Screenshot: IO Interactive The news here isn’t that IO Interactive—which has historically been reticent in doling out a bevy of publicity screenshots for its hit stealth game, hit man 3—published a decadent 4K screenshot of suave hero Agent 47 pouring a glass of Argentinian Malbec. No, no, that’s just icing on the cake: IO Interactive ...
Is there a song that fixes other graphics issues?image: Nintendo It seems Nintendo Switch Online fans are listening regarding emulation issues with some of the classic games on offer. After a January 20th NSO update that brought Rare’s N64 platformer from 1998 Banjo Kazooie for the subscription service it seems that there is water in ...
screenshot: Valve / Kotaku Half-Life: Alyx is great. One of the best virtual reality games I’ve ever played and one of my favorite games of 2020. It’s hard to improve on that. But a new Let’s Play series has found a way to make Valve’s VR hit even better: Add a really weird and annoying ...
image: pig For the past few days I’ve been consumed by a game by the name Vampire Survivor. It’s cheap, both in terms of price (just $3) and presentation (huge keys that are more suited to mobile than PC), while quite obviously taking most of its aesthetic inspiration from who takes off Castlevania Series. But ...
image: Drinkbox Studios Nobody saves the world is a game about filling up meters, leveling up and watching the numbers get bigger. At first I didn’t think it would work for me, but like the video game equivalent of a catchy tune snaking its way into my gray matter, it didn’t take long for the ...
screenshot: FFVII While your memories of the original Final Fantasy VII may be almost sweet, but let’s not forget that making the game look so good on older PCs had to be compromised. Like most sections of the game running at a horrible 15 frames per second. It’s a harrowing thing to have to face ...
image: Nintendo Nintendo just announced that the next game coming to the Nintendo Switch Online library will be 2000 Classic The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Given that the original N64 version required that console’s physical expansion pack, it’s fitting that it also fits into the more expensive modern Nintendos Expansion Pack tier of its ...
photo: Matthew Stockman (Getty Images) I had never noticed or heard this during a game, so it took a column from the excellent Zach Lowe so I could learn that, but every time Jarrett Allen, the big man from Cleveland, scores at home, he gets a cute little goal zelda Sound effect played over the ...
gif: Timur Gagiev / Kotaku Here’s a port I never expected but is real now and available for download today: Tomb Raider for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. It’s true. And this wild porting is only possible thanks to the flexible open source project “OpenLara”. Tomb Raider Running on a Game Boy Advance comes ...
image: IO Interactive At least someone is accumulating their frequent flyer miles. Travel restrictions are once again unpredictable, flights will be canceled by the thousands, but Agent 47 still gives his AMEX Centurion a workout. The barcoded assassin in a Saville suit takes another trip around the world when hit man 3 gets a bunch ...
