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The Sims 4 Will Bring Back Ghosts And Swimming Pools (Free Of Charge)

The Sims 4 is getting three big additions in as many months, developer Electronic Arts just announced. The first, launching today, brings ghost Sims back into the mix. Next month, the game will get swimming pools. And come December, Sims will get some new careers. All will be free for Sims 4 players. There’s some…

​Hollywood’s Hero Dudes Really Want Them To ‘Let Her Go’

It’s one of the worst action movie clichés: bad guy captures female character and the hero yells at the villain to release the love interest/partner/sister. How much does it happen? Entirely too damn much. This supercut of mostly male protagonists saying the same three words—there’s one instance of ‘let go of her,’ to shake things…

What’s Different About Skylanders: Trap Team On 3DS

Skylanders: Trap Team launches on October 5 in North America, and while Vicarious Visions has somehow crammed the console experience onto tablets, the 3DS version is a completely different animal. How so? A Whole New Story The prison break story in the console version of Skylanders: Trap Team? Forget about it. The 3DS version instead…

Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku‘s reader-run community: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call: The TAY Review • AKB0048 is a Lot Better Than You’ll Give It Credit For • Game of The Week—An Incredible Little Pile of Secrets [Castlevania: Symphony of the Night] TAY Classic—TAY Open Forum—Beginner’s Guide To TAY Follow them here.

“There’s no way that more teraflops don’t equal more emotions!” This very funny video serves as an announcement that charming indie creation Thomas Was Alone is coming to PS4, Xbox One and Wii U this November.

Professor X Sure Is A Wimp In X-Men: The Animated Series

Screen Junkies has proof in their latest supercut that Xavier wasn’t really the best choice to lead a group of mutants, at least not in the classic X-Men animated series from the 90s. What’s with the Patrick Stewart bits in the clip though? He’s the exact opposite of a wimp! Supercut: Professor X is a…

All The Typical Things In Warlords of Draenor‘s Beta

Mages with their spells gone wrong, placeholder enemies, unfinished quests, giant “delete me” boxes… YouTuber Moonclucking put all the typical things you might see in a World of Warcraft expansion’s beta into a slightly exaggerated short clip. With the original game’s beta included, Warlords of Dreanor‘s is already the sixth one with a beta, after…

Soon You’ll be Able to Touch Things in VR

Dextra Robotics just held aReddit AMA for this thing, a hand eating robo-spider a force feedback rig that lets you ‘feel’ virtual objects. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Here’s the bit about how it functions: “It works like this, when the avatar you are controlling hits a digital object, a signal is sent…

It Took 6 Years To Finish This Retro FPS

Joining the ranks of the modern retro-style shooters we’ve been seeing so many of lately—a great trend, I might add—is Wrack, the colorful, arcade-esque FPS for PC that’s been under development for six years. Wrack is singleplayer-only, and it promises “unlimited content” through user-made maps and mods on the Steam Workshop (though of course, the…

Good news and bad news, Skullgirls fans: the 2D fighting game’s third DLC character, the Egyptian-inspired sorta-blood-mage Eliza, is out now on PC and PS3, free for the next three months. The game’s Vita and PS4 versions, however, have been postponed to early 2015. Look above for a taste of Eliza’s fighting style.

Death Stars It’d Really Take to Destroy a Planet

Ever since I learned how inaccurate Star Wars battles really were, I’ve been thinking about how off the entire Star Wars universe is. I get it, in a place where people have telekinetic powers and can shoot lightning from their fingers; you can’t exactly expect things to line up with… well, physics. When I started…

The Best 90s Adventure Games We Never Got

Most of artist Matthew Frith’s work looks like it was part of the best 90’s adventure game never made. Which is exactly how I likemy pixel art. There’s lots of original stuff in there, but also tributes to shows that don’t have 90’s adventure games based on them but easily could. Arrested Development, I’m looking…

I Hope Bear Senpai Notices Me…

Hatoful Boyfriend – a game in which you, a human, tries to get down with birds – has a lot to answer for. This is a new Kickstarter for a very similar project. It’s called Bear Senpai: Date The Bear of Your Dreams. Creator Toni Rocca says “My goal for Bear Senpai is to make…

Hackers Charged With Stealing From Valve, Microsoft And More

Two hackers, one from the United States and one from Canada, have plead guilty to U.S. federal charges regarding an elaborate international scheme involving the infiltration of gaming companies Valve, Epic, and Zombie Studios as well as attempted sales of counterfeit Xbox One development kits well before the console was released to the public. The…

Street Fighter, Improved With A Furious Goat

It’s probably Street Fighter’s biggest shortfall. The fact it focuses solely on bipedal, humanoid fighters. Imagine the possibilities if the roster could be expanded to include man’s surliest foe, the goat. It would also fill a gap in the market, since Goat Simulator leaves out the part where the humans try and fight back about…

The next Hearthstone expansion will have over 100 cards, according to an interview on Polygon. If you’re curious, Blizzard talks about some of its thinking when it comes to future expansions here.

Getting Started With The Pokémon Trading Card Game

Every year I watch the Pokémon National Championships, and every year it gives me the itch to return to the Pokémon Trading Card Game something fierce, but with store shelves flooded with countless colorful card packs, I didn’t know where to start. So I turned to The Pokémon Company for help. Why did I need…

Why Yes, I Would Like A Gritty Cyberpunk Grand Theft Auto

I very much like the look of Metrocide Metrocide is a top-down open-world-ish game in the vein of a classic (read: pre-GTA 3) Grand Theft Auto. Difference is, instead of grandly thieving autos or sticking to other small-time crimes, you’re a contract killer. Your goal? To hunt down various targets using an ever-expanding array of…

Battlefield 4 May Have Just Fixed That Thing You Hate

Deagle is OP? Fixed. Movement was better in BF3? Fixed. Something about netcode? Fixed. The latest patch for Battlefield 4 lists almost 200 fixes and tweaks, including some of the biggest complaints that have come from players in the past year. Battlefield 4 has had an abundance of problems since it was launched last year,…

In Destiny’s Old Russia, Computer Teabags You

Sorry. If there was ever a time to use that joke, it’s now.* Previously, we documented the fact that enemies in Destiny (seem to) glitch out and crouch repeatedly—making it seem as if they were, y’know, teabagging. It was only a matter of time before this started to actually happen to people after they died.…