Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The ‘Omegalul’ Emote (But Were Afraid To Ask)

Some memes explode into the collective consciousness with no remorse or regret, frothing at the mouth and daring hapless bystanders to remain out of the loop. One way or another, you’ll learn what they mean, and you’ll get sick of them in two weeks, just like God intended. Others, however, slink around in their own…

Red Dead’s Giant Catfish Has Finally Been Caught (In The Game’s Files)

For years, well, one year, since ’18, there’ve been talk of a strange catfish lurkin’ beneath the waters of Red Ded Redemption 2’s channel. I ain’t never seen such a catfish, but folks playin’ the game on the PC reckon it’s there. You just gotta look harder Specifically, in the game’s files, where PC players—like…

Behold, Japan’s Supernatural Cat Festival

Every year, the Tokyo neighbourhood of Kagurazaka plays host to the Supernatural Cat Festival, a celebration of feline friends that involves a whole ton of people dressing up as cats then marching down the street playing music. Among their ranks were cosplayers (Morgana!) and furries, and the whole thing just looks like the best day…

Teenage Fortnite Pro Suspended From Twitch For Streaming With Banned Player

Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod has received a seven-day suspension from Twitch after he streamed on Monday alongside Zayn, a player who has been permanently banned from the service. It’s the second time this month a player has been punished for even associating with Zayn, after another Fortnite pro, Khanada, got a three-day suspension last…

Major Ghost Recon Breakpoint Update Isn’t Enough To Fix The Game

Today, Ghost Recon Breakpoint got its biggest update since launch. Besides the two new faction missions, there are a host of tweaks, some big, some small, touching on almost every aspect of the game. They might not turn Breakpoint into a game you need to play, but they are slowly turning it into the sort…

The Internet Reacts To The Sonic Movie Redesign

Movie Sonic is back. After dying earlier this year so that we could be saved from his own sinful visage, Sonic has been reborn as a cutesy blue baby child who would not spit out a mouthful of human teeth if you reflexively punched him while recoiling in terror at the thought of how he…

Xbox One Is Getting A Shuffle Button To Let You Go Through Your Backlog At Random

A new “Surprise Me” button will be added to the Xbox One’s game library, Microsoft announced yesterday on Twitter. Rolling out first for players in the Xbox One insider testing program, the “Surprise Me” button will allow the indecisive player to select a game randomly from their library to play. The button doesn’t automatically launch…

Minecraft Earth Is Now Live

There was a virtual sheep roaming around in our Times Square office today thanks to Minecraft Earth, the new augmented reality mobile game that lets players make, wreck and otherwise interact with life-size Minecraft builds. The game has been in beta in various regions, but went into wider early access release today. To get in,…

It’s Amazing That I Ever Finished My First Hardcore RPG

Inspired by the recent 10-year anniversary of Dragon Age: Origins, I decided to revisit the BioWare role-playing game for kicks. I loved the game when I played through it in late 2009 and early 2010. It was my first BioWare RPG—I didn’t have a gaming PC growing up, and I generally came to a lot…

Metal Slug: The Ultimate History Is A Very Impressive Book

When the folks at Bitmap Books offered to send me a copy of Metal Slug: The Ultimate History, I was picturing something much slimmer than the massive, 452-page tome I received. Who knew SNK’s cartoonish run-and-gun shooter series had such a rich and colorful history? Officially licensed by SNK, Metal Slug: The Ultimate History walks fans…

Teenagers Spent Almost Two Years Making Unicorn Gundam Out Of Cardboard

High school students in Japan decided to bring the RX-O Unicorn Gundam to life. The statue is for the school’s cultural arts festival. Twitter user Tosshii and some classmates worked together on the creation, which took about two years to finish. Here is the front: And the back: As Kotaku previously reported, Bandai Namco built…

New Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Trailer Shows His Redesigned Face

Well, it’s here. Let’s see what Sonic looks like now that the redesign is done To recap: When the first trailer for the upcoming movie was shown off earlier this year, reaction among fans (and everyone else) to Sonic’s weird face was…not kind. So Paramount went back to the drawing board, delayed the movie, and…

Adult Game Billboard Removed In Akihabara For Being Too Lewd

On November 1, a billboard went up in Tokyo’s Akihabara near the station. The advertisement featured about ten anime-style young women in revealing clothing. Besides the complaints, the billboard did not conform to regulations regarding public advertisements. Editor’s note: This article contains imagery some readers might find objectionable. The billboard is for an adult game…

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A Look At How The ESRB Rates Video Games

Danny O’Dwyer’s Noclip documentary series recently got the chance to visit the ESRB and see just how the organization works. The 44-minute video touches on a number of topics. First, it’s a pretty good history of the ESRB, detailing their originsin the wake of social and political hysteria surrounding video game violence in the 1990s…