Happy 25th Birthday, Super Famicom And Friends

On November 21, 1990, Nintendo Japan released three amazing things—the first F-Zero, Super Mario World and a console to play them on. It was a very good day. Releasing a new video game console with only two games to play is unheard of these days (instead we get two GOOD games and a bunch of…

Transformers Fans Have A Very Big Decision To Make

Trypticon. Omega Supreme. Scorponok—three of the biggest Transformers toys ever made. Hasbro wants to bring one of them back, and it’s up to fans to decide. This is not going to be easy. Following up on 2015’s hugely successfulCombiner Wars line, Hasbro has massive plans for the Transformers Generations Titans Return in 2016. We’ve got…

Let’s See Which Sort Of Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon Says I Am

Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon was released yesterday, and as with all entries in the dungeon crawling series it kicks off with a personality test to determine which Pokemon best suits the player. Let’s see who I am! The game opens on the title screen, which features the logo floating over whatever your 3DS camera is…

This Week In The Business: Or Your Money Back

QUOTE | “The game was a failure. We could not do, in good conscience, volume 2 and volume 3.” – Steve Escalante, GM of Afro Samurai 2 publisher Versus Evil, explaining why the game was pulled from PSN and refunds issues to all customers. Elsewhere in the business of gaming this week… QUOTE | “No…

Learn how to take down a TIE Fighter in a single shot, where to shoot an AT-AT for massive damage, and more with jackfrags’ quick tips for Star Wars: Battlefront.

Modder Uncovers Secret Fallout 4 Weapon

Over the course of development, games go through numerous changes and overhauls. One modder has uncovered a lost Fallout 4 weapon that suggests some very intriguing things about the game’s direction. While everyone else picks over Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic wasteland, modder xxdeathknight72xx has decided to look under it—rifle through the couch cushions a little, see what…

Valve Is Changing Steam Sales

Since the dawn of recorded time, big seasonal Steam sales have included daily deals that make the whole process downright ritualistic. Wake up, check Steam sale deals, feel the life being drained from your wallet, etc. Soon, that will no longer be the case. Instead, games will just be at their lowest prices for the…

Blizzard Caught In Legal Fight With Game Cheating Company

Last week, Blizzard filed a lawsuit against the team behind a series of bots called “Buddy,” which allow users to cheat at games such as Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III and World of Warcraft. This week, the creators of those bots are hitting back at Blizzard, claiming the company has stolen their code. But…

All The Big Esports Events Happening This Weekend

There is a ton of major eSports content dropping this weekend. If you’re not too busy playing Overwatch now that Blizzard’s opened up the beta a little bit, you should watch some of it. Here are the four main events we recommend. The Smite Super Regionals Smite’s Regionals tournament is the last stop on the…

The New Archie Comics Have Some Damn Fine Fashion

The sharp comedy and the bittersweet romantic drama is great but, on the real, the fashion in the 2015 Archie comics has been the best stuff in the publisher’s reboot. Presenting a sense of style—or anti-style—to the world is 96.3% of what it means to be a teenager. Kids in the puberty zone put undue…

Star Wars: Battlefront: The Kotaku Review

Star Wars: Battlefront wants you to believe you’re in a Star Wars movie, but at heart it’s one of the video-game-iest video games I’ve played in ages. This is the source of both its greatest triumphs and its worst failures. Star Wars: Battlefront is a large-scale multiplayer shooter loosely set during the original movie trilogy.…

The Secrets Players Have Discovered in Bloodborne’s New Patch

Bloodborne’s first (and only) expansion, The Old Hunters, arrives on Tuesday. In advance, From Software has deployed a patch that not only fixes a few things, it adds a bunch of content to the game that people are only beginning to discover. First and foremost, patch 1.07 adds a new covenant for players to align…

I’ve never heard of Hollow Knight before today, but the trailer is hot as hell. It’s on my radar now, and it’s apparently coming to PC, Mac, and Wii U next year. Contact the author at [email protected]

Three Very Different Takes On Linkle, The Female Link

With snow threatening parts of the US this weekend, why go outside? Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing, is here to comfort you. Hey, You Should Read These “A Response to the Response to the Response to Linkle” by Carolyn Petit “Nintendo still won’t make Link a girl, but they’ll put…

Adding Kill-Death Ratios To Heroes Of The Storm Was A Bad Idea

Heroes of the Storm has been going through a lot of changes lately, some small, some the size of a gigantic two-headed ogre. There’s one change that’s disturbed me more and more the more I think about it. They added KDA ratios into the game. Oh god, the KDA ratio! A KDA ratio is a…

The Fallout 4 Podcast Extravaganza: Part Two

Fallout 4 is the type of game that grows on you more the more you play it. So we couldn’t help but keep talking about it on this week’s podcast. Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, Kirk and I spend a ton of time talking about weapons, quests, and theories in the latest Fallout. It’s part two…

This splash art for League of Legends’ new “Elderwood Hecarim” skin is my favorite thing. Look at the tiny little deer standing next to him in the bottom-right corner! It’s like Bambi crossed with Pacific Rim plus the Ent battle scene from Lord of the Rings. via Surrender at 20