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The final installment in feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian’s look at the depiction of women in video games ran today,…
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Former Editor-in-Chief. Kotaku forever!
Imagine, for a moment, that Activision announced this year’s Call of Duty last year, back when they were also…
The cool but short Batman Arkham VR game released for PlayStation VR last year is now out for Oculus Rift and the Vive. This is a canonical part of Arkham lore, but saying just how it fits in would be spoilers. Read: Our review | A fun easter egg for it in Arkham Knight. Read more
EA’s Star Wars Battlefront II may not have a season pass, at least not one that relegates new maps to people who pay extra. “We don’t have a season pass,” the game’s creative director told Mashable. “We don’t want to segment our community.” Mashable says EA asked them to not report that, suggesting it was premature. Read more
Just going by the title “Mr Shifty,” you might expect something cute. Little Mr. Shifty. He sounds adorable, right?…
Graceful Explosion Machine is a fun shmup on the Nintendo Switch that makes good use of 🙏 and 💪 and 👍. Who knew…
Alan Wake and Quantum Break studio Remedy Entertainment is planning to put its next game “on a wider range of platforms,” including PS4, according to a company post. This is a shift. Since 2010, Remedy’s big games have only hit PC and Xbox consoles. The most recent Remedy game on a PlayStation was 2003's Max Payne 2. Read more
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There aren’t a lot of exclusive games on Nintendo Switch right now. But games are trickling out. I played three…
The newly announced Tribeca Games Festival will feature talks by Hideo Kojima and Ken Levine, as well as some more unconventional surprises like a panel about the movie The Lawnmower Man and VR. It’ll all happen in NYC, April 28-29. Details here. Read more
In another sign that something wasn’t quite right with the roll-out of last November’s Watch Dogs 2, the game’s…
The makers of the new mobile game Bit City have already tweaked one of their game’s microtransactions, just days…
One of the last reliable supporters for the concept that video games should have instruction manuals appears to be…
We’re at PAX East—well, some of us and a lot of you! Kotaku reporters are in Boston to play some video games. Bonus points if you can find Waldo in this shot.
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I heard that having kids changes the way you can play games. Nine weeks in with one boy and one girl born a minute…
For much of yesterday, our headlines had a gimmick. They formed rhyming pairs, because it’d be too hard to make them…
You will see fewer posts on Kotaku today, because the women on our staff are on strike as part of the “Day Without A Woman” to commemorate International Women’s Day. The strike is one aspect of a day intended to raise awareness about the value women contribute to society and the issues of inequality that they face. We… Read more
NES/SNES - childhood, N64 - college, GCN - 2nd full-time job, Wii - working at MTV, Wii U - Kotaku EiC, Switch - just became a dad. You? Add your history below. PlayStation, Xbox and Sega timelines also welcome! Read more
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Snipperclips is the low-key charmer of the Nintendo Switch launch, a download-only indie game turned…
Nintendo Advises Switch Owners With Joy-Con Connectivity Issues To Avoid Bundles Of Wires, Aquariums
In its first detailed acknowledgment of connectivity issues that some gamers are having with its new console’s…
On Tuesday Ubisoft said its Swedish game studio Massive will lead the development of a game set in the world of…