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The PlayStation Classic Compared With The Original PlayStation 

The recently announced PlayStation Classic is small. But how does it look side by side with the original? Like this! Both consoles are on display at Sony’s Tokyo Game Show booth. The PlayStation Classic sure is small! Even the Classic’s box is a throwback to the original with added “PlayStation Classic” written in Japanese. As…

Steam Introducing Community Comment Moderation

Beginning on September 25, a moderation team at Valve “will start reviewing reported discussion posts in all game hubs on Steam.” Developers can opt out of this universal system if they like, but otherwise any time a user reports a comment in a game’s community area, it’ll be “added to a queue for our moderation…

Kacho!

Massive ads for Dragalia Lost, the new mobile game from Nintendo, line the walkway to the train leading to the Tokyo Game Show venue. It’s out on September 27.

Microsoft’s Custom Charity Consoles Are Great

Xbox and Make-A-Wish are teaming up again for their Consoles For Kids charity drive, and the 2018 batch of custom-designed celebrity consoles are looking very pretty. How pretty you find them may depend on your feelings towards a particular celebrity, since many of them just have someone’s face plastered over the front, but there are…

Strategy guide for the original Metroid, spotted in Akihabara.

Don’t Worry, Switch Online’s CRT Filter Isn’t Damaging Players’ Screens

Nintendo’s online service for the Switch also grants you access to some classic Nintendo games, and the NES library even provides a filter so it looks like you’re playing them on an old school CRT television. Unfortunately for some players, playing those games with this filter on has left them with an afterimage on the…

Do you know your Totoros? (Spotted at the Kiddy Land toy store in Harajuku.)

Bayonetta 3 development is “on course,” Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba said at a stage event last night in Tokyo. They joked that it was unusual for things to go so smoothly: “We’re actually in sync for once.”

Hackers Have Already Cracked Open The Switch Online’s NES Library

Nintendo Switch Online hasn’t even been out for a day and hackers have already found a way to upload new NES games to its existing library. Nintendo Switch Online, a paid subscription service required to play most Switch games online starting today, also included other features like cloud backup saves and a downloadable library of…

Fortnite‘s Tilted Towers Temporarily Had An Address On Google: The Freedom Tower

I stumbled upon something strange today while writing up a story about how the Fortnite cube crushed a building in Tilted Towers. Looking up an image of Tilted Towers on Google brought up a listing for a real world address. But it wasn’t just any address; it was the site of One World Trade Center,…

As Streaming Games Goes Big Money, Debt Collection Comes Along

In the lawless, wild west industry that is streaming video games, and the surprising gold rush that has gamers tearing up their I-9s, an time-honored line of work is now arriving on the scene: debt collection. Forty outstanding bills sat in Omeed Dariani’s accounting system when we spoke last week. “And a third of them…

Gaming peripheral maker Hyperkin is releasing another Duke replica, this time in green. The black version was surprisingly ergonomical for being a $70 nostalgia trap, but if you like a splash of color to go with your ginormous hands, the green Duke has you covered. It’s currently available at Gamestop and Amazon.

Fortnite‘s Cube Destroys The Game’s Unluckiest Building [Update: It’s Sunk Into Loot Lake Now]

Last month, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky closed and spat out a giant alien cube that’s stomping around the map. Players are eagerly tracking each new move, wondering what will happen when it finally stops. The cube’s latest route took it through Tilted Towers, where it destroyed what might just be Fortnite’s unluckiest building.…

Seven Ways To Make The PlayStation Classic Feel Like The Real Thing

Once an entertaining hypothetical, Sony’s answer to the NES Classic is now an actual retro gaming console due out before the end of the year. Here’s a perfectly reasonable list of games and features that could help make the PlayStation Classic a more enjoyable and authentic experience. Include The Games We Want To Play That’s…

Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Online Mode Launches In November As A Beta

Rockstar announced today that Red Dead Redemption 2‘s online component will be called Red Dead Online and will launch in November starting with a public beta. “As with most online experiences of this size and scale, there will inevitably be some turbulence at launch,” the studio said, saying it looks forward to working with the…

We’re checking out the new Nintendo Switch Online service live on Twitch. Come watch me and Ethan check out some of the retro offerings. Join us in chat! 

Introducing Kotaku Social, Our New Twitter Account

Twitter can be bad; that’s why we’ve decided to make it better, or at least a little more fun. We’re excited to launch our new Twitter account: Kotaku Social On Kotaku Social, there will be zero subtweeting of any kind. There will be no filtered selfies (unless I accidentally tweet from the Kotaku account, which…

You can download the Famicom versions of Switch Online’s NES games from the Japanese eShop using a fake Japanese Nintendo Account. There aren’t many differences in most cases but it’s still pretty neat. Plus the Famicom box art is way cooler, and in the future Japan might get different games.

A Horror Game That’s Also A Personality Quiz

It turns out the only way to get me to play a horror game is if it’s also a personality quiz. I grew up reading Seventeen magazine exclusively to do the quizzes. Put me in front of a personality quiz and I’ll feel like it’s vital knowledge for me to know which combination of Harry…