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Snake? Snake?! Snaaaaaaaaaaaake! Last month was Fan Expo Boston, which saw celebrities from all professions host panels for fans. Among those was David Hayter ofMetal Gearfame. As expected, the topic ofSuper Smash Bros. Ultimatewas brought up due to Hayter’s return. Without any prompt from the audience about the matter, David revealed that while he has reached out to Nintendo about it, they have no recorded any codecs yet. For those unaware, codecs were a very special feature back inSuper Smash Bros....

Hideo Kojima famously said that his 2019Death Strandinggame would be the first of many “Strand-type games” and spawn their own genre. Fast-forward six years, andDeath Stranding 2is now out and is the only other such game to have launched in all that time. It begs the question: why? Both games are addictive enough to warrant interest Death Stranding 2very closely follows the beaten path of the first game, containing more or less the exact same gameplay loop as its predecessor....

Congratulations to MeepJeep! You’ve won the envy of gamers everywhere, a Playstation 3 and a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, courtesy of Destructoid and our wives at Federated Media. We’ll be in touch with the email address you left on file shortly to arrange smuggling details. Thanks to everyone who participated in our user survey and to Mr. Blandino for the status update yesterday. Didn’t win and contemplating suicide? There’s still a chance to snag a prize!...

Build a respectable gaming PC for under $650 Last year, in preparation forBattlefield 3, Alex Boutcreated a basic part listthat could run the game with moderate settings and a solid frame rate. This year, I wanted to see how much further we could push the specs on more or less the same budget. I was pretty surprised by what I found. I’d like to start off by saying that the approach taken with this build is just one of potentially many you could take depending on your individual preferences and budget....

Did you know this existed? Dissidia Final Fantasy: Opera Omniakind of came out of left field, and is yet another of Square Enix’s many spinoffs for their existing properties (this is a spinoff of a fighting game spinoff franchise!). If you aren’t aware of it yet it’s a mobile JRPG set in the same world asDissidiafor mobile devices, and it hasn’t even been confirmed for an international release yet. That’s just as well, as the game was delayed in Japan into 2017 for bug fixing — one of the greatest reasons to delay a game so it doesn’t end up broken in the hands of paying customers (whether it’s a premium purchase or investment in microtransactions)....

Out of January and into February Dynasty Warriors 8was all set to debut itsEmpireexpansion-like…thing in January, but Tecmo Koei has sent word of a delay in North America and Europe. Now it will release on February 24th in the former, and the 27th in the latter. For reference, the game will arrive on the PS4, Xbox One, PS3, and PC platforms. Pre-order bonuses have been announced, and they’re basically just extra costumes and armor sets....

The Tim Cahill FUTTIES Hero SBC is now live inEA FC 24, featuring a 97-rated card of the Australian legend. This is incidentally the first time that Cahill has received a new version and an upgrade over his base Hero item. Since it’s part of an SBC, all players have equal chance at obtaining the card. Let’s take a look at how you can unlock this new card and make it part of your squad....

[Update: In fairness, thisbloghad it first, then we posted it, then Kotaku. Sorry for any confusion. Also, the guy who runs the blog decided to take his original post down.Hereis the explanation. Again, sorry for any misunderstanding on my end. — Robert Summa] In a case of WTF, the ESA has deemedKotakuto be the target of their ridiculous threats over a t-shirt in which we posted about here first — a day earlier in fact, not that we’re bragging or anything....

Did you like it? Did Nintendo do it,along with Ubisoft? Did it ‘co-win’ (not that it’s necessarily possible) E3? We’ll see when the poll dust settles later today and we report back tomorrow with our findings. In the meantime, I’m leaning toward giving it to the former. Sure some of it was teasing, but we got confirmation ofMetroid Prime 4and a corePokemonconsole RPG, as well as some kick ass videos. I’m pretty much sold onMario Odysseyas of today....

I would love to work for this guy. Where on Earth was he when I used to be a legal assistant? All of the attorneys I worked under were all “Hey, going home is stupid and I know it’s five o’clock but I really need you to get seven days worth of work done in 12 hours and I need it by tomorrow morning OK thanks!” But Japanese lawyer, Kazuya Maruyama, seems like he’d be fun to work with....

Exterminate a horde of bugs in this doujin beat-’em-up Fairy Bloom Ultra Encoreis out now for Windows PC, Playism has announced. The action game has a jaunty premise, following a fairy tasked with defending a flower from a swarm of aphids. Yes, really. You’ll need to pulverize a mob of ravenous plant lice to protect a forest seedling. All in a day’s work, I guess. Fairy Bloomwas originally released in 2005, but developer Edelweiss, the doujin studio behindAstebreedandFairy Bloom Freesia, has since remade the title using Unreal Engine 4....

When a newLittle King’s Storytitle was announced for the PS Vita, I was immediately overjoyed, but that joy quickly gave way to trepidation. The originalLittle King’s Storywas not a blockbuster hit, though it does have a strong cult following (includingthe Burch family,Chad Concelmo, andmyself). When games like that get sequels or are otherwise graced with a followup, their creators often drop a lot of the aspects that made the original title special, and swap them out for qualities that are more marketable and “mainstream friendly....

Final Fantasy XIVis available to absolutely everyone, to an extent. Thefree trialnow includesStormblood, allowing you to level most jobs to level 70. However, the free trial is limited in terms of features and once it ends, requires a subscription to keep playing. The free trial ofFinal Fantasy XIVis great when it comes to telling whether the game is worth purchasing, but it comes with limitations. While on the free trial, players cannot:...