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Someone's already reached the level cap in Pokemon Go... but they had to cheat to get there

Reddit user _problemz claims to have become the world’s first Pokemon Go player to hit the game’s highest level, but don’t worry — they needed cheating software to get there, and even then, i...

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Blizzard has restored Overwatch accounts hit with progress loss bug on PS4

Last week, a number of PlayStation 4 users reported seeing their levels, stats, and skill ratings reduced or even reset while playing Blizzard’s mega-successful team shooter, Overwatch. While...

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Overwatch's newest heroine is now available to all on PC

Ana Amari has been in public beta testing for a few days now, but as of today Blizzard has officially added her to Overwatch‘s character roster on PC!

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Overwatch players on PS4 are falling prey to a mysterious bug

Overwatch players on PlayStation 4 have run afoul of a bug which can revert or even reset their accounts, costing them experience points, levels, competitive ranking, and unlockable rewa...

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Oh the places you will (Pokemon) Go

Despite continued server problems and even a denial-of-service attack over the weekend, Niantic’s popular Nintendo-branded augmented reality game Pokemon Go has rolled out for an additional 2...

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A year after its Japanese release, Mobius Final Fantasy is finally headed West

I always forget about Mobius Final Fantasy (previously Mevius) until I see a picture of its protagonist and go “ohh, the guy with the skimpy outfit.” It was so skimpy it app...

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The father of Final Fantasy is founding (another) game studio

Here’s a factoid: Hironobu Sakaguchi, lead designer of the original Final Fantasy and design lead for many of the games that would follow under that title, is only 53. If he seems like a...

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Fallout 4 modders in uproar over rampant theft

One of Fallout 4‘s most popular mods, Caliente’s Beautiful Bodies Enhancer (CBBE), will not be headed to consoles. That’s not because CBBE supports nude character mods — the author was m...

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Death Stranding will be an action game, not horror

Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding trailer was suitably weird — but it didn’t show a single frame of actual gameplay. Some believed that Norman Reedus’s appearance was a hint this was a continuat...

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Catch Bethesda's E3 press conference here!

Bethesda’s E3 presser kicks off in less than an hour. We’re expecting to see several announcements, just like EA’s earlier today. Will we see more Dishonored 2, perhaps the next wave of F...

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Blizzard 'holds onto hope' of launching WoW legacy servers

In a new interview with Kotaku today, Blizzard game chief Tom Chilton expanded on comments by a Nostalrius server manager on the challenges of running official World of Warcraft legacy server...

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It's a complete bloodbath for Overwatch cheaters right now

Following a successful beta, Blizzard promised that it would be going hard on Overwatch cheaters. Turns out those were no empty words: just a week out from launch, the publisher has already m...

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You can now enjoy the wonderful world of Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One

One of the great advantages to playing Bethesda games on PC is the ability to mod the living hell out of them: better menu layouts, prettier environment textures, replacing Dogmeat with a woofing cat…...

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Overwatch's newest animated short channels some amazing East Asian influences

Hey, remember when Valve was putting out Pixar-ish animated shorts for Team Fortress 2, and everyone went “that’s a great idea, it introduces the characters and draws players deeper into the...

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Microsoft pulls the plug on Project Spark

Project Spark — a game creator exclusive to Microsoft platforms — showed a lot of promise when it was first announced, a sort of high-fidelity LittleBigPlanet with the ability to tai...

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Blizzard vows to go hard on Overwatch cheaters

Overwatch‘s open beta closed earlier this week with a much higher number of players than expected. That’s good news for Blizzard’s new multiplayer shooter, which releases later this mont...

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Footage surfaces of Assassin's Creed creator's unreleased game, 1666 Amsterdam

At the Reboot Develop confernece in Croatia, Patrice Desilets finally got to show us what he’d been working on for years — 1666 Amsterdam. The ambitious title began its life at THQ Montr...

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Dark Souls III crashing on your PC? Here's how to get around it

Dark Souls Dark Souls Dark Souls. Dark Souls? Dark Souls.

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Gender, like race, is now randomly assigned in Rust

When Rust first launched random skin tones in March of last year, there was a bit of an outcry from gamers who suddenly found themselves playing a different race. Nevermind that previously ev...

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How a teen hacker placed his own game on Steam's storefront

Watching Paint Dry is everything that it says on the tin: it’s a game where you watch paint dry. Even calling it a game might be stretching the definition, because what 16-year-old hacker&nbs...