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Look At This Fire Emblem Action Figure

Behold Lucina, resplendent and thoroughly badass in action figure form. This Figma, first shown in 2013, then originally due out earlier this year but delayed for months, is finally out. Mine arrived yesterday, and hoo boy, it’s been worth the wait. She comes with two different head options, two face options, a Marth mask, multiple…

The UFC’s Weirdest Fighter Got Banned For Weed, And That’s Bullshit

Five years. That’s how long the Nevada State Athletic Commission decided UFC fighter/enigma Nick Diaz won’t be allowed to fight. That’s more than most steroid users. All over goddamn marijuana. If you have friends (or enemies) who are super into MMA, they probably haven’t shut up about Nick Diaz in the past 24 hours. That…

Rocket League On Super-Low Specs Looks Like A PS1 Game

LowSpecGamer, the same guy responsible for turning 2015’s most beautiful game into an eyesore, has done the same thing to Rocket League. Only this time is actually looks kinda cool. This isn’t a mod, per se, nor is it a lowering of the game’s actual settings. Instead, it’s the result of tweaks to the game’s…

Nintendo has told IGN that its Nintendo Direct videos, lovable PR blasts that became synonymous with former President Satoru Iwata, will continue, though “we have no details to provide now on who will be featured”.

Lucha Libre Pikachu Looks Badass In The Pokémon Fighting Game

Why have one Pikachu in your Pokémon game when you can have two? I was ready to react to “Masked Pikachu” with “Fuck Pikachu,” but after watching its trailer, I’ve decided that actually, this version of the yellow mouse is pretty awesome. Masked Pikachu makes more sense to include than normal Pikachu, who otherwise looks…

Turns out Square Enix’s Project Setsuna—announced at E3 this year—is an old-school JRPG. Looks great. Almost Chrono Trigger-ish? And that music! I’ll take it.

Five Nights At Freddy’s Creator Is Making An RPG

There won’t be a Five Nights at Freddy’s 5, claims series creator Scott Cawthon, but he’s already hard at work on a spin-off called Five Nights at Freddy’s World. The catch? It’s not a horror game—it’s an RPG. Cawthon made the announcement via Steam today, revealing his plans to (mostly) move on from the games…

Rockstar’s Salty Response To The BBC’s GTA Movie

Oh shit. For those of you that don’t know: today, BBC Two launched the broadcast of The Gamechangers, a movie starring Daniel Radcliffe and and Bill Paxton that takes a look at the controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto and violent video games in the early 2000’s. Sounds like a cool concept, no? Except Rockstar isn’t…

The First Five Minutes Of Kitten Squad, PETA’s First Console Game

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been using web-based Flash games to spread its anti-animal cruelty messagefor years. Probably should have stuck with that. Directed by Mecho Wars and Pocket God vs Desert Ashes director Luc Bernard, Kitten Squad is a game that I should have immediately fallen in love with based…

Our friends at Kotaku UK have written a colorful chronicle of the exploits of anti-violent-gaming crusader Jack Thompson. Well worth a read.

Forza 6 Puddles Will Ruin Your Day In The Best Way

I fell in love with Forza Motorsport 6 the first time I hit a dynamic puddle at high speed and my BMW went apeshit. Originally published on 9/9/15. Having spent the better part of a year enjoying the freedom of Forza Horizon 2, I wasn’t sure I was ready to return to the structured races…

Until Dawn Was A Very Different Game In 2012

Until Dawn has been in development for a very long time. It was originally announced as a PS Move game for the PS3 back in 2012. I’ve been going through the old footage, which looks weird (and in one case, kinda creepy!) now. Sony and Supermassive Games have been trying to make an interactive slasher…

New League of Legends Champion ‘Kindred’ Announced While Yannick LeJacq Is On Vacation

In a dastardly stroke, Riot Games has announced the newest champion for League of Legends during our top MOBA-writer’s week-long break. We at Kotaku are now reconsidering our vacation policies. The new champion is called Kindred: The Eternal Hunters and is described by Riot as “a marksman designed for a life in the jungle.” Here’s…

Announced last night at TGS, these upcoming new PS4 controllers are beautiful. I especially like the see-through controller (aka “Crystal”)—it reminds me of my old-school GBC. I can’t decide if gold is tacky or not, though. Silver is definitely classy! Here’s hoping these controllers come stateside.

Bitch Planet Gives Patriarchy a Feminist Middle Finger

Bitch Planet is the best kind of fucked-up: a comic that entertains, breaks hearts and wields the power to change the way you look at the world around you. Kelly Sue DeConnick writes something incredibly cruel in the first issue of Bitch Planet. There’s a scene in the comic—written by DeConnick, with art and design…

Amnesia, One Of The Best Horror Games Ever, Is Now Free On Steam

If somehow you’ve missed one of the scariest games of all time, now is your chance. Nothing beats free, after all. Download Amnesia: The Dark Descent here—even if you’ve played it before, it’ll be a good appetizer for Frictional Game’s next big horror game, Soma Some Steam reviews, in case you need convincing: I wouldn’t…

Destiny‘s New Missions Are Way Better Than The Old Ones

I spent this morning powering through the first main story quest of Destiny: The Taken King, a video game about how cool Nathan Fillion is. I am happy to declare that everything about it is excellent. We’ll have day-one impressions later tonight—and a full review much later, once we’ve played through the raid—but for now,…

Bloodborne‘s DLC Trailer Is Packed With Small Details You Probably Missed

Sony briefly showed off the Bloodborne expansion coming in November today, and while the trailer was short, it was soooo full of stuff. Let’s take a closer look. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, here’s the whole thing. If it felt like that all went by in a flash, you’re not wrong. When I…

Welcome To Year Two Of Destiny…

…where a random shitty green gun has a higher attack value than a maxed-out Red Death from year one. We knew this was coming, but still… it stings a bit.

The Video Game That Chicago Deserves

We Are Chicago was hardly the best game I played at PAX, one of gaming’s biggest gaming conventions, last month. It was rough and unfinished. My wife, at another demo station, barely got through it. In trying to depict life on the Windy City’s troubled South Side, it’s not trying to be fun, but it…