Enemies In Super Smash Bros. Sure Love Killing Themselves

When people think Smash Bros., they think multiplayer—people huddled around a TV, furiously pressing Gamecube controller buttons as characters like Fox and Marth dart across the screen. But playing against the computer can be plenty entertaining, too. You may know Omega Tyrant as the person behind the video where Luigi wins Smash matches by doing…

Track: Swimming Pools (Drank) | Artist: Kendrick Lamar | Album: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to – and gaming to – at the moment.

My First Few Hours With The Sims 4

The Sims 4 came out today. We here at Kotaku haven’t had enough time with the game to give it a proper review, but I still wanted to pull myself away from obsessively tinkering with my new virtual ant farm to put some thoughts in writing. What follows is a list of some of my…

Let’s Talk About Triggers and Grips For Your Controllers and Consoles

A few pieces of plastic can vastly improve the ergonomics and battery life of your controllers and portables. Eons ago during the Playstation 3 era, affixing frequently sub-$3 plastic caps to your DualShock 3’s marshmallow-y L2 and R2 buttons was basically enough to fix the most nagging complaint with that particular controller. When I got…

I Wish Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright Was Better

If Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright were a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it’d be one of those sandwiches where the peanut butter is all shoved to one side and the jelly congeals on the other, so when you take a bite you can taste either peanut butter or jelly. Those occasional bites where the…

​Hell Is Like a Disney Musical In Saints Row IV‘s Expansion

Last time out, the Saints Row series went crotch-first into superhero sci-fi territory. Now, its newest expansion Gat Out of Hell is going the occult horror route. But the game’s creative director Steve Jaros says you don’t to worry about them “shitting out variants” to the open-world franchise. I spoke with Jaros last week after…

Here’s where that scream sample comes from

I found it by reading YouTube comments 🙁

Oh Good, The Sims 4 Has Demon Babies

The Sims 4 might not have toddlers, but judging from the first crop of glitches people are finding, maybe that’s not such a bad thing. You see, when you have a baby in The Sims 4, sometimes the little tykes don’t always look…human. Some people are experiencing a weird glitch where babies come out deformed,…

​Arcades In Movies Were Glorious

Ah yes…the old arcades of the 80s and 90s. You may not remember them, but they were wondrous things to behold. And they were even more glorious in the movies! The folks at the Huffington Post have created a supercut of the arcades and video games of yesteryear in old movies. It really does make…

Early Access Game Pulled From Steam After Months Without Updates

The Stomping Land, an ambitious dinosaur game that launched on Steam in May, is no longer available for sale following months without updates or news from the developers behind it. The Steam page is still live, but you can no longer buy the game. It’s yet another case of a game in Early Access—the Steam…

The Sims Patch Notes Continue To Be Ridiculous

Today is a big day for PC gamers. The Sims 4 comes out. While this gives us all a great opportunity to brush up on our Simlish, it also means that we have a whole new era of amazing and silly patch notes to look forward to. The Sims 4 hasn’t even been out in…

Have you seen an amazing gaming moment lately? Send it to us at [email protected] to get it included in our new feature, Highlight Reel! Check out some of the previous episodes right here. You can submit a clip of something you did or just something you saw online that you think is worth sharing. If…

Star Trek Online Gets The Voyager Crew Back Together

Just because Star Trek: Voyager was pretty horrible doesn’t mean we don’t miss the folks who starred in it. Five members of Captain Janeway’s crew are reprising their roles for the next Star Trek Online expansion, “Delta Rising.” That’s right, Star Trek Online is still a thing that’s happening, and its next expansion is due…

Destiny Limited Edition, Plus More Power and More Peripherals [Deals]

You’re running out of chances for the Destiny Limited Edition to come back in stock before the game releases. Grab it today. PS4 Xbox One PS3 360 We’ve got a whole lot of peripherals deals so let’s get into it. The Razer DeathAdder scored the win in last year’s Best Gaming Mouse Co-Op, our biggest…

Argghhhh. I want to be able to transfer my Diablo III save from Xbox One to PS4 and back but can’t. So frustrating, given all the other transfers Blizzard allows.

Even YouTube’s Most Popular Gamer Is Sick Of The Comments

“I go to the comments, and it’s mainly spam, it’s people self-advertising, people that are trying to provoke, people who reply to all these…just all this stuff that, to me, it doesn’t mean anything.” This is rockstar Let’s Play-er PewDiePie explaining why he’s removing comments from his insanely popular YouTube channel, which recently surpassed 30…