In its first three days on sale in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 1,880,626 package copies at retail. This is the biggest debut for any Switch game in Japan to date. During that same week, a whopping 392,576 Switch units (including Switch Lite) were also sold in Japan. 

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It Sucks Being Player 2 In Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is all about working together and building a sense of community, but if you’re not the primary player account on the game, it’s a lot harder to participate. New Horizons lets you make one island per Switch, and up to eight players can live on it together. But only one of…

The Best Solo Board Games

Despite them normally being very much a stay-at-home thing, it’s going to be difficult to play board games over the next few months because they tend to involve getting people over and getting social. Unless, that is, you’re playing one of these very good solo board games. Over the last couple of years the more…

Why Are There So Many Surveillance Cameras In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

A huge part of the fun in Animal Crossing is hunting down the perfect items to furnish your home. But things have taken an unsettling turn in New Horizons as several players have started to find creepy items in the trees around their islands. When I first started playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons a few…

Borderlands 3 will receive another level cap increase in this week’s Guns, Love, and Tentacles expansion These four extra levels will give players the chance to try out new abilities or even max out two separate skill trees for their Vault Hunters

Bow Before The Beauty Of My Custom-Painted Joy-Cons

In my never-ending quest to make my consoles and controllers look uniquely pretty, I turn to Colorware, the company that’s been painting game hardware for two decades. They do custom color Joy-Cons for $150 and special limited edition designs for $200, which look and feel amazing. There’s nothing wrong with spending $70 on a pair…

Sony Slowing Game Download Speeds In Europe To Help With ‘Internet Stability’ [Update: Also In the US]

Today, Sony said it’s working with internet providers in Europe to manage PlayStation download traffic now that social distancing has brought more people online than ever. Players might experience slower game downloads during this time. “We believe it is important to do our part to address Internet stability concerns as an unprecedented number of people…

Control Is Getting Some Cool New Abilities

Grow my little rock friends, grow! Control is full of fun paranormal powers you can use to manipulate its world. The Foundation downloadable expansion coming to PS4 and PC on March 26 adds a few more. One of them is called Shape and it lets you sprout giant barnacles to create platforms you can hop…

Doom Eternal: The Kotaku Review

2016’s Doom reimagined the classic shooter into a frantic but modern mold. The bloody escapades of the Doom Slayer were rife with bullets and guts. It was a grimy video game hamburger. Doom Eternal is bigger and bloodier, almost to the point of excess. It’s the same hamburger dipped into a vat of delicious special…

Plague Inc. Is Adding A Game Mode About Fighting A Global Pandemic

Plague Inc. is a video game in which players create and cultivate a deadly pathogen in order to wipe out as much of the global population as possible. In response to the real-world covid-19 pandemic, developer Ndemic Creations is working on a new game mode where players work toward stopping a deadly global outbreak. Plague…

Granblue Fantasy Versus Adds Buff Grandpa Soriz April 7

Every fighting game needs a muscle-bound older gentleman to show those young whippersnappers what’s what. In Granblue Fantasy Versus that old man is Soriz, a former weapon crafter who decided he was the greatest weapon of them all. He also enjoys wearing loincloths. He’s coming to the game on April 7. One part living weapon,…

Track: Patience (Cover) | Artist: Norah Jones | Album: N/A

South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee has rated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered. The country’s ratings board often inadvertently leaks unannounced games it rates. This is probably no exception. [Thanks Sang for the tip!)