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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, One Month Later

Smash Ultimate is a living game, and one month later, it’s just starting to walk on two legs. Sure, its launch was explosive, but Smash takes on new meaning as fans’ ideas about it evolve. Who’s top tier in the meta? What’s the wackiest ruleset anyone’s come up with? Will we decide a year from…

Call Of Duty‘s Latest Microtransaction Is A Tiny Red Dot

For a game that’s already taking heat from its player base for the price of its extra cosmetic items, Black Ops 4‘s latest offering seems especially difficult to swallow. A red dot reticle showed up in the Black Ops 4 Black Market on December 25, wearing a price tag of 100 COD Points, or about…

Overwatch Fan’s Letter To Jeff Kaplan About Black Women Gets Heartfelt Response

In March 2017, an Overwatch fan wrote to Jeff Kaplan about the lack of black female characters in the game. To her surprise, he wrote back a few months later, saying he hoped that one day diversity would be the norm and promising that there were multiple black characters in the works. “The most important…

Final Fantasy XIV upgrades to version 4.5 today with the launch of the expansive A Requiem For Heroes update. New dungeons, new hairstyles, new mini-games and the beginning of the end of the Stormblood storyline are just some of the highlights. Then, on January 15, we get Blue Mages. Finally. 

Times to gather your army of strange NPC pawns. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen aka “a pretty rad dark adventure game” is releasing on the Nintendo Switch on April 23

Cooperation Cup’s Brutal Format Makes It Pure Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Bliss

Cooperation Cup, a massive Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike team tournament held in Tokyo every year, stands out from the pack because of its punishing and exciting tournament format. The event got 2019 started right this past weekend with two days of fantastic competition featuring over 500 players, grouped into teams of five for a…

Brock From The Pokémon Anime Might Have A Girlfriend

In the recent Pokémon Sun & Moon episode, Brock is back! And after getting turned down for years, he might finally have a girlfriend. During the show, Brock seems to have hit it off with Olivia. *Brock’s name is Takeshi in Japanese. Like, really hit it off Hope this works out because…

Poop Emoji Reborn As Soft Serve Ice Cream

While poop ice cream isn’t new, here’s the poop emoji turned into soft serve ice cream. As Wired points out, Japanese telecom company KDDI first pushed out the unchi (poop) emoji in September 2000. And this month, IT Media and PR Times are reporting that snack shop SweetXO Good Grief in Tokyo is launching Unchi-kun…

Who wore it better? 2013’s The Last Of Us (left), or 2018’s Some Movie Streaming On Netflix (right)? Thanks @robtrench!

Dead or Alive 6, originally due out on February 15, will now be released worldwide on March 1, publisher Koei Tecmo have announced. The delay is so the team can “further polish its balance, gameplay, and expressivity”.

GRIS Advertisement Rejected By Facebook For “Sexually Suggestive” Content

Only, there was nothing sexually suggestive about it. Earlier today Devolver Digital, the publishers of GRIS—one of our Games Of The Year—tweeted this: That scene is…not suggestive of sex. Especially once you see it moving, as part of the launch trailer the image is advertising: A Devolver representative tells Kotaku “this is stupid”. “We appealed…

Giant LEGO Mario Is Also A Giant Amiibo

Reader Cody got a nice surprise for Christmas: this enormous Mario, which his mum made out of 6000 Lego bricks. And just so nobody could tell her that her baby boy’s new gift wasn’t practical, Cody went and added a base and chip so that it could function as an Amiibo as well. Actually…swapping that…

Modder Releases Battle Royale Mode For Stardew Valley, But It’s Busted

Battle Royalley is a mod that asks a simple question: what would you get if you took Stardew Valley, the nicest thing ever, and added a ton of murder? I don’t know, because I haven’t been able to get it running. As reported by PC Gamer, the wonderfully calm and cheerful Stardew Valley apparently now…

Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is a free-to-play JRPG coming to iOS and Android on January 28. It’s made in part by Chrono Trigger writer Masato Kato and composer Yasunori Mitsuda, and while it will have microtransactions and character rarities, it will also have a swordsman frog named Cyrus.

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse‘s Best Moment Comes From A Heartbreaking Villain

Kids’ movies often have pretty black and white morality. The good people are good, and the bad people are bad. I enjoyed Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse a lot as a grown adult, and one reason the movie stands out is its portrayal of a more complex system of morality in a film geared towards a…

Sexy Medieval Men Are Waiting For You In Robin Morningwood

We’re all aware of the kind of tropes that porn scripts employ to get their actors from point A to point Fisting. Plumbers turn up to help out housewives with no cash; pizza delivery boys decide to take a different form of payment than monetary; your stepsister is weirdly into the idea of having sex…

How To Buy Games On A Tight Budget In 2019

Video games are expensive compared to other hobbies—but they don’t have to be! Here’s how to game on a budget. At first, it can appear difficult to get games on the cheap. If you’re into television, you can subscribe to a service like Netflix for the price of two big-budget games per year. Enjoy reading…

Soon, You’ll Be Able To Play Duck Hunt On Modern TVs

The NES Zapper light gun peripheral is an unfortunate victim of the relentless march of technology, rendered inoperable on modern flat-screen televisions. Retro console and peripheral maker Hyperkin aims to solve that problem with the Hyper Blaster HD, an NES light gun for the modern age. The Zapper doesn’t work on modern televisions because the…

Me and Paul are finishing our playthrough of Hitman 2 right now on Twitch. Come watch the sneaking and the hilarity.

There’s now an improved version of VGC Online’s Sega Saturn jewel cases on Amazon. I checked them out myself and they don’t have any of the “fall apart immediately” issues of the first run. You can buy with confidence now. (Limited Run Games hasn’t started selling its cases individually yet.)