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Mobile Game Hogwarts Mystery Is Like A Harry Potter Book That Keeps Asking For Money

The new Harry Potter mobile game is fun, but you’re gonna be shelling out your Galleons if you want to make the most of it. By Galleons I mean dollars. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is a new mobile game where you star in an original storyline taking place before Harry, Hermione, and Ron attended the…

Even Board Games Are Going Battle Royale Now

Battle royale games are so popular that even board games are getting in on the fun. Last One Standing is a battle royale board game currently in development. Up to eight players find loot and shoot each other on a shrinking map, fighting to be, well, the last one standing. Obviously, this game is inspired…

Historically Accurate Underwear, And Other Tabletop RPG Horror Stories

My Dungeons & Dragons group can sometimes give our DM a hard time. That’s nothing compared to your D&D stories, though. Back in Chicago, my main group consisted of three comedians and an actor, all of whom wanted to be the funny guy. I do not know that we ever completed a single combat encounter,…

Chris Person and I streamed the new game The Swords of Ditto, which is a fun riff on the original Legend of Zelda At the end of the video I show off one of the mini boss dungeons, and beat it for the first time on air. Go me!

Boy, Read This: The Internet Pokes Fun At Kratos In God of War

For such a grim, serious and violent game, God of War sure is making people on the internet laugh. God of War is a pleasant surprise. Playing as Kratos, the curmudgeonly dad and his precious son Atreus is both narratively satisfying and has interesting gameplay. It’s also given rise to one of my favorite current…

The Swords Of Ditto Is A Wonderful Remix Of The Original Legend Of Zelda

The moment when I realized that I love The Swords of Ditto was when I was reincarnated as a frog. The Swords of Ditto is a very cute PC and PS4 game about a warrior of legend that is selected to defeat the evil sorceress Mormo every 100 years. The town they’re protecting varies from…

13 Cool Things People Have Built With The Nintendo Labo

As people got their hands on Nintendo Labo over the weekend, they’ve been making some really cool, and really funny, creations. They’ve made everything from rhythm games to functioning clocks to cat toys. Here’s a few I really liked. Nintendo Labo not only allows you to make a handful of cool cardboard toys that you…

The Sims Developers Quietly Rename The Game’s ‘Insane’ Trait

The April 17 Sims 4 patch made a host of changes, among them fixing a bug that caused parents to check toddlers over and over. One change that wasn’t noted involved the “Insane” trait that we recently criticized as discordant with the series’ whimsical tone. It is now called “Erratic.” This trait allows sims to…

Fans Are Freaking Out Over Persona 5 Hero’s Newest Look

Persona 5 fans are very excited about a DLC costume that depicts the main character as a sexy lady cop, and I cannot say that I blame them. The upcoming Persona 5: Dancing Star Night is a Persona 5-themed rhythm game where the Phantom Thieves of Hearts dance their way through some fun remixes from…

Spy Party: The Kotaku Early Access Review

Someone is a spy and you need to take them out. There’s only thirty seconds left for them to bug the ambassador and complete their mission. You see movement out of the corner of your eye? Is that balding man reaching towards the ambassador’s pocket? You take the shot and the party goers scream. Over…

The Studio That Announced Glover 2 Didn’t Actually Have The Rights

Two days ago, a small studio announced that they were bringing a sequel to the platformer Glover to the Switch. Then the shit hit the fan. Apparently, more Glover might happen—but not from the game development studio that announced it. Glover, developed by Interactive Studios and published by Hasbro Interactive, was released in 1999 for…

New Darling In The Franxx Episode Made The Fandom Explode

The most recent episode of the bizarre, horny anime Darling in the Franxx has left the fandom in upheaval. The journey of this show from fanservice nonsense to affecting science fiction melodrama has been incredible to watch, even though my heart is broken. Darling in the Franxx is an anime about teenagers who pilot giant…

Overwatch Fans Are Drawing McCree As A Waiter Thanks To The New Event

Thanks to some new voice lines, the Overwatch fandom is geeking out over the idea of the surly cowboy McCree dressed as a waiter. I am here for it. Overwatch’s Retribution event expands a part of lore players have been wanting to explore. The event takes place during a mission where Blackwatch, the Overwatch team’s…

Nintendo Has Added Loot Boxes To Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp just got loot boxes in its latest update. Thanks, I hate it! The mobile Animal Crossing game is no stranger to dodgy, predatory mobile game mechanics. This latest updates introduces the scummiest of all: loot boxes, in the form of the new Fortune Cookies. These items, available to buy at the…

I Played Crusader Kings 2 Until The Sun Came Up

After work yesterday, I had a hankering to play some Crusader Kings 2. I set aside a couple hours in the evening, ordered some Indian food and cracked a beer, thinking I’d get to bed around midnight. By the time I closed the game and went to bed, I heard birds chirping. This is not…

A Lot Of Work Goes Into Adding Just One Suit To Spider-Man

Sometimes when you see a skin or an alternate costume in a video game, you think “hey, that’s neat!” and don’t give it a second thought. Xavier Coelho-Kostolny, a 3D character artist at Insomniac Games, actually broke down the process of getting a cool piece of video game art from concept to your television screen…

The Rampage Movie Is Stupid And Amazing

There is a Hollywood action movie adaptation of the video game Rampage, and it is one of the dumbest, most fun movies in theaters right now. Gita Jackson: Tim, we had the incredible treat of watching Rampage starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson last night. Were you expecting to be as entertained as we ended up…

Stardew Valley Is The Perfect Hangover Game

After a friend’s boozy Dungeons and Dragons brunch last week, his apartment transitioned straight into a party. Although we ordered pizza and had plenty of carbs, we had begun drinking at 11am, and I continued to drink until the early hours of the morning. Suffice it to say, the next day was a struggle. In…

Overwatch Ships, Ranked 

At a recent Philadelphia Fusion watch party, a man proposed to his girlfriend by asking her to “be the Mercy to my Genji.” I am very happy for this couple, but I must have a word with them about their taste in Overwatch ships. It’s true that Mercy/Genji is the closest thing to a canon…

A Free Game That Makes Math More Scary

Edutainment games like Number Munchers or Big Thinkers! always felt like they had a sinister side. There’s something weird about someone emphatically telling you how cool learning is. As I perfunctorily did math equations in games like these I always kind of felt like I was being brainwashed. Baldi’s Basics, a hilarious horror-parody of edutainment…