Two Point Hospital, As Reviewed By An Actual Hospital Administrator

Fifteen years ago, I played Theme Hospital religiously as a medical student. Now, I find myself playing Two Point Hospital as a medical administrator. That’s video games for you. There’s no doubt that a sizeable number of people playing this hospital simulator are doing so due to the nostalgia factor, although not too many people…

Total War Game Gets Review Bombed On Steam Over Women Generals [Update]

Over the past 24 hours, strategy game Total War: Rome II has picked up over 350 new negative reviews, triggering Steam’s graph-based review bomb alert system. The reason? A controversy surrounding women generals that appears to be largely contrived. It began last month with a handful of Steam forum posts and reviews in which players…

Football Fans Throw Controllers Onto Field In Protest Against Esports

A football game in the Swiss league was halted on Sunday when fans threw tennis balls—and control pads, some emblazoned with the words “FUCK ESPORTS”—onto the field. As the Associated Press reports (via Eurogamer), the Young Boys vs Basel game in the Swiss Super League was held up for around two minutes while stewards cleared…

If Telltale’s The Walking Dead Is Over, It’s Ending On A High Note

When The Walking Dead: The Final Season was named, it only referred to the end of the series and the end of Clementine’s story. Now, as Telltale Games begins a “majority studio closure” and has laid off hundreds of workers, the title takes on new meaning. It’s all the more tragic since the latest episode…

Good Luck Kisses And Other Surprise Game-Winning Tactics At CEOtaku 2018

Tayson Defas is a highly skilled Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite competitor who has a couple of secret weapons for staying focused during stressful tournament matches. He’ll meditate between games, sometimes even stepping away to sit on the floor. Also, he has a boyfriend, fellow fighting game player Sebastian “Sol” Oliva, who has been known to…

Help, I’m Drowning In Destiny 2 Gear

Would you like to see a sidearm called “The Last Dance”? How about four? How about yet another set of Tangled Web Grips? Maybe a pair of Vigil of Heroes hunter boots… or six? Thanks to how Destiny 2 now handles loot, I’ve got all of those and many, many more. A lot of the…

Let’s Go Through Everything That Happened In Spider-Man PS4

When players aren’t caught up in solving random crimes, performing optional missions or basking in the sheer joy of swinging around Insomniac’s New York City, Spider-Man for the PS4 tells a classic Spidey tale that shouldn’t be missed. In case you are missing it, here’s what happens. What follows is a chapter-by-chapter retelling of the…

Netflix’s Maniac: A ten episode series about experimental psychiatric drugs and the power of friendship. What it is: Jonah Hill is the mentally ill black sheep of a wealthy family, and Emma Stone is a con artist trying to score a rare new drug. Both them enter an experimental medical trial that messes with their…

Finally, A Live-Action Transformers Movie I Want To See

Five films and 11 years later, the Transformers movie folks finally got the robot designs right. The latest trailer for December’s Bumblebee movie is packed with the first generation Autobots and Decepticons long-time fans have been waiting for. Ravage, eject! Bumblebee is set in the late ‘80s, a couple of decades before the Transformers’ war…

Telltale Employees Left Stunned By Company Closure, No Severance [Update]

Telltale Games employees were surprised when CEO Pete Hawley announced the closure of the company at a staff-wide meeting. One employee, a source told Kotaku, had been working until 3 AM the night before with no inkling that the studio was about to let them and over 200 other employees go, leaving behind a skeleton…

The Internet Has Been Replaced By Bowser Wearing The Super Crown

A concept introduced in a single fan-made comic strip has absolutely destroyed the internet. In the port of New Super Mario Bros. Wii U for the Switch, called New Super Mario Bros. Wii U Deluxe, Toadette has an item called the Super Crown that turns her into a character called Peachette. That was two weeks…

If you read Stephen Totilo’s’s preview of Red Dead Redemption 2 but want to hear more about it, check out this bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen. Maddy Myers and I grill him about train robberies, horse balls, and plenty more. Splitscreen is also on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and other major podcast services.

World Of Warcraft Keeps Me Coming Back

Having spent the past decade reviewing World of Warcraft expansions, I’ve gotten into a certain rhythm. The expansion launches, I play for a month or so, post a reviewand then I move on. Yet I’ve logged into WoW every day since my review of the Battle for Azeroth went live. What can I say? The…

The Week In Games: Strange Tactical Soccer

This week gives us a new Valkyria Chronicles, FIFA 19, and South Park on the Switch. This is a heavy week when it comes to games, and we’re slowly moving into an absolutely jam-packed fall of big, exciting games every single week. If you’re a soccer (or “football”) fan, then this is the big week…

New Death Stranding Trailer Stars A Very Golden Troy Baker

Kojima Productions closed out this year’s Tokyo Game Show with a Death Stranding presentation, complete with a short new trailer starring Troy Baker and his very expensive mask.

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Here’s Another Adidas x Dragon Ball Sneaker: Shenron

Adidas keeps rolling out looks at the official Dragon Ball sneakers that’ll start releasing soon, and the latest is probably the best of the bunch: Shenron. These shots froms.sam.group show that the EQT Support ADV Primeknit Shenron’s shoe is based on has had its colour palette sharpened up to match the dragon’s appearance, while there’s…

Flotsam Is Waterworld: The Strategy Game

Flotsam is an upcoming town-builder on PC set in a desolate future where everything has sunk beneath the waves. Players are left to scrounge the surface (and the depths) for construction materials, while avoiding things that are trying to trash your floating settlement. This could be a total downer, but developers Pajama Llama have wisely…