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Hori is making a Dragon Ball FighterZ-branded fight stick. That’s according to a listing on Amazon Japan which shows a ship date of February 1, 2018. It looks to be the Real Arcade Pro.N Hayabusa model but with some sweet Goku Super Saiyan Blue art on top. It’ll be compatible with PS4, PS3, and PC.

Mario Fans Are Way Too Sensitive About Spoilers

If something is special to you, you want to be able to experience it in the purest way possible, momentarily free from everyday concerns and responsibilities, and most of all from the constant, uninterrupted din of the internet. But there’s getting to experience a game fresh and then there’s what Mario fans have been doing…

There Wasn’t Much To Celebrate On This Year’s Mass Effect Day

November 7 marks two important milestones for Mass Effect. It falls in the same month as the first release of Bioware’s sci-fi role-playing game series, which came out on November 20, 2007, giving fans a good excuse to celebrate its anniversary. And, more importantly, it can be contracted as N7, an alphanumeric designation belonging to…

Streamers Aren’t Sure What To Make Of The Classic Activision Games In Call Of Duty: WWII

There’s a place in Call of Duty: WWII’s social space where you can play old Activision games from the 80s. It’s a cool easter egg and something that we’ve seen in past Call of Duty games, but some modern Youtube gamers couldn’t decide what to do with them. The R&R station in WWII’s Headquarters is…

Bury Me, My Love Tells A Moving Story With Text Messages

I don’t usually fall for interactive fiction or smartphone games, but Bury Me, My Love hooked me. This mobile game charts the journey of a young woman named Nour as she tries to escape the civil war in Syria by fleeing to Europe, told through text messages. Developed by French studio The Pixel Hunt, Bury…

In Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico, This Used Game Store Is A Welcome Escape

Returning to his classic video game shop Neo Japan Games in the weeks after Hurricane Maria, Jerry Robles thought business would be quiet. But he opened his doors just south of San Juan to find more customers than usual crowding around to look at old game cartridges and classic consoles. “The day we reopened at…

The Week In Games: Gotta Drive Fast

The speed demons are back. If you’ve got a penchant for traffic violations and attitudes, you’re in luck cause both Need for Speed Payback and Sonic Forces are about to be unleashed. I for one think it’s about time we barreled through the rest of 2017 as quickly as possible. Elsewhere it’s a sea of…

PlayStation Trophies Can Now Earn You A Very Small Amount Of Money

There’s finally a reason to pay attention to the Sony Rewards program: you can now start trading in new PSN trophies for money on your PSN account. A new section of the Rewards Passes page over at the Sony Rewards website that appeared late week lists silver, gold and platinum trophies as milestones you can…

Call Of Duty: WWII‘s New Social Space Is Pretty Lonely At The Moment

A big part of the marketing for the new Call of Duty game has surrounded Headquarters, a new social hub where players are supposed to be able to hang out and customize load-outs together in-between multiplayer matches. The only problem is that they’ve spent most of the weekend vacant. The up to 48-player space is…

Finally Someone’s Collecting All Of Nintendo’s Old Flash Games In One Place

Flash games have been on their way out for some time. Many are already lost, scattered to the far corners of the internet with only a handful of people on an old forum to grieve for them. As a result, one Nintendo fan has decided to collect as many of the company’s flash games as…

Beautiful Cyberpunk Game Tokyo 42 Has New DLC Missions

The isometric stealth-shooter just got an expansion called Smaceshi’s Castles that adds new missions providing players like me the perfect excuse to return to its dazzling, minimalist worlds. Tokyo 42 came out in June which already feels like forever ago, but despite all of the great games that have come out since, it remains one…

Blizzard Announces New Details About Its Overwatch League

Following last night’s2017 Overwatch World Cup, Blizzard shared a bunch of details about how the game’s upcoming professional league will work, including scheduling, prize money, and how the teams will be split up to create separate divisions. The start date is January 10 of next year. Matches will take place four days a week, Wednesday…

Sunday Comics: Power Moons Everywhere 

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published November 3. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 30. Read more…

Just Because Nintendo Didn’t Give The Switch A D-Pad Doesn’t Mean Others Aren’t Trying

Nintendo launched the Switch on March 3 of this year. The system was surprisingly well received. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was amazing, plus it was portable, and the Switch has been gaining momentum ever since. There’s just one problem: it doesn’t have a d-pad. The Switch is the first Nintendo console…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Trick Or Treat, Winners!

Halloween 2017. It was good times. Except for those people in The Last of Us 2 trailer. With the number of trick-or-treaters who visited my house barely in the double digits, I’ve been forced to slowly eat all the remaining candy myself. It’s a tough life. There are only so many baby Three Musketeers (how…

YouTuber Blondbassist found a way to clip through the locked vault in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colussus. What’s inside? Some documents and a console that connects to an arcade mode and an in-game shop. The vault is set to unlock officially on November 7 when the first DLC drops.

The Weekend In Esports: BlizzCon, Tekken, And More

The top pros in all of Blizzard’s competitive games will face-off today in a bevy of tournaments. Plus if you’re in the U.S. it’s the end of daylight savings. Yay! Worlds 2017 has come and gone leaving the former champions in second place after Samsung Galaxy proved they wouldn’t settle for a repeat of last…

Crunchyroll Website Currently Down Following Malware Attacks [Update]

Users who attempted to use the anime streaming service Crunchyroll earlier today were greeted by an attempt by the site to download malware. Everyone is currently encouraged to stay away from the site until the problem is fixed. [Update 1 – 1:30PM] The Crunchyroll website is now back up and running, along with the app,…

What Twitch’s New Raiding System Means For Streamers

Twitch’s latest update introduces a tool that lets a streamer instantly transport their viewers to somebody else’s channel. Known as “raiding,” this has been used in the past to harass people. Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to…

Players Have Already Found Ways To Glitch Out Of Call Of Duty: WWII Levels

Players dedicated to breaking games have been hard at work hunting for glitches in Call of Duty WWII, and they’ve already found ways to get outside of the normal map areas areas and make themselves invincible to zombies. Take the beaches of Normandy for instance. It’s kind of a rule at this point that if…