If You’re Playing Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, Turn Off The Minimap

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a fantastic game, as fun to pick apart as it is to master. One tip for those of you who are playing this weekend: Turn off the minimap. Breath of the Wild’s options menu is more limited than your average big-budget open world game. You can…

Overwatch‘s Newest Character Orisa Is A Dynamic, Deadly Tank

Overwatch’s new hero Orisa, released yesterday on the PTR, is an “anchoring tank,” in the words of Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan. Her moveset affixes her to her allies, buffing and protecting them in turns. She boasts a killer gun that fires from extreme distances, but one-on-one, she’s not much of a challenge to take…

Snacktaku Eats Peeps Oreos, Turns Pink

Now thats it’s finishedtasting game cartridges, Snactaku moves on to something slightly more edible. We were unsure about the Easter-themed combination of Marshmallow Peeps and Oreo cookies, but now we are completely certain our entire digestive tract is currently bright pink. There are two very valid reasons to be wary of Nabisco’s latest co-branded cookie…

Up Close With The Hylian Shield

Nick Duarte is an artist based in Canada who has worked for companies like Electronic Arts. Nick, like most of us this week, is very excited about a new Zelda game You can see more of Nick’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on…

Looks Like A Pornstar Is In The Nintendo Switch

In Japan, there is an infamous gay porno called A Midsummer Night’s Lewd Dream. The flick has spawned seemingly endless memes online in Japan. It appears like one of its stars is in the Nintendo Switch’s Photo Album set-up screen. As Know Your Meme explains, A Midsummer’s Night Lewd Dream has often long been ridiculed…

Switch Owners Are Still Reporting Joy-Con Connectivity Issues [UPDATE: Nintendo comments]

Some Nintendo Switch owners continue to say the console’s left Joy-Con controller has sync problems. Even after the console’s first system update, they’re left wondering what they can do for a fix. The issue appears to occur while playing in TV mode and when the controller’s signal is interrupted, such as when another person stands…

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People Line Up For The Nintendo Switch In Japan

It’s March 3 in Japan. The Nintendo Switch is officially on sale, and in some locations, there are the lines to prove it. Because of online sales, it’s increasingly hard to predict how a console will do by checking out launch day lines. That being said, folks came out in Tokyo to line up for…

Overwatch‘s Unique Art Style Began With Torbjorn

It’s well-documented that Tracer was Overwatch’s first playable hero, but before the game was ever playable, another character helped hammer out Overwatch’s identity. Surprisingly, it was Torbjorn. During a GDC panel earlier today, Overwatch art director Bill Petras and assistant art director Arnold Tsang explained, among other things, how Blizzard molded the game in Torbjorn’s…

A Brave New Direction For Ico’s Creator

One of the highlights of the IGF awards this week was a short video showcasing the next game from Fumito Ueda, creator of classics like The Last Guardian, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus It’s an unexpected direction, but it’s something he’s been wanting to do forever, so we wish him all the best.

Podcast: Day Three Of GDC, With Special Guests

We’re back with our third and final Kotaku Splitscreen special episode from the Game Developers Conference in sunny San Francisco. To close out our Great GDC Trifecta, we’ve got Frank Cifaldi, founder of the new Video Game History Foundation, Kim Swift, design director at EA Motive, and Tim Schafer, some guy who likes drawing pictures…

Tracer Cosplay Is Almost Perfect

Blizzard, if you ever need a live-action Tracer for an Overwatch commercial, here’s your girl. This is Hoteshi, a cosplayer from Russia, and almost everything about this Tracer is 100%, from the hair to the thick jacket to the armour to (a lot of people get this wrong!) a proper Union Jack on her shoulder.…

Some Very Good Digital Sculptures

Marlon Nunez is an artist based in the UK who has worked on games like Project Cars. You can see more of Marlon’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the…

Despite Avatar News, Ubisoft Says Division Franchise Will Be Supported ‘Long Term’ 

On Tuesday Ubisoft said its Swedish game studio Massive will lead the development of a game set in the world of James Cameron’s Avatar. That left some people, including us, wondering what that meant for the future of The Division, the 2016 Massive-led co-op third-person shooter that got its last, announced expansion also on Tuesday.…

Horizon Player Is Blasting Off Again

Today on Highlight Reel we have Horizon Zero Dawn home runs, For Honor shoving matches, warping Battlefield enemies and 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!…

New Ghost Recon Causes Actual Diplomatic Incident

Ghost Recon Wildlands is, for most of us, a video game. For the governments of France (home to publishers Ubisoft) and Bolivia, though, it’s now a cause of national beef. Wildlands, which is set in a fictional version of Bolivia where the country is controlled by Mexican drug cartels, has upset the South American country’s…

Brooding White Male Video Game Protagonists, Ranked

Video games are amazing, because you can be anyone or anything in the universe: a blue hedgehog! A ghost! A unicorn with rocket launchers! About 80% of the time, though, you get to be a brooding white guy. There are so many of them that it’s hard to keep track. And they all seem to…