Good Overwatch Skins Never Die

There have been a lot of Overwatch skins released over the last couple of years, but few have endured in people’s hearts quite like Witch Mercy, which explains why one Halloween on from its release people are still cosplaying it This is DMZ Cosplay, with photos by Sohno

Oh, Hey Joi

Naztazzia Gagalac is an artist based in The Philippines who works for Pixel Mafia, a visual development studio that does work for the video game industry. You can see more of Naztazzia’s work at her ArtStation page. To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine…

Hearthstone Never Gets New Classes Because They’d Make Things Too Complicated

Over the years, Hearthstone updates and expansions have added heaps of new cards, modes, and strategic possibilities. One thing, though, has remained unchanged since the digital card game’s release back in 2014: character classes. There are only nine, and despite some clamor for more, that number’s not likely to change any time soon. In Hearthstone,…

A Children’s Book Full Of 90s Video Game References

Kotaku reader Ian Wenstrand has written and illustrated a children’s book called Plugged In, where a kid obsessed with video games wakes up in a land that “blurs the line between the real and virtual worlds”. To set things right and get back home, our hero Sam has to “team up with heroes from his…

Overwatch Director Says The Game’s Loot Boxes Are ‘Good,’ Not ‘Evil’

“I think on the big spectrum of loot boxes, between ‘really good’ and ‘really evil,’ I’d like to think we’re more on that ‘really good’ side with what we’re trying to do,” says Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan. As part of an interview at BlizzCon last weekend, I asked Kaplan about his response to the…

Overwatch Star Posts Smug Video About Being Mature, Has His Horny DMs Leaked One Day Later

In the past 48 hours, Brian “Kephrii” St. Pierre has gone from making a smug video about how other Overwatch pros are “rude” and should try being “a better person,” to becoming the center of a truly bonkers scandal in which he admitted to cheating on his wife with multiple female fans. In a statement…

Total War: Rome 2 Dug Up From Its Grave For A New Expansion

Rome 2 was a dull, sprawling mess of a game, easily the weakest release in the Total War series in the past decade. The Warhammer games that followed have improved on it in almost every way imaginable, so Creative Assembly are going back in time (with some lessons learned) to try and get Rome 2…

Wolfenstein‘s DLC Is Off To A Great Start

Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus’s first round of downloadable content has unlocked. The Freedom Chronicles: Episode Zero blend pulp sensibilities with strong levels design to create a fun package that shows a lot of promise. The Freedom Chronicles follows three heroes as they fight to restore order in the Nazi-controlled future, framing itself as a…

Soon, There Will Be A Harry Potter Version Of Pokemon Go

There are two major franchises that every ‘90s kid desperately wished were real: Pokemon and Harry Potter. Over a year after publisher Niantic tried to make Pokemon real with the augmented reality mobile game Pokemon Go, they’re continuing their takeover of the nostalgia market with Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, co-developed by…

Mario Fans Are Way Too Sensitive About Spoilers

If something is special to you, you want to be able to experience it in the purest way possible, momentarily free from everyday concerns and responsibilities, and most of all from the constant, uninterrupted din of the internet. But there’s getting to experience a game fresh and then there’s what Mario fans have been doing…

The Sims Finally Has Great Curly Hair

I have been waiting with bated breath for The Sims 4’s Cats & Dogs expansion since it was announced in September. I didn’t realize that it would give me something else I’ve been waiting for: curly hair. If I’m making a sim that’s black, I usually have to compromise on their hair. If I’m loading…

Grizzlies Hire Writer To Blog And Also Do Some Opaque Esports Stuff

Lang Whitaker, a fun and good NBA writer, announced yesterday that he is going to work for the Memphis Grizzlies. The announcement post contains more than its fair share of Players’ Tribune-ese: I had the chance to talk with a bunch of the world’s leading content providers […] So I started looking at it as…

Video Game Publishers Have Come Up With Fun New Ways To Say ‘Microtransaction’

What do you call it when a video game is full of items or services that you can buy with real money? Is it “games as a service”? “Recurrent consumer spending opportunities”? Or maybe PRI (Player Recurring Investment)? Yesterday, publishers Ubisoft and Take-Two held quarterly financial earnings calls, which gives us a good opportunity to…

Unreal Tournament’s ‘Facing Worlds’ Is Still The Best Multiplayer Map

Above us, the moon. Beneath us, the Earth. In front of us, a massive, three-story tower. Overlapping bleeps and bloops accentuate the eerie calm. We’re blasting off into orbit, and you might know where we’re headed. Never before, nor since, has Capture the Flag been so much fun. This article was originally published on November…

People Are Creating Nightmares With The Sonic Forces Character Creator

Some of the original characters people are making with Sonic Forces’s character creator are downright adorable. Others are using it to shitpost. Guess which one this post is about. Yesterday, Heather Alexandra and I made a Sonic Forces original character for Kotaku (do not steal). We opted to go the cute route and gave her…

Coming to iOS and Android later this fall, the chibi mobile version of Final Fantasy XV will cost between $20 and $30. The game’s split into 10 episodes. First one’s free, second and third are $.99 and the rest are $3.99 apiece. Or just buy the whole bundle for $19.99.