Pokémon Home App Includes Bonus, Uh, Gif

The Pokémon Home app that’s now outhas a little surprise tucked away inside its files (at least on Android): this very good gif. If you open up the app’s APK, there’s a folder for gifs, which includes five Pikachu animations related to the program, and one that’s not. The gif was originally made by nippori way…

When You Were Partying She Studied The Blade

Fengli Lee is an artist from China. You can see more of Lee’s work at their ArtStation page

Pokémon Home, Nintendo’s new online pocket monster storage service for both Switch and mobile, is now live on the eShop in the USA.

Every Marvel vs. Capcom Character, Together At Last

Artist Chris Cayco, who we’ve featured a few times before on Kotaku, grew up playing Marvel vs. Capcom (and Marvel vs. Street Fighter) games. His tribute to this, which took him over 175 hours, was to combine every single character to ever appear in Capcom’s crossover series in the one enormous image You can see…

Red Dead Timelapse Is Just The Cutest Lil’ Thing

The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 is vast and realistic, but with a few camera tricks it can be made to look like a tiny little model railway set. This timelapse, tilt-shifted video was made by Red Dead Online Guides, and like so many other videos about Red Dead is great to watch just…

Fire Emblem: Three Houses Is Being Demade To Look More Like Older Games

Know what I loved about Three Houses? Almost everything! Know what I didn’t love? A lot of the game’s 3D visuals, from the monastery to the battle mode, looked like ass—something this ambitious mod project is looking to fix. FE: Three Houses GBA Demake is an attempt to entirely remake the game with retro pixel…

I Can’t Believe This Game Boy Advance SP Still Works

Uh, that doesn’t look good. Or at least that’s what I thought when I brought my Game Boy Advance SP down from the attic. You see, my niece had recently fallen in love with Pokémon Sword, and was now as obsessed with Pokémon as I was around her age. I wanted to show her Pokémon…

Valve Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Accounts

The official Dota 2 account on Twitter announced today that the developers have banned over 40,000 players for “abusing matchmaking,” but it’s still not clear what exactly that means. Kotaku has reached out to Valve for more context on what led to this massive wave of bannings and has yet to hear back. Dota 2,…

Wide Ocean Big Jacket, A Chill Game About Camping, Is The Perfect Length

As a kid, I never liked camping. I went to a multitude of Boy Scout and church camps, but I could never escape an overriding feeling of anxiety, like the trees were going to close in and suffocate me with their bristly branches. Turns out, I was just doing it wrong. The camping trips I…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline Again After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has once again taken Destiny 2 offline, following fresh reports of some players losing crafting materials following today’s hotfix. “Destiny 2 is being brought offline for emergency maintenance. Stand by for updates,” Bungie announced on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Today’s update was small, addressing problems with certain achievements not being properly recorded and changing…

Ubisoft Reveals A Surprise Division 2 Expansion ‘Warlords of New York’ That Is Designed To Revive The Game

The makers of The Division 2 have waited until nearly the last possible moment to give their frustrated player base a heap of potentially good news. After spending weeks failing to announce a release date for an expected small extension to the game, they’re revealing today that that mini-expansion—a free, two-mission excursion to Brooklyn’s Coney…

Please Stop Quitting Before I Can Revive You

I’m not the most aggressive battle royale player, but I put a lot of effort into supporting my team. I stick close to my squad, share my loot, and heal my teammates whenever I can. In games where downed players can be brought back, like Apex Legends or Fortnite, I always go out of my…

Borderlands 3 Gets Its First Level Cap Increase This Week

Borderlands 3 players have had almost six months to wring as much enjoyment out of the game as possible, including by reaching level 50, the game’s maximum. Now, the developers are ready to introduce the first level cap increase, which will give players the chance to earn three more levels beyond the current ceiling starting…

What Your Least Favorite Final Fantasy Says About You

The Final Fantasy franchise has been many things to many people in the decades since the series debuted in 1987: a card game, an energy drink, and no less than three unpopular motion pictures. But the nucleus of the entire multimedia universe has been the 15 core games in the series. Everybody has a favorite…