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Team Fish Fam won the Creative championships at the Fortnite World Cup. The team of four takes home $1,345,000.

A Mario Master Coached Me On The Hardest Mario Technique

I’ve been playing Super Mario games since the first Super Mario Bros. came out on the NES. I think I’m pretty good at them. However, whenever I see masters like GrandPOOBear playing demonically difficult Super Mario Maker courses, I question the richness of my childhood. In the interest of officially kicking off my midlife crisis,…

Don’t worry, everyone: Peely is as horrible in real life as it is in Fortnite. Don’t say I didn’t warn you

I’m teaching the Black Eagle House the basics of strategy warfare and trying to keep folks alive in Fire Emblem: Three House right now on Twitch! Come and join chat to talk Pegasus Knights, Hufflepuffs, and more! 

The acclaimed 2015 throwback role-playing game Pillars of Eternity is coming to Nintendo Switch on August 8, according to a new trailer from publisher Versus Evil and development studio Obsidian. The Switch release will include the game’s updates and White March expansions. The Switch, along with other consoles, is also still slated to get a…

A new Sakura Taisen, titled Shin Sakura Taisen, will be out in Japan on December 12 on PS4. Have a look at the game’s trailer. No word yet, however, about an international release. 

The creator of Super Hexagon and VVVVVV has a new game called Dicey Dungeons coming to PC on August 13. Co-developed with designers chipzel and Marlowe Dobbe, it combines all the hottest Steam search phrases—deck-building, roguelike, turn-based RPG—into what looks like a genuinely fun, dice-driven dungeon-crawler.

Discord has added the ability to sort servers into folders. This is incredibly useful for organizing all your servers, especially if you’re a sneaky journalist lurking in over 80 community Discords. No, I will not tell you which ones.

Ask Dr. NerdLove: How Do I Date As A Newly Single Dad?

Hello you hideous love intestines, and welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the dating advice column that brings multiplayer DLC to your formerly single-player life. This week we’re tackling the question of how to continue when you’re out of lives and almost out of quarters. How can someone who’s quick on the trigger learn to improve…

Maybe it’s just me, but when I see a supposedly unreachable small island at the edge of a video game level, I think “GoldenEye.” That’s why the sight above in one of The Division 2‘snew levels got me thinking about my colleague Heather’s article about a certain “dam island.”

Come watch Gita and I play some Fire Emblem: Three Houses live on our Twitch! Come join us in the chat!

The third episode for This War of Mine’s Stories DLC drops on August 6. Called Fading Embers, it’ll follow the story of Anja as she’s faced with decisions about saving people or the things they’ve created featuring non-linear gameplay and multiple endings. The game is currently free on the Epic Game Store. 

I Wish Nintendo And Sony Made Elite Controllers

Out of every single video game purchase I’ve ever made in my life, across games, consoles and accessories, I don’t think I’ve made a more sensible purchase than Microsoft’s Xbox Elite controller. First released in 2015, it was—and remains, even with a successor on the way!—expensive as hell. As Phil Spencer said at the time,…

GTA Online’s New Casino Won’t Let Players In Some Countries Gamble

The most recent Grand Theft Auto Online update added a large new casino into the game, allowing players to buy chips, gamble and win big or lose everything. This casino has been teased in GTA Online for years, and many players were excited to jump online and finally play some blackjack with all the GTA…

Microsoft is tweaking the look of the Xbox One’s home menu again, with more space given to recent games played and separate clickable spots for accessing important pages like the store and Game Pass (they really want you to subscribe!). The change will go live for all Xbox One users this fall, according to an…

Got an unbelievable Super Mario Maker 2 moment? A killer kill in Apex Legends? Did a game just hilariously break on you? We wanna see it for our show Highlight Reel. Send your clips to [email protected] and we might feature it! And as always check out kotaku and our YouTube channel to stay up to…

Twitter Account Serves Up Perfect, Bite-Sized Samples Of Video Game Music

Video game music rules. Sometimes, it is legitimately great. Since the start of 2019, Twitter account 140 Seconds VGM has been breaking down game tunes into bite-sized chunks. Sometimes the songs are classics, sometimes they’re random oddities. But every new post brings a bright blast of music. 140 Seconds VGM posts a handful of times…

Defiant Development, the creators of the Hand of Fate games, is ceasing development of future games. “The games market has changed in ways both big and small in the 9 years we’ve been in business,” a post said on Twitter.“We’ve not been able to change quickly enough…”

Nintendo Doubles Super Mario Maker 2 Level Upload Limit

Super Mario Maker 2 has been out more than enough time for the most prolific creators to create tons of strange story missions, Kaizo deathtraps, and classic homages. It’s also been out for enough time to reach the course creation limit. Super Mario Maker 2 is doubling that limit, allowing players to make more courses.…

GTA 3’s Liberty City Now In Crazy Driving Game

BeamNG, a very fun driving game that’s mostly about destroying cars in the best way possible, now lets you smash stuff up on the streets of Grand Theft Auto 3’s Liberty City, without any hassles like health meters or police intervention. Put together by Swift502, it’s a literal port of GTA 3‘s map, which means…