Pokémon Go Can Be Depressing For Fans With Physical Disabilities

Pokémon Go is getting gamers outside, but not all gamers. Tales of trespassing, fence-jumping and brave jaunts through tough terrain to catch Pokémon have bolstered the hit mobile game’s popularity among able-bodied players. Physically handicapped fans of the Pokémon franchise, however, are struggling to love a Pokémon game in which movement is a crucial mechanic.…

The Internet Reacts To Overwatch‘s Badass New Sniper Mom

Overwatch’s new hero, Ana, is a lot of things we don’t typically see in video games. She’s a sniper who heals people, an older woman, and a mother of a lady who lobs rockets at people’s faces for a living. Overwatch fans already adore her. In Overwatch’s lore, Ana is the mother of Pharah “justice…

Why Stealing Things In Video Games Is So Damn Fun

I remember the first time I went shoplifting. The sun was shining, Marin was singing, and I needed a shovel. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK, on May 11, 2015 and on Kotaku on November 26, 2015. Two hundred Rupees was well outside my price range, but as I slipped into the village store…

The Internet Has Fallen In Love With Pokémon Sun and Moon’s Pikachu Imposter

Meet Mimicyu, a ghost type Pokémon that should look pretty damn familiar to you. There’s actually a good reason for that. As Serebii explains, Mimicyu was recently revealed on Japanese magazine CoroCoro. Serebii’s translation of the unveil states that Mimicyu is wearing a cloth costume based on popular Pikachu merchandise. “It wants to be loved…

The Wild Theories Behind Inside’s Secret Ending

The final moments of Inside are tense and unexpected, but it’s only one way for it to end. Theories about the secret ending are even crazier. To unlock the secret ending, you must destroy 14 orbs hidden in the game. You’re likely to stumble on a few of them your first time through (I found…

Nobody Actually Knows How Pokémon Go’s ‘Nearby’ Feature Works [UPDATE]

Ask ten different people how to track down monsters in Pokémon Go, and you’ll likely get ten different answers. That’s because finding Pokémon is rather convoluted and confusing in Pokémon Go. I’ve been playing Pokémon Go non-stop over the last week, and the most frustrating feature by far has to be the “Nearby” function. Ostensibly,…

Dreaming Of A Seinfeld Adventure Game

Artist Jacob Janerka, who is working on the 2D adventure game Paradigm, has also been working on something else: mock-ups of a 2D Seinfeld adventure game. Via Attract Mode, this isn’t something you can play, or likely ever will (unlike Han Solo Adventures, which is still being made). Just something we can look at, and…

StarCraft II‘s Ladder Gets A Massive Revamp

Blizzard made some major changes to StarCraft II’s ladder system this week, adding tiers and new visual cues that will help players determine just how well they’re doing—and why they can’t get out of Silver. The revamped ladder, which went live yesterday, will now display your Matchmaking Rating (MMR) as a number that goes up…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Everything Must Go

With Pokémon Go fever gripping the bits of the globe currently capable of playing, it’s only a matter of time before other major video game franchise get in on the action. Let’s beat them to the punch, shall we? Update 7.13 — Three days down, three days to go. It’s shaping up to be the…

Marines Playing Pokémon Go Help Catch Attempted Murder Suspect

U.S. Marines Seth Ortega and Javier Soch were playing Pokémon Go at a park in Fullerton, California when the game locked up. While waiting for it to unfreeze, they looked up and noticed a man with a plastic red rose approach a woman with three children, KABC-TV Los Angeles reports. The woman and her children…

Japanese Video Game History Is Disappearing

It really is. We better do something about it, because bits of Japanese video game history have already vanished forever. This weekend at BitSummit, game preservation was in my mind as I sat down to talk with Grasshopper Manufacture’s Goichi Suda. He, perhaps, is as good as anyone to discuss Japanese game history with as…

Hideo Kojima Was So Worried About E3 Leaks

Wouldn’t you be, too? Late last year, Hideo Kojima set up shop once again and announced he was working on a new title. Only this past March, he worked on the Death Stranding teaser starring Norman Reedus. But he was worried info would spill out. In the most recent HideoTube on YouTube, Kojima talked about…

DurMan667 did this “quick mock-up” of an idea for a new battery saver mode for Pokémon Go. Rough edges aside I would use something like this 100% of the time.