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If you want to buy some Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 DLC for a good cause, Activision has released a PlayStation 4 theme and Blackout cosmetic that will benefit the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit organization that places veterans into jobs.

Ubisoft has released the full list of games that will be on its gaming subscription service Uplay+ when it launches on September 3. There’s just over 100 and only 18 of them are Assassin’s Creed games. The service will cost $15 a month and will also include new games like Watch Dogs: Legion

Mario Maker 2 Level Is Like If Satan Got His Hands On 1-1

The opening level of the original Super Mario Bros. is iconic. Anyone who’s played it likely remembers exactly where to get the first mushroom, which pipe to enter for the secret coin stash, and how to find the hidden 1-Up. A new Mario Maker 2 level takes that knowledge and dips it in lava, turning…

Tetris Effect will come to PC on July 23 as an Epic Store exclusive. Featuring VR support for Oculus and and HTC Vive, the rhythm puzzle game notably won’t support Valve’s new Index headset. The game originally came out last year as a console exclusive on PS4.

A Short Hike, a delightful indie game about climbing mountains and meeting cool people, is coming to Steam and itchio on July 30th. It’s a great way to unwind and worth checking out after a stressful day.

Originally released on the Wii in 2006, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz is being remade for Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Steam. It’s called Tabegoro! Super Monkey Ball with tabegoro meaning “ripe for eating.” The game will be out on October 31 on Switch and PS4 in Japan and October 29 in North America. The Steam…

World Heroes, my favourite SNK fighting game, is getting some big expensive action figures. First up is this 1/12 Hanzou Hattori, which costs $85. 

Ubisoft Invites Fans To Make Music For Watch Dogs: Legion, Sparking Exploitation Debate

Last week, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt ‏announced on Twitter that his music production company, HitRecord, would once again partner with Ubisoft, this time to help the publisher create 10 songs for its upcoming open world hacker game, Watch Dogs: Legion. This immediately re-ignited an old debate about the ethics of soliciting work for big budget games…

A recent Samurai Shodown tournament in Japan was won by a cosplayer dressed as his main character, Ukyo. The player, Shingo “K2″ Kito, has also been known to dress as combat butler Hein during King of Fighters XIV events. Must be quite the power-up!

Fans Are Remastering Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is one of the more difficult Resident Evil games to get a hold of on current consoles. If you wanted to play it today, your only real option—short of tracking down a hard copy of the original game —is dusting off a PlayStation 3 or Vita to download the PlayStation Classic…

Makers Of Horror Game That Was Removed From Steam Say It’s Not Coming Back Anytime Soon

When it released in February, Devotion received thousands of positive reviews on Steam and was becoming popular with viewers on Twitch. But it was taken down after only a couple weeks when fans discovered art in the game that appeared to make fun of China’s president. Five months later, the studio behind the game says…

Early Access game Dota Underlords now has an Early Access battle pass. Called the Proto Pass, Valve says it’s a test to determine what exactly the game’s real season one battle pass will look like, but for now it’s free to all players and lets you earn custom portraits, banners, and boards.

Parents Name Their Baby ‘Google’ After…Google

Baby names are important. If you need suggestions, you can always try Google. Or, as one Indonesian family did, you can skip the looking on Google and just name your kid after it. The Jakarta Post (via AsiaOne) reports that parents Ella Karina and Andi Cahya Saputra decided to name their son “Google.” Ella was…

Here’s Your Sekiro Easy Mod(e)

If you wereintrigued by the world ofSekiro but put off by the game’s difficulty, this mod by the appropriately-named Tender Box is exactly what you need. While we’ve seen a few “easy” mods for the game already, most of them have been weird workarounds, like this speed-related tweak. This one (via Twisted Voxel) is a…

Gears Of War 5 Is Going To “Avoid Highlighting Or Glorifying Smoking”

In 2019, because we’ve already seen a shift away from it in a lot of movies and TV shows, it’s not the biggest deal if a major video game decides to not show any of its characters smoking. It is interesting, though, if the game is making a point of it. The Coalition, developers of…

Track: Panini| Artist: Lil Nas X | Album: 7  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Mountain Dew Amp Game Fuel Is Terrible

I was at the grocery store this week with my girlfriend. We were buying some food and drinks for the upcoming week. I also was feeling sick and was in a fuzzy state of mind. When we got to the self-checkout I noticed something in the fridges near the checkout area. Inside was all the…

Everything We Know About The Viruses In Dr. Mario World, Including Their Lethality

Dr. Mario World was released recently and I’ve been playing a lot of it. The latest game in the series, Dr. Mario World is the first built for mobile phones and features new and old viruses. But how deadly are these differently colored viruses and where did they come from? And how many different types…

The GTA San Andreas Myth That Turned Out To Be True

Back in 2005, I was almost 15 years old and I was still playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The game at this point was over a year old. But I was still spending hours every week playing it. It was during one of these sessions that I experienced a strange and spooky encounter with…

Mario Maker Contest: Summertime Fun, Winners!

Last week I asked you fine Mario Makers to create some levels that were all about the summer heat. I got a ton of courses and each offering various takes on “Summertime Fun.” Some went for vacations and beaches, others went for hellish nightmares. But we all need to have a talk about something. Way…