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This is a Doom II mod. Yes, it’s for that Doom II—the one that came out in 1994. Total Chaos is a survival horror “mod” that upgrades the game’s engine to the point that it’s basically unrecognizable. After nearly a decade of development, it’s finally been fully released

Undertale Fans Already Have Theories About What’s Going On In Deltarune

There’s a new game out with direct connections to Undertale. You know what that means: it’s time for the whole internet to turn into that one meme of Charlie Day Yesterday, Undertale creator Toby Fox surprise-released a new game called Deltarune. The free RPG is the first chapter of a new story seemingly set in…

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Super Mario Odyssey Is Already Playable In An Emulator

We tend to associate emulators as a means of playing old games from superseded systems, but the Yuzu emulator is different: it’s trying to run Nintendo Switch games on the PC, and it’s doing a very good job. Yuzu was only announced in January, but is already doing big things, as we can see in…

Here’s What Fallout 76’s Real-Money Store Looks Like So Far

Bethesda’s open world MMO Fallout 76 is currently in beta on console and PC for those who pre-ordered the game. While you can’t spend actual money to purchase its in-game currency, called Atoms, players can now use the currency they’ve already collected from doing various in-game tasks to buy stuff from the shop’s initial offering.…

The Internet Reacts To Piranha Plant In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

So, Piranha Plant is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Ready yourself for a barrage of jokes. I’ve already been told I’m on the wrong side of history for not really getting Piranha Plant as a character in Smash, and you know what? It’s fine. Go enjoy your plant, weirdos. I cried literal, real tears…

A Surreal Multiplayer Game About Sentient Cubes

Zarvot is two different games smashed together. One is a surrealist story about voxel-blasting cubes on a journey to bring their best bud a banana for their birthday. The other is a shooty, smashy multiplayer hell-fight simulator where chaos reigns. Both bring their own silly spin on their respective genres. Zarvot’s title sounds like a…

Adding Clutter To The Sims Gives The Game A Human Touch

If you want to mod The Sims 4, you can add drugs, make a pregnant teen, or even roast babies on a barbecue. One of the most popular kinds of mods, though, is something less fantastical: clutter. The Sims is like a huge dollhouse you can tell stories in. Those stories can range from setting…

Fans Commiserate After Big Smash Bros. Leak Turns Out To Be Fake

Last week a Super Smash Bros. leak, known as the Grinch leak, sent the Smash community down a rabbit hole of rumor and speculation that ended up with fans divided into two camps, #teamreal and #teamfake, depending on whether they believed the leak would turn out to be legit. In its Direct today, Nintendo resolved…

They Made A Compact Retro Keyboard Out Of Wood

Last year keyboard maker Azio introduced the Retro Classic, a full-size luxury keyboard sporting typewriter-style keys and a real leather finish. Now the company is back with the R.C.K., a streamlined mechanical keyboard with a compact layout and Bluetooth support. There’s even a genuine walnut version. I loved the look and feel of the Retro…

Mario’s Real-Life Namesake, Mario Segale, Dies At 84

Mario Segale, the namesake for Nintendo’s Mario character and a successful American real estate developer, passed away on October 27, Kotaku has learned. Segale was surrounded by his family in Tukwila, Washington. He was 84. Segale developed office buildings and malls in Washington state and, in 1998, sold his construction services company to an Irish…

British Website Forced To Pay $1.3 Million Over Red Dead Redemption 2 Leak

The British website TrustedReviews today pulled an article, apologized to publisher Take-Two Games, and said it was donating 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) to charity after publishing leaked information about Red Dead Redemption 2 in February of this year. It’s a radical move that raises serious questions about editorial independence and legal threats against the…

PSVR Platformer Astro Bot Is More Fun If You Don’t Try To 100% It

Ever since I played the first demo of Lucky’s Tale, I’ve been convinced that third-person platform games are a surprisingly perfect fit for virtual reality. It’s fun to play a platformer when you’re enveloped in the world itself. It’s more thrilling to make your character jump off a high cliff when you yourself can feel…