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Of Course Charizard Is In The Pokémon Fighting Game

What, did you think that everyone’s favorite Pokémon would be left out of Pokken Tournament? As if! Judging by Charizard’s Pokken trailer, the the fire-type monster will pack quite a punch, too: Looks like at least one of Charizard’s mega forms will be available in this game: If Charizard is not your bag, perhaps you’d…

David Cross Says He Wrote Jokes For Destiny That Bungie Didn’t Use

Destiny has been accused of many things, but “having personality” is probably not one of them. It came out of the womb last September totally deadpan and remarkably serious, but apparently it wasn’t always going to be that way. Indeed, noted joke person David Cross told IGN this week that Bungie flew him and fellow…

Arkham Knight, Reviewed in Podcast Form

On the most recent episode of Shall We Play a Game?, my podcast with former NPR producer and correspondent JJ Sutherland, we review Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Knight. We also talk to Salon literary critic Laura Miller about Don’t Starve, her video game obsession. You can listen to it here. Subscribe on iTunes, Android, or the…

Every Video Game Buzzword, In One New Game Announcement

EuroRPG developer Piranha Bytes announced its new game, to be published by Nordic Games, in utterly unremarkable fashion: via press release, with no meaningful details or a trailer or even actual game art. Just the image above, posted on Facebook, and a parade of buzzwords that would make any E3 press conference presenter blush. The…

Arkham Knight Should Let Batman Play With All His Toys

I didn’t love Batman: Arkham Knight, but I did like it. Just not at first. For at least a few hours, I worried that I was going to give the game a “No” under Kotaku’s binary rating system. I ended up getting to 95 percent completion—falling one tank battle and a couple hundred Riddler trophies…

Batman: Arkham Knight’s first post-release DLC, which will see you play as Batgirl, will drop on July 14 for season pass holders and July 21 if you would rather buy it separately. The announcement via European press release listing a price of £5.79, so it’ll probably be around $7-8 stateside.

Happy Philipendence Day From Guest Editor Phil Owen

No, today is not actually Independence Day (that’s tomorrow), but it is the US federal holiday marking the occasion. So I’m filling in for the folks who get to take the day off. What can you expect from me today? As always, I have some beeves to hash out, this time with Star Wars and…

Artist Recreates Iconic Moments From Metal Gear Solid… Quickly

Pretty cool stuff from concept artist Lap Pun Cheung, who’s currently redrawing all the key moments from Metal Gear Solid, in the form of speed paintings. A total of thirty-seven pictures. They’re all very nostalgic. Here are the best ones. Go check out his ArtStation or DeviantART gallery for the complete set. To contact the…

Latest Steam Hit Is NotGTAV, Which Is Not GTA V

For the past day or so, the top-selling “popular new release title” on Steam has been a simple 74-cent game called NotGTAV, from which all proceeds go to charity. The PC is a strange and wonderful place. Having been out on phones for a little while, the game was released on Steam on July 2,…

The team behind Skullgirls, Lab Zero Games, just announced Indivisible, a game “inspired by classics like Valkyrie Profile and Super Metroid”. Looks cool, and in a nice touch, the soundtrack is being handled by Secret of Mana composer Hiroki Kikuta.

Venus de Milo, Now With Arms

Yeah yeah, she’s a classic work of art, but since Venus de Milo was found buried in the dirt already missing her arms, we don’t know what they were up to! Would we be revering her if she’d been flipping the bird,or making, you know? Maybe not! This new action figure looks to put the…

N64 Controller Hacked To Work On Xbox One

Chris Gallizzi and Jesse Aragon from Hyperkin gave themselves a day to get an N64 controller working on the Xbox One. Mission accomplished. It’s not perfect—the rushed wiring means the inputs occasionally get a little crazy—but for the most part, it works just fine! Why would you do such a thing? Well, with the Rare…

How The Biggest Fight In UFC History Fell Apart

The MMA gods can go fuck themselves. Jose Aldo vs Conor McGregor was supposed to be the biggest fight in UFC history, and it had the makings of something that would actually deliver. A volcanic rivalry between a shit-talking Irish hothead and a stoic Brazilian badass? Check. Two fighters with exciting, crowd-pleasing styles? Check. Characters…

People Are Scamming Destiny’s Red Bull DLC

Destiny is not a stranger to players gaming the system. Usually, that involves harmless stuff like cheesing the actual game, or maybepulling out a LAN cable. But today, it involves energy drinks. Yes, energy drinks. Or, to be more specific, Red Bull cans. By now, you probably know about the promotion Bungie is running with…

My E3 Meeting With A Pro-GamerGate Developer

“I actually tried to fight in armor myself,” the game developer Daniel Vávra said. We were in the middle of a demonstration of his game in progress, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which is nothing less than an attempt to make a no-magic, realistic answer to the epic role-playing game Skyrim—set in a historically accurate recreation of…

Fallout 3, As Told By Steam Reviews

Steam reviews…Steam reviews never change. And that’s good, because Steam reviews are damn hilarious—especially the ones for Fallout 3. Looking back on Steam reviews for Fallout 3, it’s clear that the game was jam-packed with memorable moments. I’ve highlighted many of the good ones here, from the joys of blowing up Megaton to wandering around…

Heroes Of The Storm Makes The Butcher From Diablo Scary Again

If there’s a single phrase I’d associate with the original Diablo, it’d have to be: “Fresh meat!” That’s the line The Butcher growls as he strides towards you from a room full of festering corpses. He wasn’t the biggest or baddest villain in the game. He wasn’t even a Lord of Hell. But he was…

This Week’s Superman Comic Is Basically About Ferguson

Recent changes have made Superman a lot more human than he was just a little while ago. He’s not flying anymore; he’s down on the ground with normal folks. And this week’s new issue of Action Comics has him facing some of the toughest challenges that normal folks are dealing with in America today. The…

Kotaku Asks: Someone Who Makes Video Game Trailers [Q&A Over]

Meet Matthew Hunt, one of the people behind the slick video game trailers we see at E3 and on YouTube every time a publisher is ready to show off their game. Hunt, who has been working in the industry for 13 years, is here to talk to us about the world of video game trailers.…

Worth Reading: Trying To Develop A Brand-New Drinking Game

Most of us at Kotaku are taking tomorrow off, so I’ve decided to run Worth Reading, our weekly roundup of the best games writing around, a day early. Enjoy! Hey, You Should Read This “Mario’s Big Brother: Shigeru Miyamoto” by David Sheff This is not a new interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, so you won’t learn…