Epic Says Its Store Won’t Sell ‘Porn Games Or Bloatware’

It’s been a big day for the Epic Games Store. During its GDC keynote, Epic announced a boatload of new exclusives (including Detroit: Become An Epic Games Store Exclusive) and a deal with Humble. Momentum appears to be on the store’s side, with Epic now touting strong early sales and a more curated approach than…

Goat Simulator Developers’ New Game Is About Building The Perfect Factory

The opening track “Ever” on the band Flipper’s classic first album, Album, contains the lyric, “Ever look at a flower, and hate it?” As I was playing Satisfactory, the new game from the developer of Goat Simulator, I realized that lyric pretty much sums up what the game is about. While Goat Simulator was about…

Apex Legends’ New Character Octane Is Perfect For Blindsiding Enemies

After spending a day now with Apex Legends’ new addition to the roster, fast-moving Spanglish-slangin’ daredevil Octane, I find myself picking him naturally, since he gels so well with my play style. So I sat down with Kotaku’s Riley MacLeod to talk about everything we like about Octane and our trouble trying to make the…

I’ve been doing a lot of interviews at GDC that I can’t wait to tell you about, but in the meantime can you guess who I was just talking with from this horrible sketch in my notebook? He was throwing a lot of punches and talking about how to make good action games.

The Second Cutest Final Fantasy Spinoff Is Back, And It’s Brought Friends

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon passed the “cutest Final Fantasy game” crown to World of Final Fantasy and its hordes of adorable critters in 2016, but that’s okay. The 2007 Wii game, remastered today for the Switch and PlayStation 4 and renamed Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy, is still one of the sweetest and purest…

Rainbow Six Siege Change Will Punish Griefers By Making Bullets Hurt The People Firing Them

There are few things more infuriating than getting popped by a teammate in a multiplayer first-person shooter. Rainbow Six Siege’s solution? The digital equivalent of making team killers smack themselves with their own hands and telling them to “stop hitting yourself.” Rainbow Six’s new “reverse friendly fire” feature is intended to address toxicity by making…

What We Know And Don’t Know About Google’s New Gaming Platform Stadia

Google shared a lot of information about it’s new video game streaming platform at yesterday’s GDC presentation, and we’ve learned even more about the technology through interviews, like the one Kotaku had with Stadia boss Phil Harrison on Splitscreen. But there’s still a lot we don’t know. Google has not said exactly when it comes,…

What year is it?! If you still want to make 8-bit NES games, you can demo and buy “NES Maker” software here at GDC, which lets you create an NES game with a GUI interface, no programming necessary. The games you make can run on actual NES hardware.

Epic Snags More Major Store Exclusives, Including Quantic Dream’s Games

Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human are all coming to the PC, all exclusively to Epic’s store, Epic said today at Game Developers Conference. Other games whose PC versions will come to Epic’s store exclusively include Control, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, and Afterparty All three Quantic Dream games were previously published by…

A port of roguelike bullet hell Nuclear Throne and a surprise new sequel, Blaster Master Zero 2, are both coming to Switch… today. Nintendo just announced these during their indies showcase.

All The Cool Indies Nintendo Announced Today For The Switch

The Switch is a very good platform for indie games, and it’s only getting better. During today’s “Nindies Showcase,” Nintendo announced 16 independent games newly coming to the Switch, including Cuphead, Stranger Things, and a Crypt of the NecroDancer/Zelda mashup. Out Today It’s a surprise Blaster Master Zero sequel! Blaster Master Zero 2 is out…

A Surprise Zelda Game Is Coming From An Acclaimed Indie Studio

Well, this is very different and pretty damn cool. Nintendo just announced that the people behind the excellent musical dungeon-crawling game Crypt of the NecroDancer are making a Zelda game called Cadence of Hyrule. It’s out this spring. The game appears to bring Cadence, the protagonist from Brace Yourself Games’ hit indie, to Link’s world.…

Epic Games is livesteaming from the Game Developer’s Conference at 12:30pm Eastern Watch the presentation on YouTube above, or on Twitch

Xbox Gem Cuphead Is Coming To Switch

Cuphead was one of the best Xbox One and PC side-scrollers of the last few years—and on April 18, it’s coming to Nintendo Switch. Cuphead is a challenging side-scroller where you play as a personified cup going after a gauntlet of deadly and beautifully animated bosses. When it landed on Xbox One and PC in…

A Letter To The Apex Legends Player I Probably Disappointed

Dear person I played Apex Legends with the other night: I am so sorry. We got off to a rocky start. Our third player disconnected before the match began, so we were a duo in a world of trios. You landed hot, dropping straight into an area with a couple other teams, and I was…