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Nintendo Switch’s Online Service Will Be $20/Year, Includes Classic Games [UPDATE]

Nintendo Switch’s online service will cost $20/year and will launch at some point in 2018, the publisher said today. Playing Switch games online will be free until the service launches. You can also get a one-month subscription for $4 and a three-month subscription for $8. As Nintendo previously said, voice chat and online lobby features…

There’s A Nintendo Switch In There

The controls are just for show, but still, this is a very cool idea from bioecn Via Tiny Cartridge

Wonder Woman Cosplay Is Ready For The Big Screen

Wonder Woman is out this week, and all over the world cosplayers are going nuts for it. Here’s Kilorywith one of the best efforts we’ve seen. Photos by Phillysia.

Overwatch‘s Match Rating System Only Showed That Players Like Winning, Hate Losing

Fun fact: Overwatch has a “rate this match” option that appears after each match on PC. It lets you choose, essentially, whether you really liked, really disliked, or were just kinda eh about the match you played. Why? To give Blizzard data. Now, though, it’s going away, because the data was hilariously useless. In a…

D&D‘s Biggest Livestream Event Happens Tomorrow

Dungeons & Dragons’ biggest livestreaming event ever goes down tomorrow. Steam of Annihilation will be two days of D&D games played by the game’s designers and big fan personalities. Throughout the stream, publisher Wizards of the Coast will dole out info on D&D’s next storyline. It was fans who spurred publisher Wizards of the Coast…

Pirates Say Rime‘s DRM Slows Down The Game, But Denuvo Denies It [UPDATE]

A week after release, much of the discussion surrounding Rime isn’t about the ruins or the mystery, but rather piracy. Players claim anti-piracy software slows the game down. Pirates say the newly cracked version of the game fixes that problem. Rime’s producers seem unsure if DRM caused performance hits, but Denuvo itself denies there is…

The Disturbing Reality of Sex On The Internet, As Told By A Video Game

I can still recall a video I saw on Newgrounds of animated hamsters, because it was the first time I ever heard of bukkake. (NSFW Content Warning!) The strange human-mouthed rodents on the Flash video site were already unnerving and bizarre to 10-year-old me. But then, when I looked up what bukkake was, I felt…

Jason Isn’t The Only Killer In Friday The 13th

Today on Highlight Reel we have ace Cities: Skylines pilots, rude vampires, Mario Kart 8, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Final Fantasy…

Riot Games Is Franchising Its North American League At $10 Million A Spot

The North American League Championship Series is restructuring to become more like the NFL or NBA with 10 established teams locked into place rather than an ever-shifting lineup of teams each season. Riot Games announced all of this today, and in an interview with Yahoo Esports confirmed that the buy-in for a spot in the…

YouTube Video Sparks Debate About Relabeling Vintage Cartridges

A YouTube video about relabeling cartridge games opens up a whole can of worms on the ethics of how to restore old, worn-down video games. The 8-bit Guy, a hobbyist retro game collector, released a video yesterday detailing his methods for restoring and relabeling old cartridges he’s bought. Being a hobbyist, he documents his experiments…

Overwatch‘s New Moon Map Is Heaven For Snipers

Space is the place, and as of yesterday, a new Overwatch map. Overwatch released its Lunar Colony assault map onto its public test realm and it’s certainly a new and uncharted frontier. It’s a labyrinthine maze of hallways, barriers and side-rooms—pulled together by two control points—that’s themed after an abandoned moon base where the gorilla…

Images Of Apparent Life Is Strange Prequel Pop Up 

We’re just over a week away from E3, and video game companies everywhere are leaking like ships in a hurricane. Today’s rumor is an apparent prequel to Life is Strange, made by a new developer and scheduled to be revealed within the next couple of weeks. Our story starts with this press release, which revealed…

Lung Collapses Are A Surprisingly Common Esports Injury

Over the last seven years, at least six high-profile esports players have been struck with a debilitating and serious medical condition called spontaneous pneumothorax—a collapsed lung. Some had to withdraw from matches. A couple kept playing, even though it probably wasn’t a great idea. Why is this, of all injuries, common in esports? Aspontaneous pneumothorax,in…

A Game With One Door And Hundreds Of Keys

You Have 293 Keys is an absurdist look at game dungeons and an exercise in patience, created by 14HLB. Faced with a locked door and a massive pile of keys, players must brute force their way to victory or give into their deepest frustrations. It’s a silly game that makes repetition into art and a…

Ghost Recon: Wildlands‘ Final Story DLC Is Brutal And Fun

A second major expansion has arrived for Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands, one in which players will go from the hunters to the hunted. “Fallen Ghosts” went live May 30 for Season Pass holders, and will become available as a solo DLC purchase on June 6 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The expansion is…