Nine Terrible Reasons To Hate Super Mario Odyssey, If You’re A Monster

Can you imagine what it would be like to hate Super Mario Odyssey? I’m especially qualified to say “No,” given how many thousands of hours of my life I’ve devoted to the enjoyment of digital jump gauntlets starring Mario. In the name of fresh video content, I thought-experimented my way into the mind of my…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for trying to remember your GeForce password because you forgot your screenshot keybinding and the Steam overlay doesn’t work for Wolfenstein 2. Basically, the weekend is for locking yourself out of your graphics card. Again. I started Wolfenstein 2 last night, and though I only got about an hour in I’m really liking…

Lego Worlds‘ Monster Pack Is Creepy And Kooky

Just in time for everything to be getting all spooky, Lego Worlds releases its new Monster DLC pack, featuring the creepiest people, places and things made from colorful plastic brick. Let’s take a spin around Monster World. The Monster pack contains a whole lot of spooky new stuff, from magnificient haunted houses to the most…

Surgeon Simulator Devs Say They’ll Cancel Next Game If It Doesn’t Get Enough Players During Free Week

Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa describes the upcoming free week for its new game, Decksplash, as a “first of its kind” experiment. If 100,000 people play it during that timespan, the studio says it will release the Splatoon-but-with-skateboards competitive game into Early Access. And if not? It gets the axe. One part high-stakes gamble, one part…

Help, There’s Too Much Stuff This Weekend

It’s finally Friday, and there are three huge video game releases and the new season of Stranger Things to possibly check out. Here are some tips to help you decide how to spend your weekend. Be Overwhelmed You know that by choosing something, you’ll also implicitly be making the choice to miss out on something…

The Collapse Of Visceral’s Ambitious Star Wars Game 

It seemed like a surefire hit: a Star Wars take on Uncharted, published by Electronic Arts and developed by the longrunning studio Visceral Games. But nothing is sure in the video game industry, and on October 17, 2017, when employees of Visceral were told that the company would be closing, some who had worked for…

There’s More To Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus‘ Opening Than Sheer Brutality

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus opens with a nightmare. This deep descent into BJ Blazkowicz’ personal hell highlights the personal costs of violence in the home and shows how oppression and hate repeat themselves. This post discusses topics of domestic abuse, animal abuse, and racism At the end of Wolfenstein: The New Order, protagonist BJ…

RPG About Writing Myths Is Now On Switch

Moon Hunters, out this week for Switch, is a short, fun game about creating your own mythology. The point of Moon Hunters is to make up a lot of stories. The game takes place over the course of three days, during which a culture that worships the moon is threatened by a cult of the…

Hellboy Beats The You-Know-What Out Of His Opponents In Injustice 2

The inclusion of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy as a guest character in the second wave of Injustice 2 DLC fighters was one of this year’s nicest surprises. What’s no surprise is how much ass the stone-fisted hellspawn is going to kick when he arrives on November 14. Check out our boy in action. It’s fitting that…

Things You Should Know Before Starting Mario Odyssey

Mario Odyssey is out today, and it’s by far the most expansive Mario game I have ever played. After putting more than 60 hours into the game over the past week, I thought I’d put together a list of things I wish I had known about Odyssey going in. This piece originally appeared on Kotaku…

Man Says He Spent 100 Hours Making This D.Va Case Mod

First modder P_Goon designed the case and the stickers. And then he says he spent a very long time making the thing. As tipster Sang points out, the Seongnam, South Korea resident uploaded photos of the build to his Facebook. I think it turned out great. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture,…

The Spooky Theory About Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo And Death 

If you thought that My Neighbor Totoro was the only Studio Ghibli film with a dark fan theory, then you were wrong. There’s also one for Ponyo That’s right, Ponyo. You know, Studio Ghibli’s kiddy film with a catchy theme song. Warning: This article is filled with spoilers. In Japan, the movie is yet another…

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Overwatch Adding Features To Make Pro Matches More Watchable

“I tried watching a pro Overwatch tournament, but I couldn’t understand what was going on” is a refrain I’ve heard more times than I can count. I totally understand. Overwatch is a blur of lights, colors, and middle-aged men in cowboy costumes even in its chillest moments. Ahead of Overwatch League’s big kick-off, Blizzard’s finally…

To Be, Or Not To…Well Hello There

Sam Hogg is an artist from the UK who has done work for companies like Fantasy Flight, Cryptozoic and Playground Games. You can see more of Sam’s work at her personal site To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of…