The Nintendo 64 Turns 20 Years Old Today 

On June 23, 1996, the Nintendo 64 first went on sale in Japan. Twenty years ago! Think about that. Facing off against Sony’s PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, which was the last major home console to use cartridges and which came with a unique controller, would see iconic and influential games like Super Mario 64, The…

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Dragon Age Cosplay Gets Hammered, Makes Out

This merry band of cosplayers figured that if they were going to get together and dress up like Dragon Age characters, they may as well act like them. All photos by Anton Timofeev. Cosplayers are Sons of a Gun Cosplay (Hawke, Isabela), Ren Sinclair (Merrill) and Dark Incognito’s Cassandra, which we’ve actually featured here before…

Grieving Fans Ask Nintendo To Name Zelda Character After Murdered Singer

Christina Grimmie, the young singer (and former The Voice contestant) who was tragically shot and killed in Orlando earlier this month, was a massive and very vocal fan of the Legend of Zelda series. In the wake of her murder, fans have been asking Nintendo to honour her in an upcoming game. As Timereport, there…

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It’s Not Easy Putting A Gay Sex Game On Steam

Steam doesn’t have many gay sex games. Plenty of anime boob games, sure, but if you’re looking for hot dudes getting it on, it’s slim pickings. Robert Yang is trying to change that. (Warning: some possibly NSFW images ahead.) Yang’s gained a fair amount of notoriety over the years with experimental games like dick pic…

The Last Guardian‘s Designer Explains How He Stayed Motivated For Nine Years

It’s been nearly 10 years since development started on The Last Guardian, designer Fumito Ueda’s long-anticipated follow-up to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. I caught up with Ueda at E3 to talk about his lengthy journey. The last time I interviewed the 46-year-old designer was several jobs ago. I’d been sent to Japan to…

Team Fortress 2 Game Fills With Streamers, Descends Into Chaos

These days, it’s not all that uncommon to run into somebody who’s streaming and commentating while you’re playing a multiplayer game. If they’re not A Tool Of The Actual Devil, they might mute their mic. But in a team-based game you can’t always afford to do that. Dapper Dog managed to put together a Team…

Shovel Knight Is Still Getting Tons Of Free Stuff

Two years after blowing everyone away with the buttery retro platformer Shovel Knight, the developers at Yacht Club Games just won’t stop releasing free new stuff. First there was the Plague Knight campaign, and now they’re showing offthe playable version of Specter Knight, a shadowy villain who can climb and dash in mid-air. (Both Plague…

Mighty No. 9 Tries Real Hard, But No

I’m at a convention, and across the hall I see a guy in a blue robot suit. It’s Mega Man! I make my way over to get a picture, but as I approach I see that the color’s not quite right, the helmet is rough-cut cardboard and he’s wearing blue jeans. Awkward. Well, since I’m…

An Open Letter To My Jerk Overwatch Teammate

Dear person whose name I already forgot (but it was probably something like xxShadowK1ller or BradTheMadDogBongster), we need to talk. Last night, we were on the same Overwatch team. You may not have noticed me. You seemed pretty preoccupied typing, “YOU GUYS SUCK,” “PUSH HARDER AARGH FUCK,” and “THIS IS BULLSHIT” in chat. I imagine…

Cyberpunk Bartending Game Mixes Waifus With Great Storytelling

Bartending for a delinquent cast of sci-fi characters, it turns out, is the ideal way to world-build a dystopian visual novel/game. VA-11 Hall-A, released yesterday on Steam, offers players the chance to serve up noxious drinks to the sketchy citizens of Glitch City, circa 207X A.D., the kind of place that would star as the…

How To Deal With Dragon Quest VII And Final Fantasy XV Coming Out In The Same Month

You have probably noticed, being the lovely JRPG connoisseur you are, that September is going to be busy. In just that one month we’re going to see new entries from two RPG titans: the 3DS remake of Dragon Quest VII, on September 16, and the boy band simulator Final Fantasy XV, on September 30. So…

The Best Games Patrick Played At E3 2016

Though I didn’t get a chance to play that newfangled Legend of Zelda that everyone was raving about, there was plenty to get excited about at E3. Based on scribbles into a notebook, here’s the games that stood out to me. Outlast 2 Let’s act shocked that Patrick was sucked in by a horror game,…

The Weapons Of The WarCraft Movie

Jonathan Berube is an artist who, after a long spell at Blizzard as a matte painter and member of their cinematics team, is now in the movie business working on the Avatar sequels. Below are some of his contributions to the WarCraft movie, most of which are weapons. Big, heavy, very WarCraft weapons. You can…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Death Cuddling

If you hadn’t already figured that this week’s ‘Shop Contest would somehow involve naked Norman Reedus from Hideo Kojima’s newly-announced Death Stranding, welcome to Kotaku. Update 6/22/16 — We’ve still got three days left to tuck things into Norman’s loving arms. It was really this or Dad Kratos, and we used Dad Kratos for our…