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Doki Doki Literature Club Mods Make The Game Less Depressing

Upsetting visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club has a lively modding scene. Fans have started making sequels, alternate routes and happier rewrites for the game and its characters. Pi, a project lead on Doki Doki Literature Club mod Monika After Story, said that he fell in love with Doki Doki Literature Club after playing it…

Nice Troll, Football Team

My beloved Aston Villa, once champions of Europe but now languishing in England’s second division, haven’t given me much to smile about the last few years. Except for today, with some A+ video game-related social media banter. Some background: fellow Championship side Leeds United (another former English powerhouse down on its luck) released a new…

Atari Asks Random Internet People To Invest In Its Next Game [UPDATE]

For as low as $250, you too can become an investor in Atari Game Partners’ attempt to bring a Rollercoaster Tycoon game to the Nintendo Switch. Atari Game Partners is a subsidiary of Atari responsible for taking the brand’s library of classic IPs and somehow making money off of them. The company’s latest move is…

Pop Team Epic Is Burning Anime To The Ground

A nail-studded bat smashes a TV showing glitched-out anime in the opening of every episode of the new, surreal anime Pop Team Epic. The show tells you straight-up what it’s about: burning anime tropes to the ground. And in the process of destroying everything anime fans know and love, it manages to become something wholly…

Judge Orders Makers Of Illegal Bots To Pay Twitch $1.3 Million

Back in 2016, Twitch announced that it was taking legal action against seven of the most active sellers of view bots, software used to make Twitch channels look like they have more viewers, followers, and fans in chat than they actually do. Now a court has ruled in Twitch’s favor. According to court documents filed…

Devrim Kay Is All The Destiny 2 I Need

No matter where I am in the solar system, what fantastic adventures I embark upon in the name of Dead Orbit, my heart is always back in the European Dead Zone, sniping from the church belfry with my Destiny 2 lifemate, Devrim Kay. I’ll admit it wasn’t love at first sight. At first Devrim’s and…

Studio Layoffs Put Star Game Designer David Jaffe At A Crossroads

Yesterday, games studio Bartlet Jones was forced to lay off the the majority of its small staff after the publisher of their yet-unannounced game pulled funding. David Jaffe, the veteran games designer who co-heads the studio along with producer Nick Kononelos, told Kotaku that the layoffs “break my heart,” but also said that “this is…

While we wait for the online servers to go live before finishing our review, here’s a little video taste of what to expect when Dragon Ball FighterZ launches on Friday.

Assassin’s Creed Origins’ New DLC Is Just More Assassin’s Creed Origins

When it came out last fall, Assassin’s Creed Origins was already a massive game. Its new downloadable expansion The Hidden Ones makes it bigger without adding many surprises or new ideas. That’s disappointing for those of us hoping the game’s first DLC might shake things up, but not so bad for anyone who simply wants…

BioWare Doubles Down On Anthem As Pressure Mounts

Over the past few months, BioWare has essentially transformed into a single-game studio as it harnesses its teams to work on the ambitious multiplayer action game Anthem, sources say. There are still small teams maintaining Star Wars: The Old Republic and piecing together the next Dragon Age, which was recently rebooted, but the bulk of…

We Can’t Stop Watching This Cruel Mario Clone

Watching this brutal Super Mario clone spring hilarious, unexpected traps on a poor player is hypnotic. The game is TrapAdventure 2, created by Hiroyoshi Oshiba and available as a free download on iOS (though unlocking ad-free play costs $.99). Along the lines of theinfamous Cat Mario, it’s a game that uses decades of platforming knowledge…

7 Billion Humans is a new game from Tomorrow Corporation, the studio behind Little Inferno. It’s a follow up to Human Resource Machine, its more recent game about people crammed into a massive office trying to solve weird puzzles while machines run the rest of the world. It doesn’t yet have a release date.

Curiosity Kills In Subnautica, But It’s Hard To Stop Diving Back In

Most of your time in Subnautica is spent deciding whether to listen to your curiosity or your terror. It’s a tough choice. Subnautica’s version 1.0 came to PC last night after entering early access in December 2014. (It’s still in game preview on Xbox One.) You play the single-player game as the survivor of a…

Guy Turns His Steam Link Into An Arcade Cabinet

The Steam Link is a nice way to play PC games when you’re not at your computer. Usually people set it up in their living room to so they can play on a TV while sitting on the couch, but the device can be turned into a nifty arcade machine as well. Inferno156 recently turned…

With Overwatch’s newest map “Blizzard World” comes some shiny new skins. Cecilia and I take a look at them and take the new map out for a spin. The new map is live now for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Check it out in the video above.

Toys’R’Us Closing Up To 182 U.S. Locations

It’s going to be a little bit harder to be a Toys’R’Us kid in the U.S. soon, as the toy retailer puts plans in motion to close up to 182 locations across the country as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan. Court documents filed yesterday detail closure plans for the 182 locations across…

Want to eat rice planted by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi? I should probably say Terra Battle’s creator, because that’s what this agricultural endeavor is for. He planted “Terra Battle rice,” which you can try in Shibuya on February 20 with event tickets costing 2,800 yen ($26) per person.

Japan Is Good At Snow Sculptures

This week, Tokyo was hit with heavy snow. And like every time it snows in Tokyo or other parts of the country, people go outside and make snow sculptures based on video game, movie and animated characters. Via NetLab, here are some of the best ones. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture,…

Japanese TV Show Talks Online Gaming Addiction, Explains First-Person Shooters 

Recently Japan’s AbemaTV did a report on “net game addicts,” discussing those who are racking up long hours online. AbemaTV is an internet television network, which has snagged some famous Japanese celebrities for its shows. The AbemaTV segment was a breath of fresh air compared to the typical way the traditional Japanese media covers gaming,…

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