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Gnog Is A New Puzzle Game About Up Opening Beautiful Boxes

Released today on PlayStation 4 and coming soon to PC and iOS, Gnog is a musical adventure through a series of diorama puzzle boxes filled with wondrous creatures, strange contraptions and gorgeous music. Let me show you how it works. First we’re given a box. Something like this: Turning the box around, we’re presented with…

Tumbleseed Is An Adventure You Tilt Your Character Through

TumbleSeed is a game where you guide your character forward on a seesaw-esque swing on a journey to scale a hazardous mountain. We play the first twenty minutes in this Kotaku Plays. TumbleSeed has two sides. On the one hand, it offers a friendly world of cute monster pals and relaxing music. On the other,…

This Fan’s Incredible Amiibo Display Case Is Probably Better Than Yours

Amiibo may look like Smash Bros. trophies, but they don’t act like them—not normally, anyway. One fan has spent two years trying to make that fantasy into more of a reality, and the results are awesome. CaliburLord K uploaded a video showcasing an elaborate Amiibo display that not only lights up, it can tell different…

Source: The Rumored Mario x Rabbids RPG Is Real, Coming To Switch

One of this fall’s big Nintendo Switch games will be Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, a game that has been rumored for quite some time and does indeed exist, as confirmed by art assets provided to Kotaku. The game will mix Nintendo’s iconic plumber (and friends) with characters from Ubisoft’s popular Rabbids series. Although the…

Mario Kart 8‘s Splatoon Inklings Must Be Protected At All Costs

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a great time. Cruising around tracks and shooting Koopa shells all over the place will never get old. But someone’s enjoying it way more than anyone else: the Inklings from Splatoon. They are precious children and happy to be here. Be nice to them. The Inkling Boy and Inkling Girl…

Mario Maker Player Keeps Risking Bans From Nintendo To Keep Game Alive

Mario Maker’s last content update dropped over a year ago, but hardcore fans aren’t ready to let go yet. Instead, some of the community introduces new features through glitches, though Nintendo doesn’t seem to be a fan of the practice. Since release, Mario Maker players have found all sorts of ways to exploit the level-creation…

PlayStation’s Golden Week Sale Is Full Of Ridiculous Deals

If you have ever wanted to play the best video game of all time for only two dollars, this is your lucky week, because Suikoden II is on sale as part of an excellent set of PlayStation discounts that also includes Final Fantasy XV for $36 and Persona 4 Golden for $9 (all with PlayStation…

Nier: Automata DLC Drops Today, Hope You Kept That Save File

There’s more Nier to play today, as Square Enix releases the game’s “3C3C1D119440927” DLC. New sidequests and odd coliseum battles reward players with music, costumes and other cosmetic items, as long as you’ve got that game’s Chapter Select feature unlocked. Nier: Automata’s DLC allows players to battle powerful machine enemies like Square Enix exec Yosuke…

In their first post gamecommunity update, Playtonic Games has announced some “spit ‘n polish” is coming to Yooka-Laylee. Skippable text and cutscenes will pick up the pace and fixes to the camera should prevent players from watching the colorful animal duo fall to their deaths over and over and over and over…

The official Vive Deluxe Audio Strap goes on sale June 6. The $99.99 peripheral adds integrated audio to HTC’s virtual reality headset, so users no longer have to fumble around for their headphones before jacking in. More info is availableat the Vive blog.

Code Vein Looks Like Anime Vampire Souls In Action

Last month Bandai Namco announced Code Vein, an action role-playing game about blood-drinking revenants at the end of the world. Now we’ve got the first gameplay trailer, and aside from the dynamic transformations, it’s got a very Souls series vibe. Just because the Dark Souls series is over doesn’t mean we’ll never dodge in and…

Pretending To Be Yoko Taro Is Hard Work 

Is Yoko Taro really going to take off that mask and reveal his face? Nope! That isn’t the mysterious Yoko under the Nier mask, but Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya. Yoko helmed Nier: Automata, of course, with Platinum developing the game. Kamiya agreed to appear on the title’s most recent live stream at Square Enix Cafe.…

Darksiders III Apparently Leaked Via Amazon [UPDATE: Confirmed]

A new Amazon listing seems to reveal Darksiders III for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Still unconfirmed officially, it appears as a THQ Nordic listing, and its product page is filled with screenshots and info about the game. UPDATE (12:10pm): And now it’s confirmed for a 2018 release thanks to an IGN First reveal. Original…

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You Can Now Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild With Japanese Vocals

In addition to the big DLC news, Nintendo also released a patch for Zelda: Breath of the Wild today that added something fans have been asking for since the last big trailer: the option for owners of the Western version of the game to play with a Japanese vocal track. That’s now possible with a…

UNIQLO Got Some Real Nice Nintendo Shirts

In May, UNIQLO are going to be selling a whole ton of new Nintendo-themed t-shirts, some of which are hot as hell. Each one was designed by a fan, and the overall winners—judged by Shigeru Miyamoto—were awarded prizes like cash and signed Switch consoles. The overall winner was a red shirt with a giant Mario…

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild’s First DLC Adds Some Very Cool Stuff

First announced back in February, Nintendo has just detailed what exactly we’ll be getting with the first batch of DLC that’s being offered for Breath of the Wild in the Summer. From new armour to a fancy “smart map”, it all sounds pretty great. First, and coolest of all, is the addition of a mode…

A group of fans made a seriously elaborate live-action Overwatch short film. Created by Lupin Productions, it tells a dramatized version of Mercy’s backstory. While the grimdark tone and writing don’t quite land (in my opinion), it’s still an impressive production.

Project Wingman, An Indie Jet Combat Game For The PC

Project Wingman is a PC game that’s looking to scratch an Ace Combat-sized itch for arcade jet combat. The game is still in development, but you can grab progress builds over on its site and check it out now. There’s not much available at the moment, just a single skirmish mission using one fighter, but…

There Sure Are A Lotta Soda Machines In Video Games

Reader Jess should know, he’s been cataloguing them and putting them all on a website This story was originally published in August 2016. The Video Game Soda Machine Project is his attempt to archive the appearance of the trusty beverage vending machine in our digital entertainment. From Monkey Island to Batman, he’s now catalogued 1000…