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SteamWorld Dig 2 Is All About Finding Cool Stuff

SteamWorld Dig 2 is a game about exploring and finding secrets. There’s a plot, too, and some fun characters, but for the most part you dig in caves and look for treasure. I could do it forever. In SteamWorld Dig 2, out today for Nintendo Switch, you play as a robot named Dorothy on the…

Your Destiny 2 Fashion Choices, Reviewed

When the first Destiny came out, I always admired my friends’ Destiny outfits. Now that the sequel is here, I’m determined to have a beautiful Guardian of my own. While I’m at it, I think I’ll judge some of Kotaku commenters’ best outfits. When I asked editor at large Kirk Hamilton what class to try…

Thimbleweed Park, a hilarious old-school point-n-click adventure from the designers behind Maniac Mansion, is out on the Switch eShop today. Check out our review of the game here

Adorable Puzzle-Platformer About Mushroom Men Is Surprisingly Hard

In Mushroom Heroes, I’m looking at a fast-moving platform over a bed of spikes. Timing my jump is one thing, but figuring out which character should jump first is another. There could be a monster on the other side of the ledge, and there’s only one person who uses arrows. There might be blocks to…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Destiny 2

Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space trying not to get their raids ruined by glitches, is full of fun easter eggs. Here’s one of them. Spoilers for Destiny 2‘s main campaign follow — don’t watch the video unless you want to be spoiled: Sometimes, you see enjoyable things in video games…

Student’s Overwatch Concept Art Is So Good, Even Blizzard Is Talking About It

One Thai computer art student gave the Overwatch community something we didn’t even know we wanted, and now, a lot of us want it very badly. Yesterday, student who goes by RM-Parfait posted a concept design (a project for her Master’s) for a Thai support hero on the Overwatch forumsand, in response, fans begged the Overwatch team…

The excellent puzzle game The Witness is out today for iPad and iPhone. Ten bucks gets you one of our favorite games of 2016, a game that’s best described as a Metroidvania where all the tools are in your head

The Worst Strategy Guide Ever Made

Pop quiz: does the name “PlayOnline” make your blood boil, or at least cause one of your eyes to start twitching? No? Lucky you. If it does, you might be familiar with the worst strategy guide in video game history. This article was originally published in May 2015. We’ve bumped it and edited it for…

Why Studio Ghibli Isn’t Involved With Ni No Kuni II

One of the biggest selling points of the first Ni No Kuni was the involvement of Studio Ghibli. For the sequel, however, the famed anime studio’s name is nowhere to be found. Level-5 and Akihiro Hino are back, as is composer Joe Hisaishi, who did the sequel’s score. Yoshiyuki Momose, who did key animation on…

How Akira Toriyama Designed Android 21

As recently revealed, Dragon Ball FighterZ has an original fighter called Android 21. Even though the character was created by Namco Bandai for the game, the company explained how the character was designed by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama. While at Namco Bandai earlier this week in Tokyo, Kotaku participated in a roundtable discussion with…

The Tokyo Game Show food court is, as you might imagine, fairly incredible. I got some amazing steak curry to make up for that Pac-Man abomination from yesterday.

Earlier this week, Square Enix announced Left Alive with a short teaser. Here’s the game’s first proper trailer, shedding more light on what to expect.

The Booths Of The Tokyo Game Show 2017

The Tokyo Game Show is underway! Today is the first business day, which means the show isn’t yet open to the general public. The masses of people won’t arrive until Saturday, giving us unobstructed views of the booths. Sony’s and Square Enix’s booths are among the biggest. Capcom’s, as usual, is a standout.  

Bomberman just walked right by me and pretended to not even know who I was. Dude has a Switch game now and he’s too cool to even say hi.

Of course, PUBG is at Tokyo Game Show too. If you finish the match in the Top 5 you win a T-shirt. Already full of players!

You can cuddle up with a giant plush Rabite from Secret of Mana at the Square Enix booth. If I don’t file any other stories today it’s because I am still here.

The latest issue of Heterotopias, a very cool magazine about video games and architecture, is out on September 22. It’s got pieces on bathrooms and Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, among other things.

Just A Giant Conga Line Of Dishonored 2 Bodies

The real joy of the Dishonored games isn’t in sneaking around. It’s in messing with the game’s systems to do dumb shit like spending four hours lining up every body you could find in a level just…because you can. PCChris95 explains that this is 83 bodies, but not all of them are dead, with around…

Immigration Game Tries To Tell An Important Story, Falls Short

Four Horsemen is a game about immigrants and refugees, and also kinda sorta the apocalypse. It’s a compelling game, written from a place of deep empathy about a topic that is important to consider in our current political climate. Unfortunately it doesn’t quite come together. Things are ending for the four friends you follow in…

Win Or Lose, Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite Multiplayer Battles Are A Good Time

The story side of Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite stumbles in trying to achieve a semblance of order amidst the clashing of discordant fictional worlds, but the multiplayer action is just as intense and chaotic as it’s ever been, with spectacular battles that are enjoyable no matter which side comes out on top. While I played…