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Podcast: Overwatch Is Crazy Fun

As you probably already know, Overwatch is an excellent game—unless you play Torbjorn. Fuck Torbjorn. Originally published 6/23/16 Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, join me and Kirk to talk about the merits of Overwatch and how Mei is awful but Widowmaker owns. We’ve also got an E3 postmortem, some hands-on Zelda impressions, thoughts on Hitman and…

The Week In Games: A Real Time Dilemma

I’ve got to figure out a way to play LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness and Zero Time Dilemma all at once without betraying my other duties. Unless they vote ally, in which case I betray them for the extra points. This is so hard. Thankfully we’ve got the Fourth…

Sunday Comics: A Castle Made Of Hands

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Last week marked the final update for Action Trip, a comic we’ve featured here since well before I started curating the weekly post. No comic could ever truly replace it, but if…

What Would Get You Excited About A New Sonic The Hedgehog Game? 

There’s a brand-new Sonic the Hedgehog game coming in 2017, with a reveal planned at a special event in San Diego next month. What could Sega show on July 22 that would get you excited about Sonic’s next outing? I’m not here to bash the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The past two and a half…

The Shadow Link Collection Takes The Legend Of Zelda To A Dark Place

Spencer’s and Nintendo have teamed up to plunge The Legend of Zelda series into darkness. The first official Shadow Link action figure leads an army of red and black merchandise to the mall retailer’s shelves next month, with a brief stop-off at the increasingly crowded Toy Time desk. Originally published 6/23/2016 I found it hard…

This Week In The Business: Kids And Their Cash

QUOTE | “It’s six figures of big money showered upon teenage boys, what can possibly go wrong?” – Peter Moore, head of EA’s competitive gaming division, discussing the publisher’s approach to EA Sports, which includes helping pro players properly handle their winnings Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “We have put…

Counter-Strike Player Sues Valve Over ‘Illegal’ Weapon Skin Gambling

In Counter-Strike, players can earn, trade, and sell cosmetic flourishes for their weapons. Over time, this has given rise to a thriving unofficial gambling scene. Players bet skins with real world value on CSGO eSports matches. For some, it’s a means of making an awful lot of money. It can also be awfully sketchy, which…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s officially summer! Time to crank the AC and play some video games. I’ll go first: This weekend I’m gonna play some 35mm, which looks fascinating. I’ll also doubtless be playing some more Hitman, since I have a bunch of escalations and other Marrakesh stuff I want to get done before next weekend’s just-announced elusive…

Tips For The Steam Summer Sale

The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing, which means deals out the proverbial wazoo. Here are some things to keep in mind if you want to come away with plenty of games and a not entirely empty wallet. Check out this guide Lifehacker wrote a pretty comprehensive Steam Sale guide. It covers all the…

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Damn, Geralt Broke The Deer

Today on Highlight Reel we have bear traps, uncharged controllers, great timing, broken deer and much 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! DC Universe Online…

You Can’t Gift Counter-Strike During Valve’s Steam Summer Sale

We’ve got a twofer for you in the Unexpected Happenings department today: 1) You can’t buy Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a gift during the Steam Summer Sale, and 2) Valve actually explained their actions. Quickly! Earlier today, confused CSGO players began reporting that they couldn’t buy the game as a gift for friends. Valve’s Ido…

The Witcher 3 And Nintendo Games Are Just Pulp Fiction

For a game that features giant monsters and lawless bandits, you sure do spend a lot of time in The Witcher 3 playing medieval detective. Which is an idea freelance illustrator Ástor Alexander takes and runs with in these incredible images. It’s not the first time he’s done something like this—you might remember his Nintendo…

This Year’s Steam Summer Sale Has Started

If you’ve got a piggy bank, kiss it goodbye. If you don’t, I guess stare deeply and lovingly into the imagined eyes of the Apple wallet icon on your phone or something. It’s summer, which means It Is Time: the Steam Summer Sale is here. This year’s sale is called the Summer Picnic Sale. It…

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Dragon Age Cosplay Gets Hammered, Makes Out

This merry band of cosplayers figured that if they were going to get together and dress up like Dragon Age characters, they may as well act like them. All photos by Anton Timofeev. Cosplayers are Sons of a Gun Cosplay (Hawke, Isabela), Ren Sinclair (Merrill) and Dark Incognito’s Cassandra, which we’ve actually featured here before…

It’s Not Easy Putting A Gay Sex Game On Steam

Steam doesn’t have many gay sex games. Plenty of anime boob games, sure, but if you’re looking for hot dudes getting it on, it’s slim pickings. Robert Yang is trying to change that. (Warning: some possibly NSFW images ahead.) Yang’s gained a fair amount of notoriety over the years with experimental games like dick pic…

Team Fortress 2 Game Fills With Streamers, Descends Into Chaos

These days, it’s not all that uncommon to run into somebody who’s streaming and commentating while you’re playing a multiplayer game. If they’re not A Tool Of The Actual Devil, they might mute their mic. But in a team-based game you can’t always afford to do that. Dapper Dog managed to put together a Team…

Burger King Thinks Mac N’ Cheetos Is Something You Might Eat

Burger King is out of control and doesn’t care who it hurts. Being tested in select markets and soon rolling out nationwide, Mac N’ Cheetos are deep-fried macaroni and cheese sticks with Cheetos breading. To put it in old, worn-out meme terms, they heard you liked cheese, so they put cheese in their cheese. Also…