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The 15 Best Games on PC
17.9.2021
PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. Complex strategy simulations? Totally. The shiniest, prettiest versions of big-budget console games? They get a lot of those, too. Let’s say you’ve recently joined the ranks of the PC elite. Which games...
The Nintendo GameCube Is Now Twenty Years Old
14.9.2021
On September 14, 2001, the GameCube first went on sale for the first time in Japan. Two months later, on November 18, the console was released in North America. Can you believe it’s been twenty years? Facing off against the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, the GameCube was the first Nintendo console...
Before You Start: Tips For Playing Tales Of Arise
10.9.2021
Tales of Arise, the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s long-running series of games about spiky haired boys who scream “You bastard!!!” and then stab an evil dude, is a notable deviation from established formula. Rather than an action-oriented RPG, as you may expect by now, this one’s more of...
Metal Gear's Japanese Voice Actor Gets New Role As Daisuke Jigen from Lupin III
7.9.2021
For the past five decades, Lupin’s loyal, cool-as-cool sidekick Daisuke Jigen has been voiced by Kiyoshi Kobayashi. The 88-year-old voice actor announced that he is finally stepping down. Read more
The 14 Best Games For The Xbox One
25.8.2021
The Xbox Series X is more or less a suped-up Xbox One, so if you’ve had trouble getting your hands on the newer machine, don’t fret. In fact, given the absence of next-gen launch exclusives, most of the best games you could play on the thing are Xbox One games, anyway. Over its seven years...
Fan Accidentally Discovers Massive Metal Gear Solid Glitch, Speedrunners Freaking Out
16.8.2021
Over the weekend, Twitch streamer Boba was streaming herself playing Metal Gear Solid for the first time ever, and after being attacked by some guards, she turned to fight them. At that moment, she accidentally ended up getting pushed backward through a locked door, discovering a new glitch that...
Metal Gear Solid 2's Iconic E3 Trailer, Upscaled To 4K By An AI
16.8.2021
At E3 2000, Metal Gear Solid 2 absolutely stole the show when its first real-time gameplay footage was shown running on the PlayStation 2.Read more
No gear, no problem! 3 ways to earn Bitcoin through cloud mining and staking
14.8.2021
Operational costs are high, but Bitcoin miners are making money hand over fist. Here’s how to join them and profit
Street Fighter V Champ: ‘Imma Just Play Guilty Gear’
26.7.2021
Over the weekend, Victor “Punk” Woodley qualified to play in his fourth Capcom Cup, the developer-backed event that serves as the capstone for every year’s Street Fighter V competition. But when asked how he plans to prepare for the high-level tournament, Punk was as blunt as his in-game name...
Guilty Gear Strive’s First DLC Character Is The U.S. Secretary Of Defense
21.7.2021
Guilty Gear Strive introduced two new characters to the fighting game’s canon when it launched last month, but both are pretty tame compared to the first post-release fighter, a man whose fighting style revolves almost entirely around using an alien coffin procured from Area 51.Read more
You Can Beat Castlevania Before Guilty Gear Strive Finishes Loading
19.7.2021
Guilty Gear Strive is, by most accounts, an excellent fighting game, but one major issue has been vexing players since it launched over a month ago: the absurdly long time it takes the game to load into its main menu.Read more
Hideo Kojima Handed Out Flyers To Sell First Metal Gear
14.7.2021
Last night Hideo Kojima, seemingly in a reflective mood on his prolific Twitter account, told a couple of gorgeous mini-tales of the lengths he went to in order to help sell his earliest games like Metal Gear. These included handing out flyers, and cranking up in-store demo volumes.Read more
Fan Throws Away Cardboard PS5 After Finally Buying A Real One
13.7.2021
Have you gotten your hands on a PlayStation 5 yet? Not everyone has! One Twitter user, for example, made do with a home-made cardboard mock-up. “I’ve wanted a PlayStation 5 since early May,” Twitter user Yada tells Kotaku. “The reason why is that Guilty Gear: Strive was going on sale.”Read more
Guilty Gear Player Stops Match Over Divisive Song
7.7.2021
Guilty Gear, more than any fighting game, is a series defined by its music. As such, it only makes sense that fans would hold serious opinions about its soundtrack, even to the point of refusing to play if a song they dislike is chosen as the backing music to a match.Read more
Guilty Gear Strive Update Removes References To Taiwan, Tibet
1.7.2021
Alongside some gameplay adjustments, the latest Guilty Gear Strive update included stealth changes to the in-game glossary that have raised some concerns over the concessions they seem to make to the oppressive Chinese government.Read more
Guilty Gear Strive’s Vampire Samurai Says Black Lives Matter
26.6.2021
There are all kinds of video game mods, but very rarely do they strive to make a political statement. Maybe that’s why I like this particular Guilty Gear Strive modification so much: It gives vampire badass Nagoriyuki an outfit that promotes the Black Lives Matter movement. Pretty minor as far...
Someone Collected (Almost) Every PS1 Memory Card Variant
22.6.2021
The original PlayStation wasn’t the first video game system to use interchangeable memory cards for save games, but it certainly took the idea mainstream. Many folks accrued small piles of the things by the time PS2 rolled around, in a variety of styles and colors. And now, one enthusiast thinks...
Guilty Gear Strive Potato Mod Runs The Game On Crappy PCs
21.6.2021
While it may go overboard sometimes, Guilty Gear Strive is one of the most beautiful fighting games of all time. So beautiful, in fact, that you can reduce the quality of its graphical output dramatically—say, for the purpose of improving its framerate on less-powerful PCs—and still be left with...
Hideo Kojima Conspiracy Theory Ends With Tears
21.6.2021
A week ago, most people didn’t know that Abandoned was an upcoming indie horror game for the PS5, or that it was being made by Danish developer Blue Box Game Studios. Now both are at the heart of gaming’s latest conspiracy theory that Metal Gear designer Hideo Kojima is secretly involved...
Final Fantasy Origin’s Normie Fuckboy Scores More Stylish Gear As You Play
16.6.2021
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin’s main character looks completely out of place, but here’s some good news from the newly fixed demo: His wardrobe quickly expands to include clothes and accessories that better fit the setting.Read more