Steam’s Irresponsible Hands-Off Policy Is Proof That Valve Still Hasn’t Learned Its Lesson

Yesterday, Valve announced a sweeping new policy for Steam: From now on, the platform will allow “everything” except for games Valve decides are “illegal, or straight up trolling.” In light of controversies like the recently removed school shooter game Active Shooter, the announcement came as a surprise to those who were expecting Valve to offer…

It’s Mario And Bowser In Breath Of The Wild

This pair of mods, with Mario replacing Link and Bowser replacing a Hinox, brings one of Nintendo’s oldest battles to one of its newest classics. Bowser is by lynard killer, while Mario is by WilianZilv And for something similar, here’s a straight Fire Mario vs Bowser: Thanks Marc!

Latest Hearthstone Patch Is Full Of Stealth Nerfs And Bugs [Update: Some Fixes]

Update, June 8, 12:20 PM ET: Since the publication of this story, Blizzard has addressed the backlash over patch 11.2 by reverting the changes to Tess Greymane and allowing Quest Druid players whose decks rely on the newly-weakened Jungle Giants card to switch out their decks in this weekend’s Hearthstone Championship Tour Seoul competition. Blizzard…

Symmetra Turret Launched From Space

Today on Highlight Reel we have Reworked Symmetra strategies, Vampyr glitches, bike flips, 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 on all…

New Swedish Robot Game Sure Looks Like Simon Stålenhag’s Art

Generation Zero is the next game from Just Cause developers Avalanche Studios, and its setting will look familiar to anyone who is down with the sci-fi work of Simon Stålenhag. He’s an artist who has made a name for himself with haunting images of a retro Swedish countryside dotted with alien robots, and we’ve featured…

Destiny 2’s Revamped Faction Rallies Are A Big Improvement

This week, Destiny 2’s semi-regular Faction Rally event has returned with a lot of changes. Those changes are all for the better, particularly if you want to spend hours chasing hard-to-get rewards. Faction Rally is a weeklong event that turns up every month or so in Destiny 2. At the start of the week (Destiny…

A Video Game About Choosing The Right Greeting Card

In From Ivan, choosing the right greeting card could change your life. When I’m stuck in the greeting card isle of a pharmacy, I tend to freeze up. I know that my choice of card isn’t going to make or break my relationship with another person, but I still want to choose the right one.…

The Diablo-Style Action-RPG That’s Helping Me Fall In Love With Warhammer 40K

This week, action-RPG Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor – Martyr came out of Early Access on Steam, the latest in a long line of incomprehensibly titled games inspired by the Warhammer miniatures series. It’s a decent spin on the kill/loot/explore formula popularized by Diablo, but what it’s especially good at is making the complex and daunting lore-filled…

Heather and Paul are playing the physics-hell battle royale Totally Accurate Battlegrounds live now on YouTube. Come and watch the carnage!

Sims 4 Fans Are Mad About Snow

Sims fans are excited as hell for the upcoming Seasons expansion pack. It’s been long awaited, given that every game since The Sims 2 has eventually gotten it, and it has always been a fan favorite. Players have one big problem with what they’re seeing in previews, though: the depth of the snow. The Seasons…

It’s Hard To Look Away From The Overwatch League’s 0-37 Team

After last night, the Shanghai Dragons are 0-37 in the Overwatch League. That’s longer than any losing streak in the history of the big four North American pro sports—worse than the 1976-77 Bucs and Process Sixers losing 26 and 28 games over two seasons. Worse than the Louisville Colonels losing 26 straight in 1889. They…

Hitman 2 Is Coming Out This November

WB Games and IO Interactive announced Hitman 2 during a livestream today. The game brings back Agent 47 for new missions where a conspicuous bald chef takes the place of Steve, who stepped around the corner for a smoke break. Hitman 2 will feature locations like rainforests and a racetrack in Miami, which seem like…

Whoops, I Started Playing Bloodborne Again

You know how you tell yourself you’re gonna finally try some new restaurants, then a week later you’re back at the same pizza place you always go to? I’ve been doing that same thing, except with Bloodborne Over the last two days, I’ve spent a good dozen hours replaying FromSoftware’s 2015 PlayStation 4 monster-slicer. I…

Insomniac isn’t just making a new Spider-Man game. The studio is also working on their fourth VR game, which, like the others, will be for Oculus. It’s called Stormland. The Oculus blog describes the 2019 game as having “an open-world structure and an ever-changing environment bristling with unexplored islands, dangerous strongholds, and rare technology.”

The Division’s next big patch, 1.8.2, will be out on June 14, the developers said today in a livestream. It adds two legendary versions of missions, “reactivation caches” that contain three non-classified gear sets and “shields” which unlock things inThe Division 2 but won’t be unveiled until E3 next week. Also: “No weird doors have…