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Injustice 2 Gets New Patch After Previous One Deleted Players’ Items

Injustice 2‘s latest patch has caused problems for a lot of players, including deleting their items. The development studio has since released another patch that prevents item deletion, but issues still abound. The 1.10 patch for Injustice 2, released September 26th, led to many players reporting that updating their game caused them to lose shaders,…

Rejoice! The icon for SteamWorld Dig 2 has been updated on the Nintendo Switch. As reported yesterday, some players really, really care about this and I gotta say, the new icon looks swanky.

Golf Story Is A Nintendo Switch RPG You Should Play

I have truly never seen the appeal of golf, but Golf Story, a new Nintendo Switch exclusive, is so charming that I can’t stop playing it. I’m not a sports hater, but golf really isn’t my thing. If I wanted to take a long walk, I’d just take a long walk, ya dig? Golf Story,…

The creator of QWOP, Bennet Foddy, is releasing a new game called Getting Over It on October 6th. In it, you climb a mountain using a sledgehammer. “I created this game for a certain kind of person,” Foddy says in this trailer. “To hurt them.”

Neo Yokio Is A Funny But Flawed Critique Of Capitalism

Netflix’s original series Neo Yokio waffles between being an indictment of capitalism and a celebration of wealth. While it’s charmingly written, I’m confused about what it wants to say about the wealthy and their pursuits. Spoilers! Neo Yokio was created by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and premiered last Friday on Netflix. It has a star-studded…

One of the top Skyrim mods right now adds Elsa from Frozen into your game. Just in case you know a tween girl who is still singing that damn song and is also deeply into Elder Scrolls, you can download it here

Silent Hill Will Always Help Me Remember A Remarkable Friend

My friend Kit Reed died on Sunday. She was a prolific, award-winning writer of speculative fiction. Her cluttered yellow house is now empty. I will no longer stop by for tea or make dumplings in her kitchen for Thanksgiving. Kit insisted on no memorials, finding even the prospect of friends meeting for a drink after…

SteamWorld Dig 2 Is All About Finding Cool Stuff

SteamWorld Dig 2 is a game about exploring and finding secrets. There’s a plot, too, and some fun characters, but for the most part you dig in caves and look for treasure. I could do it forever. In SteamWorld Dig 2, out today for Nintendo Switch, you play as a robot named Dorothy on the…

Your Destiny 2 Fashion Choices, Reviewed

When the first Destiny came out, I always admired my friends’ Destiny outfits. Now that the sequel is here, I’m determined to have a beautiful Guardian of my own. While I’m at it, I think I’ll judge some of Kotaku commenters’ best outfits. When I asked editor at large Kirk Hamilton what class to try…

Immigration Game Tries To Tell An Important Story, Falls Short

Four Horsemen is a game about immigrants and refugees, and also kinda sorta the apocalypse. It’s a compelling game, written from a place of deep empathy about a topic that is important to consider in our current political climate. Unfortunately it doesn’t quite come together. Things are ending for the four friends you follow in…

Got a great look for your Guardian in Destiny 2? Show me what you got! Post your favorite outfit in the comments, please and thank you.

NBA 2K18 Is Riddled With Microtransactions

The latest game in the NBA 2K series is frustrating to play if you don’t want to spend any additional money on top of the $60 you have to shell out to get the game. Technically, you don’t ever need to buy anything in NBA 2K18. It’s just much, much easier if you do. Virtual…

Fans Love D.va’s Deathwing-Themed Skin For Heroes Of The Storm

A new skin for D.va in Heroes of the Storm was revealed over the weekend, and it’s themed around World of Warcraft’s Deathwing the Destroyer. Fans cannot stop drawing it. In Overwatch D.va is depicted as a feminine, cute gamer girl. With her bunny motif and pink mech, she’s a decidedly girly character. Seeing her…

Black Mirror’s ‘San Junipero’ Is Great Television Because Of Its Optimism

Charlie Brooker’s body of work is defined by its pessimism. From the pointed critique of lazy hipster irony in Nathan Barley to the gory satire of reality shows depicted in Dead Set, his work pinpoints the worst of humanity. Black Mirror continues that bleak trend, sometimes to the point of parody. Last night, Brooker won…

Do You Stand While You Play The Switch?

At my birthday party this weekend, I brought out my Nintendo Switch so I could be as cool as all those people in the commercials. Just like the people in the commercials, we all ended up standing while playing games, as well. It was super weird. On Saturday night, after I hooked up my Switch…

Cooking Game Looks Delicious, Feels Stressful

It’s 5:30, and I realize in half an hour I’ll be slammed with customers. Before they all get here I need to unclog the toilets, take out the trash, refill the drink machine, and prep the hot dogs, corndogs and pretzels. Before I get a chance, someone orders some fucking nachos. Cook Serve Delicious 2…

The Homestuck Game Is So Good, Y’all

Just like I didn’t really think Homestuck would return after its first year-long break, I never really believed that Hiveswap, the game Kickstarted by the Homestuck team, would ever see the light of day. Today, Hiveswap: Act 1 has been released. It’s incredible that it exists, but more than that, it is a phenomenal, heartfelt…

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is releasing December 1st on the Nintendo Switch. Here’s an extremely long presentation about all the things you will find therein, presented by a giant monster that is also a house.

What Homestuck Was

On September 14th, at long last, the first episode of the Kickstarted Homestuck game, Hiveswap, will be released, only five years after it was originally announced. Homestuck was one of the biggest fandoms of the early 2010s, but what exactly was it? Well, that’s a complicated question. Before it ended in 2016, Homestuck was a…

Klei has announced Don’t Starve Hamlet, a new expansion for Don’t Starve. According to the description to this trailer, Hamlet will take Wilson to a city, with “pig shops, houses, new items, biomes and more.” While it won’t come out until early next year, you can add it to your wishlist on Steam