Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X Breathes New Life into the Series

Project Diva X has a few things you wouldn’t expect in a Hatsune Miku game—like a bit plot and a nice helping of strategy. There’s not actually a lot to the plot. It’s mostly just a collection of short, unvoiced conversations between Miku and her friends that are often about one aspect or another of…

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Cheers To This Witcher 3 Cosplay

TophWei is a cosplayer from Russia. She is not, as you may have guessed, a living Witcher 3 screenshot. Photos here, as in thatlast (NSFW) Witcher shoot we featured, by Victoria Milligan. I love that it’s not just Ciri in character, but her alt outfit.

Report: Jake Gyllenhaal To Star In The Division Movie

Variety is reporting that not only is Ubisoft trying to get a movie made out of The Division (not news), but that they’ve already got Prince of Persia star Chesty Jake Gyllenhaal attached to the project, as both actor and producer (interesting). Before we go any further, remember: as bad as video game movies tend…

7 Year-Old Kid Punches Armed GameStop Robber

On Friday night, two men stormed into a GameStop store in Montgomery County, Maryland. They ordered everyone onto the ground at gunpoint, and while employees and a husband and wife complied, the couple’s seven year-old boy started swinging punches at the robbers instead. “He’s a brave little boy, and he recognized he was in a…

Why Won’t My PC’s Optical Drive Open?

My PC’s optical drive won’t open. It’s been that way for a few weeks. Why won’t my PC’s optical drive open? It’s passive-aggressively suggesting that I don’t really need an optical drive in the first place. It’s still recovering from when I tried to get it to read my original 7th Guest discs. It still…

Overwatch Doesn’t Do Enough For Its Support Heroes

In team-based games like League of Legends and Team Fortress 2, and MMOs like World of Warcraft, support classes—medics, buffers, debuffers, etc—are a necessary element of victory. However, they’re under-appreciated and sometimes under-played. Overwatch addresses that problem in some smart ways, but it doesn’t completely solve the problem. Whether in single or multiplayer games, support…

More Companies Should Explain Their Censorship Decisions The Way NIS America Just Did

When NIS America announced erotic dungeon crawler Criminal Girls 2: Party Favors would arrive this September on Vita, it came with a big caveat. Like the last game, there have been “modifications” to make it appropriate. In advance, the company published an exhaustive explanation. Warning: The content in this post may be considered NSFW. “I…

AMD’s New Radeon RX 480 Is VR-Ready For $200

The price of entry to PC-based virtual reality just got a lot lower. The first graphics card based on AMD’s Polaris architecture arrives at the end of June, promising VR performance of a $500 GPU for less than half the price. Where Nvidia aimed high with its first two next-generation graphics cards, the GTX 1070…

The NBA’s Rookie Of The Year Is Streaming Games On Twitch

First up? Not Call of Duty, not Destiny, not League of Legends, but...Monopoly

Developer Rejects Player Requesting Steam Key For Supporting LGBT Rights [UPDATE]

Operation Caucasus developer Dream Games has given out tons of early access keys for their shooter. But when this player asked for one, sporting a colorful avatar signaling support for LGBT rights, the developer responded with a simple message: “We’re not support lgbt. Please, just f**k you.” This exchange was posted as part of a…

Reaper Players Always Have The Best Names In Overwatch

Reaper’s tryhard edgelording is partially on Blizzard, which has given the character sharp lines such as “DIE, DIE, DIE.” But players who play Reaper also make him seem like a ridiculous character, too. The excellent @reapernames Twitter account collects screenshots of actual Reaper players in the wild, and they all have amazing names. Sometimes, the…

What A Year To Love Playing Video Games

Somewhere around my fifth hour of Stardew Valley, I thought, “Oh, shit, 2016 is going to be a really good year for video games.” That was back in February. The subsequent months have borne that prediction out. A few weeks ago a new Doom game came out and instead of being bad, it was really…

GOG Now Offering Steam Users DRM-Free Copies Of Their Games

GOG is a service that sells PC games and offers a client with community and update features, much like Steam. Difference is, GOG focuses on DRM-free games, which allowed them to come up with a scheme to lure Steam users over to their side of the online galaxy. Today GOG announced GOG Connect. It’s a…

Our Favorite Games From May

A lot of great games came out in May, from reboots of classics to new team-based shooters to the end of a dashing adventure series. Take a look at some of our favorite games from the last month. Overwatch In this team-based multiplayer shooter, actually playing the game feels like such a small part of…

Overwatch: The Kotaku Review

Overwatch has technically only been out for a week, but it’s already a phenomenon. Even people who have never played Overwatch are getting sucked into its orbit through fan fiction, cosplay, memes and porn. That’s because Overwatch is not really a game as much as it’s an event. Normally, hype tells you nothing concrete about…