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Twitch Bans Adults-Only Games

Just in time for Hatred, an upcoming video game about a dude who goes around and mindlessly slaughters everyone, the video website Twitch announced last night that users will no longer be able to stream games rated Adults-Only by the ESRB. It’s a curious move by Twitch, which was purchased last year by Amazon for…

Grand Theft Auto V As An 80s TV Show

YouTuber Dolce’s filters, use of an 4:3 ratio, and dated music make Grand Theft Auto V look like it came in a box of old, damaged VHS tapes. Pretty cool editing as well. Feels a bit like a Vice City throwback or an intro for an 80s TV series. To contact the author of this…

Seven Minutes of Grittiness from Batman: Arkham Knight

If you’ve had a hard time tamping down your excitement for the next Batman game, this probably isn’t going to help. The official clip above looks to be from the early parts of Rocksteady Studios’ next Dark Knight game and features the best look yet at the Batmobile vehicular combat. Since the game’s not out…

The Shawshank Redemption Looks Cool As An Adventure Game

These graphics might have been a bit simple for 1994, but everything else makes sense in Cinefix’s video re-imagining of The Shawshank Redemption as a point and click game. An old 50s prison environment would have been interesting and large enough for a game like this, and 1994 was pretty great year for the genre.…

Regarding those Ultra Street Fighter IV problems, Capcom tells Kotaku that it is “working to resolve them as quickly as possible.” Read the full statement here.

Renting Boyfriends in Japan Can Get Expensive

Do you have a boyfriend? No? Would you like to rent one? Good news, because does Japan have a service for you. It’s not cheap. This is “Boyfriend Rental” (レンタル彼氏 or Rentaru Kareshi). Similar companion services have long existed in Japan, such as host bars. However, boyfriend rental was introduced this week on Hakunetsu Live…

Oh Hey, a New Xbox One Controller with a Headphone Jack [UPDATE]

The PS4’s DualShock 4 has a headphone jack that allows you to plug whatever headphones into the controller. The Xbox One’s controller, however, only has proprietary port. Make that, only had. As revealed on the Xbox Supportwebsite (via Eurogamer), an upcoming version of the Xbox One controller will have a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Here’s…

Truck Full Of Nintendo Games, Amiibo Stolen

A ton of Nintendo fans in the UK have been left without the games they pre-ordered after a truck full of copies of Splatoon (and related Splatoon Amiibo) was stolen. The theft of the truck, lifted on its way from Nintendo’s European warehouse to British chain GAME, means that anyone who pre-ordered Splatoon’s Special Edition…

Last year, I wrote about Fall of Gods, a badass Norse picture book. Following a successful Kickstarter, it’s now available for everyone to purchase.

Here Is Some Excellent Box Art

It’s Hotline Miami and its sequel, bundled together and sold on the Vita in Japan. (via@britishgaming)

League Of Legends Is Fixing One Key Matchmaking Tool

Or trying to, at least. Team Builder is one of those things in League of Legends that’s always seemed like it could be really great, but didn’t truly live up to its potential. It’s a specific type of matchmaking the game offers. Rather than jumping into an ad hoc chatroom with four other players and…

StarCraft II just got a new unit—the Terran Liberator, who’s entering the Legacy of the Void beta this week. Looks perfect for clearing out clumps of Mutalisks and Void Rays.

The Evil Within‘s Last Expansion Tries Really Hard, Fails

The Evil Within’s downloadable content has been…interesting, to say the least. The first two add-ons were stealth-centric, while the latest one, The Executioner, transforms the game into a first-person brawler. What?! Here’s what The Evil Within normally looks like: A third-person action game focused on shooting zombie-like creatures with guns. Coming from Shinji Mikami, one…

The Witcher 3 Takes Shots At DRM

Above, via Kotaku reader SilentAssassn87, a lovely little dig from the developers of The Witcher 3, CD Projekt Red, who are quite critical of the restrictive anti-piracy method known as Digital Rights Management (DRM). If you can’t read that text—yes, The Witcher 3 has a font problem!—here it is: The Defensive Regulatory Magicon (or DRM…

Some Ideas For FIFA 16‘s Box Art

The corruption scandal rocking FIFA since last night has produced plenty of jokes at the expense of the world’s leading football/soccer organization. It also produced some unlikely cover ideas for this year’s edition of the FIFA video game, too. Hard to see EA picking any of these, though. Above, via the Facebook page for Grifone…

Dying Light’s New Bow-And-Arrow Is Driving Some Players Nuts

Yesterday, Dying Light added a bow to the arsenal of weapons players can use to kill the undead. You might be wondering: “How does a months-old game justify dropping in a random new gizmo for killing, all of a sudden?” By making it really, really hard for players to get their hands on it. I…

DC Comics’ Superhero Universe Just Changed In Some Huge Ways

DC’s current big crossover ends today, and we’re finally getting a sense of the effects that Convergence will have on the publisher’s fictional reality. There is a lot of new stuff to digest. You might even call it a reverse-Crisis (Spoilers follow. Hover over the top left of each image and click on the magnifying…

The New Star Wars Arcade Game Is Worth Tracking Down

Star Wars Battle Pod might not be good enough to justify paying $35,000 to have at home, but there’s no denying it’s the most fun I’ve had with an arcade game in years. I’m not kidding about the $35,000 price tag, either. Bandai Namco announced yesterdayit would let consumers start purchasing copies of Star Wars…

The Witcher 3 Sex Glitch Turns Brothel Into Waking Nightmare

I’m not an expert or anything, but I’m pretty sure sex isn’t supposed to work this way. (NSFW warning!) Check out what happens when Chris Klos encounters a really bizarre glitch during a sex scene in The Witcher 3. Limbs and heads start detaching from bodies, the camera angles goes out of whack, and eventually…

The First Five Minutes Of Badland‘s Big Screen Debut

Does the magic of Apple’s 2013 iPad Game of the Year carry over into its PC and console port? We’ll know in five minutes. Frogmind’s Badland is a unique mobile game that I’d never imagined playing with a game controller or a keyboard. Guiding the strange little woodland critter along the side-scrolling screen was something…