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‘Flashback’ Maker Trades Twitter Snipes With Fans Over Downgraded Pac-Man Plug-N-Play

A new plug-and-play retro game machine doesn’t offer what it promises on its box. Players are feeling burned by what they say is a bait-and-switch, while the maker of the system says it’s all due to last-minute production snags. The manufacturer, AtGames, has been making all-in-one retro consoles including the popular “Flashback” line for well…

Other Player’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Photos Inspire Me To See Its World

I’m really loving Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, even if it took me a while to get to it. One of the features that is unexpectedly enhancing the game for me is being able to see all the pictures other people are taking with photo mode. When it comes to game, I usually know what I don’t…

Sims Players Want More Diverse Options From Fan-Made Creations

If you don’t want to make new Sims in The Sims 4, you can always download ones other players have made from the gallery. Some players are saying that unless you’re looking for characters who are white, your options are pretty slim. The gallery has been a feature of The Sims since The Sims 3.…

MapleStory 2 Players Keep Submitting And Selling Bigoted Items To The Shop

Players of the kid-friendly MMO MapleStory 2 say that the player-created item shop is rife with racism and anime porn. The Maple Story 2 team told Kotaku that they “actively monitor the Design Shop for offensive material as well as have a reporting system,” but also: “Given the volume of the reports, there has been…

A Stealth Game With A Sneeze-Prone Hero

The next game from Blendo Games, who made Quadrilateral Cowboy and Thirty Flights of Loving, is a first person shooter called Skin Deep. It has a sneeze meter. Blendo Games’ Brendon Chung makes inventive, experimental games, but he also has a deep appreciation for first person shooters like Far Cry 2. In a press release…

Fan Translator Says The World Ends With You‘s Italian Text Looks A Lot Like His Work

After learning that The World Ends With You was going to have an official Italian translation, the person who made a well known Italian fan translation tuned into a stream to check out how they handled the translation problems he struggled with. While watching, he started to notice that it looked familiar. Much of it…

Adorable rogue-lite Moonlighter now has a release date on Switch: November 5th. By day, you run a shop. By night, you fight monsters to get things to sell in your shop. Like every cute indie game I get obsessed with, I’m sure it’ll be great on Switch.

The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix’s very loose adaptation of Shirley Jackson’s classic novel. What it is: The Crain family spent a summer in the Hill House as children. As adults, their grief and trauma comes back to haunt them. Also, some ghosts do. What I’ve seen: Six of ten episodes Is it good? Yes,…

Charli XCX’s New Bop Is A Funny Flashback To The 90s

2018 has been a pretty rough year. If you’re missing the good old days of AOL Instant Messenger, The Matrix and the iMac G3, check out this music video. You might know Charli XCX from her smash hit “Boom Clap,” which was featured in the teenage misery porn movie The Fault In Our Stars, or…

The World Ends With You: Final Remix: The Kotaku Review

If you have never played The World Ends With You before, the Nintendo Switch version released on Thursday night is not a bad way to get into it. Final Remix retains the game’s great sense of humor, its fantastic music, and Tetsuya Nomura’s most restrained character designs. But if you have played it before—say, if…

Super Mario Party Expects Me To High Five These Jerks

Mario Party is a cruel game that intentionally stokes chaos between friends. Last night I agreed to play the latest game, Super Mario Party, and discovered that this new entry in the franchise has tried to add a form of sportsmanship by making your characters high five each other. It does not have the intended…

The Internet Reacts To Overwatch‘s New Halloween Skins

Halloween is on the horizon, which means that Overwatch’s Halloween event is now here. The new skins revealed in it have fans ready and raring for the holiday. Halloween is the best holiday. What’s better than wearing a costume and eating candy? I feel like the Overwatch development team must agree with me, because every…

New Sims Expansion Adds A Grim New Job: ‘Influencer’

The Sims 4 next expansion will be called Get Famous. It’s set to release November 16th, and your Sims will be able to, you know, get famous. Get Famous comes with a new world, the Hollywood inspired Del Sol Valley, and two new careers: acting and the nebulously named “influencer” career. The Sims’s team has…

Inside The Mind Of A Viral Comedian

Gabe Gundacker, the comedian and musician who crafted the nonsensical earworm “Zendaya Is Meechee,” wrote his Wii Sports-inspired album by accident. “I thought I was writing a new song,” he said over the phone. “It was really good, I was like ‘oh, this melody’s awesome.’ Then a day later I played it back and I…

The Antagonist In Life Is Strange 2 Is Racism

The first season of Life Is Strange leaned on melodrama to give some stakes to its story of a time-traveling queer girl and a potentially destructive tornado. This season’s first episode also leans into schlock, but this time, the story is about racism in America. Sometimes, that melodrama made me groan. When it works, though,…

My New Alarm Wakes Me Up With Mini Games And It Works, But At What Cost

I’ve been having trouble waking up on time recently, so I downloaded a new alarm for my phone that makes me play a mini game before it turns off. It’s the best and worst decision I have ever made. I have no idea why I don’t have any energy right now, but I’ve been sleeping…

J.K. Rowling Needs To Stop Messing With Harry Potter

I grew up reading Harry Potter, and it shaped my life to the extent that I have a Deathly Hallows tattoo. As an adult, I wish J.K. Rowling would just me enjoy her books in peace. Harry Potter hit me at just the right age—namely, ten, when I still had time to hope that I’d…

Overcooked 2 has a new tropical themed DLC that’s out now. Surf ‘N’ Turf brings new kitchens and recipes to the cooking simulator. I for one welcome these new ways to yell at my friends.

The Sims 4 Is Getting A New Career And Terrain Tools (Finally)

In an effort to keep their fans in the loop about upcoming features, The Sims’s development team has started a monthly live stream to talk about the game and sometimes hint at what’s to come. Their very first livestream was a doozy: they introduced a new career and terrain editing tools, both coming in a…

Horny Gamers Are Already Making The Most Of Skyrim’s New Unofficial Switch Mod Support

If you’ve got a hacked Switch and Skyrim, you apparently can now bring popular mods from the PC version of the game with you, including the ones that appeal to hornier players. Using a tool called Skyrim NX Toolkit, people are porting over mods that were made for previous editions of the game. The Switch…