Wild Theory Explains Pokémon’s Biggest Mysteries

The twist at the end of Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire doesn’t just make the Pokémon timeline bonkers. It might explain some of the stuff that Pokémon fans have been wondering about for years. For those of you that don’t know, in the extra chapter included in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, players are…

Steam’s Latest Survival Game Comes From An Unexpected Place

In the near future, Atari will be launching one hell of a reinvention of the arcade classic Asteroids. The company just announced Asteroids: Outpost will be a multiplayer-focused survival game for PC that’s launched through Steam’s Early Access program. That’s a surprise. Here’s how Atari describes Asteroids: Outpost in its press release: “Set in the…

Here’s a cool new way to try playing The Sims 4: the creator of one of popular “legacy challenges” recently came up with an idea for another custom mode he’s calling the “moments challenge.” It adds neat short-term objectives and funny punishments (like grounding your Sims). Check out the rules here and give it a…

Peter Molyneux’s Godus Is Having Serious Problems

Legendary game designer Peter Molyneux, creator of the god game genre, has a history of over-promising and under-delivering. So when he took his latest game, Godus, to Kickstarter, people were a little wary. Turns out, they were right to feel that way. After a £526,563 Kickstarter that conjured up divine dreams of a Molyneux return…

Buff Dude Is Pretty Much A Real Life Dragon Ball Z Villain

Reality TV may not be the best place to find anything realistic, but it can be a good place to find people who would fit right in an anime. Take Chris, for example. Chris was a contestant in Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge. Broken Skull Challenge is one of those shows where (really fit) people…

Besiege Players Have Built Some Amazing Dicks

Give people the tools to build whatever they want, and they’ll probably create amazing technological wonders. Also, dicks. We’ve seen it time and time again: if people have the freedom to make things, they’ll probably make genitals. Even in Nintendo games, this axiom is true. Nothing is safe. So it’s probably not surprising to hear…

A Look At Metacritic’s Many Problems

Today, the gaming website Eurogamer announced plans to ditch review scores, joining outlets like Kotaku and Rock Paper Shotgun in Fighting The Good Fight against the arbitrary and meaningless quantification of video game quality. That’s good news both for Eurogamer and for video game criticism in general. It’s also good news for anyone concerned about…

Skilled Dark Souls II Player Makes Toughest Enemies Look Like Chumps

Parrying is an advanced move in the Souls games, as you can deflect an enemy’s attack. Remarkably, a number of bosses can be dismantled with a parry, too. Most players (i.e. me) are too busy rolling out of the way of a sword to worry about knocking it back, but it’s impressive to watch a…

Midweek Steam Sale, Mario Kart Slot Cars, and More Deals

Steam’s offering a surprisingly huge midweek sale on a ton of mystery-themed games, including Gone Home ($8), L.A. Noire ($5), Alan Wake ($5), and a lot more. [Steam] There’s a lot to like about the Corsair M65: Eight programmable buttons, metal scroll wheel, configurable weights. What really sets it apart though is the three-zone backlighting…

League Of Legends Team Fires Manager For Threatening One Of His Players

German eSports team Meet Your Makers (MYM) has “released” its manager Sebastian “Falli” Rotterdam following the revelation that he had threatened League of Legends player Marcin “Kori” Wolski to intimidate him against quitting the team. MYM announced that Rotterdam has been “immediately released” from the team as part of a lengthy message posted on its…

Street Fighter II Has Somehow Been Ported To Virtual Boy

While it feels like Street Fighter II has been released on every platform ever, that’s not true, as Capcom never blessed Nintendo’s doomed Virtual Boy with the classic fighter. That’s where fans come the rescue, as Hyper Fighting has introduced Street Fighter II to wildly outdated 3D. Homebrew games have existed in the still-active Virtual…

The surprisingly excellent zombie game Dying Light got its first batch of DLC today, Techland said in a surprise announcement. It’s called “Cuisine & Cargo,” and adds two additional “hardcore zones” (buildings) to explore in the game’s world. There are two more bits of DLC coming out in March and May respectively.

Think Before Getting Your Valentine Cheap-Ass Chocolate

If you buy the current love of your life sweets for Valentine’s Day that can be purchased in a drug store, you’re doing it wrong. See how a real chocolatier feels about the heart-shaped boxes that’ll be 75 percent off on February 15. BuzzFeed tapped Jonathan Grahm ofCompartes chocolates in Los Angeles to try out…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: A Life Worth Watching: Why I Love The Slice of Life Genre • Your Lie in April Resonates with Me on Multiple Levels • Indie HYPE: Black Ice • Michonne! in Speed Painting Form! • The Worst/Best Extremes in Japanese Fiction I’ve Seen So Far: Part 2…

For the first time ever, Bethesda will be holding its own E3 press conference this year. Fallout 4? Dishonored 2? Doom 17? Skyrim 360? Let the speculation begin.

Cyberpunk LEGO Is, Sadly, Not Official

Computers and displays hanging on the walls, chaos that is somehow organized, rusty post-indusrial techno-junk lying everywhere. Tim Schwalf‘s massive LEGO cyber slums fan-build has it all, just like a proper dystopian town. It’s easy to imagine this as part of an official cyberpunk set with mechs and hardboiled detectives. Here are some close-up shots—head…