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PUBG’s Bulletproof Frying Pan Was A Happy Accident

The frying pan in Battlegrounds is one of the best weapons in the game thanks to its bulletproof qualities. And like many of the best pieces of game design, that’s only in the game by mistake. “We wanted to eventually make it that you could hit a grenade with the frying pan,” the game’s creator…

Gollum Sucks

I’ve been playing a lot of Shadow of War lately, and like in Shadow of Mordor before it, Gollum just goes through the motions. He menaces, he cowers, he tries to bash somebody’s head in with a rock. Then he says something zany and bounds away. Gollum has become the Jar-Jar Binks of Middle-Earth. I’m…

Five Scary Games To Play With Your Friends

Some horror games are best played alone at midnight. Other ones are meant to be played in a room full of friends with a six pack of beer. Here’s a few of the latter kind. Slender: The Eight Pages I have never seen anyone more terrified playing a game than my roommate and his friends…

In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp you can just be brown. The first time you could select your skintone was in the spin off, Happy Home Designer, and it’s coming back for the upcoming mobile game. No Mii Masks, no tanning—you can just be brown. Thank god.

Spamming Overwatch Voice Lines Can Get You In Trouble

In Overwatch, each character has a series of prerecorded voice lines that players can deploy at will during matches. These include everything from greetings and taunts to McCree’s notoriously Kirk-Hamilton-irritating “I’m your Huckleberry.” It’s not hard to spam them. Just because you can, however, does not mean you should. In a recent Overwatch forum post,…

Frederick Charles “Freddy” Krueger carves his way into the PC version of Dead by Daylight tomorrow. Elm Street’s nightmare joins Leatherface and a host of more generic maniacs as a playable antagonist in the asymmetrical survival horror game.  

Binary Domain Treats NPCs Like Humans

Last night, I finished a playthrough of Binary Domain on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. The 2012 sci-fi shooter is rough around the edges but creates meaningful, intelligent interactions between players and their AI companions. SPOILERS AHEAD Binary Domain is a 2012 action shooter by Sega. A special forces team is sent into Japan to investigate a…

No Man’s Sky Players Have A Space Government, Politics and All

A year prior to the release of No Man’s Sky, Jamie’s sister passed away. While he was able to take solace in the game as he processed the grief, he found conversations surrounding the game were pretty toxic. So, he started his own No Man’s Sky community that coalesced around the same portion of space.…

Patreon Starts Enforcing Stricter Rules On Sex Games

Crowdfunding website Patreon was known as a haven for uncensored erotic games that couldn’t exist on traditional storefronts, but a recent crackdown on adult material has users worried about the future of such fringe games. Sex games are a big business on Patreon, with top projects attracting thousands of patrons each. One lewd project, the…

Bungie Says Destiny 2 PC Players Won’t Get Banned Unfairly, But Some Dispute That [Updated]

Destiny 2’s PC launch hit a rough spot Tuesday when numerous players took to the web to declare that they had been banned from the game unjustly. Many of those players speculated that the bans were due to third party programs such as Discord and Open Broadcaster Software. In a blog post today, developer Bungie…

Wildlands PvP Patch Fixes Overpowered Thermal Tactics, Other Issues Remain

Since launch on October 10, players of Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ free PvP mode, Ghost War, have been struggling with issues of invisibility and over-powered thermal vision. Ubisoft addressed some of these complaints in a recent patch, but some frustrating issues remain. Thermal camping in a bush is now a thing of the past, thankfully. The…

Final Fantasy Dimensions II arrives on iOS and Android on November 1. The sequel to 2012’s all-new old-school Final Fantasy game, which we liked for the most part, this one is the standalone version of a game that was originally released in Japan in 2015 and then updated and rebranded in 2016.

Our Top Four Fall, 2017 Anime Picks

After days of plunging into Fall 2017’s deep, dark anime coal mines, I have emerged with a few diamonds… and some sludgy crap I’m still trying to wash out of my sweater. There was a lot of sludgy crap. Watching through the 52 anime we showcasedin our Fall 2017 anime preview, four anime stood out…

How To Play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp On iOS Right Now

So you want to play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, but it’s only available in soft-launch in Australia. Here’s a quick, easy and only slightly shady way to create an iTunes account in another country, straight from your iPhone or iPad. First, go into your phone or tablet’s settings and sign out of your normal iTunes account.…

The Literary Horror Of Eternal Darkness

Eternal Darkness is a 2002 GameCube game featuring an epically dark story that takes place over thousands of years. It’s a series of interconnected tales, almost like a collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, that weave together myth, occultism, and some of the dark chapters in religion. While most people associate the horrors of…

Kinect Is Officially Dead

First dead in our hearts, and now dead at the manufacturing plant, the Kinect is no longer in production. Microsoft’s experimental motion detecting camera, which first launched in November, 2010, will die off once existing retail stock is sold, Microsoft told the website Fast Co.in an interview The Kinect, a full-body motion sensor that would…

Konami’s alternate reality Metal Gear Solid V spin-off Metal Gear Survive arrives on Xbox One, PS4 and PC on February 20. Fans of the series eager to pre-order can do so here. Oh sorry, I meant here.

I’m Playing The Animal Crossing Phone Game, And It’s Pretty Good

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp isn’t supposed to be out until November, but for some reason Android owners [Update: and iOS users too] in Australia can download and play the game right now. And hey, I’m an Android owner in Australia, so let me show you how this thing actually works. Like Super Mario Run, Pocket…

One Of The Creepiest Pokémon Ever 

It’s Spooky Weekhere at Kotaku, and what better time to look back at Parasect, one of the most unsettling Pocket Monsters to date. The Bug/Grass type evolves from Paras, and its name appears to be a portmanteau of “parasite” and “insect.” Hence, Parasect. What makes Parasect so unsettling is that it’s been taken over by…

Man Uses Naruto Headband To Defend Himself From Attacker

Earlier this month in New York, 21-year-old Anthony Durden was riding the A train at 1:30am when he was suddenly attacked by a stranger, who slashed him in the face. “I look up and I see it coming down from this side,” he told PIX 11 (via Comic Book and Sankaku Complex NSFW). “I’m like,…