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Here Are All Of Mewtwo’s Moves In Smash Bros. Wii U

Meet the new Mewtwo, same as the old Mewtwo. Like always, the psychic cat-lizard-Pokémon chimaera is spending most of its Smash time floating around and conjuring big blasts of purple energy to knock opponents off the stage. Today, Nintendo sent out early codes for Mewtwo—who will be officially released on April 28 as $5 DLC…

GTA V PC Runs Pretty Well In Ultra HD, If You’ve Got The Hardware

Having played Grand Theft Auto V on the Xbox 360 and again on the Xbox One, I didn;t grab a copy of the PC version for the story or the multiplayer—I got it for those sweet 3840 x 2160 ultra HD graphics. So far I’m very pleased. After Rockstar released the first set of 4K…

Battlefield Heroes and several other games are shutting down on July 14, according to a post by Electronic Arts The free-to-play take on Battlefield never really caught on, and the company admits it’s “an older title that is not as popular as it once was.” You can reach the author of this post at [email protected]…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: How Historically Accurate is The Witcher? • Unofficial Veteran Farmer’s Almanac of Seasons and Their Stories: Year 1 Spring • The Rolling Girls: The Ani-TAY Review • La Strada [Classic Movie Review] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

The Very Good Ideas Hiding In A Not-So-Good New Pokémon Game

Pokémon Rumble World, a game likely to rank a distant third in the eventual list of 2015’s best Pokémon games, has nonetheless impressed me in a few ways. It might not be easy for a Pokémon Rumble game to impress anyone. They’re not traditional Pokémon games. Never have been. You don’t play as a plucky…

Titanic As A SNES RPG

The largest ship of the early 20th century would also be one of the smallest JRPG settings, as seen in this video by CineFix. The clip is based on the 1997 movie with visuals similar to that era and man that’s one of the funniest usage of Final Fantasy VI tilesets I’ve seen. To contact…

Old Dungeons Are Back In World of Warcraft‘s “Timewalking” Mode

Lower level dungeons in World of Warcraft are always fun to solo at level 100, but with a new feature called “Timewalking”, players will be able to run these again with their gear and levels scaled down accordingly. The concept of this feature is actually not new. It was hinted several times in the past…

Animal Crossing Makes Mario Kart 8 Cuter

And that’s saying something because Mario Kart is already pretty cute. Here’s a look at the second DLC pack for Mario Kart 8, which is heavy on the Animal Crossing. But wait! There’s more. Much more. The DLC adds the Animal Crossing Villager as well as Isabelle. But it’s not all AC, because the third…

A Metal Gear Solid V Comparison Shows Differences Between TPP and GZ

Metal Gear Solid V comes in two iterations. There is bite-sized MGS V: Ground Zeroes, released in 2014, and the upcoming (and much, much longer) MGS V: The Phantom Pain. As pointed out by the MGO Forums, here’s a comparison that shows the differences between both games. MGO Forums shows how nearly the exact same…

MMA Star Says Mortal Kombat Likeness “Cannot Be A Coincidence”

As far as Mortal Kombat characters go, Cassie Cage is pretty fun. She chews gum, kicks ass, and takes selfies with the jawless corpses of her victims. She also bears an odd resemblance to UFC fighter Felice Herrig, something Herrig thinks is more than a coincidence. Herrig, who fights on this weekend’s UFC on FOX…

PC Case Costs More Than Most PCs

It’s taken three years, but that ridiculously expensive PC case we showed you a while back has finally entered production. And no, it hasn’t had a price cut. Formerly called the MURDERBOX, it’s since been rebranded as something more fitting for an expensive piece of PC hardware: the XFORMA MKII, which has just the right…

An Adventure Game Built For The Apple Watch

Did you panic last week and stay up late to preorder a first-generation Apple Watch like some idiot? Me too. And here comes developer Wayforward Technologies to mildly justify it with Watch Quest. Launching April 24, hopefully the same day my Apple Watch Sport arrives in the post, Watch Quest is an adventure game that…

Mortal Kombat X‘s Familial Fatalities Have Got Me Down

No parent should ever outlive their child. They definitely shouldn’t tear open their child’s chest while quoting a classic horror movie and hamming it up for the camera. As a long-time fan of the Mortal Kombat franchise, I have no problem with the franchises brutal signature finishing moves. Thelatest batch might be gorier than most,…

The GTA Ghost That Became An Obsession

I don’t remember how I came across the clip. Maybe someone sent it to me. Maybe I had opened it earlier in the day, while looking for something else. It was just… there, in the middle of a sea of other browser tabs. “GHOST CAUGHT IN GTA,” the title promised. Of course I watched it.…

Squirrel Girl Versus WonderCon 2015? No Contest. 

What happens when Marvel’s most powerful hero takes on Anaheim’s annual comic book convention? That’s a silly question. FromD Piddy, that guy who is Deadpool all the time, comes the thrilling tail of cosplayer Zerggiee’s trip to WonderCon in the guise of Squirrel Girl, champion of all that is wholesome and nutty. The ensuing carnage…

The New Mortal Kombat Is Fun, Y’all

I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat X since late last night and I don’t want to stop. Honestly, I’m a little annoyed that I have to stop playing NetherRealm’s newest installment of the long-lived martial-arts series to actually write about it. Whether it’s been in the snarkily self-aware Story Mode or playing against another human online,…

Surprise: Hearthstone’s out on iPhone and Android phones today. It’s free, excellent, and will probably take over your life. HAVE FUN.

Today’s Destiny Patch Fixes Raids, Adds More Vault Space

This afternoon, Bungie released a new patch for Destiny, a video game in which players must travel the galaxy fighting against powerful adversaries like the Fallen, the Vex, and Bungie. In addition to expanding the vault (as seen above) and fixing a bunch of crippling raid bugs like the mysterious vanishing Crota sword, this new…

Almost All of Mortal Kombat X‘s Gory Fatalities in One Place

You want to see, like, 95% of the blood-gushing finishing moves from Mortal Kombat X? Here you go. YouTuber theRadBradhas uploaded a video that features almost all of MKX’s Fatalities, with the exception, he says, of the ones performed by unlockable character Shinnok. Players get him at the end of Story Mode. (It’s not clear…

The First Five Urine-Soaked Minutes Of Domestic Dog Simulator

Piss on everything. If that doesn’t work, there’s always plan number two. From Surreal Distractions, markers of surreal distractions, comes a game about being a random dog-like creature with a nose for trouble and a bladder-full of justice. Or urine. It’s probably urine, though one of my dogs was peeing black liquid, which brings its…