Have You Requested A Steam Refund? Why?

Steam refunds have only been around for a week, and it seems like a lot of people are already using them. Have you used the new feature at all? If so, why? Did it work? Valve’s implementation of Steam refunds has been contentious, but there’s no disputing that they need to exist in some form…

Track: Slip Slide | Artist: Chance The Rapper, Busta Rhymes, The Social Experiment | Album: Surf Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

Mod Adds Working Hotels To The Sims 4

The Sims modders. Is there anything they can’t do? No. No there isn’t. In the latest example of modding excellence, Mod The Sims forum member simmythesim created an add-on to The Sims 4 (via SimsVIP) that lets players create and manage hotel-like buildings in their virtual neighborhoods. The new hotel venues can house up to…

What’s Your Craziest Gaming Marathon Story?

If your story involves some kind of homemade urinating contraption and a strict diet of whatever is within arm’s reach and doesn’t require cooking, you’re probably delightfully gross and I want to hear from you. Ditto if your story involves days of unwashed clothes, missed jury duty dates, or anything involving the words “temporary paralysis.”…

Mirror’s Edge 2 Is Now Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst

For the longest time, Mirror’s Edge 2 has seemed like one of those sequels that needed to happen but probably never would. Put your anxious mind at ease. The thing has a real name now! And it’s definitely “not a sequel.” In advance of the hype-a-palooza next week at video game industry convention E3, Electronic…

The first trailer for LEGO Marvel’s Avengers sticks to the scripts. Coming this winter (no longer fall) to everywhere LEGO video games go, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers injects the plots of the first two films with a heaping helping of brick-based silliness. Can it possibly top the amazingly expansive LEGO Marvel Super Heroes? Probably not.

Wargaming is bringing classic strategy series Master of Orion back from the dead with a full-fledged remake. There’s a brief trailer out, but it doesn’t feature any gameplay. Contact the author at [email protected]

How A Video Game Is Released In 2015

A history of how a video game is conceived, developed and marketed

Superstar RPG writer and Kotaku Asks guest Chris Avellone has left Obsidian, the company he co-founded. “Off to pursue new projects, but can’t say much else right now,” he tells Kotaku

League of Legends is nerfing its new time-bending champion in a big way: by making his go-back-in-time-four-seconds ult actually cost mana. This change, which will go live in the 5.12 patch, follows player criticism that Ekko is both “overpowered” and “overloaded.” Phew! Contact the author at [email protected]

The Only Thing Wrong With LEGO Elves Is The Elves Themselves

Does the world really need separate LEGO sets for boys and girls? Certainly not the mystical world of LEGO Elves. In March of this year LEGO introduced a new line of construction sets featuring unique colors, gorgeous design elements and a theme that any fantasy fiction fan could get behind. Why stop at Tolkien when…

Remember Stonehearth, the city-building game being made by the twin brothers who basically elevated fighting game competition to being a Really Big Thing? It’s out on Early Access on Steam now.