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Swapping Keycaps Is The Key To Having A Pretty Keyboard

Between my keyboard-centric posts here on Kotaku and my Twitter feed, I’ve been posting a lot of pictures of very pretty keyboards lately, which leads to people asking me where they can buy those keyboards. For the most part, you can’t. You have to build them. I’m not saying you need to buy a kit…

Top For Honor Player Accused Of Rampant Rage-Quitting

CosmicSwordsman is one of the highest-ranked For Honor player on Xbox. Playing the Orochi class, they have killed 5,384 players and died four times, according to their For Honor tracker network page. They have lost once. Of course, there’s a catch: allegedly, and ironically, they got there by gaming For Honor’s ranking system. According to…

Frustrated GTA Online Players Want Much Better Clothes For Women 

GTA Online is mostly known for violence and open world shenanigans, so most people don’t realize just how much the fandom cares about clothes. For over a year now, some of the most hardcore players have been using online forums to gripe about the fashion options available for women characters in GTA Online. Back in…

Don’t forget that a game studio is only as good as the people who work there. “Bungie” means something different today than it did in 2004. Here’s an insightful, well-researched post by Redditor Forestl showing how many of the people who made Halo 2 are still at the iconic studio and how many have left…

Breath Of The Wild’s Best Rewards Aren’t Always ‘Useful’

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild does not dole out rewards predictably. Often you’ll spend an afternoon figuring out some elaborate puzzle, only to walk away with some rupees or a weapon you didn’t need. Other times the reward will be just as “useless,” but more special than any pile of loot could…

Attack on Titan Fans Are Making Jokes About ‘Humanity’s Worst Fear’

Attack on Titan—is it a real, earnest anime or a super-efficient meme factory? Yesterday’s episode, and the reactions it inspired, brings us one stop closer to the answer. In the latest AoT episode, titan-fighting trainees are hiding from the naked giants in a castle when—spoiler—the titans breach it. Reiner, one of the trainees, discovers the…

Since League of Legends migrated their servers from L.A. to Chicago, serious gamers in Hawaii have experienced bad latency, The Outline reported today. Hawaiian gamers are disadvantaged by the lag, and reportedly, there have been no internationally-competing professional Hawaiian LoL players since the switch.

From Introversion Software, the makers of Prison Architect, comes Scanner Sombre, a game involving navigating an underground cave using a LIDAR (light detection and ranging) scanner. It looks really neat, and it’s out on April 26 on Steam, GOG and Humble.

Zelda Fan Game Turns Breath of the Wild Prototype Into Thing You Can Play

Earlier this year, Nintendo showed off a 2D version of Zelda that it used to conceptualize some of the mechanics in Breath of the Wild. It was cool! No surprise, then, that a fan decided to recreate that prototype so that anyone could play it. Breath of the NES is available for download on itchio,…

Office Space Video Game Puts A Modern Spin On Old Drudgery

The movie Office Space struck a chord with just about everyone working in a cubicle environment in the late ‘90s, nailing the ridiculous of the everyday grind. Office Space: Idle Profits, out now for iOS and Android from Kongregate, nails the grind in a different sort of way. In the film, disgruntled Initech office workers…

Sailor Moon Still Works As A Figure Skating Routine 

This isn’t the first time Evgenia Medvedeva has done a Sailor Moon routine, and it’s probably not the last time, either. In 2016, the Russian skater did a Sailor Moon themed routine, which made big waves in Japan. This year, she’s brought it back. Kotaku previously reported how Medvedeva is a huge anime fan. In…

Colossal Iron Man “Figure” Costs $8000

I’ve got an Iron Man figure from Hot Toys on my shelf. It’s 1:6 scale, and is worth a couple hundred bucks. This one is 1:1 scale, and costs almost $8000. Called theIron Man Mark III Life-Size Figure and built by Sideshow, it’s not really a figure, in that you can’t pose it. It’s not…

Vinyl Takes Video Game Music Appreciation To New Levels

Vinyl’s not just a fad, it’s a fundamentally unique way of interacting with music and art. So it makes sense that fans of the medium would want to re-introduce video games to the wonderful world of spinning records that preceded them. Take Rez for example. Released in 2001, it was one of the first games…

The trippy platformer PsychoDelia got a new trailer and is now on Steam Greenlight. The world of weird colors and strange shapes developed by Harmlessmonkii looks like Tron turned inside out and plastered onto ancient cave walls. See for yourself

Mod To Put Red Dead Redemption Map Inside GTA V Gets Canceled

Last month, the mod group known as .White announced “Red Dead Redemption V,” a project that would incorporate Red Dead’s map into Grand Theft Auto V. But soon after releasing a teaser trailer for the mod on Friday, the group decided to cancel the project. “I know this is hard pill to swallow, but as…

This Is How You Fix A Really Busted Copy Of Pokémon Red

Grant Haack, who goes by Snip3r95 on Imgur, found an old Pokémon cartridge while wandering around a flea market. The game only set them back $5, but actually getting the Game Boy classic up and running required some serious elbow grease. “It was at the bottom of a bin and in pretty bad shape,” Haack…

The infuriatingly meditative N++ just got twice as big. The game’s new “Ultimate Edition,” which came to Steam yesterday as a free update, adds a bunch of new levels, colors, and a hardcore mode. The game’s currently half-off on Steam as a result, with the update coming to PS4 “soon.”

Modern Warfare Remastered‘s Map Pack Is Even More Expensive Than The Original

The game’s Variety Map Pack DLC came to Xbox One and PC yesterday, and some players are upset about the price tag. Though it came out on PS4 late last month thanks to a timed-exclusivity deal, the arrival of four new maps and a handful of loot boxes on both of the other platforms yesterday…

Programmed Demo Reveals The Commodore 64’s Angsty Soul

This is A Mind Is Born, a demo of the Commodore 64 going haywire. It won first place at the Oldskool 4K Intro competition at this past week’s Revision 2017 event and it’s easy to see why. Amazingly, the 2:21 long video comprises no more than 256 bytes, and uses the retro-mystical prowess of the…

Guy Tracks His Eyeballs While Playing Overwatch

Picture somebody playing a first-person shooter. You probably imagine them sitting stock still, staring ahead with an almost blank expression on their face, one that denotes quiet focus. You might, however, be missing one key detail: their eyes are moving all over the dang place. Human eyes move fast, especially when we’re doing something spatial…