A Modern Controller Is Splitting The Smash Bros. Melee Community

A popular Super Smash Bros. Melee controller’s potential ban from big-time esports tournament Genesis 4 has sparked a debate throughout the Smash community over what constitutes a tournament-legal controller for a 15-year-old game. The controller’s creator says its ban would be “devastating” for his business. Over a dozen years after Melee’s release, nearly everything about…

Everybody Poops, Including The Last Guardian‘s Cat Beast

The Last Guardian is filled with magical moments, but none quite as magical as when the legendary winged cat beast takes a massive rolling poo off the side of a treacherous bit of scaffolding. Without giving too much away, Trico’s digestive tract plays a pretty big role in The Last Guardian, and why shouldn’t it?…

Blizzard Saves Overwatch Player From Loot Box Disaster

Imagine that, after buying hundreds of loot boxes, you finally had all the Overwatch skins you spent so long coveting from afar. Then imagine that they started slowly disappearing. It’s like something out of a very dorky (yet EXTREMELY terrifying) Twilight Zone episode, but that’s exactly what happened to Kaleptik. Over the course of a…

Pewdiepie Trolls Everyone, Deletes Alternate Channel

When YouTube’s biggest star swore that he was going to delete his channel after gaining 50 million subscribers, fans didn’t know what to believe.Some thought he was really going through with it, and prepared for the worst. Today, Felix Kjellberg comes clean, revealing that it was just a joke all along. Well played, Kjellberg: Just…

Silence Is A Beautiful Adventure That Begins In A Dark Place

Silence, the long-awaited sequel to Daedalic Entertainment’s The Whispered World, begins with a World War II bombing raid that sends 16 year old Noah and his little sister into the magical world that exists between life and death. It’s a sad way to begin a beautiful adventure. Originally published 11/15/2016. Repubbed to mark this week’s…

Ubisoft Executives Fined $1.2 Million For Insider Trading

French stock market regulators have issued sanctions against five Ubisoft employees for insider trading, fining them a total of €1.2 million (around $1.26 million). Ubisoft is appealing the judgement. The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), a body that monitors and regulates the French stock market, had accused Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat and four other…

Super Mario Run Won’t Be Playable Offline

Super Mario Run, a mobile game many would love to play while in the subway, will require an always-on internet connection. Bummer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Mario creator and the producer of Super Mario Run, told Mashable that the endless runner mobile game will require an internet connection to play on all of its modes. He said…

Guy Steals $1 Million From Work, Spends It On Bad Video Game

Kevin Lee Co, a 45 year-old man from Rocklin, California, pled guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering, having been caught stealing $4.8 million from his employer between 2008 and 2015. Some of which he spent rather poorly. Co, who used to work in the accounting department of Holt of California before being…

Snacktaku Drinks Starbucks’ Pokémon Go Frappuccino

Live from New York, it’s Snacktaku, featuring special guest Cecilia D’Anastasio. Watch us drink Starbucks’ Pokémon Go marketing tie-in as we ponder whether or not they skinned the Pokémon before grinding them up. The video below was filmed in front of a very small studio audience at Kotaku headquarters in New York City, and was…

Kingdom Hearts PS4 Console Coming To Japan

To mark the release of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8, Sony is releasing a special Kingdom Hearts themed PlayStation 4 in Japan. According to 4Gamer, the console is available as either a 500GB or 1TB jet black PS4 and has a special Kingdom Hearts 15th anniversary top cover, which is also available separately for 2,000 yen…

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When You Gotta Fight A Space Battle At 12 Then Hit The Beach At 3

Ben Nicholas is an artist who has worked for companies like Ubisoft, Adidas, 343 Studios (Halo) and Creative Assembly (Total War, Alien: Isolation). There’s a ton of amazing stuff here, but the Chris FOss-like starships at the top are just the best You can see more of Ben’s work at his ArtStation page To see…

A Beautiful Tribute To Racing Games (Using A Racing Game)

While at first glance these appear to be famous promotional images for classic racing games, they’re actually just a bunch of very well-staged Forza Horizon 3 screenshots. Made by EYui, you’ll probably recognize more than a few, whether you remember a game’s box art or an old ad in a magazine from the PS2 days.…