You can now get a lime green edition of the Nintendo New 3DS XL that comes pre-installed with Super Mario World The old-style 3DS isn’t able to play ports of SNES games, like Earthbound. Nintendo is selling the system exclusively through Amazon.

If you buy the Stellaris: Leviathans DLC, which dropped today, you’ll also be getting the Cuties Portait Pack. This snail is precious. Please protect him.

Like The Rest Of The Internet, PSN Has Been Struggling Today

Half the internet has been unreliable today as the result of what seems to be a major attack by unknown parties. Adding to that list of annoying outages now is PSN, given that many users are reporting issues with it since this morning. If you’ve been having trouble connecting a PlayStation console to PSN today, you…

Destiny’s Festival of the Lost will return next Tuesday, October 25. It’ll run through November 8. Hope you’ve kept space in your vault for a whole shitload of masks! I want the eyeball one.

Soon, you’ll be able to buy indie games, in real life, at a local GameStop. Indie game distribution service IndieBox will be sending physical copies—in actual boxes—to 1,200 GameStops as a part of their GameTrust initiative. Nuclear Throne, Rogue Agency, Axiom Verge and Chariot (all $19.99) and others will be available with instruction manuals, discs, soundtrack…

Battlefield 1: The Kotaku Review

Matthew McConaughey once said that sometimes you need to go back to move forward. The team at DICE must have been very moved by that sentiment. Taking it to heart and pushing the Battlefield series nearly 100 years back into World War I for this year’s release of Battlefield 1 was a gamble. It has…

Following an announcement on Monday, voice actors within the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have begun their strike against certain video game employers as of 3:01 AM EST today. Kotaku has reached out to the involved parties. Update—2:45 p.m: The negotiator for the games companiesreleased a statementthis afternoon that claims their…