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Danganronpa, Zero Escape Creators Team Up For A New Murder Game

The writer-directors behind Zero Escape and Danganronpa have formed their own studio and are teaming up to create another game about school kids and murders. Fans of both series will likely want to check out Death March Club—especially since the developers don’t think their former employer will continue their old series without them. Danganronpa’s Kazutaka…

Dance Dance Revolution Helps Man Lose 125 Pounds

In 2012, Xopher (as he’s known among the dance game community) was told by a doctor that if he didn’t lose weight, he’d be needing a heart transplant. So began an intensive and life-saving exercise program built around the arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution Growing up in central Arkansas, Xopher has struggled with obesity…

Blizzard President Mike Morhaime Steps Down

Blizzard president Mike Morhaime is no longer in the job, with World of Warcraft executive producer J. Allen Brack taking the role. In a letter to fans, Morhaime said he had decided to step down from his position

Telltale Is Looking For Another Company To Hire Its Staff To Finish The Walking Dead, Sources Say

Two weeks after Telltale Games laid off the bulk of its staff, the fate of the four-episode final season of the popular The Walking Dead series remains in question. Behind closed doors, the company continues to work on a deal that would provide for the third and fourth episodes to be finished by another company…

The Waves In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Crash Beautifully

We at Kotaku have been known to gawk at a video game wave or two. We therefore can’t help but marvel at what’s crashing on the shores in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Look at these waves, people. In open-world games, you often have to assume the graphics will be decent but not quite what you’ll get…

J.K. Rowling Needs To Stop Messing With Harry Potter

I grew up reading Harry Potter, and it shaped my life to the extent that I have a Deathly Hallows tattoo. As an adult, I wish J.K. Rowling would just me enjoy her books in peace. Harry Potter hit me at just the right age—namely, ten, when I still had time to hope that I’d…

In Space Channel 5 and Dragon Quest VR, The Hero Is You

When I was in sixth grade, my best friend at the time penned a short story for a school assignment that was titled “The Video Game That Sucked Me Into It.” We did not have the lingo of “self-insert fanfiction” or “Mary Sue” at the time—I’m pretty sure neither of us even had an America…

$160 He-Man Figures Are For Grown-Up Masters Of The Universe

Standing 12 inches tall and weighing four pounds, Mondo’s new line of 1/6 scale Masters of the Universe toys are just as impressive now as the originals were back when I was a kid. If you have $160 to spare, you can have the power. When He-Man and friends first hit the toy scene back…

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Armello Is Great On Switch, If You Can Read The Tiny Text

A sublime combination of fantasy board game and card game, League of Geek’s Armello has been one of my go-to competitive strategy joints since it first hit the scene back in 2015. Now it’s on the Nintendo Switch, and while my love remains strong, my eyes can’t quite handle the tiny text of handheld mode.…

Overcooked 2 has a new tropical themed DLC that’s out now. Surf ‘N’ Turf brings new kitchens and recipes to the cooking simulator. I for one welcome these new ways to yell at my friends.

Twisting mobile strategy masterpiece Euclidean Lands scores a sequel later this month called Euclidean Skies Creator Miro Straka has teamed up with developer Kunabi Brother to create puzzles that not only rotate but also unfold, allowing for multiple solutions. It’s due out on iOS on October 25. 

Artificial Intelligence Gets Good At Creating Anime Girls

The types of anime-style characters artificial intelligence was making in 2015 weren’t good. But now in 2018, the machines have improved. A lot. As Twitter user Yoshiwo Konogi points out, it’s amazing at how good AI has gotten at this type of art. Have a look below: Earlier this year, the deep learning AI character…

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Kinda Coming Back

The Toys ‘R’ Us bankruptcy auction has been cancelled, replaced with a plan to reboot the brand and open new stores. Reuters reports that instead of just selling off the brand name and assets like their original plan, lenders now want to “open a new Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us branding company that…

Blizzard Is Changing Overwatch‘s Pharah, But Some Players Aren’t On Board

Time takes its toll on us all, but especially on fictional heroes who exist in constantly updating video games. Theirs is the greatest plight of all, as exemplified by Overwatch’s master of the skies, Pharah. Pharah is just fine—some might even say perfect, if they are me—but she’s about to be hit with a rocket…

Multi-Console Emulator Now Runs On Hacked Switches

RetroArch is a homebrew program that combines a ton of different gaming emulators into a single, relatively sleek package. Development on it began in 2010, with version 1.0 releasing in 2014. Several updates later, today the people behind itreleased the latest version, which can run on hacked Nintendo Switches. RetroArch isn’t the simplest homebrew program…

The Sims 4 Is Getting A New Career And Terrain Tools (Finally)

In an effort to keep their fans in the loop about upcoming features, The Sims’s development team has started a monthly live stream to talk about the game and sometimes hint at what’s to come. Their very first livestream was a doozy: they introduced a new career and terrain editing tools, both coming in a…

Horny Gamers Are Already Making The Most Of Skyrim’s New Unofficial Switch Mod Support

If you’ve got a hacked Switch and Skyrim, you apparently can now bring popular mods from the PC version of the game with you, including the ones that appeal to hornier players. Using a tool called Skyrim NX Toolkit, people are porting over mods that were made for previous editions of the game. The Switch…

The Street Fighter V Rivals With Dramatic Handshakes

While post-match handshakes have become commonplace in the fighting game community, they rarely come laden with dense layers of history. Japanese competitors Naoki “Nemo” Nemoto and Hiromiki “Itabashi Zangief” Kumada have turned these brief moments of sportsmanship into yet another opportunity for showcasing their deepening rivalry. The two had a very tense post-match handshake this…