Rise of Iron, the final expansion for the game everyone wishes people would stop talking about, and everyone else wishes they could stop playing, is almost upon us. My fingers are getting twitchy just thinking about it.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

One day, my 8th grade art teacher decided to try and teach his class sumi-e, the Japanese art of Ink wash painting. It’s a minimalist style with a long history and subtle philosophy behind it, not exactly the best thing to try and show a bunch of distracted adolescent kids.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Video games have a long and sordid history of using various objects as controllers: guns , peripherals shaped like penises , and hell, even fruit. So it’s only natural that some of the weirder ones be put to more sensible use.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Anker’s most powerful USB-C charger, Sport-Brella, and the best Snowden movie lead off Saturday’s best deals. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Imagine it’s the end of the month. The new NBA season is about to start just days later, but right before that, a majority of the Los Angeles Lakers’ owners decided to cut their losses with the team and sign a new one. With a once proud legacy firmly in the rear-view mirror, they’d had enough. New blood was needed.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

According to 343 Industries, Halo 5's Big Team Battle (BTB) community refresh is now up and running.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Valve has removed Digital Homicide’s games from Steam following news of their lawsuit against 100 anonymous Steam users . “Valve has stopped doing business with Digital Homicide for being hostile to Steam customers,” the company told Kotaku.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

What is going on here. The PC versions of multiplatform games are supposed to look better, not worse. Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.

Irredeemably bad video games are a simple, tidy affair. Their badness is straightforward. The game stinks. It was a waste of time to play. Probably shouldn’t have even finished it. It is different and perhaps more frustrating to play a promising game that starts well, carries many great ideas and then stumbles. The new Xbox One and PC action-adventure ReCore is one of those second types.Read... more.

Continuing a grand tradition that began when BioShock first came out in 2007, the remastered versions of BioShock 1 and 2 did not emerge from the bathysphere plunge to PC unscathed.Read more...Powered by WPeMatico... more.