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The next big Nintendo Direct starts at 6pm ET tonight. It’ll run around 45 minutes and be full of Switch and 3DS news. Watch here!

Stay With Me Here: Dungeons & Dragons, Except You Cook What You Kill

So, uh, I’ve been pretty fixated on the idea of a dungeon-crawl-slash-cooking show—a Dungeons & Dragons game where you kill what you eat. A few questionably-spent days of vacation after spawning this ludicrous idea, I found a way to mod Dungeons & Dragons to accommodate my cooking fantasies. And, surprisingly, it turned out great. The…

How EVE Players Pulled Off The Biggest Betrayal In Its History

EVE Online is infamous for its scammers, pirates, and ne’er-do-wells, but this week all their scams were put to shame. A member of the game’s Council of Stellar Management and head diplomat of the Circle of Two alliance named The Judge stole all of the holdings of the 4,000-person alliance for himself. He took their…

The folks at Node held their own real life Battlegrounds match and it’s tense as heck. There’s nothing like UMPs and Red Bull to make airsoft even more exciting.

Uncharted 4 Co-Director Bruce Straley Leaves Naughty Dog

Bruce Straley, co-director of The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, is officially leaving Naughty Dog following an extensive sabbatical. “After heading up three extremely demanding projects, and taking some extended time away from the office, I found my energy focusing in other directions, and I slowly realized this was the signal that it’s time…

What Homestuck Was

On September 14th, at long last, the first episode of the Kickstarted Homestuck game, Hiveswap, will be released, only five years after it was originally announced. Homestuck was one of the biggest fandoms of the early 2010s, but what exactly was it? Well, that’s a complicated question. Before it ended in 2016, Homestuck was a…

I’m Obsessed With Battlegrounds‘ Brutal Hospital

In Battlegrounds’ bombed-out hospital, I can’t tell whether my footsteps are my own. Every few meters, I duck into a room and stop to listen to my own movement, taking a few test steps to match them with their corresponding sounds. If there’s silence, I keep moving. That way, I can amass a dozen items…

Klei has announced Don’t Starve Hamlet, a new expansion for Don’t Starve. According to the description to this trailer, Hamlet will take Wilson to a city, with “pig shops, houses, new items, biomes and more.” While it won’t come out until early next year, you can add it to your wishlist on Steam

It Isn’t Easy Being An Overwatch Fan In Africa

When Shuaib Sookia, an Overwatch fan who lives in the African country of Mauritius, posted to both the game’s subreddit and official forums about how much of a pain it can be to play Blizzard’s team-based shooter without servers located anywhere on the continent of Africa, he wasn’t expecting much in the way of response.…

Transformers’ Dinobots Finally Combine To Form A Giant Robot

Announced at Hascon over the weekend and debuting later this month in the Transformers: Earth Wars mobile game, Volacanicus is what happens when the Autobots’ robot dinosaurs get their act together. The ‘80s cartoon and toy line was packed with teams of five or six robots combining together into gigantic gestalts, but the Dinobots never…

Ghost Recon: Wildlands PvP Mode Finally Gets Open Beta Next Week

Ghost Recon: Wildlands’ PVP mode is called “Ghost War,” and will enter into an open beta that anyone can play, even if they don’t own the game, starting on September 21, Ubisoft said today. Ghost War will allow players will choose from a list of classes designed for one of three specific categories—Assault, Marksman, or…

Idle Champions Of The Forgotten Realms Is A Great Game To Not Play When Your Power’s Been Knocked Out By A Hurricane

Hurricane Irma’s violent and selective deforestation of the woods surrounding my Atlanta-area home has left me without power for over 36 hours. One of the few saving graces has been knowing that once I got back to the new Dungeons & Dragons idle clicker, I’d have billions of gold waiting. Idle Champions of the Forgotten…

There’s Blood Everywhere: A YouTube Shark Beast Battle Simulator Story

A few days ago, the developers of the physics-based battle game Beast Battle Simulator introduced a new beast: sharks. These sharks don’t need any water—they skitter across the land at a slow pace, and launch themselves at their opponents. Like their real life counterparts, they fight with their teeth and jaws. YouTubers have been putting…

Nintendo Switch Voice Chat No Longer Stops Working When You Change Apps

Nintendo’s phone app for the Switch was updated today, fixing two really annoying issues with voice chat. When the Nintendo’s Switch app launched, people were happy to finally be able to play Splatoon with voice chat, but were disappointed that voice chat would disconnect if you tabbed to another app or if your phone went…

Tooth and Tail Makes Strategy Games Approachable 

Rodents roar across the plains. Ferrets launch mortars into farms. In the distance, cobras slither closer, ready to tear down a freshly-built bunker. Tooth and Tail is a real-time strategy game that puts you in the commander’s chair of a gunpowder-era Redwall war while trying to avoid pitfalls that keep newcomers from experiencing that splendor.…

How To Make Figure Photos More Dramatic

If you take figure photos, here’s an easy way to make them into action shots: throw some sand or dirt. That’s what Twitter user Negikatsu7 has been doing for his dramatic figure photos, and the results have been excellent. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from…

You Are Not Looking At Gundam Box Art 

Previously, Kotaku showed off Gundam models painted to look like anime images. Now, check out these models painted to look like box art. You’re familiar with that, no? Models have traditionally been packaged in boxes that feature beautiful art. Like these. Twitter user Cody specializes in painting Gundam models in this box art style. Above you…

Shimbashi rain. Tokyo, Japan. By Shawn Danker. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

Uncharted: From Motion Capture To Your Living Room

I know, we’ve already featured the art of Uncharted: Lost Legacy, but tonight we’re taking a look at something else: animation from the game. This video features the work of animator Matthew Tovar, and showcases the journey the game’s cinematics take as they go from raw motion-captured footage to the final sequence you see in…

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