Else Heartbreak Is One Of The Most Interesting Steam Games I’ve Played In Ages

Else Heartbreak is an ambitious game about hacking, parties, and blowing it with cute girls. It also refuses to hold your hand. Else Heartbreak is a new Steam hacker adventure about a young man named Sebastian making his way in a surprisingly hip backwater town. Its first five hours had me hearkening back to the…

My attempts to contact Xur from hotel Wi-Fi—I need to buy some three of coins, dammit—have not gone well so far. [UPDATE: Success!] Contact the author at [email protected]

The Beginner’s Guide Tackles The Fears We Don’t Talk About

Wanna meet at the bar after work? Because The Beginner’s Guide, the latest from The Stanley Parable co-creator Davey Wreden, is the kind of game you wanna talk about over several drinks. If The Stanley Parable was a game about games, The Beginner’s Guide is a game about game development. In The Stanley Parable, players…

The Most Popular PS4 Communities Are Hilarious (And Sometimes Awful)

PS4 players now have the power to form groups for all their favorite games. Almost immediately, people used this power to make all sorts of ridiculous, hilarious, WTF, and sometimes horrible communities. Here are some of the best (and worst) that I’ve found. At first glance, PS4 communities seem fairly normal. Here are the top…

Kotaku Reader Sends Perfect E-Mail

Back in 2013, I wrote a Kotaku article about two Jeopardy contestants who got dinged for answering “Zelda” instead of “The Legend of Zelda.” They were robbed, I wrote. Two years later, a loyal reader has sent me an e-mail response that’s so perfect, I have to print it here. In its entirety: Hmmm… “[What…

Stephen Colbert Interviews Pewdiepie, Nails It

YouTube’s biggest star was on the Late Show last night—and the segment was actually pretty good. Really, I’d say that Colbert gaveJimmy Kimmela master class in how to cover the phenomenon that is Let’s Plays. Going in, Colbert immediately poked fun at television, calling it a “steam-powered medium”—and Pewdiepie talked about how, personally, he never…

Video Games Should Have Fewer Achievements

SOMA is a standout game, and one of the many ways it distinguishes itself is through its restrained use of achievements. There are 10 on Steam (or 10 trophies on PlayStation), and each is nothing more than a progress marker. They come infrequently and unexpectedly. I wasn’t sure when one would pop up or why.…

The World’s Smallest Car Is Perfect For GTA V

The Peel P50 three-wheeled microcar, which is the smallest production automobile in the world, certainly won’t stop the GTA V train, but it’s pretty much good for everything else. Traffic jams are no longer a problem. There’s no need to get out of the car at home and since it’s smaller than shrub hedges, and…

Goku And Frieza Are Having A Rematch In The Living Room

It’s an amazingly choreographed battle scene of two hands… dressed as Goku and Frieza from Dragon Ball Z by HigaTV Everything starts peacefully, but the ending is the usual. Goku transforms into Super Saiyan and Frieza reaches his final form as well. To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Tiny Pokémon Fit on your Fingertip

Very cute but probably very easy to lose. Better not drop them. Or take them near couches. These polymer clay sculptures were created by Ruby Huang, AKA Lonelysouthpaw. She likes to make clay fanart, basically, sometimes selling the results through Etsy. Apart from these Pokémon, which she recently started uploading on Instagram under the #pinkymon…

Looks Like This Is a Brand New Street Fighter V Character

This is Laura. Apparently! We had never seen her until Japanese game site Famitsu, it seems, accidentally leaked the character today. On Famitsu.com, it looks like the Laura screens were mixed in with the announcement images of Zangief, whose return was officially announced today. The Laura screens (for example, here, here, and here, apparently) have…

Inside a Pokémon Dream House

Imagine a house that is covered entirely in Pokémon goodies. Wait. Don’t imagine it, watch it on television! This Sunday a new Pocket Monster themed program called Pokémon no Uchi Atsumaru? (or Meet Up at the Pokémon House?) debuts in Japan. As with previous Sunday morning Pokémon shows, this one will introduce new Pokémon news,…

I’m Playing Digimon Wrong and I Can’t Help Myself

I’m 10 hours into Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuths, killing Digimon at the end of the first non-tutorial dungeon, overleveled beyond belief, and getting next to no EXP—but I am so close to getting my Angewomon, you guys. A bit of backstory. Back in my middle school days in the late 90s, there was this fad…

Don’t Let The Zombie Apocalypse Stop You From Being Cute

Ever thought The Walking Dead would be better with cute anime high school girls? Well, Japan has heard your prayers. School-Live! is the story of four students, their teacher, and their dog who are holed up in their high school during the zombie apocalypse. However, instead of focusing simply on survival, the small group tries…

My Love Story! Is Truly a Delightful Anime

I’d say my heart grew three times, but then I’d be in the hospital with an exploded rib cage. Sometimes it’s nice to see good things happen to good people. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that My Love Story! has been the bright spot in my week for the past six months.…

Freaky Giant Cat Also Has A Big Heart

This enormous fake cat might look creepy, but let’s not be so quick to judge. There’s a gentle soul under that nightmare fuel. Earlier this year, Kotaku first reported that Kuroneko Yamato (Black Cat Yamato), a Japanese shipping service, set up a huge cat-faced billboard in Shibuya. Now, this fall, the company rolled out a…