Hamster Vs. Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1

Oh, this is just a hamster trying to clear the hamster version of the very first stage in Super Mario Bros. That’s all. Yes, this stage is shorter, and yes, you can’t go down the first pipe in the real game. But put those concerns aside, because we have a Hamster trying to put on…

Cities Skylines, It’s Time To Burn

Cities Skylines is an amazing city building game, but destroying them? That’s a SimCity thing. Or it was, until the announcement of Skylines’ Natural Disasters expansion. Cute trailer. In terms of what it brings to the game, turns out there’s more to it than just watching your world burn. There’s a ton of stuff being…

Valve Forbids Coaches From Helping Out During Pro Counter-Strike Matches

As time has passed, coaches have become increasingly invaluable parts of pro Counter-Strike teams. During matches, some keep track of strategies, monitor the in-game economy, and call plays. Valve has decided this doesn’t gel with their goals for Counter-Strike In a move that took many by surprise, Valve has banned coaches from communicating with players…

Capy’s Below Delayed Until…The Future

Below, the next game from Capy (Sword & Sworcery, Super Time Force), was meant to be out this Summer! Now it’s not. Now it will be out…well, one day. Announcingthe delay on their site, they say “We told you BELOW would be out this summer. Our team worked hard to make that deadline a reality.…

Thanks To New Emotes, Overwatch Players Are Sitting Through Matches

In Overwatch, sitting and laughing are totally OP. Just like in real life. Yesterday’s new test patch didn’t just nerf Genji, make Gremlin D.Va canon, and stuff smelly socks down the throats of bad sports. It also added a ton of new sitting and laughing emotes. Here are all of them, courtesy of Seba: It’s…

If you like Earthbound or Undertale, make sure to check out our video playthrough of the Glitched demohere. It’s a fourth-wall breaking RPG where the characters realize the player exists, and it’s excellent.

Shadow Complex Remastered gets a physical release tomorrow, courtesy of Limited Run Games. 6,900 copiesgo on sale in two waves tomorrow. Considering every previously released Limited Run game has sold out. collectors might want to camp this one.

New Overwatch Test Update Filters Popular Insult Into Polite Confessionals

If you’ve just wrapped up a hard-fought multiplayer match, it’s polite to say “gg” to all involved as a show of sportsmanship. Jackasses, however, have taken to corrupting it by adding “ez” to the end, essentially saying, “Beating you losers was a piece of cake.” As of yesterday’s new test server patch, Overwatch now filters…

Inversus Is The Most Fun I’ve Had Shooting Other Players In Ages

Inversus is a simple black and white strategy shooter that pits players against each other in an ever-changing battle for territory and survival. As minimalist competitive shooters go, it’s pretty much perfect. Created by Ryan Juckett, AKA one-man game studio Hypersect, Inversus started off as a game jam idea and developed into something that’s a…

Black Cosplayers Talk About Self-Doubt

Shannon I., 23, didn’t want to leave her Baltimore hotel room. For months, she had been looking forward to Otakon, Baltimore’s annual anime convention, and especially to cosplaying Takumi from Fire Emblem Fates. Trimmed in fur, embellished with red string and topped with a white wig, Shannon’s cosplay was impeccable. She had been striving for…

Blizzard Tries To Humanize Bastion With New Overwatch Video

The animated Overwatch short nobody but Bastion players wanted, “The Last Bastion,” just premiered at Gamescom. According to Overwatch Project Director Ben Dai, Bastion,“an artificial intelligence programmed to do one thing, and one thing only—to fight—comes face-to-face with a choice to alter his destiny” in the short. That’s right, one thing: posting up in a…

Podcast: The NFL’s Biggest Nerds

Former NFL punter and prolific Kinja user Chris Kluwe joins us on today’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen to talk No Man’s Sky, Path of Exile, and nerd war stories from the National Football League. We also take some reader questions and talk about our new corporate overlord, Univision. You can find this week’s episode on…

The No Man’s Sky Hype Dilemma

It’s become clear, a week after the launch of No Man’s Sky, that the much-hyped space game has not lived up to many players’ lofty expectations. But whose fault is that? Does it matter? And how could the backlash have been avoided? Critical assessment of the game’s achievements aside—go read Kirk’s excellent review if you…