Video Game Consoles Won’t Get Pricier In America, At Least For Now

A 10 percent tax on video game consoles and other consumer electronics has been delayed until December 15, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced today. According to President Trump, the purpose of the delay is to prevent the tariffs from hurting the holiday shopping season. The next round of tariffs in…

New Glitch Leads To Fastest Mario Kart 7 Track Time

Did you know Daisy has a cruise ship? And also that it’s full of holes? Nearly eight years after the game’s release, Mario Kart 7 players have found a new way to glitch through the vessel’s hull and complete the course in under a minute. That’s the shortest time of any track in all of…

Immaculate Set Of Pokémon Cards Sells For $107,010

A complete set of first-edition Pokémon cards just sold for $107,010 on Goldin Auctions. But don’t worry—it’s extremely unlikely the card binder your mom threw out would have sold for anywhere near that. As TMZ first reported, The 1999 set, sold last Saturday, includes 103 cards, one of which is a holographic Charizard. Twelve bidders…

Hundreds Of Players Trying To Cheat At Apex Legends And Counter-Strike Get Their Private Data Stolen

Since February, a number of ne’er-do-well Apex Legends and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players hoping to download cheats have in fact been infecting their computers with credential-stealing malware, security firm Sophos discovered. First-person shooter fans hoping to get an edge over their opponents had their personal and financial information siphoned off and sold for months, according to…

I Helped Some Gaggling Final Fantasy XIV Newbies Best One Of the Trickiest Bosses

There are moments in online games when leadership and authority are thrust upon us. In group-based content, like the various boss fights in Final Fantasy XIV, knowledge is power. If you’re in a group full of helpless newbies and you know the fight’s mechanics, you’re suddenly in charge. Earlier this week, I suddenly became the…

Final Fantasy VIII Remaster Addresses A Classic Meme

Later this year, Square Enix will put out a graphical remaster of Final Fantasy VIII for modern consoles. You may be pleased to learn that, thanks to its new high-def character models, this remaster will ruin a classic Final Fantasy meme. It’s hard to tell who came up with this one, but it’s at least…

It’s Not Looking Good For Hasbro’s $4.6 Million Transformer Crowdfunding Campaign

In mid-July, Hasbro launched a crowdfunding campaign seeking $575 from 8,000 backers each to produce a two-foot-tall action figure of Transformers: The Movie villain Unicron. With the August 31 deadline rapidly approaching and less than a third of the campaign goal reached, things are looking grim for the planet eater. HasLab is a crowdfunding platform…

Lego’s Motorized Disney Train Set Looks Like It Just Pulled Out Of The Park

Chugging onto store shelves on September 1, the Lego Disney Train and Station set is more than just a $330 piece of buildable Disney memorabilia. It’s a working train set made up of 2,925 Lego bits and controllable via a smartphone app. The Lego Disney Train and Station are part of Lego’s “Powered Up” line…

11 bit studios’ chilly survival city-builder Frostpunk arrives on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in October. The digital version of the port will release on October 11 for $29.99, with a $34.99 physical version of the port from Merge Games coming to North America October 24. Port, port, port. 

Japan’s Most Famous Cosplayer Draws Huge Crowds

This is Enako. As Kotaku previously reported, she’s making some serious cash as a cosplayer. She’s also drawing massive crowds. Enako appears on mainstream Japanese television (here and here, for example) as well as in-game advertisements (below). She is making a name for herself as Japan’s most well-known cosplayer. During this and last year’s Comiket,…

3D Printing Makes Yu-Gi-Oh! Truly Spellbinding

One Twitter user has used a 3D printer to replicate the spell on the Yu-Gi-Oh! Polymerization card. The whole process looks rather complicated. And while the colors are slightly muted in the finished version, I think the result turned out extremely well. 

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Mario Maker 2’s Hell Level Is Even Worse In Counter-Strike

Sometimes, you’ve just got to dust off an old classic. And ruin it. Last month, that’s exactly what one Mario Maker 2 player did with the original Super Mario Bros’ opening level, transforming it into a lava stick hellscape for freaks who like to be voraciously licked by slavering flame tongues. The nightmare obstacle course…

Shaved Mario Is Making Me Feel Strange

Here is a very simple, but very effective mod for Super Mario Odyssey that shaves Mario’s moustache for the entirety of the game. Cutscenes, gameplay, everything. It’s gross and I hate it. And yet…I also cannot stop looking at it. At how young it makes him look. Like this is the Young Super Mario Chronicles.…

Everyone’s DayZ Is Being Edited Because Of Australia

Last week, zombie shooter DayZ—which has been out in various forms for six years—had first its physical release banned in Australia, and then its digital version as well. In order to get the game cleared, Bohemia Interactive are changing every version across the planet just to comply with Australia’s classification guidelines. Since it’s impractical to…