My Battletech Pilot Died From A Heartbreaking Stray Shot

Battletech’s giant robot brawls can last a long time before one side claims victory. The recently released tactics game embraces a slow, deliberate pace that can lull the player into false comfort. Thanks to an unlikely dice roll, a single critical attack this weekend became one of the most shocking moments I’ve ever had while…

Dating Sim Monster Prom Rewards Some Pretty Ghoulish Behavior

In most dating sims, it’s obvious how to romance your crush. You just talk to them over and over, selecting the nicest dialogue responses until your persistence is rewarded. Monster Prom flips that script by introducing both character stats and a competitive multiplayer component. In Monster Prom, you’re a monster attending a monster school who…

Activision’s CEO Made $28.6 Million Last Year, 306 Times The Median Activision Employee

Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s compensation for 2017 was $28,698,375, according to filings the video game publisher submitted earlier this week to the U.S. Security and Exchanges Commission. Don’t be too jealous, though—that’s actually a pay cut. But it’s still over 300 times what the median Activision employee made. Kotick, who has long been one of…

Here’s Our Best Look Yet At Red Dead Redemption 2

Here’s the new trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2, a video game about cowboys that I think a couple of people might be anticipating. It’s our best look yet at the upcoming Rockstar western. Among other things, the trailer reveals that the next Red Dead Redemption is set in 1899 and that Dutch Van der…

A Nintendo Labo Powered Wheelchair

Now that Nintendo Labo is out, people are doing cool things with it. Using the motorcycle Joy-Con to control a wheelchair has to be among the coolest of them. This was created by Japanese researcher and inventor Kentaro Yoshifuji. Since Yoshifuji was in high school, he has developed new technology for electric wheelchairs, and this…

Before Space Invaders, Taito Made Vodka 

Nintendo got its start making playing cards. Sega began making amusement machines for the U.S. military. And Taito? It was the first company to distil vodka in Japan. As pointed out in Chris Kohler’s book Power-Up and by game localizer Matt Alt on Twitter, Taito got its start in vodka thanks to its founder, the…

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Post-Apocalyptic Cosplay Looks Like It Survived The End Of The World

Dimitri Zaitsev, from Nuclear Snail, built this piece of post-apocalyptic cosplay that’s so detailed it looks like it travelled back in time to warn us to save the bees while we still could. We’ve featured Nuclear Snail’s work before; rather than directly replicate costumes from stuff like Fallout, Mad Max and STALKER, he comes up…

Stole Your Heart

Justin Chan is an artist who has worked for companies like Hasbro, Vlambeer and Nick Jr. You can see more of Justin’s art at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of video game…

Korean Overwatch Hackers Arrested, Hit With $10,000 Fine

South Korea’s new law that takes aim at those who hack online games in order to cheat at them, which went into effect last June, has hackers in hot water. Earlier this year, 13 Overwatch offenders were arrested, and now two have received their sentences. According to a post from Blizzard Korea—which worked with the…

X-Wing Miniatures Game Gets A Reboot

Fantasy Flight’s money-printing X-Wing, which has been killing it for a few years now, is getting a reboot with a new Second Edition of the game. Announced today by Fantasy Flight, it makes a number of changes to the way the game’s played, some of them all-new ideas, others tweaks made in reaction to the…

Battletech Is Pretty Good

Released on PC last week, Battletech is a new strategy/tactics game by Harebrained Schemes (Shadowrun). In the absolute simplest terms, it’s kinda like XCOM, only you’re in control of some giant lumbering mechs. Battletech is a game of two halves. You’ll spend most of your time doing turn-based battle on 3D landscapes, but there’s also…

Donkey Kong Game Disappears From eShop Ahead Of Switch Re-Release

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was first released on the Wii U in 2014, and has previously available as a digital download on Nintendo’s eShop. Now that the game has been re-released on the Switch, though, it’s been noticed that the cheaper digital version of the game is no longer available. There are reports of…

Our Top Four Spring 2018 Anime Picks

It’s time to pretend you have debilitating pollen allergies and can’t leave your bed, because this spring’s batch of new anime is here. There is a hell of a lot of anime this season, so us brave, selfless souls at Kotaku sorted through it for you. Here are our recommendations. Aggretsuko Studio: Fanworks Genre: Slice…

Brigitte Arrives In Overwatch‘s Competitive Mode, Makes Tanks Miserable

Yesterday, Overwatch’s 10th competitive season kicked off, bringing the game’s newest hero, flail-swinging stun machine Brigitte, into the mix. Today, Reinhardt mains are threatening to quit. If you’re a big ol’ block of meat hoping to hunker down on the frontline, consider yourself on an involuntary hunker strike. Brigitte is highly adept at wading through…

What’s Next For God Of War

God of War tells an unusually satisfying, self-contained story. But because it exists in this age of interconnected universes and unending franchises, it also contains plenty of hints about where the series might go next. Spoilers! This post will spoil everything about the ending of God of War. The spoilers come immediately after this warning.…