Amazing Celeste Speedrun Includes All The Extras

Speedrunners can rush through Celeste in about thirty minutes but collecting everything and completing all challenges is much trickier. Last night, someone finally completed a 114% speedrun, collecting all hidden items and completing the game’s most difficult levels without dying. Achieving 114% in Celeste is difficult even when you’re taking your time. It involves collecting…

One Paris Street Has A Dozen Video Game Stores

If you ever go to Paris, there are a few things you absolutely must see. There’s the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa hangs. There’s the Eiffel Tower, hulking and iconic. And then there’s the street full of video game stores. Last week while visiting the World’s Most Romantic City™, I went down to Boulevard Voltaire,…

Belgium Says Loot Boxes In Games Like Overwatch Are Illegal

Loot boxes in FIFA 18, Overwatch, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are now illegal in Belgium, with the country’s legislators declaring today that if the games’ publishers don’t remove the offending microtransactions, people behind the games could face fines and even time behind bars. As reported by Eurogamer, Belgium minister of justice Koen Greens said in…

Beyond: Two Souls Headlines May’s PlayStation Plus Lineup

If you need some David Cage before Detroit comes out in May, next month’s PlayStation Plus lineup has you with Beyond: Two Souls. As ever, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus account. May’s PlayStation Plusgames are: PlayStation 4 Beyond: Two Souls Rayman Legends PlayStation 3 Risen 3: Titan Lords…

A Way Out Is The Perfect Game For Couples

If you have been looking for the video game equivalent of marriage counseling, boy do I have a suggestion for you: Grab your significant other and go play A Way Out A Way Out, which came out last month for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, is a cooperative narrative game that tells the story of…

A Game That’s A Surreal Recreation of the 90s Internet

Hypnospace Outlaw is an alternate-reality Internet simulator set in 1999. It captures that half-remembered, vaguely sinister strangeness and freedom of the early Internet uncannily well. Fittingly, it is extremely bizarre. If you spent your youth as an explorer of the early Internet, clicking around weird Geocities fansites and painstakingly creating your own wallpapers in MS…

How Nintendo Labo Reflects Japanese Culture 

It’s a Saturday afternoon in Osaka. My two youngest sons are sitting at the kitchen table, pulling out sheets of cardboard to make Nintendo Labo. The older of the two, who is eight, is looking at the instructions, making sure he’s got the folds just right. This all feels familiar. Nintendo Labo is universal. It…

Dragon Ball Z Themed Baseball Uniforms Will Take The Field In Taiwan 

Chinatrust Brothers, one of the most popular pro teams in Taiwan, will don Dragon Ball Z themed uniforms when playing the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions on May 5 and 6. Apparently, this is the first time Dragon Ball Z has officially appeared on a professional baseball uniform—at least in Taiwan. The team’s “Brothers” moniker will be…

First Look At The Studio Ghibli Theme Park’s Official Concept Art

As previously reported, a Studio Ghibli theme park is in the works. It was originally planned for 2020, but it’s now pencilled in for 2022. Here is a look at what to possibly expect. Ghibli Park will be located on a 200-hectare plot of land on which the 2005 World’s Fair was held near Nagoya,…

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Maybe Kratos Isn’t That Strong

Today on Highlight Reel we have Labo creations, God of War laziness, inter-dimensional nut punches, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up…

Overwatch‘s Symmetra Mains Agree: The Problem Is Other Players

Despite striving for order and balance in all things, Symmetra has always been the odd woman out on Overwatch’s hero roster. On the verge of yet another rework, Symmetra mains—often the butt of verbal abuse—say that despite everything, they don’t want her to change all that much. Symmetra is a character who just can’t seem…

Boy, Read This: The Internet Pokes Fun At Kratos In God of War

For such a grim, serious and violent game, God of War sure is making people on the internet laugh. God of War is a pleasant surprise. Playing as Kratos, the curmudgeonly dad and his precious son Atreus is both narratively satisfying and has interesting gameplay. It’s also given rise to one of my favorite current…

Pokkén Tournament Competitors Flew In Two People Who Ended Up Beating Them

A Pokkén Tournament event at SwitchFest in California crowdfunded travel for two internationally elite competitors, Tsubasa “CrossIgarashi” Igarashi of Japan and José Manuel “XAbsoluted“ Sanjuán Carreño of Spain. Curiously, it wasn’t just fans and spectators supporting these players, but also their direct competition. Like much of the community, Allister Singh—a high-level player from California that…

Weird Stuff Happens Off Screen In Kingdom Hearts II

Kingdom Hearts II contains dozens of worlds to explore and hundreds of cutscenes to watch. The latest episode of YouTube show Boundary Break sheds light on some of the tricks behind the game’s awesome presentation. These include squishing characters’ heads and building entire cityscapes that the player never gets to explore. Boundary Break is a…

Switch Hackers Say Nintendo Can’t Patch Their New Jailbreak

This week, two hacking groups have independently released methods that allow a user to jailbreak the Switch, which one group is already using to run a ported version of Linux on Nintendo’s device. The worse news for Nintendo—the hackers say the exploit is due to a bug in the system’s processor chip, meaning that Nintendo…

Fortnite Players Are Using New Sticky Grenades To Suicide Bomb Enemies

Today Fortnite added sticky grenades, the secret best shooter weapon of all time as proven by Halo. The game’s player base, composed of every human currently alive and a few long thought dead, has already come up with devious ways to use them. Clinger grenades, as they’re known in Fortnite, stick to any character you…