What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for press conferences. It’s also for sneaking some video games in between press conferences. I picked up a rhythm game called Vectronom on my Switch the other week but didn’t get to spend a ton of time with it. I also bought Slay the Spire on Switch, so I’m excited to play…

New Multiplayer Action Game From Makers Of Hellblade Leaks Ahead Of E3

At last year’s E3, Microsoft announced that it had bought four independent studios in an effort to step up its first-party development. One of those studios was Ninja Theory, the developer behind Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and DmC: Devil May Cry. Since then, we haven’t heard much about what the studio is working on. A Friday…

Fallout 76 Players May Finally Get Their Damn Collector’s Bags

After a seven-month wait underscored by security issues and cheap nylon, Fallout 76 players may be able to get the collector’s edition bags they were promised. Gather round, children, and let me tell you the saga of the collector’s edition Fallout 76 bags. The fancy-pants $200 Power Armor edition of Fallout 76 was supposed to…

Black Ops 4‘s ‘Days of Summer’ Event Is A Big Belly Flop

Call of Duty’s most recent seasonal event, “Days of Summer,” hit Black Ops 4 on June 4 for PlayStation 4, but what was supposed to be fun in the sun turned out to be more like the Days Of Bummer Days of Summer, which will arrive on June 11 for Xbox One and PC, does…

Captain Olimar Got Done Dirty In Latest Smash Patch

The most recent Super Smash Bros. Ultimate update addressed a number of concerns in the competitive community, most notably the strength of characters like Captain Olimar. The developers hit the Pikmin protagonist with a number of changes in order to knock him down a peg, but those changes had the side effect of severely limiting…

A Sparse Game About Pushing People Into Holes

Indie game Kids is about pushing, pulling, and squeezing bodies into holes and tubes. Developed by artist Michael Frei and programmer Mario von Rickenbach, Kids is a series of physics mini-games about tiny little people. You can push them into holes, squeeze them through fleshy tubes and guide them as they swim through a dark…

The Forgotten Video Game Memories Hiding In Our Brains

The mind is a mysterious vessel full of things we know and, weirdly, things we’ve forgotten. My brain was cruising along as usual on Wednesday until a minute before noon when, suddenly, a Nintendo Switch press release reminded me of a passenger I had long forgotten about. There in my email inbox was a subject…

Larian Shares The Very-Serious Story Of How They Got The Baldur’s Gate 3 Deal

Baldur’s Gate 3 is real, and Larian Studios, the developer behind the excellent Divinity: Original Sin 2, are making it. But how did they score the biggest win in all of role-playing games, one of Dungeons & Dragons’ most-beloved stories? What did they do to sell D&D makers Wizards of the Coast on their Mind…

One Arcade’s Homemade Super Smash Bros. Melee Cabinet

A 1980s style arcade cabinet for Super Smash Bros. Melee now exists, and it’s absolutely stunning. California’s High Score Arcade, which also has cabinets for Oregon Trail and The Legend of Zelda, yesterday announced it added a handmade Super Smash Bros. Melee cabinet. It’s red and blue with images of classic Smash Bros. fighters bordering…

The E3 2019 Press Conference Schedule

It is nearly time for E3, the annual convention where companies from around the world unite to show trailers for video games that don’t actually exist yet. Are you ready? I’m ready. The show runs from June 11 through June 13, but the fun starts well before then. Beginning on Sunday, June 9, some of…

Yooka-Laylee Returns With A Donkey Kong Country Style Sequel

Playtonic’s spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie returns with a fresh perspective later this year in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. This time around the third person adventure of the original is replaced with a combination of overhead 3D platforming and 2.5D side-scrolling, a la Donkey Kong Country Playtonic calls it a 2D platforming adventure hybrid. When…

Animal Crossing Superfan Has Maintained His GameCube Town For 17 Years

We always joke about what it would be like if we were to grab our old 3DS or GameCube, boot up a now-ancient Animal Crossing town, and visiting our poor abandoned villagers and the chaos they’ve been left to in our absence. But for at least one player of the original 2002 Animal Crossing, his…

Everything Should Be Ported To Switch (And Other Wild Hopes For E3 2019)

Will this E3 be the year we hear about Final Fantasy XVI? Or get that long-awaited Metroid Prime trilogy Switch port? On this week’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen, we shared our best guesses and most optimistic dreams about what will and won’t be revealed at E3 2019. First, we talk about what we’re playing. Jason’s back…

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