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Nintendo Switch Voice Chat No Longer Stops Working When You Change Apps

Nintendo’s phone app for the Switch was updated today, fixing two really annoying issues with voice chat. When the Nintendo’s Switch app launched, people were happy to finally be able to play Splatoon with voice chat, but were disappointed that voice chat would disconnect if you tabbed to another app or if your phone went…

Fallout Fans Resist Wikia’s Attempt To Pivot To Video

If you’re looking for the name of a minor character in Star Wars or trying to brush up on the lore of the latest big video game, you’ll probably end up on a wiki website hosted by Fandom. Unlike Wikipedia, Fandom is for-profit, but all of the content is written for free by a community…

What We Liked And Didn’t Like About The New Season Of BoJack Horseman

Netflix dropped another season of BoJack Horseman this weekend. As is tradition, I sat down and watched all of it all in one go without realizing. While Kotaku’s managing editor Riley MacLeod, intern Chloe Spencer and I had some problems with the fourth season’s execution, we all still love this weird, depressing, hilarious show. Today…

When He Picked The Name ‘RabbidLuigi’ Seven Years Ago, YouTuber Had No Idea What Was Coming

Seven years ago, a 15-year-old started a YouTube channel called rabbidluigi. He had no way of knowing that in 2017 that would be a real character in a real video game. Rabbidluigi is a gaming channel that does top ten videos and Let’s Plays. “In anticipation of making my YouTube I planned everything out,” rabbidluigi…

Breath Of The Wild Gives Players Free Eggs, Promptly Smashes Them

Nintendo has been giving Breath of the Wild players free items for reading the Switch’s news feed. It’s a little broken. On August 9th, Nintendo started giving Breath of the Wild players free items for reading tips posts in the news feed. If you opened the game through a link in a post about boomerangs,…

Horror Game Takes You Through A Murder Mystery In Tokyo

Tokyo Dark is a game about a cursed mask and ritualistic murder, but under the surface, it’s also a game about hurt people hurting people. Its complex writing and unique take on a sanity meter make it easy to care about the characters trapped in its tragic, bloody world. Tokyo Dark is an adventure game…

Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, As Told By Steam Reviews

Life Is Strange is back with a prequel, Before The Storm. It hasn’t disappointed fans, who are documenting the feels it gave them all over the Steam reviews. I was a little worried about Before The Storm. I didn’t think we needed a prequel, Chloe’s new voice actor sounded a little off, and I was…

Nintendo Designer Explains Why Salmon Run Isn’t Always Available

It’s super annoying that Splatoon 2‘s maps rotate, or that you can’t play Salmon Run all the time. One of the two Western designers at Nintendo says it comes down to the vastly different ways the Japanese developers approach game design. Jordan Amaro is a game designer at Nintendo’s Kyoto studio, and, “one of only…

How Knack Became The Internet’s Favorite Punchline

Knack was a Playstation 4 launch game and it wasn’t great. If you don’t get why Knack 2 is a persistent internet joke, that’s it. The entire joke is that Knack wasn’t much fun, and somehow there’s a Knack II. Turns out the sequel is actually pretty okay, and maybe even kind of fun. All…

Quiz: There Are Too Many Good Games Out Right Now. Which Should You Play?

The video game gods have been good to us in 2017, but that means there are way too many games to choose from. Take this quiz to find out which one you should devote your precious time to.

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Dating Sim Lets You Kiss A JoJo

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is one of the most influential mangas of all time. References to it show up in dozens of anime, and Hirohiko Araki, the manga’s author, has even shown his work in the Louvre. Despite all these accolades, you’ve never been able to kiss any of the characters, until now. Joestar Struck is…

The Latest Patch For No Man’s Sky Fixes Save File Issues

No Man’s Sky has now been patched five times since its latest major update, Atlas Rises. Today’s patch 1.35 brings a lot of granular changes and bug fixes, especially to the user interface. Here are some of the notable changes from the patch. Fixed an issue preventing players with very long play times being able…

Overwatch Fans Are Losing It Over A Character Who Has Barely Appeared

The Overwatch fandom’s favorite new character has only appeared within an in game poster, but that hasn’t stopped players from drawing fanart of her, cosplaying her, or declaring her as their wife. A week ago, Bizzard previewed a new map for Overwatch, Junkertown, and dropped a new short featuring Junkrat and Roadhog. In the short,…

No Man’s Sky Is Good Now

To say that No Man’s Sky had a troubled launch would be a massive understatement. Even as someone who generally had a good time with the game then, I had to admit that it was missing promised features and lacked polish. Over a year later, a lot of things have changed for the game, and…

In This Dress Up Game, Your Clothes Evolve Like Pokémon

Dress up games, while a fun diversion, are ubiquitous on mobile devices. Love Nikki is one of those games, but it’s much weirder and much denser than you’d probably expect. Love Nikki is a game that has been advertised to me on Facebook for months, and I resisted downloading it. I am adult, I had…

Hiveswap: Act 1, the long awaited Homestuck game, releases on September 14th. It also finally has a trailer, which, unsurprisingly, features great music and slick animation.

A Game About Waiting For Your Grandmother To Die

Hospice is a moving autobiographical game about losing someone you love. Hospice was developed by Miko Charbonneau, whose grandmother recently had a stroke. “I became one of the over 700,000 family members that have to cope with the uncertain and challenging time after this kind of trauma occurs,” she writes in the description of the…

What We Mostly Liked About Netflix’s Death Note

The much anticipated and dreaded American adaptation of acclaimed anime and manga Death Note dropped on Friday. To our surprise, we kinda liked it. Spoilers! Gita Jackson: Heather, Heather, Heather. How do we even begin this? We’re here to talk about the Netflix adaptation of Death Note, which is a movie we both definitely watched.…

Taylor Swift’s New Song Is Basically An Alternate Reality Game, And I Hate It

Taylor Swift’s new single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” feels like a shitty alternate reality game that you unravel to find out more lore. This tale begins in 2009, where rapper Kanye West was publicly very mean to Swift at MTV’s Video Music Awards. They publicly made up in 2015. West then included a…

An Unsettling Game Where You Convince AI To Let You Erase Them

Localhost is a disquieting adventure game where you interrogate some artificial intelligence, think about death and lie to your boss. In Localhost, you play as a network administrator on the first day of their job. You’re asked to go down to the shop and wipe some hard drives that have been corrupted, but in order…