Pokémon Sword & Shield Gigantamax Variants Are Getting Weirder

It’s official. Here are the Gigantamax versions of Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, and Meowth. Gigantamaxing bumps up their battle stats, increases their size and changing their appearance, making them all strange, big, and glowy. That version of Meowth sure is something! It looks like a nod to the long-cat meme, but glowing and with yellow eyes.…

Man Arrested After Sending Death Threats To Hideaki Anno’s Studio

A 35-year-old resident of Okayama, Japan is in police custody after making death threats to Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara. Best known for the Rebuild of Evangelion anime series, Khara received threats over SNS that evoked the Kyoto Animation tragedy. According to Livedoor News, Noriaki Inukai was arrested for making the threats, to which he has…

Badly Behaved Foreigners In Japan Discussed On Beat Takeshi’s TV Show

Japan is hosting the Rugby World Cup. Fans from all over the world are attending, and a percentage of them have been rowdy. On TV Tackle, one of Beat Takeshi’s television programs, the issue of poorly behaved foreigner tourists was once again a topic of discussion. There has been footage of rugby fans causing chaos,…

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The Pokémon Studio’s New RPG Sets Itself Apart

Little Town Hero, out October 16 for the Nintendo Switch, is a Game Freak role-playing game about a young boy who’s charged with fighting a bunch of viciously powerful monsters as adults stand idly by. No, not that one. Little Town Hero is totally its own thing: a deceptively simple RPG-card-game hybrid with light tactical…

League Of Legends’ Creators Also Making An Animated Series, Card Game, Fighting Game And Shooter

In addition to the announcement that a version of the main game itself is coming to consoles and phones, Riot have also tonight said that there are a bunch of League of Legends spin-offs in the works, along with an animated series. First, the card game. It’s called Legends of Runeterra, and is a free-to-play…

League Of Legends Is Coming To Consoles, Phones

After a decade of dominating on PC, League of Legends is finally launching a version of the game on both home consoles and mobile devices. It’s called League of Legends: Wild Rift, and makes some important changes to the PC version. It’s got a modified version of the map, a new user interface and dual-stick…

Upside The Spider-Verse

Zac Retz is an artist at Disney who has also done work for companies like Blur and Dreamworks, and on movies like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse You can see more of Zac’s stuff at his personal site and ArtStation page

2500 Classic MS-DOS Games Are Now Free To Play

Remember, the Internet Archive is useful for more than just seeing how embarrassing your old Kotaku posts were. It’s also home to a ton of classic PC games, and 2500 new ones have just been added to the site’s catalogue. There’s obviously a load of crap among that number, but there are also some damn…

The Switch Just Can’t Handle Overwatch

With today’s launch of Overwatch on Nintendo Switch, there is officially a worst way to play one of the best games of all time. There are a lot of sub-optimal things about this port. The timing is inopportune, for one. Overwatch is landing on Switch three and a half years after its original release, and…

New Paradox Game Steals Halo Artwork, Gets Pulled

Grand strategy masters Paradox today announced a new mobile take on their big space game Stellaris, which has already been taken offline after fans quickly discovered that the title featured art literally stolen from an artist at 343 Studios, the developers of the Halo series. Here’s the art in question, found within the game (it…

Shadow Of Tomb Raider Isn’t Getting A New Tomb, But Will Soon Be Free Of Unpopular Outfit Restrictions

There’s nothing like the announcement of a “definitive edition” of a game to wring some answers out of a game studio and their marketing team. And so, with the announcement of Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition for November 5, we finally can stop wondering about two important Tomb Raider things. 1. Is there…

Baldur’s Gate And Planescape: Torment Still Tell Stories Like No Other Games Can

With today’s releases of Baldur’s Gate games and Planescape: Torment for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, some of the most influential video games of the last 20 years complete a very long journey to the kind of wide audience they’ve long existed just outside. They’re also very old games that have spawned newer,…

Don’t Miss Out On This Optional Indivisible Party Member

Indivisible’s core conceit revolves around enlisting a wide array of party members, each with their own skills, to contribute to the Valkyrie Profile-esque combat. But there’s one recruitable character that’s entirely optional and pretty easy to miss in the game’s second major dungeon, which is a shame because his utility and damage output have since…

Red Dead Online’s Weekly Legendary Bounties Are Worth Trying

Back in September, Rockstar started adding weekly legendary bounties in Red Dead Online. These new legendary bounties have unique cutscenes, new voice acting and are designed to feel like big cinematic missions. The first two were great. The three since then have been as well, making legendary bounties some of the best content in the…