Boss Fight Props, normally in the business of making cosplay gear, decided to take his Switch controller and dress it up like a GameCube pad. I would buy this, if only for the colour-coded buttons. I would buy multiples if it was the GameCube’s old “spice” colour scheme While the images look like renders, it’s…
CEMU, an emulator that lets people play Wii U games on their PC, has come a long way since it struggled with Mario Kart 8: next month, it’ll be running the latest Zelda game in an entirely playable state. The emulator’s 1.7.4 update, due in the first week of April, fixes nearly all the glitches…
Pokémon Go’s big water event started today, and it holds a cool new surprise: shiny monsters. Behold, Pokémon Go’s first shiny monster is none other than the beloved and slightly useless Magikarp, as you can see in this footage by Fabien Parent. As it is a shiny, Magikarp appears in a golden color, rather than…
Better late than…never? Despite coming out on iOS in December, it’s taken until today for Android owners to get their hands on Mario’s side-scrolling mobile adventure. But hey, despite the long wait, it’s here now. The game’s pretty good, even if it does have some very weird ideas about how mobile users should pay for…
Cosmic Express is a cute and surprisingly difficult puzzler about guiding aliens through a space colony. It’s easy to pick up and offers a lot of challenge underneath all the bright colors. It’s this week’s indie pick! The goal is pretty simple: get the aliens where they need to go on a one way track.…
When Bioware first showed off Mass Effect: Andromeda, some fans didn’t care about the premise, the story, or the combat. The question many of us had was, “what aliens can I fuck this time?” Fear not, thirsty reader, you can indeed fuck some aliens in Andromeda. Like many Bioware games before it, Andromeda allows you…
Overwatch’s quadrupedal African robot Orisa is so new that she’s not even allowed in the game’s official competitive mode yet. Despite that, a team decided to pick her in a pro match yesterday evening, hours after she came out. It did not go well for them. The team? Renegades. They were up against Complexity as…
18 years after Super Smash Bros’ initial release, a slew of indie games are challenging its dominance of the platform fighting genre. Rivals of Aether, Brawlhalla, and Melee Masters are all upcoming indie platform fighters riffing on the theme Smash has been singing for two decades—one that 2013’s Towerfall circled with its archery-based play. Players…
The Sims 4 will receive its next Stuff Pack, Bowling Night Stuff, on March 29th. You’ll be able to take your sims bowling, dress them up in retro, rockabilly outfits, as well as build your own bowling hangout.
I’ve played every Call of Duty for the last decade, dropping countless hours into the multiplayer modes of Activision’s first-person shooters, always ranking my accounts up to the maximum Prestige level. But Infinite Warfare’s microtransactions make me think I’m going to break that streak. Activision’s yearly first-person shooter franchise always has a single-player campaign, but…
Nier Automata is a game that gains meaning through repetition. The ending to the game changes following multiple playthroughs. Players see events from new perspectives and learn new information that recontextualizes past actions. It’s given us a lot to think about. Mike and Heather dissect the story in this discussion. SPOILERS AHEAD Heather Alexandra: So.…
If you, like me and several other Kotaku staff, have run into a consistent left Switch JoyCon signal issue, don’t worry: Nintendo says it’s not in fact a hardware problem, but a “manufacturing variation.” The company also says to contact them for a fix if you’re running into the problem. Here’s Nintendo of America’s full…
For Honor director Damien Kieken responded to player concerns over pricey new emotes during a livestream yesterday. Part of his answer has been transcribed below: “We never had an intention for you to unlock everything in the game. We applied RPG mechanics to a fighting game. It’s like World of Warcraft, you would not try to…
After dozens of wonderful hours playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I finally came across a bad mission. It’s bad enough to serve as a point of reference for just how good the rest of the game is. It sticks out like a sore thumb on an otherwise beautifully manicured hand. I’m…
Two young Street Fighter V competitors got into a pretty good three-match rivalry across two events over the last couple of weeks, showing flashes of personal and regional pride. Round 1 Things began on the weekend of March 11, when reigning Capcom Cup champion Du “NuckleDu” Dang and Bryant “Smug” Huggins faced off at Final…
Andromeda is an entirely new galaxy, and exploring it can be overwhelming. Here’s what you need to know to make the most out of the latest Mass Effect game. Don’t try to do everything at once Mass Effect: Andromeda throws a lot at you from the get-go, and stopping to immediately make sense of every…
For large portions of Everything, I wasn’t sure how to feel. By the end of it, I cried. A lot. Everything is a game about everything. In this new game from the developer of experimental game/virtual pet Mountain, you can take control of every object in the game world, from ants and buildings to solar…
Years after Diablo III’s seasons first started, they’re finally coming to consoles. Just as PC players begin clicking their way through the game’s 10th season, those who decided to go with the superior version of Diablo III will get to start seasonal characters on Friday, March 31. Seasons, of course, are limited periods(usually lasting around…
Netflix just showed off its trailer for the live-action adaptation of horror anime Death Note. Slated for release later this year, the film is directed by Adam Wingard. Here’s the trailer: Death Note is about a teenaged boy who mysteriously acquires a book that kills anyone whose name is written in it. Flush with power,…
If you’re still waiting for Lapras to land in your Pokémon Go PokeDex, it might be your lucky day. Pokémon Go announced its new Water Festival event today, which will increase select water spawns globally. Totodile, Squirtle, Magikarp and others will appear more often after 1 P.M. PDT for the next week. To celebrate, your…
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