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Splatoon 2 Patch Makes The Stingray Way More Awesome

When Splatoon 2 launched, the Stingray was a special that sounded neat on paper. A giant blast of paint, firing across the map, dousing all in sight. In practice, not so much. But the most recent patch to Splatoon 2 has added some oomph back to the Stingray, and it’s becoming a new favorite of…

Binding Of Isaac Mod Team Is Moving On Due To Lack Of Support

Team Alpha are the makers of Alphabirth, one of many mod packs for The Binding Of Isaac. Despite releasing their third pack just this week, the team’s head coordinator took to their blog to say that, for now, work on more Isaac content has been put on indefinite hiatus. Since the release of Afterbirth+, the…

Windjammers Is Still Just As Good 23 Years Later

This week, I booted up Windjammers for the first time on a PlayStation 4. A Neo Geo cult classic, I never had the chance to play it when I was young. I suspect many picking it up now didn’t either. As Neo Geo games find new life on platforms like the Nintendo Switch and the…

Overwatch’s Mercy Problem

A big controversy within the Overwatch community this year revolved around the healer Mercy. Top players experienced hostility and harassment just for picking the character, and major Overwatch personalities derided the hero for supposedly having a low skill ceiling. Mercy players, the argument went, weren’t actually good. They were just “one trick ponies” who hid…

We’re going live with a playthrough of Link: Faces Of Evil right now on our Twitch channel, Mah Boi!

World Of Warcraft‘s Latest Would Have Made A Great Expansion

This is it. After fleeing from their home world thousands, hundreds or dozens of years ago (depending on lore revisions), World of Warcraft’s Draenei are ready to take back Argus from the Burning Legion, with the heroes of Azeroth by their side. Kind of beefy for a post-Legion expansion update, isn’t it? Update 7.3, Shadows…

Final Fantasy XV‘s Director Wants You To Know He Can’t Find A Switch

Last month, Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata teased a version of his game for the Nintendo Switch. But when I asked him about that port to Nintendo’s hot new console, he wanted me to share a different message: He can’t actually find one. “I want you to make the headline, ‘Tabata has not been…

When He Picked The Name ‘RabbidLuigi’ Seven Years Ago, YouTuber Had No Idea What Was Coming

Seven years ago, a 15-year-old started a YouTube channel called rabbidluigi. He had no way of knowing that in 2017 that would be a real character in a real video game. Rabbidluigi is a gaming channel that does top ten videos and Let’s Plays. “In anticipation of making my YouTube I planned everything out,” rabbidluigi…

In case Final Fantasy Brave Exvius wasn’t enough of a side-story for you, Square Enix just launched Final Fantasy Brave Exvius Tap, a Facebook Instant idle-clicker featuring characters from the mobile game. Square Enix is weird.

Eight Fun Stardew Valley Mods To Try

When I first got Stardew Valley last December, I spent days playing it. To date, I have 70 hours on record. I swapped study time with hours of slashing monsters, caring for crops and livestock, and doting on my husband, Harvey. But lately, I’ve been bored with Stardew Valley. So I turned to the Stardew…

Breath Of The Wild Gives Players Free Eggs, Promptly Smashes Them

Nintendo has been giving Breath of the Wild players free items for reading the Switch’s news feed. It’s a little broken. On August 9th, Nintendo started giving Breath of the Wild players free items for reading tips posts in the news feed. If you opened the game through a link in a post about boomerangs,…

Publisher Of God Fighting Game Says Malaysian Government Is Trying To Ban It [Updated]

A fighting game about world religions on Steam is causing trouble in Malaysia. PQube Games, publisher of the recently released PC game Fight Of Gods, says that the Malaysian government is taking steps to ban the game including blocking access to Steam within the country. Update #2—Sep 9, 12:35 p.m.: Steam is now unblocked in…

An early Xbox Live listing confirms Kotaku’s report from last week on Destiny 2’s first DLC, which is called Curse of Osiris. It will be out in December and come with a patrol zone on Mercury.

Arena Is Magic: The Gathering’s Answer To Hearthstone

Revealed yesterday via live stream, Magic: The Gathering Arena is a new way to play Wizards of the Coast’s trading card game online. Built with streaming and spectating in mind, it’s much prettier than tired old Magic Online, which it’s totally not replacing. Magic Online is an excellent way to play Magic online, but it’s…

Via Bungie’s blog last night, here’s what the next month looks like for Destiny 2. Anyone want to take some guesses about what Trials of the Nine or Faction Rally will look like?

Anime-Style Illustrations Created In Microsoft Excel 

Game scenario director Hiroo Otsubo has an interesting work process: he creates anime-style art in Excel. According to Otsubo, he can do a drawingin about four to five hours. If that sounds incredibly difficult, just look at how they’re put together in Excel. (This clip from another artist should shed light on how drawing in…

In Japan, You Can Hire Fake Friends For Facebook And Instagram Photos

For those hoping to impress others online, there are rent-a-friend services in Japan aimed specifically at social media users. Earlier this year, Jiji reported on these services, which are seeing a growing number of rent-a-friend requests for social media. This is still uncommon, but recently, the service has been introduced on mainstream Japanese television. “An…

Shinagawa Station. Tokyo, Japan. By Reuben Monastra | IG  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! 

My Neighbor (The Mechanized Death Machine) Totoro

Model builder and Kotaku reader Kevin Derken is backwith a new original creation: some Totoro figures made from spare parts leftover from Maschinen Krieger model kits. He made four different versions, each based on a classic Maschinen Krieger paint scheme. If you like what you see, Kevin made a cast of his creation and is…

Uno Releases New Card Design For Color Blind Players

Uno is testing out a slight redesign of the classic family/hate game. And it’s a practical one, making some changes so that colour blind players aren’t stuck staring at a hand full of red and green cards and going “oh, great”. As Fast Company report, the redesign is being trialled with copies being sold directly…