Valve Bans Over 40,000 Dota 2 Accounts

The official Dota 2 account on Twitter announced today that the developers have banned over 40,000 players for “abusing matchmaking,” but it’s still not clear what exactly that means. Kotaku has reached out to Valve for more context on what led to this massive wave of bannings and has yet to hear back. Dota 2,…

Wide Ocean Big Jacket, A Chill Game About Camping, Is The Perfect Length

As a kid, I never liked camping. I went to a multitude of Boy Scout and church camps, but I could never escape an overriding feeling of anxiety, like the trees were going to close in and suffocate me with their bristly branches. Turns out, I was just doing it wrong. The camping trips I…

Destiny 2 Taken Offline Again After Players Lose Currency, Materials [Update]

Bungie has once again taken Destiny 2 offline, following fresh reports of some players losing crafting materials following today’s hotfix. “Destiny 2 is being brought offline for emergency maintenance. Stand by for updates,” Bungie announced on Twitter earlier this afternoon. Today’s update was small, addressing problems with certain achievements not being properly recorded and changing…

Ubisoft Reveals A Surprise Division 2 Expansion ‘Warlords of New York’ That Is Designed To Revive The Game

The makers of The Division 2 have waited until nearly the last possible moment to give their frustrated player base a heap of potentially good news. After spending weeks failing to announce a release date for an expected small extension to the game, they’re revealing today that that mini-expansion—a free, two-mission excursion to Brooklyn’s Coney…

Please Stop Quitting Before I Can Revive You

I’m not the most aggressive battle royale player, but I put a lot of effort into supporting my team. I stick close to my squad, share my loot, and heal my teammates whenever I can. In games where downed players can be brought back, like Apex Legends or Fortnite, I always go out of my…

Borderlands 3 Gets Its First Level Cap Increase This Week

Borderlands 3 players have had almost six months to wring as much enjoyment out of the game as possible, including by reaching level 50, the game’s maximum. Now, the developers are ready to introduce the first level cap increase, which will give players the chance to earn three more levels beyond the current ceiling starting…

What Your Least Favorite Final Fantasy Says About You

The Final Fantasy franchise has been many things to many people in the decades since the series debuted in 1987: a card game, an energy drink, and no less than three unpopular motion pictures. But the nucleus of the entire multimedia universe has been the 15 core games in the series. Everybody has a favorite…

Dead Cells‘ Latest Expansion Makes A Good Thing So Much Better

The only thing in Dead Cells’ latest expansion that gives me more pleasure than cleaving giant mutated fungi in half with a humongous scythe is having my own mushroomed companion fling itself at them with abandon and then explode upon impact. In other words, I’m really enjoying Dead Cells’ new DLC, “Bad Seed.” Out today…

Neopets Might Be Finally Getting An Animated Series

How has Neopets, the once wildly popular kid-friendly virtual pet website, gone more than two decades without an animated series? It’s had toys, video games—hell, it was owned by Viacom from 2005 to 2014. Whatever the case, current Neopets owner Jumpstart Games has teamed with Beach House Pictures to make a cartoon happen. Announced yesterday…

Japanese TV Channel Stops Airing Interspecies Reviewers

Earlier this month, Funimation announced that it would no longer stream Interspecies Reviewers, stating the show fell outside its standards. Now a Japanese TV channel is also canceling the program. IT Media reports that late last week, network TV channel Tokyo MX announced it would no longer broadcast the show. No specific reason was given…

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Here’s To 20 More Years Of Ashley’s Butt Just Hanging Out In Vagrant Story

As of today, the classic PlayStation 1 role-playing game Vagrant Story is 20 years old. It’s very good and, as ex-Kotaku staffer Joshua Rivera so eloquently wrote back in December, “still holds the heck up” two decades later. This article, however, is all about the main character’s exposed butt, just so you know what you’re…

Sims 4 Modder Passes Away, But Fans Are Making Sure His Legacy Lives On

If you’ve messed around with The Sims 4 at any point, you’ve probably come across the name Scumbumbo. A gifted modder, he was also a major figure in the game’s community, always lending a hand to help others improve their own creations. Scumbumbo died last year, but his work was so important to players that…