Hayao Miyazaki Doesn’t Hate The New Studio Ghibli Film 

Studio Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki is so throughly impressed by the studio’s upcoming co-production The Red Turtle that he wishes he could work with the staff that made it. Of course he doesn’t hate it! His company is releasing it, you might think. Well, with Miyazaki, who retired from feature filmmaking in 2013, that’s not…

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Overwatch‘s New Map And Second Season Are Now Live

The Overwatch update that was supposed to land next week just dropped. It’s a biggie. Competitive mode season two has now officially kicked off, and a new map, Eichenwalde, is officially in the game. Originally, Blizzard was planning to launch season two on September 6, but it’s here right now on PC and Xbox One,…

Logitech’s Prodigy Series Wants To Be Everybody’s Gaming Gear

Today Logitech G reveals its new Prodigy series of gaming accessories, two mice, a keyboard and a headset designed with the goal to be “gaming gear made exclusively for everyone.” The idea, as I understand it from a briefing I had on the Prodigy line earlier this week, is that while there will always be…

Broken Reality is a first-person game set in a psychedelic re-imagining of the Internet. You’ll be able to explore and meet characters as you please, and areas will function as representations of online subcultures. It looks weird as hell, like the final dream of a dying Dreamcast. It’s on Kickstarter right now.

The DRM-Free Version Of Armello Won’t Be Getting DLC After All

Armello is an excellent fantasy board/card game that’s been on Steam since 2015. With (Fahey-approved) DLC and console versions recently released, developer League of Geeks made a curious announcement: the game’s DRM-free, non-Steam PC version won’t be receiving DLC. League of Geeks explained in a roadmap post: “We’ve had fantastic meetings with GoG about the…

Website Says Nintendo Threat Forced Them To Pull Hundreds Of Fan Games [UPDATE]

In a mass filing under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Nintendo has apparently flagged over 550 titles for takedown. Focusing on the site Game Jolt, a notice said to come from Nintendo listed a total of 562 titles for removal from the site. The majority of these titles were fan made tributes or independent…

If Rocket League Had Some No Man’s Sky In It

Today on Highlight Reel we have No Man’s Sky landings, Witcher guts, train vengence, cool plane crashes and much 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!…

Really Digging This New Pac-Man Design

Giving one of the world’s most iconic video game characters a makeover for his latest mobile game, Bandai Namco have created a Pac-Man that really works with today’s more minimalist cartoon sensibilities. Or he’s just really damn cute. The game is Pac-Man Pop, available today on iOS and Android, which is a free-to-play bubble shooter…

How To Talk To A Woman Who Is Wearing A Headset

Many women today walk around attached to some sort of technology: an iPhone, a Fitbit, a mech suit, a headset. In 2016’s digitally-addicted world, it’s nearly impossible to meet a woman who isn’t either listening to music or a body pillow—clearly, a function of our internet-obsessed society. Some women today, it turns out, are so…

Journey, Lords of the Fallen Headline PlayStation Plus Lineup For September

If you haven’t played Journey yet, now’s your chance to get it for PS3 and PS4 through PlayStation Plus’ September lineup. Remember, though Sony advertises these games as “free,” an active PlayStation Plus subscription is required to download and play the games featured here. Here’s the lineup for September: Playstation 4 Lords of the Fallen…

Fans Make The 3D Sonic Game We Deserve

Sonic the Hedgehog has always struggled in 3D. From the picky camera of Sonic Adventure to Sonic Unleashed and its odd melee combat, Sega’s mascot has never quite gotten it right. Thankfully, fans are here to make it all better with Green Hill Paradise Act 2 Built using the 3D Sonic Games Development Kit (SonicGDK),…

Court Throws Out Lindsay Lohan’s Grand Theft Auto V Lawsuit

In 2014, actress Lindsay Lohan filed suit against GTA publisher Take-Two for what she believed was an unauthorized depiction of her image in Grand Theft Auto V. She claimed she was even used in the game’s promotional materials. Today, however, the court tossed her suit. Both Lohan and Mob Wives star Karen Gravano ended up…

Meet The Lawyer Who Quit His Job To Make An RPG

Vidar is billed as an “RPG puzzler where everyone dies,” and yet, developer Dean Razavi is often asked whether that’s true. “I put it on a banner,” Razavi told me in Kotaku’s New York offices. “I don’t know what more you want from me.” Until a month ago, Razavi was a litigation attorney, full-time, which…

Disney Shutting Down Both Avengers Alliance Games For Some Damn Reason

After four years of being one of the few Facebook games worth a damn and a fine free-to-play mobile joint, Marvel’s Avengers Alliance and its recently-released sequel will be shutting down at the end of this month, because some part of Disney hates fun. Marvel Avengers Alliance, launched on Facebook back in March of 2012before…

Nobody Knows How The Portals In No Man’s Sky Work

Over the last couple of weeks, No Man’s Sky players have discovered a number of monoliths scattered across the universe. The structures look important somehow, like they are meant to do something, or perhaps trigger something. Except…they don’t. Two years ago, No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games uploaded a video titled “Portal gameplay trailer,” to…