Tokyo 42 Is The Cutest Game About Assassination

Tokyo 42’s cute aesthetic belies a murderous underbelly. It’s a pretty violent game, but look at all the tiny people running away. In the new video game Tokyo 42 your character has been framed for murder, and you must delve into the criminal underbelly to find out why. Your character turns assassin to get in…

Look At Squirtle’s Little Raincoat

Build-A-Bear is killing it with their Pokémon line. Available this week as a special online exclusive, the $60 Squirtle set includes a plush water Pokémon capable of making six different Squirtle sounds. Along with a very fetching rain slicker, Squirtle can also wear its Ultra Ball Hoodie and comes with an exclusive trading card. Sadly…

Tekken 7’s PlayStation VR Mode Is Queasy And Unnecessary

Tekken 7‘s PlayStation VR component isn’t so much a game mode as it is interactive theater. It’s got no health bars, simplified controls and a high probability of making your stomach churn. What you see in the video above is what you get. Pick two characters, enter the virtual reality stage and beat each other…

EA Announces Need for Speed Payback

Today Electronic Arts revealed its next vroom-vroom game, Need for Speed Payback, which will be out November 10 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Developed by the Swedish studio Ghost Games, Need for Speed Payback appears to be heavily inspired by the Fast and the Furious movies, which ain’t a bad thing. You can see the…

Japanese Trains Get Final Fantasy Music 

As part of Final Fantasy’s 30th anniversary, a Yokohama subway station is playing FF music when trains leave. At Minatomirai Station, a “Victory Fanfare” plays as the “departure melody” (発車メロディ) for trains heading towards Motomachi Park. (If you’ve forgotten what that tune sounds like, have a listen to eight minutes of Victory Fanfares.) For trains…

Poll: The Most Popular Action-Adventure Games In Japan

Wonder what action-adventure games are most popular in Japan? Let’s find out! There might be some surprises… Then again, there might not. Famitsu already did an action game poll, but this week it published an action-adventure game one. Next week, it will be running its adventure game survey, so now let’s take a look at…

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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…