There Are Two New Farming Games In Steam’s Top 10 Right Now

Shooting, stabbing, soaring, and truck simulating? That stuff’s old hat. These days soil-tiling—possibly while wearing an old hat—is where it’s at. Yesterday, two early access farming games, My Time At Portia and Staxel, both launched into Steam’s top ten. Once upon a time, hardcore users of platforms like Steam looked upon farming games with derision,…

What We Liked (And Didn’t Like) About Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Story

Here at Kotaku, several of us have finally been wrapping up Assassin’s Creed Origins. That means we can get together to talk about it, spoilers and all. Yesterday afternoon, I got on the horn with fellow Kotaku Assassin’s Creediphiles Luke Plunkett and Stephen Totilo to record a special bonus episode of Kotaku Splitscreen all about…

Overwatch League Commissioner Just Hasn’t ‘Gotten Around’ To Posting Code Of Conduct

Overwatch League has a code of conduct, but no, you can’t see it, at least not until league commissioner Nate Nanzer gets around to putting it online, which he still hasn’t done two weeks into the league’s inaugural season. “We just haven’t gotten around to it,” Nanzer told the Telegraph. “I don’t know the exact…

Twitch Reacts To Snoop Dogg Apparently Pretending To Play A Game

Yesterday, Snoop Dogg livestreamed the early access survival game SOS, a game where 16 players need to work together to escape a dangerous island. He appeared to do a pretty good job grabbing loot even though he wasn’t actually playing the game. It led some viewers to cry foul about the celebrity endorsement and whether…

Sailor Moon Cosplay Is A  Husband And Wife Thing

On the left, fenixfatalist as Sailor Neptune. On the right, her husband vergiil-sparda as Sailor Uranus. It’s not their first time cosplaying together (see below), but it is his first time crossplaying, and it’s absolutely incredible. We’ve actually featured fenixfatalist a bunch here previously, if you’d like to check out more of her cosplay:

Doki Doki Literature Club Mods Make The Game Less Depressing

Upsetting visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has a lively modding scene. Fans have started making sequels, alternate routes and happier rewrites for the game and its characters. Pi, a project lead on Doki Doki Literature Club mod Monika After Story, said that he fell in love with Doki Doki Literature Club after playing it…

Nice Troll, Football Team

My beloved Aston Villa, once champions of Europe but now languishing in England’s second division, haven’t given me much to smile about the last few years. Except for today, with some A+ video game-related social media banter. Some background: fellow Championship side Leeds United (another former English powerhouse down on its luck) released a new…

Atari Asks Random Internet People To Invest In Its Next Game [UPDATE]

For as low as $250, you too can become an investor in Atari Game Partners’ attempt to bring a Rollercoaster Tycoon game to the Nintendo Switch. Atari Game Partners is a subsidiary of Atari responsible for taking the brand’s library of classic IPs and somehow making money off of them. The company’s latest move is…

Pop Team Epic Is Burning Anime To The Ground

A nail-studded bat smashes a TV showing glitched-out anime in the opening of every episode of the new, surreal anime Pop Team Epic. The show tells you straight-up what it’s about: burning anime tropes to the ground. And in the process of destroying everything anime fans know and love, it manages to become something wholly…

Judge Orders Makers Of Illegal Bots To Pay Twitch $1.3 Million

Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch channels look like they have more viewers, followers, and fans in chat than they actually do. Now a court has ruled in Twitch’s favor. According to court documents filed…

Devrim Kay Is All The Destiny 2 I Need

No matter where I am in the solar system, what fantastic adventures I embark upon in the name of Dead Orbit, my heart is always back in the European Dead Zone, sniping from the church belfry with my Destiny 2 lifemate, Devrim Kay. I’ll admit it wasn’t love at first sight. At first Devrim’s and…

Studio Layoffs Put Star Game Designer David Jaffe At A Crossroads

Yesterday, games studio Bartlet Jones was forced to lay off the the majority of its small staff after the publisher of their yet-unannounced game pulled funding. David Jaffe, the veteran games designer who co-heads the studio along with producer Nick Kononelos, told Kotaku that the layoffs “break my heart,” but also said that “this is…

While we wait for the online servers to go live before finishing our review, here’s a little video taste of what to expect when Dragon Ball FighterZ launches on Friday.

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ New DLC Is Just More Assassin’s Creed Origins

When it came out last fall, Assassin’s Creed Origins was already a massive game. Its new downloadable expansion The Hidden Ones makes it bigger without adding many surprises or new ideas. That’s disappointing for those of us hoping the game’s first DLC might shake things up, but not so bad for anyone who simply wants…

BioWare Doubles Down On Anthem As Pressure Mounts

Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to work on the ambitious multiplayer action game Anthem, sources say. There are still small teams maintaining Star Wars: The Old Republic and piecing together the next Dragon Age, which was recently rebooted, but the bulk of…

We Can’t Stop Watching This Cruel Mario Clone

Watching this brutal Super Mario clone spring hilarious, unexpected traps on a poor player is hypnotic. The game is TrapAdventure 2, created by Hiroyoshi Oshiba and available as a free download on iOS (though unlocking ad-free play costs $.99). Along the lines of theinfamous Cat Mario, it’s a game that uses decades of platforming knowledge…

Curiosity Kills In Subnautica, But It’s Hard To Stop Diving Back In

Most of your time in Subnautica is spent deciding whether to listen to your curiosity or your terror. It’s a tough choice. Subnautica’s version 1.0 came to PC last night after entering early access in December 2014. (It’s still in game preview on Xbox One.) You play the single-player game as the survivor of a…