The Sims 4 Will Bring Back Ghosts And Swimming Pools (Free Of Charge)

The Sims 4 is getting three big additions in as many months, developer Electronic Arts just announced. The first, launching today, brings ghost Sims back into the mix. Next month, the game will get swimming pools. And come December, Sims will get some new careers. All will be free for Sims 4 players. There’s some…

​Hollywood’s Hero Dudes Really Want Them To ‘Let Her Go’

It’s one of the worst action movie clichés: bad guy captures female character and the hero yells at the villain to release the love interest/partner/sister. How much does it happen? Entirely too damn much. This supercut of mostly male protagonists saying the same three words—there’s one instance of ‘let go of her,’ to shake things…

What’s Different About Skylanders: Trap Team On 3DS

Skylanders: Trap Team launches on October 5 in North America, and while Vicarious Visions has somehow crammed the console experience onto tablets, the 3DS version is a completely different animal. How so? A Whole New Story The prison break story in the console version of Skylanders: Trap Team? Forget about it. The 3DS version instead…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call: The TAY Review • AKB0048 is a Lot Better Than You’ll Give It Credit For • Game of The Week—An Incredible Little Pile of Secrets [Castlevania: Symphony of the Night] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

“There’s no way that more teraflops don’t equal more emotions!” This very funny video serves as an announcement that charming indie creation Thomas Was Alone is coming to PS4, Xbox One and Wii U this November.

Professor X Sure Is A Wimp In X-Men: The Animated Series

Screen Junkies has proof in their latest supercut that Xavier wasn’t really the best choice to lead a group of mutants, at least not in the classic X-Men animated series from the 90s. What’s with the Patrick Stewart bits in the clip though? He’s the exact opposite of a wimp! Supercut: Professor X is a…

All The Typical Things In Warlords of Draenor‘s Beta

Mages with their spells gone wrong, placeholder enemies, unfinished quests, giant “delete me” boxes… YouTuber Moonclucking put all the typical things you might see in a World of Warcraft expansion’s beta into a slightly exaggerated short clip. With the original game’s beta included, Warlords of Dreanor‘s is already the sixth one with a beta, after…

Upcoming survival horror game The Evil Within (aka PsychoBreak) is getting limited edition PlayStation 4 consoles in Japan. The consoles come bundled with a soundtrack CD, a booklet, and Gore Mode DLC, allowing Japanese players the ability to enjoy the game uncensored.

Soon You’ll be Able to Touch Things in VR

Dextra Robotics just held aReddit AMA for this thing, a hand eating robo-spider a force feedback rig that lets you ‘feel’ virtual objects. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Here’s the bit about how it functions: “It works like this, when the avatar you are controlling hits a digital object, a signal is sent…

Undressing This Hug Pillow Is No Final Fantasy

Musician Gackt is the closest we’ll get to a real-life Final Fantasy character. And this hug pillow might be the closest you get to Gackt. He really looks like a Final Fantasy character! And according to Gackt, FFVIII‘s Squall Leonhart was based on his appearance. What’s more, Gackt not only did the theme songs for…

It Took 6 Years To Finish This Retro FPS

Joining the ranks of the modern retro-style shooters we’ve been seeing so many of lately—a great trend, I might add—is Wrack, the colorful, arcade-esque FPS for PC that’s been under development for six years. Wrack is singleplayer-only, and it promises “unlimited content” through user-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop (though of course, the…

Good news and bad news, Skullgirls fans: the 2D fighting game’s third DLC character, the Egyptian-inspired sorta-blood-mage Eliza, is out now on PC and PS3, free for the next three months. The game’s Vita and PS4 versions, however, have been postponed to early 2015. Look above for a taste of Eliza’s fighting style.

Can Game Characters Die?

“This cart is now a coffin”, posted UK games writer Richard Stanton, adding “RIP Hamlet the best Labrador in the world :’(“. I can’t help but wonder what’s happened to Hamlet, trapped inside that little plastic bit. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK In the case of a Nintendog cartridge the end is probably swift…

Gamers Wonder When Fatal Frame Got This “Erotic”

The Fatal Frame games have always been scary. They’ve been kind of sexy, too. But the latest entry is, flat out, being called an erotic game by Japanese Wii U owners. Warning: This article contains spoilers as well as content some readers might find objectionable. The latest Fatal Frame game, Fatal Frame: Oracle of the…

Death Stars It’d Really Take to Destroy a Planet

Ever since I learned how inaccurate Star Wars battles really were, I’ve been thinking about how off the entire Star Wars universe is. I get it, in a place where people have telekinetic powers and can shoot lightning from their fingers; you can’t exactly expect things to line up with… well, physics. When I started…