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Instagram Ruins Pokémon Snap

Back in the days of the original Pokémon Snap, there were no filters to toy with. But if there was a modern Pokémon Snap game? Chances are, it would have a few Instagram-y options for all the Pokémon pictures we take, like in this video by The Warp Zone I’d be okay with that, personally.…

How To Stop Your Valve Games From Bugging Out On Steam

If you booted up Steam today to try to play a Valve game—like Dota 2 or Team Fortress 2—you may have noticed something funky. Maybe Steam tried to boot up something different from what you picked. Heck, maybe you don’t even own the game it tries to boot up at all. Such is the case…

Things Get Retro With An NES-Style Xbox One Controller

There’s something that’s just incredibly classy about the NES controller—so it should be no surprise that its color scheme meshes well with an Xbox One controller, too. It goes well with everything! This gorgeous paint job comes from Reddit user alechere, and it just further proves that the Xbox One controller would look great in…

Tracking Down The Odd Rumors About Nintendo’s Next Console

Here at Kotaku, we love insider info. We like getting information both from random tipsters and our own sources. And because of those people—to whom we grant anonymity in our reporting—we’re able to tell you storiesyou might not otherwise know about, and give you all the details about games like Titanfalland Alien: Isolation before they’re…

The SSD Your PS4 Deserves, PSN Update, Cheap Speakers [Deals]

Your system deserves a better class of storage. We covered upgrading your Playstation 4 to a bigger and/or faster drive a few months ago, and today, the 1TB model of the best SSD you can buy is down to $480, $120 less than it was when we last covered it. [eBay] We’ve utilized more than…

​Kids Talking About Which Game Console Is the Best Is Hilarious

Adults talking about which video game machine is better can be annoying and downright stupid. Grade-schoolers doing it, though, is adorable. This video from YouTuber Game Dave rounds up letters from a bunch of kids stating the reasons they believe a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii console is superior to its competitors. They get some of…

Founder of Ultra-Arcade Cabinet Company Gets Two-Year Prison Term

The founder of the Ultracade, a MAME-type arcade cabinet that once was a status item among video game connoisseurs, will spend the next two years in a federal prison for secretly copying and selling video games and code whose rights he had sold to another company. The sentencing of David R. Foley concludes a legal…

​Crap, We’re Going to Have to Go Down That Tunnel, Aren’t We?

Clumps of probably-sentient, probably-murderous super-fungus. A vent that looks to have been violently wrenched open. A space suit with some kind of tentacles growing out of its head-place. And a dead body off in the distance. Yup, that’s where you’re supposed to go. The screen above is from Soma, the sci-fi horror title coming from…

A Nice Assassin’s Creed IV Moment That I Didn’t Expect

As I continued my new year’s tradition of playing the rest of the previous year’s Assassin’s Creed, I finally played the PS3/PS4/PC-only missions of ACIV. Good timing, if I dare say so. The missions star Aveline, the assassin who also stars in AC: Liberation, the HD version of which I just played right before trying…

New Gameplay Changes Will Make Super Smash Bros Wii U A Lot Harder

One of the well-known techniques of Smash Bros, “edge-hogging,” will be revamped for Super Smash Bros Wii U, as a recently released screenshot and comment from Masahiro Sakurai shows. Edge-hogging, or edge-grabbing is one of the more advanced (and funny) techniques in Smash Bros where you hold onto a ledge so that the other player,…

Hey that’s cheating! 15 yards penalty for the triple frontflip. Glitches like this in Madden NFL 25 are inspiring. I’d totally play a football game where you can pull off ridiculous stunts like this. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and art that we…

Candy Crush Makers Say They’re Going After Copycats, Not Banner Saga

The makers of Candy Crush Saga, who have filed for a trademark on video games with the name “candy,” and are opposing the trademark application of The Banner Saga, (pictured) say they are “not trying to stop Banner Saga from using its name,” but are compelled to defend their position under trademark law. “We do…

Bill Gates Just Took Over Late Night With Silly Costumes

It’s seems like Bill Gates is still in shape and his sense of humor is the same as 20 years ago. He was Jimmy Fallon’s guest last night, promoting his website, GatesLetter.com with the help of this little clip. Here’s the complete segment: Did they remove Fallon’s Macbook during Gates’ visit? Don’t worry, it was…

“Virtual reality really is going to take over the world… it was better than real life—people will get lost in this and not want to leave.” Indie developer Lee Vermeulen, in a blog post about his experience with Valve’s Virtual Reality tech at Steam Dev Days.

Next-Gen Historical RPG Gets “Surprise” Kickstarter Campaign

For the past week or so, Warhorse Studios has been teasing some new information about their upcominghistorically-inclined RPG, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, on their website. There was a big countdown clock and everything. And now, the cat’s out of the bag: Kingdom Come will be crowdfunded! Surprise! Now, from our standpoint, there are advantages to this,…

Taking a break: Daniel Benmergui, the developer behind Storyteller, the story-building puzzle game for PC and iOS, is putting his game on hold to work on another project of his, titled Ernesto – A Quick RPG. He expects to go back to working on Storyteller in “less than three months.”

When a PC Game From 2001 Masquerades as a Next-Gen Game

The creator of the ENB series of mods, which serve as foundation for some of those quite impressive graphical enhancements for GTA IV and Skyrim, among other games, is now going after a not-too-well-known hack and slash game from 2001. The results… well, you should probably take a look. The game, Blade of Darkness, is…

​A Brief Refresher On Xenogears

I have never played Xenogears (I know!) and so I never actually knew what the games were all about. Now, thanks to Lore, I do. A hamster on a cross, eh? Okay…

Those YouTube Promo Plans Are A Lot More Common Than You Might Think

“This happens every day on YouTube.” Boogie, a popular gamer and personality on YouTube, is right. He’s talking about the Xbox One promotional contract that YouTubers were recently offered to sign in exchange for extra cash. But in the world of making YouTube videos, these kind of promos are actually a lot more of a…

Capcom Trying To Make Amends For One Of The Worst PC Ports Ever

If you never had the misfortune to play it, know that the PC port of Resident Evil 4 was one of Capcom’s (and Ubisoft’s) darkest moments. So shoddy was the coding that it turned one of the greatest games of all time into a poorly-optimised, bug-riddled joke. Now, so as to squeeze a few more…