Uncharted 4’s Climbing, Reviewed

Climbing is difficult. At least it can be. Depending on what you’re climbing. Climbing is also technical. Perhaps that’s a more useful word. A word that better describes the delicate set of skills required to gracefully scale a rock face, be it a boulder, cliff or full blown mountain. Then there’s climbing in video games.…

Game That’s Totally Not A Cthulhu Dating Sim Gets DLC That Totally Is

Army of Tentacles: (Not) A Cthulhu Dating Sim is a Steam visual novel/RPG loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In it, you recruit Eldritch horrors and fight conversation-based battles. When it first came out, it went to great lengths to proclaim that it wasn’t a Cthulhu dating sim. Now it has DLC…

Bethesda Isn’t Sending Out Early Review Copies Of Doom

Don’t expect to see any early reviews for the new Doom. Publisher Bethesda has decided to hold back on copies, telling critics that the game won’t be available until it launches this Friday. This news might come as alarming—perhaps a bad sign for a game that’s long been in development hell—but there’s no need to…

Windows 10 Getting Much Needed Gaming Improvements Today

Microsoft claims it wants to take PC gaming seriously with Windows 10, but the limitations of Windows 10-based games has undercut their message. They’re trying to address some of that today, with unlocked frame rates and support for AMD’s Freesync and NVIDIA’s G-SYNC. “A big thank you to those who have given us feedback,”the company…

North Carolina Game Companies Condemn State’s Ridiculous Bathroom Bill

Three game studios in North Carolina have come out against North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill,” a law seen by many as infringing on the rights of transgender individuals. The law, formally titled House Bill 2, bans individuals from entering a gendered bathroom different from what’s listed on their birth certificate, supposedly due to the need…

Co-Op Is Quietly The Best Thing In StarCraft II

If you’re intimidated by competitive StarCraft II and bored by the story, allow me to suggest another option: Co-Op, which is far more entertaining than it has any right to be. And when Blizzard puts out the next patch for their real-time strategy game, it’ll likely be even better. Co-Op (formerly called Allied Commanders) lets…

The Internet Reacts To Pokémon Sun and Moon’s Starters

The Pokémon hype train has officially left the station, and the passengers are definitely freaking out in excitement right now. This morning, the first real Pokémon Sun and Moon gameplay trailer hit the web. There was a lot of new information hiding in that footage, from the Hawaiian-inspired locale, to some of the broader customization…

Final Fantasy X Pops Up On Steam

Final Fantasy X, a video game about ghosts playing soccer, showed up on Steam this week alongside its peppy sequel, FFX-2. Seems like they’ll be coming to PC soon. The Steam listing says this HD remaster—previously released on PS3, PS4, and Vita—will be out for PC on May 12, but Steam’s gotten dates of Final…

WW2 Submarine Game Is Basically An Underwater Fallout Shelter

UBOOT is a Second World War game set on a German submarine. Thing is, you’re not controlling the boat. You’re controlling the men who control the boat. Inspired by games like Fallout Shelter, UBOOT is a game where “You look after their physical and mental health, because if the sailors are hungry, tired and their…

Mod Turns Doom Into An Ancient Alien World

A group of Doom enthusiasts created a super impressive megawad, a pack of 32 maps, called Ancient Aliens, where players have to discover the truth about the origins of human civilization. And indeed, if you check the screenshots, the colorful areas filled with crystals and huge monoliths look like landscapes from The Dig, and not…

Here’s a World of Warcraft Horde wedding ceremony, in the heart of the enemy faction’s capital city, in Stormwind Cathedral. That’s how you defeat an entire server of Alliance players. Must have been a tough battle to capture the entire place! And it’s good to see some World of Warcraft servers, such as the RP/PVP…

These Are Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Starters

Is this what you’ve been waiting for? Well, here you go. Your Pokémon Sun and Moon Starters, Rowlet, Litten and Popplio. But, who is who? This is Rowlet. This Grass Quill Pokémon can attack without making a sound and twist its neck around 180 degrees to see behind itself. Here is Litten, a Fire Cat…

Konami Denies Connection to Panama Paper Listing

You know the Panama Papers? You know, what’s being called “the biggest leak in history “ that shows where the super rich hide their money. An entity called “Konami Corporation Limited” is named in those papers, it seems, but the Tokyo-based game maker denies any relation. Here is the listing via Offshore Leaks Database (more…

China’s Newest Game Machine Seems So Familiar

Here’s an Android powered Chinese game machine that copies both the PS4 (in console design) and the Xbox One (in controller design). That isn’t all. I can’t help but feel I’ve seen its user interface before. The machine was shown at a press event today in Beijing attended by a Kotaku tipster. The console itself…

I’m Starting to Worry Kirby Isn’t a Hero, You Guys

I mean, he does kill an awful lot of innocent people. Growing up, I never played Kirby games. Of course, I knew who the little pink blob was thanks to commercials and, later, Super Smash Bros. on the N64. Despite my lack of firsthand knowledge, I always assumed he was a hero. However, the more…

Blizzard Sends Nice Wedding Cakes

That is, if the groom is one of the greatest StarCraft players to ever live. Lim Yo-hwan (aka BoxeR) secretly married Korean actress Ka Yeon Kim back in 2011, when everyone, including Kotaku, still thought they were dating. Recently, the two finally decided to hold a wedding ceremony, and, as tipster Sang points out, Blizzard…

Deceased Writer’s Coffin Was Covered in Anime Girls

Sadly, Japanese author Tomohiro Matsu recently passed away at the age of 43. At the funeral service, his coffin was covered with expressions of gratitude and anime girl drawings from friends and colleagues. Matsu was perhaps best known for writing the light novel series Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! (aka PapaKiki!). As…

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