Released in Japan last year as Pokémon Co-Master, free-to-play strategy board game Pokémon Duel is now available on iOS and Android, though servers are under maintenance until 4 PM Eastern. Check out our impressions of the Japanese release while we wait.

Resident Evil 7 will release its first DLC ‘Banned Footage Vol. 1′ next week on the Playstation 4 on January 31st. The DLC will contain a room escape mode, horde-like survival mode, and a new difficulty: “Ethan Must Die.” An additional DLC, ‘Banned Footage Vol. 2′ will release on February 14th and will feature a…

Tales Of Berseria: The Kotaku Review

Bandai Namco’s Tales action role-playing series is normally pretty formulaic—a plucky group of colorful heroes joins together to save the world from some dire threat. Tales of Berseria’s protagonist just really wants to murder a guy, and her companions are happy to help. The 16th main Tales game begins innocently enough. Velvet Crowe and her…

Hitman’s next Elusive Target, The Blackmailer, will be in Paris for 10 days starting January 27 I like the Goth look going on here.

Track: What Difference Does It Make? | Artist: The Smiths | Album: The Smiths Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Finally! Pokémon Go has launched in South Korea, six months after its debut. The delay was because the game uses Google Maps, but South Korea has limited mapping functions like that due to North Korean security concerns. 

The Xbox One is getting an update soon, and one of the more interesting changes is the addition of a “copilot” mode, which will let two controllers be assigned to one player. This is great news for disabled and young gamers especially, who can use the feature to assign controls or have someone help them…

Track: Grim Business | Artist: Iron Reagan | Album: Crossover Ministry Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

So That’s Why Doom‘s Hell Has So Many Candles

Everybody has questions. What’s our purpose? Will we ever achieve true peace? Why is it fucking impossible to plug in a USB cable correctly on the first try? Me, though, I have just one: why, in Doom (2016), were there so dang many artfully arranged candles in hell? A new video by Harry101UK posits a theory:…

Karma Hits Lucio Player Like A Ton Of Bricks

Today on Highlight Reel we have titans without mercy, Widowmaker karma, excited Skyrim NPCs and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Skyrim – It…

Popular Fallout 4 Radio Mod Runs Because Of Invisible Cats

It’s been said that video games are all smoke-and-mirrors—elaborate feats of code and trickery that imply possibilities far greater than what you’re actually able to do. Sometimes, though, the truth is much stranger. Sometimes the truth is radios powered by invisible cats. Old World Radio: Boston is a mod for Fallout 4 that adds more…

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation: Essential reading that set the stage for modern science fiction.  What it is: The first of Asimov’s famous Foundation series, originally published as a collection of short stories between 1942 and 1950. Those stories eventually became the first full book in the Foundation trilogy. Later in Asimov’s life, he expanded on the…