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Ask Dr. NerdLove: My Family Hates Me. What Do I Do?

Hello all you little marmosets of damnation, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column to help you celebrate the Reclamation Day of your love life. This week, we’re talking about seemingly impossible situations. Rejection is hard enough to face when you’re talking about dating. But what about when it’s your family…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for handling a bunch of bills and chores and boring things I keep putting off, all while resenting having to do those things on my days off. You know what’s more fun? Video games. After reviewing Hitman 2, I’m back to making my way through Red Dead Redemption 2. I’d love to…

Hitman 2016 Taught Me A Better Way To Play Hitman 2

Usually when I play a single-player game, I go through it from start to finish. I play each new level after the last one, until I stop playing or get to the end. That’s not how I played 2016’s excellent episodic Hitman, however, and it’s not how I’m playing its fantastic new sequel. I’ve played…

Track: Untitled | Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins | Album: Rotten Apples Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Yeah, We Get It, You Vape

Terry Wei is an artist and illustrator based in Nanjing, China. You can see more of Terry’s work at his ArtStation page

Witcher 3 Cosplay Just Keeps On Coming

I’ve been trying for three years now to get this site turned into a dedicated Witcher 3 cosplay blog, and while that hasn’t quite panned out like I was hoping, I’m going to keep on trying with shots like these. This is Ves & Roche from the Blue Stripes commando group, steadfast and strangely-dressed special…

Tips For Battlefield V‘s Updated Multiplayer

Battlefield V takes it all back to World War II, where the series started. There’s a lot of depth for players to dive into, but some of it might be easy to overlook. So I made a video with five helpful tips for Battlefield V that you can see in action or read about below.…

Sony Is Skipping E3 2019

Sony is skipping next year’s E3, ditching its traditional booth and press conference in a move that will have a significant negative impact on the video game industry’s annual trade show. The Entertainment Software Association, the lobbyist group that runs E3, confirmed the news today, as did Sony. “As the industry evolves, Sony Interactive Entertainment…

Players Have Already Found Ways To Cheat Fallout 76‘s Nuke Codes

Even though Fallout 76 takes place in a world where the bombs have already dropped, the game is littered with silos full of more nukes for players to launch themselves. Finding the codes to do so is supposed to be complicated, but players have not only already launched nukes, they’ve found ways to streamline the…

The Best Places To Buy Old Games

Collecting video games is easy. All you have to do is create an eBay account and click “Buy It Now” on every video game you ever wanted. Congratulations, you have a video game collection! Your bank account balance is now negative a million dollars. It’s collecting video games without going broke that’s hard. In the…

Pokémon Let’s Go Helped Me Connect With My Son

“Dad, can we play Pokémon together?” my seven-year-old son Seamus asked as I wandered about Kanto in Pokémon Let’s Go! Eevee. It was the first time he’d asked to play a video game with me. It led to the first time we played a video game together. Seamus and his twin brother, Archer, love video…

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime On Hopes For An N64 Classic, Switch Online, And Sakurai’s Smash Roster Tweets

The president of Nintendo of America, Reggie Fils-Aime, was in New York this week to sell his company’s big holiday line-up. But there was plenty more to talk about, too. A good portion of our conversation involved Fils-Aime’s pitch for the newest Switch and 3DS games. You can read about that in the first part…

A Young Man’s Ego Doomed A Much-Hyped Jurassic Park Game

Do you remember what you were like at age 25? It was only four years ago for me, and I already think I was pretty much the worst back then. Seamus Blackley also doesn’t have a stellar opinion of the man he used to be at 25. At the time, he was executive producer on…

Track: Alone On The Rope | Artist: Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | Album: If Love Is The Law (single) Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Track: Get It | Artist: Nelson Dialect & Must Volkoff | Album: Magnetism Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Imagining The Star Of A Western Assassin’s Creed

Gislaine Avila is a character designer and illustrator from Brazil, who has some ideas about what a Western (the genre, not the hemisphere) Assassin’s Creed might look like. Below you’ll find a range of images depicting Delilah Graham, star of Assassin’s Creed: Gold Rush, a game that doesn’t exist, but which in my over the…

How Princess Peach’s Story Draws On 2000 Years Of Women In Peril

Nintendo’s Princess Peach is the quintessential damsel in distress. She’s such a damsel cliché that she’s more important as a plot device than as an actual character. Whether you know her as Peach or Toadstool, her name doesn’t matter so much as the “Princess” preceding it. Mario’s leading lady is such a damsel cliché that…

League Of Legends’ K-Pop Video Already Has Amazing Cosplay

It’s only been a matter of days since League of Legends released that incredible K-Pop music video, but we’ve already got some A+ cosplay to go with it. This is Danu (Akali), Peyton Riley (Kai’Sa), Glory Lamothe (Evelynn) and Valentina Kryp (Ahri). All photos are by Photographes Sans Frontieres

Let’s Go Are The Prettiest Pokémon Games Yet

The story is familiar and the players are the same, but the scenery has never looked so good. Gorgeous visuals abound in our latest trip through the Kanto region, making Pokémon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Eevee the prettiest pocket monster games yet. Take a look! Before we begin our tour of the sights of the…

Fatal Call Of Duty Swatter Pleads Guilty To 51 Charges [UPDATE]

Swatter Tyler Barriss, 26, pled guilty yesterday to the crimes that led police to forcibly enter the home of Wichita resident Andrew Finch, who diedfrom an officer’s gunshot wound. Barriss originally pled not guilty to this fatal instance of swatting, which occurred over a dispute in Call of Duty in 2017. The Associated Press reportsthat…