Soon, Switch Owners Can Pay With Gold Points [UPDATE]

It will be possible to pay for Switch games with My Nintendo Gold Points starting early this March, in Europe, Japan, and North America. The change will come via a future update, allowing people to use Gold Points they’ve acquired to buy Switch games from the Nintendo eShop. Gold Points will be good for a…

Jigglypuff GameCube Controller Is Wonderfully Horrifying

Based on art by Samstrojny, this custom GameCube controller was created by SmashproofGC and Design_OOS This is the stuff of nightmares. I love it. You can follow SmashproofGC and Design_OOS on Twitter or check out more of Samstrojny’s art right here

Classic Game Hardware Makes For Excellent Gundam Models

Mobile Suit…Super Famicom? Twitter user Ikkyu has been putting a classic gaming spin on Gundam models. The results are fantastic. Just check out the little details—like how the shields have controller motifs. Bravo! You can follow Ikkyu on Twitter right here Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

Kim Kardashian Is Just Like You, She Shops For Manga

Celebrity Kim Kardashian recently uploaded a photo of herself taken in Tokyo, looking at manga. It appears the image was taken at manga and anime retailer Animate’s Shinjuku branch, but it’s hard to make out which manga she’s looking at. But as this Twitter user notes, there is an advert for beautiful boy anime A3!…

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Bright Lights, Big City

Klaus Pillon is an artist from France who has worked for companies like DC and Netease. You can see more of Pillon’s work 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…

With Voice Chat Coming, Heroes Of The Storm Players Brace For Harassment

In the near future, Blizzard is adding built-in voice chat to Heroes of the Storm. Announced at BlizzCon last year, it’s been a long time coming to a game that’s been out since 2015. Some players, however, are worried that voice chat will cause more problems than it’ll solve. For months, HOTS streamer FerociouslySteph has…

You Can Now Pilot D.Va’s Mech (And Use Other Overwatch Weapons) In Doom

Hairy arms and all. This wonderful little mod by MyNameIs adds stuff like D.Va’s mech from Overwatch to Doom (well, GZDoom, the modern platform for it). It’s more than a quick little joke: once summoned, you can stomp around the map shooting stuff to your heart’s content. The mod, called OverDOOM, also introduces a bunch…

Rare Dragon Ball FighterZ Glitch Makes Tien’s Opponents Invisible

Tien’s a dude with three eyes whose best friend is a ghost child and maybe a vampire. That’s pretty weird on its own. It turns out he can turn people invisible too, by way of a recently discovered glitch in Dragon Ball FighterZ A Player who goes by RZampa demonstrated how it works, or at…

Billy Mitchell Breaks Silence About Donkey Kong High Score Controversy

Last week, a popular Donkey Kong website announced that it would be removing former champion Billy Mitchell’s scores from its list after an analysis that it said showed his playthroughs of the game were achieved on the emulator MAME and not on original arcade hardware. Yesterday, Mitchell made what is so far his only response…

Blizzard Bans Overwatch Griefer Who’s Ruined Games For ‘Thousands’ Of Players

“I don’t want to stream the game, because I literally get stream sniped every day,” said popular streamer TimTheTatMan of a particular griefer who kept interfering with his matches. Now Blizzard’s announced that it has banned the griefer, but only after discovering that they were using multiple accounts and “systematically ruining Overwatch games for thousands…

How To Organize Your Cords

I bet you own a few cords. You might have so many cords that they burst out behind your TV stand or below your desk. Play video games for any length of time and you’ll acquire all sorts of cords you don’t know what to do with. For just a few bucks you can rein…

If You Like Metroid, Play Dandara

Dandara is an action game where you can’t run. Your character leaps from wall to wall across massive maps while battling bosses and collecting power ups. It takes the exploration of Metroid and adds a ton of style. Created by Brazilian developer Long Hat House, Dandara tells the story of a warrior who must save…

Scarlett’s StarCraft II Victory Shows How Esports Could Work For The Olympics

Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn made history for both women and non-Korean StarCraft pros last night by placing first in a premier tournament, IEM Pyeongchang 2018. The Canadian defeated two-time world champion Kim “sOs” Yoo Jin playing as the Zerg, her old standby, in a 4-1 victory. She’s the second North American pro to ever place first…

Monster Hunter: World Shows How Destiny 2‘s Grind Could Improve

At a first glance, it may seem like Destiny 2 and Monster Hunter: World don’t have much common. But there are several clear reasons why people like me are switching from Bungie’s first-person shooter to Capcom’s third-person monster-fighter. The biggest one, in my view, comes down to grinding and loot. “Grind,” in a video game,…