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New Stardew Valley Mod Lets You Add Unlimited Players 

A new Stardew Valley mod removes the player limit for multiplayer, letting you farm with as many people as you want. I’m one step closer to running away with all my friends and living on a farm, provided all my friends are as obsessed with Stardew Valley as I am. When the multiplayer beta for…

The Gudetama Game Is As Cute (And Simple) As Gudetama

Gudetama Tap is a very cute waste of time. As a Gudetama enthusiast, I can appreciate that. Gudetama is a Sanrio character that is a sleepy, lazy egg, and I find him extremely relatable. Gudetama Tap is a new mobile game centered around the character, where you cook eggs on a stovetop to collect different…

Visual Novel Publisher Expands To GOG, Says Steam Is ‘Threatening Livelihoods’

After running into issues with Steam, video game publisher MangaGamer is teaming up with the digital store’s biggest rival, GOG, to sell visual novels. Last week, several developers of visual novels with varying degrees of sexual content received emails from Valve saying that their games were in danger of being removed by the end of…

Some of Vine’s Most Famous Videos, Recreated In Fortnite

One intrepid Fortnite player combined the game with the greatest lost artform of our generation: Vines. It’s a masterpiece. It was really only a matter of time until Vine and Fortnite came together. Vines as a platform hosted often hilarious and irreverent six second videos, and although the platform closed in January 2017, these jokes…

Overwatch Fans Love Moira And Symmetra’s New Looks

As the Overwatch Anniversary skins and emotes trickle out, fans are getting hyped over a few specific ones. Moira’s new dance emote and Symmetra’s magician skin are sending the fandom into a whirlwind of jokes and fanart. Moira’s dance emote was leaked over the weekend. Whether or not it’s real, Overwatch fans find the idea…

Valve’s Inconsistent Rules On Sexy Steam Games Continue To Baffle Devs [UPDATE]

Developers of games with sexual content are saying that Steam is threatening to remove their games, and they don’t know why. Update, 5/19, 7:52pm—MangaGamer, Huniepot and Lupiesoft have tweeted that they’ve received emails from Valve saying that their games are being re-reviewed for content and they will be informed if there are any specific concerns,…

A Game Where You Have To Break Up With Everyone At School

I never realized that breaking up could be fun until I played Heartbreak High Heartbreak High is a PC game due out May 21st in which you play as the most popular kid in school. You’re so popular, in fact, that you’re dating everyone in school at once. During last period the day before vacation,…

So, You’ve Seen The Captain America Twitter Joke

So, everyone’s making this joke on Twitter right now. I’m not sure why it started, but it’s cracking me up. This image of Captain America sitting backwards in a chair comes from a scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming, where Peter has to watch a PSA video in detention starring the Captain himself. “So,” Steve Rogers (a.k.a Captain…

Persona 5 Fans Are Freaking Out About Akechi Dancing

Goro Akechi was just revealed for Persona 5 Dancing Star Night, and Persona 5 are losing their minds over it. Akechi has been a fan favorite among Persona 5 fans for a while. He’s a teenage detective that’s called the “Second Advent of the Detective Prince” in the game, and he eventually joins the Phantom Thieves…

Fortnite Just Got A ‘Fork Knife’ Food Truck

Fortnite now has a reference to its ubiquitous nickname in the game. Honestly, this was inevitable. The teens just can’t stop calling the battle royale game Fortnite “Fork Knife.” It’s funny, it’s led to some good tweets, and I can’t get it out of my head. Epic has now stuck a reference to it in…

It Used To Be Perilous To Write Fanfiction

Fanfiction is hardly a new phenomenon, but that doesn’t always mean it was safe to write. For a time, in certain fandoms, writing fanfiction could get you a letter from a lawyer. Now, however, the internet has given fandom enough leverage to allow the dubiously legal practice of writing about other people’s characters continues to…

Google Backtracks On Chrome Update That Broke Browser Games

Google has rolled back the Chrome update that broke the sound on many browser games, at least temporarily. Google removed the update until October to give developers a chance to patch their games. Earlier this month, Google Chrome implemented a change in its policies for autoplaying videos that prevented them from playing with sound. This…

If Seinfeld Were JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Classic sitcom Seinfeld has been mashed up with plenty of video games and anime, but fan project Jerry’s Bizarro Adventure takes it to another level by combining Seinfeld with the classic anime JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Jerry’s Bizarro Adventure is a nearly shot for shot recreation of the first opening theme of the JoJo anime, complete…

The Worst Song Won Eurovision

This year’s Eurovision was one of the best in recent memory, with the worst possible result. Eurovision is a song contest between countries from the European Broadcasting Union. Each participating country sends one original song to an hours long concert, and then through a combination of a jury of music professionals and a live televote,…

A Game Where You Can Eat Your Dates

Appeeling Personality is a dating sim where you can date bananas. It’s a lot like swiping through bad profiles on Tinder, except you eat all the creeps and losers. The incredibly normal premise of Appeeling Personality is that you’re at a banana eating competition. Having come on an empty stomach, you start hallucinating that the…

Stardew Valley is coming to Playstation Vita on May 22nd. Kotaku staff writer Ethan Gach, who is a Vita enthusiast who“rides hard for that piece of junk,” is psyched.

Here’s the screamo band AWS, the Hungarian representatives for Eurovision, doing the Ginyu Force pose as they were introduced in Lisbon, proving that once again, Eurovision is mankind’s greatest achievement

Jane Austen Video Game Mocks A Society Obsessed With Marriage

In the opening to the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen wrote, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” In the new 2018 video game Austen Translation, you play as a woman who’ll do anything to win over…

Netflix Witcher Writer Tries To Smooth Unfounded Racial Fears About The Show

When Lauren S. Hissrich, the showrunner of the upcoming Witcher Netflix show, posted a picture of her writer’s room to Twitter, a vocal minority took umbrage at how diverse the writers were. By engaging with these people, Hissrich gave us all an interesting look into how The Witcher is being produced. The Witcher is a…

A Nifty Switch Battery Case Became A Crowdfunding ‘Nightmare’

The complications that one Switch charging case’s crowdfunding campaign has run into only proves the old adage: “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” The SwitchCharge is a case with a battery in it for the Nintendo Switch from the London-based company InDemand, meant to prolong the system’s battery life. When its crowdfunding campaign launched, Kotaku’s own Mike…