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18 years after Super Smash Bros’ initial release, a slew of indie games are challenging its dominance of the…
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Netflix just showed off its trailer for the live-action adaptation of horror anime Death Note. Slated for release…
If you’re still waiting for Lapras to land in your Pokémon Go PokeDex, it might be your lucky day. Pokémon Go announc…
Xbox just announced a new controller: the special edition Recon Tech wireless controller, to be released next month.
Hyper Light Drifter is backbreaking, but never needlessly so. The dash-and-slash action RPG is in equal parts…
Beloved anime One-Punch Man is now on Netflix. Praise be to the anime gods.
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Over the last few days, LGBTQ YouTubers have spoken out about how YouTube’s “Restricted Mode,” a safe-browsing mode used in schools and workplaces, is hiding their videos. In a blog post yesterday, YouTube apologized, explaining that the “feature isn’t working the way it should,” and will be fixed.
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It turns out that 2017 isn’t only the year of self-driving cars and robots that rap; now, we have virtual anime girl…
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Opening Overwatch loot boxes or Halo 5 REQ packs adds a special drama to a gaming session. The crate shakes. A…
President Trump’s proposal to slash funding for federal arts endowments may have consequences for video games. The…
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At last weekend’s PAX East, Kotaku’s Patricia Hernandez and I had the chance to check out a ton of games in…
On February 19th, 2017, Nicholas “Ministry” McGuire went into cardiac arrest at the Swedish Super Smash Bros. tournam…
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Overwatch’s newest hero, the “anchor tank” Orisa, will see a wide release on March 21st. Early on, she seems like a powerful tank with a long range who functions best when mired to her team.
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Game designer Johnny Galvatron first doodled the monsters of The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti in his student…
In a gritty vintage video games store in Manhattan’s East Village, a man who would only be identified by…
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In Virtual-Virtual Reality, a satirical Google Daydream VR game released today, a melting slab of butter orders you…
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Survival game Conan Exiles is gritty. On one level, that means butt-naked men hacking each other up with axes. On…
Predictably, several 18+ sex role-play rooms have made their way into Overwatch’s new “custom games” lobby.
In shoujo anime, or anime made for women, “love” is the gravitational center around which the characters and plot…