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The Internet Reacts To Today’s Pokémon Sword And Shield News

This morning we all learned more about Pokémon Sword and Shield, and also met my new child, Wooloo. The internet is as excited for new Pokémon as I am. After today’s Nintendo Direct, I learned that it was possible to feel even more excited for a new Pokémon game than I had already felt before…

The open source beta for the tabletop RPG DIE, written by comics writer Kieron Gillen and based on his comic of the same name, just dropped today. If you wanna know more about the comic—and hear some of Gillen’s fun RPG experiences—check out our interview with him

Pokémon Sword And Shield Will Have Co-Op Raids (And Everything Else We Learned Today)

Pokémon Sword and Shield, the long awaited new entry in the Pokémon franchise for Nintendo Switch, is coming out November 15th. Now we finally know more about the region of Galor, the Pokémon adventure that awaits you there, and the pocket monsters that live there. Play With Your Friends Pokémon battles haven’t changed too much…

My Dwarf Fortress Game Generated A Royal Line Of Necromancers And It’s Cool As Shit

After generating a new world in Dwarf Fortress, I decided to dig around in its history before embarking on a new save. Inspired by YouTubers like Kruggsmash, who give their fortresses epic narratives that tie into the past of the civilization, I wanted to know all I could about the dwarven culture I would be…

I Accidentally Doomed My Teenage Sims To A Friendless Existence

Yesterday I got a lot more uninterrupted Sims time than I’ve had in months. I decided to get really self-indulgent with it, making not only a new family and their home, but a couple of teen-friendly hangout spots for the twins. I was all set to send the two youngsters out a bunch of wacky…

Fable Was Initially Pitched As A Game About Wizards Dueling For Each Other’s Hearts

In 2004, amidst a moral panic over the consequence-free violence of games like Grand Theft Auto, Fable broke ground for showing players the tangible consequences for their good or evil actions. But the fantasy role-playing game didn’t begin its life as Fable—or even as a role-playing game. Fable, once called “Project Ego,” was actually born…

Outer Wilds Is An Excellent Game About The Joy And Terror Of Space Exploration

Outer Wilds asks you to accept that if you went to space, you’d probably die there. Maybe more than once. In Outer Wilds, out today for PC and Xbox One, you play an average four-eyed inhabitant of Timber Hearth, a small planet in a small solar system. Timber Hearth’s people live in log cabins but…

The Internet Reacts To Whatever That Death Stranding Trailer Was

We now know when the highly anticipated Death Stranding comes out and what it’s about (kind of), which ends some of the mystery around this absurd and fascinating-looking game. But not all of the mystery has been unraveled yet, so we can all still make jokes about it. After Kojima left Konami in 2015, people…

Starting next Tuesday, Apex Legends is having a limited time event called The Legendary Hunt More details are in the blog post, as well as a few tiny kernals of information about the Season 2 Battle Pass, which will be further fleshed out in a stream on June 8th. Happy hunting!

Don’t Split The Party Is A Game About Petty D&D Players

Sometimes the hardest part of Dungeons and Dragons is making sure your friends don’t start yelling at each other. Indie game Don’t Split The Party charmingly captures that challenge by putting you in the role of Dungeon Master—and peacekeeper. Don’t Split The Party is a text-based game where you play as Brynn, a young woman…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sleep

At a press conference in Tokyo Tuesday, the Pokémon Company announced some unexpected Pokémon-related games and services, mostly on mobile devices. Pokémon Home is a cloud service that allows players to save and transfer their monsters. Great! There’s also a new Pokémon Go peripheral called the Pokémon Go Plus+. It is pronounced “plus plus.” Sure!…

The Most Essential Sims 4 Clothing Mods

I can hardly keep up with clothing trends in real life, so it’s not surprising that four years after release, clothing in The Sims 4 feels a bit dated. If you’re also searching for the perfect pair of jeans for your Sim, check out some of the best mods for the clothing and body. I’ve…

Reigns: Game Of Thrones Is Giving Me New And Better Ways To Kill Everyone

After the end of Game of Thrones, I was mostly OK with how things went down. Like many fans, though, I still had complaints. After I’d run my course tweeting about them, I decided to open up Reigns: Game of Thrones and try my hand at sitting on the Iron Throne. Reigns: Game of Thrones,…

The Sims 4 Is Free Right Now, So Here Are The 4 Most Essential Expansions

The base game for The Sims 4 is currently free from now until the 28th of May. You should get it. Yes, you! If this frees up a little cash for getting an expansion as well, here are a few suggestions. The Sims 4 base game has been criticized for not having much content in…

Clever No Man’s Sky Players Are Trying To Add Cities To The Game

No Man’s Sky players are pretty used to doing everything by themselves. Before the game’s revitalizing Next update, players who stuck with the game since it launched turned its universe into a series of sprawling civilizations, many with their own government, police forces and even wars. Now that more players are joining the game with…

Socialist Twitch Streamer Says He’s Changing Minds

Leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker guested on the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, and told the Chapo hosts that he’s breaking through to the insular, potentially reactionary teens on Twitch. Hasan Piker, who works for the left-wing news YouTube news show The Young Turks, is a pretty popular Twitch streamer with over 90,000 followers. He’s…

Indie Band Shows Their Pokémon Love In New Release

Indie band Origami Angel’s upcoming EP, Gen 3, is packed with references to Pokémon. The limited edition cassette tapes, which have already sold out, feature art inspired by the franchise. Although the band’s guitarist and singer, Ryland Heagy, said that the songs aren’t necessarily Pokémon-themed, the series has affected him and his art in unusual…

Rage 2: The Kotaku Review

Rage 2 is caught between Good Stupid and Bad Stupid. In the end, Bad Stupid wins out. Rage 2 takes place on a dystopian, desert Earth that was struck by a meteor over a century ago. Much of the population has been wiped out, and civilization is a shadow of its former self. In the…

The First Hours Of Rage 2 Are Fun But Repetitive

I’ve played a few hours of Rage 2, and so far it’s as loud and delightfully dumb as an Andrew WK song. I’m just afraid the fun will end soon. When Andrew WK showed up at E3 last year to perform “Ready To Die” at Bethesda’s conference, I freaked the hell out. I love Andrew…

The Detective Pikachu Game Is A Perfect Complement To The Movie

After watching the Detective Pikachu movie, all I wanted was to live in that world. Luckily I had a copy of Detective Pikachu, the game, which gave me that chance, and some fun puzzles to boot. The first thing that struck me about the Detective Pikachu game, which was released last year for Nintendo 3DS,…