Weapons Nerfed After Elite: Dangerous Players Protest With In-Game ‘Terrorism’

“This game deserves a better class of criminal,” a member of Elite: Dangerous’ player-run Smiling Dog Crew wrote in a plea for a nerf of the game’s heat weapons. “We hope to fix that with this operation,” they added, calling their plan “terrorism.” The plan’s name? Operation SpicyBois. Heat weapons were introduced as part of…

Overwatch characters, re-imagined as off-brand Halloween costumes. Artist Nina Matsumoto has been drawing characters like Tracer, Genji, and Reaper in the grand tradition of costume manufacturers trying to get around copyright laws. Who doesn’t love characters like “Futuristic Tea Time Cop” and “Blue Balls Zen Lover”?

New Hitman Level Snarks About Donald Trump

Hitman released its fifth episode today, dropping Agent 47 in Colorado to infiltrate a farm compound turned militia training facility. This game has some amazing NPC dialog. But what do these NPCs think about the US presidential election? Hidden in the compound, one militia man talks about a presidential candidate with a “famous hairdo.” The…

Mankind Divided‘s System Rift DLC Is Surprisingly Full Of Character

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided’s latest DLC, System Rift, has shady corporate dealings, Illuminati conspiracies (and characters saying “Illuminati” with a straight face), and Adam Jensen answering video calls shirtless. But unlike the campaign, where characters have all the affect of conveniently-placed crates, System Rift is full of moments of unexpected personality. The DLC is a…

Figma Makes Good-Looking Twilight Princess Toys

Normally I’d pick fancy dress-wearing Zelda fover plain old green elf any day, but the DX version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess’ Link, packed with everything from the Ball and Chain to the Hawkeye mask is making it hard to decide. Up for preorder today through October 27 at the Good Smile Shop…

Ubisoft Buys Ketchapp, The Studio Behind Mobile Clone 2048 And Other Games

Mobile game publisher Ketchapp is an absolute force on the App Store. Since 2014, they’ve released a salvo of arcade-y hits like 2048, ZigZag, Stack, Stick Hero, Twist, and Jelly Jump. However, they’ve also been accused of cloning games on a handful of occasions. Ubisoft shelled out for Ketchapp to gain a stronger foothold in…

Super Mario 64 Fan Is So Hardcore, He Made A Nine Minute Video On Blinking

You might be familiar with Scott “pannenkoek2012″ Buchanan from his work on the A Button challenge and the meme-tastic “Watch For Rolling Rocks” video. He’s a master of Super Mario 64 minutiae. His latest project? Figuring out how characters blink their eyes in the game. Buchanan’s latest video is an incredibly intense look into how…

Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice: The Kotaku Review

There’s a pretty good Sonic the Hedgehog game lurking under the padding and sports tape wrapped around Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice for the Nintendo 3DS. If people are wary of new Sonic the Hedgehog games given the franchise’s hit-or-miss quality over the past couple of decades, they are doubly wary of Sonic Boom games.…

New Hacking MUD Encourages Players To Screw Each Other Over

It’s 2016 and I’m addicted to a text-based game whose fuel is foul play. Hackmud’s only setting is a terminal; its only gameplay, writing scripts. It’s a cyberpunk multi-user domain (MUD) in the ‘80s style, an MMORPG, in which you are role-playing a hacker. Hackmud’s simple pretense, as the game unravels, feels tremendous with possibility.…

New Trailer Hypes Battlefield 1‘s Campaign

Battlefield games are known for their multiplayer mode, but EA is trying to get fans invested in the campaign for Battlefield 1, too. Battlefield 1 single player’s first trailer, which landed today, is shot like a movie, with gripping, emotional scenes inspired by WWI. Battlefield 1’s single-player campaign slated for release on October 21st for…

Steam Top Seller With ‘Sexy’ Protagonist Has Terrible Breast Physics

Haydee is a hardcore puzzle platformer that’s currently tearing up the Steam charts. It also doesn’t know how breasts work. I’ve played about thirty minutes of the game, during which I struggled with the controls and subsequently died many times, either because I didn’t know what to do or where to go. According to the…

20 Minutes Of Paper Mario: Color Splash, Which Sure Is Pretty

Prediction: below this article there will be comments lamenting that the new Wii U Paper Mario game isn’t really a role-playing game. Someone will complain that it is similar to Paper Mario Sticker Star. Someone else will lament that it is not very similar to Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. These are sure things…