Epic flew a bunch of Twitch streamers out to GDC to stream Fortnite on a big screen. And ride a mechanical llama. Streamer Pookieface told me that the experience has been kinda nerve-wracking, but she eventually found her groove and won a victory royale, to big crowd applause. “It’s more of an adrenaline rush, and…

Princess Mipha, Of Zora’s Domain

This is Sorairo-Days as Breath of the Wild’s Princess Mipha. Photos by Solita Delacruz. Costume design by SunsetDragon, trident by FullHealthCosplay

300 Super Nintendo Game Logos, Now In HD

We see a lot of remastered games, but this is something different: Nico Vliek has done some hard work and remastered into big HD resolution 300 old Super Nintendo game logos. Why? They’re glorious, that’s why. Also because Vliek wanted to “support educational purposes” They’re so beautiful. If you want to see all 300 logos…

EA Created An AI That Taught Itself To Play Battlefield

Electronic Arts’ Search for Extraordinary Experiences (SEED) Division—which sounds like an anime space force—has created a “self-learning AI-agent” that has managed to teach itself how to play Battlefield 1 multiplayer. In this blog post, Magnus Nordin from SEED details how his team, inspired by Google’s work with old Atari games, wondered “how much effort it…

Monster Hunter Makes Perfectly-Timed Shot

Today on Highlight Reel we have a boatload of Sea of Thieves clips, nice shots, terrifying monsters, 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!…

Toys ‘R’ Us’ Founder Has Died

Charles Lazarus, the founder of retail chain Toys ‘R’ Us, has died at the age of 94. His death comes just a week after the company announced its plans to close its US and UK stores Born in in 1923, Lazarus founded Toys ‘R’ Us in 1948, and was the company’s CEO until 1994. He…

Warframe Removed A Microtransaction Because A Player Used It Too Much

In a new documentary about Warframe, the game’s developers discuss what they’ve learned about building a free-to-play multiplayer game over the years. It includes the story of how someone paying for a microtransaction 200 times helped them realize they’d accidentally created a slot machine. In the most recent episode of Danny O’Dwyer’s Noclip documentary series…

Divinity: Original Sin 2, As Told By Steam Reviews

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the kind of in-depth, detailed RPG where the developers had to nerf the chickens. Steam users are loving it. Do you like old-school RPGs like Baldur’s Gate, quality writing, and don’t have a social life? According to Steam users, Divinity 2 is for you! If these reviews are to be…

So Of Course I Had To Put Rumbling Joy-Cons On My Feet To Play Lumines

Ever since the days of Rez, Tetsuya Mizuguchi has always wanted you to not just play his games, but feel them, too. Should I have expected Lumines Remastered on Switch to be any different? Should I not have assumed I’d be taking my shoes off and putting Joy-Cons on my feet? Mizuguchi and rumble packs…

Monster Hunter: World‘s New Beast Utterly Destroys Other Monsters

Monster Hunter: World’s latest update brings back a series favorite monster: the massive, multi-toothed Deviljho. This pickle-shaped T-rex beast is one of the game’s most dangerous beasts and proves it by kicking the ass of every single monster it crosses paths with. Deviljho is a massive brute wyvern that was introduced in Monster Hunter 3…

FFXV‘s Noctis Perfectly Fits In Tekken 7

Final Fantasy’s Noctis is in Tekken 7 and, somehow, it works great. He’s a flashy, strong sword fighter who is totally true-to-form in the fighting game. When publisher Bandai Namco announced that prince Noctis would appear in Tekken 7, fans were psyched but not entirely surprised. Tekken’s World Tour was sponsored by Cup Noodles, which…

Bard’s Tale IV‘s Special Weapons Are Also Puzzles

The puzzles in The Room series are equal parts captivating and haunting, but they have just one problem: you can’t use them to kill anybody after you’ve solved them. The Bard’s Tale IV takes its inspiration from The Room, but with weapons instead of rooms. The Bard’s Tale IV was Kickstarted by inXile back in…

Major Fighting Game Tournament Completes Its Final Round

In a lengthy announcement, Final Round tournament organizer Larry “Shin Blanka” Dixon revealed that the flagship event series will come to an end. After two decades, the fighting game community has lost one of its most prominent competitive arenas. When Dixon took to Facebook after wrapping up the twentieth installment of Final Round this past…

The Gwent Version Of This Witcher Boss Is Out Of Control

As a competitive card game, Gwent has a community of players that’s both completely devoted and perpetually grumpy. The latest target of that energy happens to be a card called Imlerith: Sabbath, a gold monster whose power was best demonstrated when it almost single-handedly won a recent match. Jan “SuperJJ” Janßen, a pro Hearthstone player…

It’s Time For Game Developers To Unionize

SAN FRANCISCO—In a small room yesterday inside the massive Moscone Center meeting complex, roughly 200 people crowded around a large table to conduct a challenging conversation about working in the video game industry. There was a single microphone, chauffeured from person to person by a sprinting staffer working the Game Developers Conference, which is running…

A Way Out Is A Must-Play

The co-op prison break game A Way Out drops tomorrow, and it’s a marvel we’d recommend to any two people who are up for playing a six-hour game together. We highly recommend you go into it blind, just knowing that it’s an adventure made for two players and does some smart, creative things. If you…

Switch’s Success Means A Changing Nintendo

Once the red-headed stepchild of the Nintendo family, indie games have now established themselves as one of the main reasons to pick up a Switch. At the forefront of Nintendo’s efforts to shore up indie support on its platforms is Damon Baker, Nintendo’s senior manager of publisher and developer relations. Next to Nintendo of America…

I Won A Game About Lying By Telling The Truth

A good game of Subterfuge can last weeks as players seek to steal territory and destroy their opponents. It’s a mobile game of deceit, backstabbing, and half-truths. This weekend I won my first game, and I barely needed to get my hands dirty at all. In Subterfuge, up to 10 players seek to control aquatic…