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Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Will Bring Some D&D To Magic: The Gathering

Magic: The Gathering fans, get ready to get a little bit of Dungeons and Dragons chocolate in your Magic: The Gathering peanut butter. In today’s official Zendikar Rising preview, Wizards of the Coast announced a new card set coming in Q3 2021 that will bring some D&D flavor to the planes of Magic While Dungeons…

It’s Damn Near The Apocalypse, But At Least My Blaseball Team Is Doing Well

Shit sucks. Our government continues to expand the boundaries of its fascist power. The ostensible opposition party lacks the strength or willingness to do anything. Society continues to buckle under the weight of a preventable pandemic. The only “hope” we have is a doddering politician who promises to change nothing if he becomes president. But…

Players Are Making Amazing Things In Overwatch‘s Workshop Mode

Overwatch turned four this past June, and despite attempts to keep the game fresh with new events, skins, and game modes, there’s only so many times one can tell a teammate to get on the damn payload. But one way players are keeping the game fresh and exciting is through experimenting in Overwatch’s Workshop, a…

Destiny 2’s Newest Subclass Will Work Very Differently

Bungie is radically reworking how build customization works for Destiny 2’s upcoming Stasis subclasses. We got our first look at these new Stasis subclasses in all of their crystalline glory during Gamescom Opening night. Now Bungie has put up a blog post that breaks down how they’ll work in more detail, and it’s a big…

Moon Designer Credits Toby Fox With Motivating Western Release

If you’re enjoying Moon: Remix RPG Adventure’s newly released Switch port, you probably have Undertale creator Toby Fox to thank. In a recent VICE Games interview, Moon scenario writer and designer Yoshiro Kimura credits Fox with providing the “emotional motivation” necessary for the developers to finally bring the game west. “We’re from different generations, but…

Pokémon Masters EX Hashtag Looks Real Bad In Lowercase

Last month, the mobile game Pokémon Masters underwent some changes. In addition to new story events and trainer pairings, it also received a new name: Pokémon Masters EX. But we’re not here to talk about any of that. We’re here to talk about how the game is getting promoted on Twitter, chiefly through a hashtag…

Ubisoft’s next Forward event will be September 10 at 3pm EDT, the company revealed today. A pre-show starts at 2pm EDT.

Biden Campaign Brings Centrist Yard Signage To Animal Crossing

It’s September 1, the 2020 election is barely two months away, and the Biden campaign has hit the ground running with some very official Animal Crossing: New Horizons designs for players to show support for the Democratic ticket throughout their islands. As The Verge reports, there are four separate designs. The first features the official…

How’s It Going? Hooray September Edition

It’s still hot outside, the sun is still shining bright, but there is an end in sight. Welcome back to our daily open thread. It’s going to be another month before the leaves start changing in my area, and who knows when the temperatures will drop from “it burns” to “this is nice,” but it…

Say Goodbye To Summer In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

It’s September in Animal Crossing: New Horizons unless you’re a dirty time traveler, and the onset of Autumn brings new bugs, new sea critters, new crafting components and recipes, and no more Sundays wasted on August firework shows, thank goodness. Last month’s fireworks were nice, but giving up a rotating visitor every Sunday so Red…

8BitDo’s New Arcade Stick Is Quite Charming

The fine folks at 8BitDo sure know how to put together attractive controllers. This is their new arcade stick for the PC and Nintendo Switch. It’s super-moddable, supports wired and Bluetooth connections, has easy button mapping, and even has a turbo function. All that tech, yet it still looks like a time traveller from the…

Obscure Puzzler Detonator Has The Most Gorgeous, Melancholy Soundtrack

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s pick comes out of left field: an obscure PlayStation 2 puzzler that randomly happens to have an achingly gorgeous soundtrack. At the dawn of this year I was hip-deep in obscure corners of the…

Recreating Gundam Box Art With Gundam Models

Gundam models have excellent box art. Twitter user Cody has brought classic mecha art to life with a three-dimensional plastic model. The result is very impressive—and the painting alone took 15 hours. As you can see Cody painted the model to resemble the flat box art. Cody has done other pieces that, likewise, are recreations…

Track: The Big Ship | Artist: Brian Eno | Album: Another Green World 

Nintendo Allows Cancelations For Digital Game Pre-Orders (In Japan, For Now)

Previously, if you pre-ordered a digital Nintendo game and then changed your mind, tough! As soon as the order was placed, your credit card was charged. That’s now changed—in the Japanese eShop, at least. Starting today, customers can cancel their pre-order games up to seven days before release, free of charge. After that window has…