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Popular Nier: Automata PC Mod Includes A Piracy Check, Sparking Meltdown

Many fans were happy to hear about Kaldaien’s “FAR mod,” a patch that fixes Nier: Automata’s technical issues on PC. Some people who downloaded the mod were surprised to find that it checks whether or not you’ve pirated the game, and the modder’s decision to include such a feature has proven controversial. When you install…

Board Games Are Helping My Wife Recover From Her Traumatic Brain Injury

For some people, board games are only bits of cardboard, wood or plastic. They’re just spaceship models or dungeon maps or dense rulebooks, a bit of fun after a strenuous week at the office. I know they’re more because they helped give me back my wife. After she was critically injured in a car crash,…

GTA V‘s Police Are A Danger To Themselves And Others (But Mostly Themselves)

You thought Grand Theft Auto V’s firefighters were bad? The police would like to have a word with you. Documenter of incidental GTA chaos and disaster artist extraordinaire Merfish turned the police into their latest muse. Unlike GTA V’s firefighters, the police had to be provoked a little, but once they turned aggro, things quickly…

The third-person shooter Vanquish is coming to PC on May 25, Sega announced today. Last month, the publisher also released Bayonetta for PC. Is Skies of Arcadia too much to hope for?

The Newest Horizon Patch Is Good

We expected the improved photo mode to be the best thing about PS4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn’s new 1.13 patch. It is. Sure, you can now sort your inventory better and de-clutter the game map so that this…. can look like this… That’s nice, but nicer is that you can pose Aloy in the game’s…

Forza Horizon 3’s Hot Wheels Expansion Is Pure Joy

Miles of bright orange track winding through the sky, speed boost pads flanked by gigantic toy engines, loop-de-loops and dinosaurs—I can’t stop smiling when I’m speeding through Forza Horizon 3‘s Hot Wheels expansion. Released yesterday alongside a substantial PC performance update for Forza Horizon 3, the Hot Wheels expansion is everything I wanted and more.…

Nintendo Releasing Standalone Switch Dock In Europe

For those with multiple TVs, good news. Nintendo is releasing a standalone Switch dock this May in North America and this June in Europe. Update May 10 – 7:40am: An earlier version of this story incorrectly state that this hadn’t yet been announced for North America. However, this was previously announced for the US and…

Dragon Ball Super Toys Coming To McDonald’s In Japan 

Starting this Friday, Happy Meals in Japan will have Dragon Ball Super toys. In the clips below, you can see them in actions. They look pretty cool for Happy Meal toys! Though the Vegeta uppercut is a bit of a letdown. Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking…

Music Clip Uses Video Game Guns For The Tunes

Look, I know that sounds unbearable, but this is very good.

A Tribute To My Indestructible DualShock 3

Back in 2013, I had some very unkind things to say about the DualShock 3’s design. Those points still stand—this is a bad controller for playing video games—but in the years since I’ve grown to appreciate one thing about the DS3: it can take one hell of a beating. I bought my first PlayStation 3…

We Filled Retro Monsters Full Of Lead In Strafe

Strafe is a fond throwback to games like Quake and Doom. Seeking to capture all bloody fun of old school shooters, it has one hell of a shotgun and a lot of baddies to blast into bits. Heather and Chris sat down to take on its twisting corridors in this archived livestream. Created by Pixel…

Video Game About Pot Farming Is Fun Even If You Aren’t Stoned

In Bud Farm: Grass Roots, you’re farming bud in a fairly optimistic future where potheads have formed their own nation. While the game appears to be just another weed-themed Farmville clone, Bud Farms actually has a lot of heart. When you start Bud Farm, you’re greeted by an aging hippie who runs you briefly through…

On an earnings call today, publisher EA said that BioWare’s new “live service” IP (which is code-named Dylan) has been delayed to fiscal year 2019 (April 2018-March 2019). It had previously been scheduled forfiscal year 2018

Video Game Makes Banging A Half-Lion Leather Daddy Surprisingly Normal

Well into the evening hours, I went out to a bar. Between glasses of barely mixed booze, just past a lanky fellow with a glowing saber, I saw him. He was statuesque, decked out in leather and pierced all over, and wreathed by a rich, black mane. He was a hybrid, half man, half lion.…

The ‘Worst’ Pokémon Sun and Moon Legendary Guardian Scores Big Competitive Win

Nick Navarre, a top competitive Pokémon player from the US, won last weekend’s Roanoke Regional Championships with a unique team that included what many consider the weakest Alolan Guardian: Tapu Bulu. Tapu Koko is by far the most common and successful guardian in competitive Pokémon, with Tapu Lele and Tapu Fini competing for the second…

Ghost Games says there’ll be a new Need for Speed game before 2017 ends, and it’ll be playable offline, addressing one of the major issues fans had with the 2015 reboot. It’ll have an open world, cops to flee and plenty of car customization. Look for more details at the EA Play event in June.

Prey Shows That Bethesda’s Review Policy Is Even Bad For Bethesda

Prey, the newest game from Arkane Studios, is most enjoyable when you take your time exploring its corners and crevices. It’s a quiet, unsettling game, one that can turn into a real drag if you try to rush. So why did Bethesda force reviewers to blaze through the game as quickly as possible? And what…

Four months after Ubisoft released multiplayer hack-and-slash game For Honor, players continue to report frustratingly slow matchmaking times upwards of a few minutes. But yesterday, Ubisoft told Kotaku that matchmaking takes 45 seconds on average. What have your experiences been? Tell us in the comments.

Match Land Is A More Lovable Sort Of Puzzle Adventure Game

Popularized by games like Puzzles & Dragons, mobile match-three puzzles games usually contain overly-complex mechanics, obnoxious microtransactions and a constant stream of ads for the amazing heroes you could get if you just spent enough cash. Take away those things and you get Match Land. Developed by Race Cat and available as a free download…

Starz’s American Gods: a beautiful adaptation of a book I honestly didn’t like that much. What it is: A prestige drama adaptation of the Neil Gaiman’s novel of the same name, with Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller and Kings’s Michael Green at the helm. What I’ve watched: Only two episodes have aired and I’ve watched them both.…