Gita Jackson

Hand Simulator Will Make You Hate Hands

Not to sound like the guy who sold you pot in high school, but you ever think about hands? Hands are weird. Hand Simulator makes them even weirder. Hand Simulator is a game where you try to control virtual hands and do things like spin a fidget spinner or load and fire a gun. If…

The Internet Reacts To Valve’s New Game Announcement

Valve just announced a new game! It’s a card game based on Dota 2. The internet is confused and upset by this. Valve hasn’t stopped making games, but sometimes it sure feels like it. Their last release was The Lab, a VR collection of Portal mini games in 2016, and prior to that their last…

The New Overwatch Beach Skins Are 🔥

With a new Overwatch event comes new skins, and the new outfits for the Summer Games are pretty dope. Summer is for lying out on the beach, getting your tan on, and grilling, and the new Overwatch skins got that on lock. You can check ‘em all out on the Overwatch website, but my personal…

A Cult Simulator Where You Sacrifice People To A Lovecraftian God

As spring ended in the village, I was left with a tough choice. Which sin made someone more worthy of death: embezzlement or kleptomania? The Shrouded Isle had turned me into a shrewd cult leader. In The Shrouded Isle, released last Friday on PC, and Mac, you lead a small village whose residents all belong…

Dream Daddy’s Mini Games Are Awful

Dream Daddy is a cute game about cute dads that’s marred by some really uncute mini games. Gita Jackson: I’m here with Chloe Spencer, Kotaku’s summer intern, to talk about Dream Daddy—more specifically, the horrible, awful, no good mini games. Chloe, you’re a big fan of the game, right? Chloe Spencer: Big fan, yeah! Damien…

He Beat Her Offers A Flawed But Interesting Take On Domestic Violence

With its lush art and lovely music, visual novel He Beat Her sounds like an easy sell. The way it handles its subject matter, however, lacks the nuance it deserves. [Given the subject matter of the game, this article will discuss domestic violence and mental illness. This is your content warning.] He Beat Her is…

Watch Dogs 2 Modders Hate The Game’s Final Patch

Watch Dogs 2 got its final patch today, which makes impossible to use mods while online if you’re playing on PC. The game’s publisher, Ubisoft, says that this is to ensure fair online play, but the game’s small modding community is very frustrated. The 1.17 patch wasn’t announced as a modding blocker. The features rolled…

Brutal Super Mario World Hack Has An Even Harder Sequel

Panga’s Super Dram World is a notoriously hard Super Mario World hack. Last week’s sequel, Super Dram World 2, seems no less tricky. Super Dram World is a hacked version of Super Mario World for the SNES that’s much, much harder, garnering it cult appeal among Mario enthusiasts and speedrunners. Super Dram World 2 is…

Poll: Video Game Would-You-Rathers

Video games often put us through tough choices. Here are ten more. “Would-You-Rather” is one of the great classic road trip or party games. You present two impossible choices to someone, and then make them choose. In the spirit of the impossible decisions games put me through, here’s ten video game themed Would-You-Rathers. It’s a…

Nintendo’s Solution To Switch Battery Issues: Let It Drain, Then Recharge It Six Times

The Switch’s battery indicator has been faulty for some since launch. Some users’ battery will appear to drop to 1% rapidly, even though the battery itself works just fine. With the Switch’s most recent update Nintendo has offered a fix, but it’s a little tedious. The Switch’s battery indicator bug looks really scary, but it’s…

Risqué Sex Game Back On Steam, With Censor Bars This Time

After being pulled from Valve’s storefront over sexual content, House Party, the controversial YouTube hit, is now back on Steam. The new version of the game has prominent censor bars. House Party is a game about going to a party and completing quests for sexy results, like finding a girl some whip-its. Its risqué subject…

Player Cuts The Stardew Valley Marriage Speedrunning Record In Half

You can pretty much speedrun anything: Google doodles, having your video game children taken away, and even (video game) marriage. While many fans deliberate for a good while over what characters to romance in Stardew Valley, for the past year, some players have sped their courtships up through speedruns. Three days ago Underscore76, the current…

New Rick And Morty Visits A Nihilistic Mad Max Wasteland

Last night’s Rick and Morty wasn’t the premiere, as the first episode of season 3 ran on April 1st. This is the start of the season proper, and while it wasn’t as inventive as classic episodes like “Total Rickall” or “Interdimensional Cable,” the confidence of the writing lets the show’s characters grow without getting corny.…

Collectible Video Game Albums Elbow Into A Crowded Vinyl Industry

The music industry is having a vinyl boom. While vinyl was once relegated to thrift stores and specialty shops, more and more popular musicians are releasing collector’s editions of their albums on vinyl. This boom includes big artists like Taylor Swift, and also video games soundtracks like Contra. While being able to pick up a…

Overcooked is out on Switch It dropped yesterday, it’s $20, and if you own a Switch and haven’t had a chance to play this multiplayer cooking game, pick it up. You can play as a raccoon, which is pretty awesome, even if it is unsanitary.

I’m Finally Coming Around On Multiplayer Games

I’m a multiplayer game skeptic. The idea of playing against another human both online and in real life usually doesn’t appeal to me at all. Overwatch, Splatoon 2 and Pyre are making me come around on this, kinda. My reactions to these games are all wildly different. I’ve started to categorize it like a game…

Angry Joe’s Fans Can’t Deal With Him Taking A Vacation From YouTube

YouTuber Joe “Angry Joe” Vargas is famous for his funny game reviews, but over the years, the growth of his channel has put a strain on his ability to produce them. After announcing he was taking a break from game reviews for two months, fans have lashed out at the creator, who has since disabled…

What We Liked And Didn’t Like About Dream Daddy

Dream Daddy’s dreamy dads have captured players’ hearts. Riley MacLeod and Gita Jackson sat down to talk about what they were into and what they weren’t. Gita Jackson: Hi Riley! We’re here to talk about dads! More specifically, we’re here to talk about Dream Daddy: A Daddy Dating Simulator, which we’ve both played some of.…

The Sims 4 is coming to Playstation 4 and Xbox One on November 17th. If you’ve ever wanted to watch a sim burn to death from the comfort of your couch, you’re in luck.

Sims Speedrunners Compete Over How Fast Child Services Can Take Away Their Sims’ Kids

Neglecting babies in The Sims 4 doesn’t result in their death, your kids just get taken away by child protective services. While grim, activating CPS has become its own category of speedrun now. The current record holder, SimplySeze, managed this depressing task in about fifteen and a half minutes. The entire speedrun requires you to…