Ethan Gach

Bowser Will Comment On Your Outfit In Super Mario Odyssey

In addition to being a great platformer and excellent collectible game, Mario Odyssey is also a fashion sim. In the game, just like in real life, every outfit has its fans and critics. What follows includes some very minor spoilers for the ending of the game, so readers beware. As pointed out in a recent…

Another Hint That Wolfenstein And Doom Share The Same Universe

The idea of a shared universe between Doom and Wolfenstein goes all the way back to Doom II, but it’s never been officially confirmed. A special weapon at the end of Wolfenstein 2 is further evidence that the games share a common timeline. What follows includes some spoilers for Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, so…

Quiz: Which Mario Odyssey Outfit Are You?

Mario Odyssey is full of wardrobe changes. With so many ways for the hopping hero to express himself, it’s time we all asked ourselves a very important question. It’s a question that goes back to the first time a mushroom made you bigger and that Goomba went “SPLAT!” beneath your feet. Take our very official…

New Mod Brings Dragon Ball Powers To GTA V

At long last, you can play as the brutal Saiyan Goku was always meant to be. Remember when Earth’s mightiest hero first learned that he was actually sent to the planet to destroy it? Well a new GTA V mod plans to let you reenact that exact mission. The residents of Los Santos don’t stand…

Watch This Warframe Space Dog Go 

Before there was Destiny there was Warframe. The two games share a lot of the same elements—lots of loot, ornate costumes, and sci-fi stories that make no sense—but Warframe has something Destiny doesn’t: amazing pets. Kubrows are like dogs except they come in eggs. You have to hatch them, a grindy endeavor just like everything…

Gwent Has Spent The Whole Last Year Getting Good

The studio behind The Witcher series announced its spin-off card game Gwent back at E3 2016. Over a year later the game still isn’t officially out yet, though CD Projekt Red clams it will launch before the end of 2017. During that time it’s grown into something special, so I’m here to say, if you…

It Takes Six Minutes For Monopoly To Load On Switch Until You Reboot The System [Update]

Monopoly for Nintendo Switch came out yesterday (for the Nintendo Switch). That’s the good news if, like me, your dreams of playing vast, deep, games of chance and capitalism have for all these years been thwarted by small technicalities like the fact that everyone you know refuses to play Monopoly with you. The bad news?…

Halo 5‘s Overtime update arrives tomorrow, adding Oddball multiplayer mode and 4K textures. Starting around 4:00pm you’ll finally be able to run around with a human skull in your hands for a few seconds before getting lit up. The update will also add more commendations and re-balance some weapons.

The Week In Games: Back To The Trenches 

Call of Duty gets the week (nearly) all to itself. Like clockwork the month of duty calls again, this time ditching space for the safe, familiar confines of the last Great War. As much as I liked John Snow, it’ll be a relief to see the competitive Call of Duty circuit finally get to swap…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Trick Or Treat

Some Halloween costumes are better disguises than others. In the spirit of the holiday and of not forgoing another ‘Shop Contest, this week’s prompt will be to take your favorite video game characters, past or present, and dress them up like different ones. Maybe that’s Cloud Strife bobbing for apples as a Witcher, or Zelda…

Modder Hacks RetroPie System So He Can Connect Every Controller He Owns 

People like to argue over which controller is the all time best. John Milner decided to side-step that debate entirely and just hook them all up. Milner, who goes by jfrmilner online, liked being able to play old games on his RetroPie, a modded Raspberry Pi mini-computer, but didn’t like needing to use an Xbox…

Comedian Speedrunner Will Tell you Everything You Wanted To Know About Paper Boy 

Usually speedruns are about breaking the game to reveal hidden secrets that help players finish it as quickly as possible. Speedrunning Paper Boy, on the other hand, means delivering every single bundle of newsprint with precision and grace. If you’ve ever played Paper Boy, one of the first ever management sims to appear on a…

Wolfenstein 2 Collectible Mocks Progressive Magazine Over Its Coverage Of White Nationalists 

There are a ton of things to pick up in Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, ranging from postcards and vinyl albums to newspaper clippings. Most of them are simply there to build out the game’s Nazi-ruled America, but one in particular makes fun of the magazine Mother Jones for a profile of Richard Spencer it…

Sunday Comics: Video Game Themed

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 October 27. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published October 23. Read more…

Track: The One To Wait| Artist: CCFX | Album: CCFX EP Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Super Mario Land 2‘s Wonderful Halloween Levels

Out twenty five years ago next month, the second entry in the handheld Mario spin-off series was significant for a number of reasons, but perhaps none as timely as its Halloween world. The Pumpkin Zone is one of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins’s more festive levels. While some of the game’s worlds are…

The Papers, Please film adaptation now has a trailer. If you were wondering what a game about reading through documents would look like as a movie, the question has now be answered. Created by Nikita Ordynskiy with the full support of developer Lucas Pope, the short film is due out in 2018. 

The former Director of Xbox Live Policy, Stephen Toulouse, passed away at the age of 45. Toulouse, also known as Stepto, was instrumental to shaping the platform’s approach to online community building and policing. He left Microsoft in 2012 after 17 years with the company.

Wolfenstein: The New Colossus Has Already Been Beaten In Under Eighty Minutes 

The newest game in the Nazi-slaying series is pretty short, at least if you’re a speedrunner. Released only a day ago, The New Colossus digs deep into American politics and the country’s legacy of racism and bigotry. The game doesn’t pull many punches, right from the very beginning. Of course, you could also blaze through…

Minecraft now has Stranger Things costumes. Actually, Stranger Things skins to be more precise. The game’s latest pack will let you explore and build as up to fifty different characters from the show, including from season two, so be warned, the DLC does include spoilers