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This Week In The Business: Nintendo Switch Flippers

QUOTE | “The individuals involved have been identified, terminated from their place of employment and are under investigation by local law enforcement authorities on criminal charges.” – Nintendo, making an example of employees at one of its US distributors who stole Switch systems and sold one to a NeoGAF poster who promptly showed it off…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This isn’t a picture from The Witcher 3. It’s complicated, OK? Last weekend I finished the main storyline for The Witcher 3 and, well…something happened. I’ll tell you about it next week. It’s still too raw. Instead, I’m going to play more Night in the Woods. I’m also going to check out the new Deus Ex:…

That Time Some Players Thought Mew Was Under A Truck In Pokémon

The original generation of Pokémon had 150 special monsters to find. One of the most elusive was the legendary psychic type Mewtwo. But if there was a Mewtwo, that left a question: where was the original Mew? Little did people know, Mew was already in the game. Near the end of the game’s development cycle,…

A Wandering Swordsman, His Blade For Hire

Manilyn Toledana is an artist from The Philippines. That’s not Geralt, but if you squint hard enough, you can imagine a very welcome cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 You can see more of Manilyn’s work at her ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner.…

Track: The Golden Age | Artist: Beck | Album: Sea Change Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Glitched Hannah Montana Wishes For The Sweet Release Of Death

Today on Highlight Reel we have Pharah from downtown, powerful sniper rifle shots, Cronenberg Hannah Montana, and more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Watch Dogs…

Pixel Privateers Is Like Squad-Based Borderlands

Do you like loot? Do you enjoy having so much loot that you don’t know what to do with it? Does the thought of drowning in a sea of loot, images of loved ones scrolling like a credits sequence as a laser gun digs deep into your esophagus, appeal to you? Then yeah, you should…

Ask Dr. NerdLove: I Cheated And My Husband Might Never Forgive Me

Hello, all you wheel-eyed death lemmings. Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating column that’s the king of the luchadore ring. This week, I bring you tales of struggle. It’s hard enough to recover from a mistake in your relationship, but what if your partner refuses to let it go? On the other hand,…

Podcast: Hunting Robot Dinosaurs In Horizon: Zero Dawn

This week on Kotaku Splitscreen we’re talking about robot velociraptors, bows and arrows, and a bunch of other things related to the upcoming PS4 game Horizon: Zero Dawn First Jason and I discuss the news of the week, then we’re joined by our colleague Patricia Hernandez to talk about Horizon, which she reviewed and all…

Hope You Like Pictures Of Giant Combat Mechs Because

GKR: Heavy Hitters, a new board game by Weta set in an anime-ish post-apocalyptic world full of giant mechs, looks great! Especially when you get to take a close look at the art that went into the game’s fantastic miniatures. Weta have shared a ton of art from development of the game’s mechs/factions, and it’s…

Celebrate Pokémon Day With These New Gallery Figures

February 27 is Pokémon Day, commemorating the 1996 release date of the first two Pokémon games in Japan. The Pokémon Company is marking the occasion with the release of the first four entries in its premium Gallery Figures line, showing off fan-favorite pocket monsters performing their signature moves. Obviously crafted for collectors, the Gallery Figures come…

Track: Back in Black | Artist: AC/DC | Album: Back in Black  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

I thought I was getting sick of ‘80s-inspired retro-future aesthetics, but then I saw Narita Boy. Yeah, it goes back to a well that’s been tapped countless times, but it does so with style, playful weirdness, and cool dimension-hopping mechanics. It’s currently on Kickstarter

Bring On The Horizon: Zero Dawn Cosplay

So, turns out Horizon: Zero Dawn, despite its stupid name, is a good video game. A very good video game. Which means we can expect 2017 to be a year full of Horizon: Zero Dawn cosplay. Fine by me. The game’s star, Aloy, looks great, with her mix of ancient hunting gear, sci-fi relics and…

One Player’s Three-Year Quest To Beat Every NES Game Is About To End

It took Piotr Delgado “The Mexican Runner” Kusielczuk 91 hours to beat Miracle Piano Teaching System, an NES game created to teach kids how to play the piano. (To pull it off, he had to teach himself how to play piano.) That was the longest. He’s also spent 39 hours with the billiards game Championship…

People Are Racing To See How Fast They Can Get Banned From Club Penguin

Kid-friendly browser game Club Penguin is famed for rapidly banning the use of foul language. Now that the game only has a little over a month to live, players have turned getting banned into a speedrunning challenge, with a current record time under 40 seconds. Getting banned for profanity in Club Penguin isn’t normally much…

Messi, You Looked Better Without The Beard

Sure, sometimes you can get Lionel Messi and Gareth Bale to sit still long enough to take photos for FIFA promos, but other times you can’t, and have to build eerily realistic 3D models of them instead. These images, done by Korean artist Byungmoon Kang, are all for FIFA Online, and as you can probably…

Track: I’m Outta Time | Artist: Oasis | Album: Dig Out Your Soul Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

I Can’t Abide Those Jawas. Disgusting Creatures.

Here’s Uncanny Megan and Dallas Nagata White as Jawas who are a little taller than the rest. And maybe a little less prepared for the desert conditions. Photos by Ed White

Take A Tour Of A Cosplay Convention

A lot of the best cosplay photos on this site come from conventions, but many of you will never have actually been to one. So here, let this guided tour of the grounds of the recent Katsucon by Felix Wong act as the next best thing.