The Next Game From The Makers Of FTL Is Brilliant

Into The Breach, the next game from the creators of FTL, is sort of like a cross between XCOM, Advance Wars, and FTL itself. But maybe it’s best described as beautiful kaiju chess. Here’s the premise: You, controlling a gang of three time-traveling mech pilots, must defend a cluster of islands from alien invaders. To…

New Game Lets You Create Unholy Monster Mashups 

If you’ve ever idly wondered what it would be like if the Predator and the Terminator had a child, Monster Breederis the perfect game to scratch that highly specific itch. Monster Breeder is an in-browser critter-collecting game by musician Neil Cicierega. Cicierega is best known as the creator of Flash animation The Ultimate Showdown of…

Street Fighter Player Forced To Commentate His Own Match

At last night’s Next Level Battle Circuit, the mic was somehow unoccupied right before Arturo “Sabin” Sanchez’s match against a player who goes by SonicSol, as all the other commentators had seemingly vacated the stream at the same time. Rather than play in silence, Sanchez decided to call his own match. Sanchez is an experienced…

Dr Disrespect Calls Criticism Of His Mock Chinese Accent ‘Laughable’

Possibly the most popular streamer on Twitch, Dr Disrespect was called out yesterday by musician Jimmy Wong for acting racist based on a series of clips compiled by the latter in which Disrespect caricatures Chinese accents and language. During a recent stream, Disrespect fired back by saying that some of his best friends are Asian.…

My Little Pony Season Eight Turns Friendship Into Schoolwork

In season eight of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, debuting March 24 on Discovery Family, Twilight Sparkle and friends leave the pony empire of Equestria to found a school teaching friendship to the friendless hordes beyond. Is there a toy of this school? Of course there’s a toy of this school. The show that…

Why People Pirate Video Games

For such an important topic, it’s a shame that we can’t ever seem to have a real discussion about video game piracy. Any attempt normally goes down like this: people downloading games are painted as criminals, publishers trying to stop them are portrayed as monsters, everyone sticks to this division and nothing ever gets done…

Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition Keeps Things Nice And Simple

Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition is an abridged Final Fantasy XV for players without the time, patience or attention span for the full game. What a brilliant idea. I am one of those players. I own the original version of Final Fantasy XV on two different consoles, and I’ve launched into the early moments of…

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…