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This Is How You Fix A Really Busted Copy Of Pokémon Red

Grant Haack, who goes by Snip3r95 on Imgur, found an old Pokémon cartridge while wandering around a flea market. The game only set them back $5, but actually getting the Game Boy classic up and running required some serious elbow grease. “It was at the bottom of a bin and in pretty bad shape,” Haack…

The infuriatingly meditative N++ just got twice as big. The game’s new “Ultimate Edition,” which came to Steam yesterday as a free update, adds a bunch of new levels, colors, and a hardcore mode. The game’s currently half-off on Steam as a result, with the update coming to PS4 “soon.”

Modern Warfare Remastered‘s Map Pack Is Even More Expensive Than The Original

The game’s Variety Map Pack DLC came to Xbox One and PC yesterday, and some players are upset about the price tag. Though it came out on PS4 late last month thanks to a timed-exclusivity deal, the arrival of four new maps and a handful of loot boxes on both of the other platforms yesterday…

Track: Reach for the Dead | Artist: Boards of Canada | Album: Tomorrow’s Harvest Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Programmed Demo Reveals The Commodore 64’s Angsty Soul

This is A Mind Is Born, a demo of the Commodore 64 going haywire. It won first place at the Oldskool 4K Intro competition at this past week’s Revision 2017 event and it’s easy to see why. Amazingly, the 2:21 long video comprises no more than 256 bytes, and uses the retro-mystical prowess of the…

The Weekend In Esports: FIFA, The League Spring Finals, And More

The League of Legends spring season is wrapping up. After SK Telecom T1 strolled across the finish line earlier this morning in South Korea, the remaining contenders from North America and Europe are set to scrape it out in their respective regions over the next two days. Beyond League, this weekend also has plenty going…

The ‘Fairy Trick’ In Wind Waker HD Shows The Brutal Role RNG Can Play In Speedrunning

Last Tuesday, the Any% speedrunning world record for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD was about three hours. Now, less than a week later, it’s been cut in half, thanks in part to one super lucky fairy. The records for running Wind Waker HD first began collapsing thanks to the Barrier Skip, an…

The Week In Games: Telltale Thanos

Some weeks are deader than others. Before the modern age of Marvel, whose recent gaming outings are monopolized mostly by Disney Infinity (RIP!)and the Lego series, there was Marvel Super Heroes, a Capcom fighter that came out a year before the first Marvel vs. Capcom. The Infinity Gauntlet arc’s only real game adaptation, Thanos finally…

Track: Chemical Plant Zone Acapella | Artist: Smooth McGroove | Album: Sonic 2 Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Player Shoves Zelda: Breath Of The Wild NPC All Over The Map

Breath of the Wild has a lot of NPCs. When YouTuber Nesis found out you could shove them, they decided to try pushing the minstrel bird Kass for a very long time. It turns out you don’t need to be aboard an United Airlines flight to get the crap knocked out of you in Hyrule.…

Let’s Talk About Our Favorite Spring Games

Some games capture the spirit of this verdant time of year in a way that can’t be matched. The April blossoms, holiday weekend, and unusually warm weather has me thinking of some of my favorite spring time games. The winter should be the best time to sit inside glued to an LCD screen, but I’ve…

Blizzard Takes Game Servers Offline To Fix Login Issues [Update]

If you woke up this morning hoping to log some hours with Overwatch (or Hearthstone, or Heroes of the Storm), you probably had issues trying to login to Blizzard’s game client. Five hours later, Blizzard is still working on fixing the problem. [Update 12:59AM] Blizzard says the problems have been resolved Original story follows. The issues…

The Rick And Morty Mods For GTA V Are Way Too Real 

The mods transform Grand Theft Auto V into a bloodbath of surreal, familial dysfunction. Like the “Look Who’s Purging Now” episode from season 2, but way more fucked up. Every day without more Rick and Morty is a wasted day in my opinion. More episodes, more games, I want it all. Mods too! At least…

Sunday Comics: Roommate Interviews

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 April 13. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 10. Read more…

A Look Back At Fez‘s Unsolvable “Black Monolith” Puzzle 

Vibrantly-pixelated indie darling Fez turned five years old this week, so it’s the perfect time to celebrate the game’s strangest puzzle and the community of players who devoted themselves to solving it. Released in April of 2012 on Xbox Live Arcade, Fez seemed like a retro-throwback from an alternate reality; the kind of made-up game…

Star Citizen 3.0 Update Coming In June, Will Add Moons You Can Land On

The giant space-sim is getting its next big update on June 29 which will include, among a litany of other stuff, the ability for players to take their ships out into space and dock on of a handful of moons. The addition of this new “Planetary Tech” will help expand what players can do in…

TumbleSeed is coming to the Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Steam on May 2. The procedurally generated roguelike involves trying to balance a seed as untold horrors scroll on by. As you roll from side to side you’ll acquire different powers that can be used to defeat the weird creatures blocking your path.

EA Officially Reveals Star Wars Battlefront II, Single-Player And All

Star Wars: Battlefront II is definitely happening and it will have a single-player story (if you still had any doubts). EA officially “announced” the game at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, showing off the game’s protagonist and aerial combat. It’ll be out this year on November 17 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The trailer…

Track: On the Level | Artist: Mac DeMarco | Album: This Old Dog  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Weekend In Esports: Bow Down Before Whispy Woods

Pros from the far reaches of the less traditional fighting game community descend on Orlando, Florida this weekend to make sacrifices to that tree dude from Kirby. CEO Dreamland is the first event of its kind dedicated to brawl-style fighters and will give top talent across games like Melee and Smash 4 (Wii U) a…