Mario And Bowser Get Along Much Better As Build-A-Bears

Look at those smiling faces. They’ve had their difference in the past, but now they’ve bonded over the shared trauma of being stuffed and sold to children at the mall. Bowser and Mario join Yoshi, Toad, Luigi and Peach in Build-A-Bear’s new Super Mario collection this weekend. If you’d rather order online, you can get…

Lineage 2: Revolution‘s First Major Update Adds 60 Player PVP Battles

Lineage 2: Revolution, the mobile MMO that almost plays itself, has picked up a substantial number of players since its worldwide release last month. More than enough to participate in the regular 30-vs-30 Open Siege battles starting today as part of the game’s first big update. While much of the game runs just fine on…

Assassin’s Creed Origins Patch Changes Hideous Blue Box Into Lovely Gold Box

Assassin’s Creed Origins got a horde mode this week, along with a really good improvement to its difficulty system. Who cares! The headline here is that they changed a blue box into a gold one. Origins’ Tuesday patch re-colored the “tools” slot of the game’s inventory page in a move aimed at pleasing one of…

The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2017

For all the video game industry’s noisy hype about groundbreaking technology, it’s still rare that a device comes along and actually breaks new ground. In just nine months, the Nintendo Switch has done just that. The world of games feels different now than it did one year ago. In the summer of 2016, the Switch,…

Kittens Will No Longer Get Stuck In Cat Condos, And Other Sims 4 Patch Notes

The Sims 4 has a new patch, and that means more hilarious patch notes. Here are some of the best ones. Getting a preventative shot for your pet will no longer put them in a state of perpetual fear. Sims in the painter career will no longer be able to sell the paintings directly from…

Perspective-shifting puzzle-platformer Fez is out on iOS today for $4.99. It’s no sequel, but maybe playing a great game on a new platform is enough (it’s not).

Resident Evil 7‘s New DLC Drops The Horror For Action

Resident Evil 7 embraced an unsettling horror presentation built around claustrophobia and dread. Players were fragile and death lurked around every corner. The game’s latest downloadable content switches things up. It’s all about making the monsters fear you. Spoilers Ahead At the end of Resident Evil 7, players were shocked to encounter series regular Chris…

Dead Space 2 Proves That Linear Games Can Be Amazing

I need a break from open-world games. While I’ve had a blast with Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Ghost Recon: Wildlands, I’ve been craving something considerably more linear. In a happy coincidence, Electronic Arts’s Dead Space 2, one of my favorite games, recently showed up on Xbox One via backward compatibility. Not…

What’s New In Monster Hunter: World

For Monster Hunter fans, the way that you describe the game to others has never really lined up with how it actually looks to people who don’t know what’s going on. I’ll breathlessly describe epic, exhilarating, 35-minute face-offs against the series’ trademark towering beasts to a friend, but when I show them the game, all…

Bleach Manga Creator And A Fan’s Dying Wish 

Last year, Bleach creator Tite Kubo posted a photo of a letter. It was a fan’s dying wish. As My Game News Flash explains, when Kubo originally posted the image on Twitter, he asked fans if they knew anything about it. The letter was addressed to Kubo via his manga publisher, and it did not…

Battlegrounds Player Takes Streaming To The Next Level 

More PUBG streamers should put themselves behind the wheel in-game, like South Korean streamer Ch1ckenkun did. No wonder one Twitter user said this just leveled up streaming. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.

The Most Eagerly Anticipated Anime of Winter 2018

Soon, winter anime will begin broadcasting. Here are the 20 anime that folks in Japan are looking forward to the most. Website Charapedia asked 10,000 anime fans in Japan, 45 percent of whom were men and 55 percent of whom were women. Seventy-one percent of those polled were in their teens and 20s, and the…

First Look At The New Anime From Mamoru Hosoda

Mirai no Mirai is the latest film from Mamoru Hosoda of Wolf Children fame. Here is the picture’s first teaser. As Kotaku reported earlier this year, Mirai no Mirai tells the story of a 4-year-old boy who has a hard time coming to terms with the birth of his baby sister. Things get magical when…

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Designing A Fighting Game’s Roster

Brawlhalla is a cool lil’ fighting game, and today in Fine Art we’re taking a look behind the scenes at some of its character design. Vince Medellin was production designer early on in the game’s development, where he worked alongside Dave Montes on the game’s cast, as well as their skins. What’s interesting about Brawlhalla’s…

Guy Invented A Fake Coffee Shop To Scam Free Games, Developer Says

It’s not uncommon to hear stories from game developers and critics of people posing as YouTubers, reviewers, or other outlets to get free game keys from Steam developers. This one, however, takes the cake, with a side of coffee. Jacob Janerka, developer of surreal adventure game Paradigm, claims in a lengthy Imgur post that someone…

Star Wars, Meet Company Of Heroes

As we’ve established here on Kotaku.com, Company of Heroes was the perfect RTS. Making it even more perfect, then, is this upcoming Star Wars mod for the game. It’s a mod cliche—take a game, add Star Wars!—but you can’t argue it’s not a successful one, with everything from Call of Duty to Homeworld benefiting from…