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The Man Of Your Dreams Is Actually A Ferret

Welcome to suburbia, where nothing exciting ever happens. Even your job as a veterinary intern isn’t thrilling, since all you do is answer phones. But one day, an adorable hamster shows up and you decide to give him a little kiss on the forehead. Except this isn’t your ordinary adorable hamster: it’s a gorgeous, naked…

Ark: Survival Evolved Studio Reverses Plan To Wipe The Servers

On Monday July 17th, we at Kotaku UK received an email about Ark: Survival Evolved, offering an interview with its developer Studio Wildcard to discuss a major change. Wildcard would today announce, we were told, that all official game servers would be wiped at launch, despite previously pledging that this would never happen. However, after…

The Switch’s Phone-Enabled Voice Chat Is As Ridiculous As Expected

The Nintendo Switch online app is live for Android and Apple devices. It offers some Splatoon 2 utilities that let players to keep track of their stats or buy special in-game items, which is pretty neat. It’s just not a very elegant solution for online voice chat between friends. In order to communicate with friends…

Wii U Game Doesn’t Look Like Much, But Represents One Developer’s Dreams

For $13, the recently released Wii U game A Day At The Carnival doesn’t give you much. The mini-game collection takes place in a desolate wasteland, with nothing to be seen except gravel, sky, and oddly colored tents. Sound will only come from the Wii U controller’s speakers. Sometimes, its graphics don’t fit on the…

Pokémon Go Update Makes Gyms Less Annoying

A big update to Pokémon Go is plugging some leaky holes in the game’s gym mechanics. The mobile app’s current gym system forces players to swing by the gyms where they leave their Pokémon if they want to feed those Pokémon berries. Berries increase monsters’ “Motivation” stat, which keeps them from leaving the gym. Feeding…

Telltale has three new game seasons in the works, the company said today. There’s a new Batman starting in August and sequels to The Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead coming in 2018. Here’s hoping they’re… different.

Vampires Can Now Date, And Other Funny Sims 4 Patch Notes

The Sims 4 was patched yesterday. Here’s the funniest updates for the game. Vampires can now date. Good! Because, as we know, everyone would bone a vampire and if you say otherwise you are lying. Sims should once again be able to Plan their Wedding Event with a Vampire Sim. Have all the vampires in…

The Transformers: Titans Return Animated Series Gets Real Voice Actors

Last year’s Machinima-produced Transformers: Combiner Wars serieswas neat, but its voice cast, largely comprised of prominent YouTubers, was hit-or-miss. For the second leg of the trilogy, they’re bringing in the big guns, including the original voices of Optimus Prime and Hot Rod. Also, Tay Zonday. Combiner Wars’ Optimus Prime was voiced by Jon Bailey, the…

Four months after the console’s release, Nintendo has made the Switch app available on both iOS and Android. It’s intended to let you do things like use voice chat and invite friends, though for now all you can do is stare at a “server maintenance” sign.

We’re finishing our playthrough of Heavy Rain live on Twitch. Who will live and who will die? Tune in to find out.

Fan Creates Super Mario 64 Maker

Nintendo is happy enough with its own Super Mario Maker, but modder extraordinaire Kaze Emanuar figured, hey, we could probably do with a Super Mario 64 version as well. So he made one. Super Mario 64 Maker is a download for the PC that you can play via an emulator (like Project 64). You download…

For Second Time, Composer Files Copyright Claim To Take Down Game [UPDATE]

A copyright claim by a composer with a tendency to attract legal drama has led Steam to remove the game River City Ransom: Underground. The developers are disputing the claim and say they expect the game to be back on Steam at some point in the future. On Friday, July 14th, Steam removed River City…

D&D’s New Digital Toolset Is A Convincing Argument Against Pen And Paper Purists

When everything in the physical world is getting uploaded onto some great supercomputer in space, you will find me hiding somewhere dark, clinging to my Dungeons & Dragons character sheets. Yes, that’s how much I love playing D&D the traditional way: real dice, real paper and real damn pencils. But Dungeons & Dragons’ new companion…

We’re already playing a ton of the Destiny 2 beta including this really exciting opening story mission You can watch some Crucible gameplay here as well, where I get my Guardian groove back and kick ass with a pulse rifle.

The Opening Sequence To Super Metroid Is A Masterpiece

It’s been a little over two decades since Super Metroid debuted on the Super Nintendo, and it’s lost none of its power in the intervening years. This piece originally appeared 12/19/14. What really distinguishes this game is its storytelling. Super Metroid is cinematic in its approach, using a combination of textual, audio, and visual cues…

A Thrilling Game Where You Can Impact The Course Of Art History 

Check your balances of wool and linen. Will you sell them to the merchant from Milan or the one from Venice? Oh, also, the church wants you to buy some of their overpriced alum. Do you accept? These are the questions that ARTé Mecenas asks while you try to build your banking empire during the…

Tabletop RPG About Breaking The Rules Has Way Too Many Rules

Misspent Youth is a tabletop RPG about young people fighting against authority. Unfortunately, it has a lot of rules, many of which get in the way of the freedom that serves as its core. Misspent Youth seems like it should be open ended. Two to four players make characters, called Young Offenders, and another plays…

Overwatch’s newest hero Doomfist will be on PC and console July 27th.

Battlegrounds Streamer’s Suspension Provokes Candid Explanation From PlayerUnknown

Twitch darling Dr. Disrespect, perhaps Battlegrounds’ most recognizable streaming personality, got suspended from the game last night after pulling the trigger on a squadmate, VICE Waypoint reports. And when Dr. Disrespect threatened to roundhouse kick developer PlayerUnknown in the neck, PlayerUnknown spoke out about the unnecessary use of violence in his game and in real…

The Worst Way To Meet Miyamoto

For a certain type of video game enthusiast, getting to meet Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto is the ultimate dream. You rehearse in your head what you’re going to say. You hope you don’t blow it. In 1997, game music composer Grant Kirkhope had, shall we say, a suboptimal experience meeting Nintendo’s game design guru. This…