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Twitch Starts Selling The Games Streamers Play This Spring

Millions of people watch games being played on Twitch. This spring, they’ll be able to purchase the games they watch directly from the streaming site, with a portion of the revenue going to the on-screen talent. Detailed in a blog post over at Twitch.tv, the new game sales program will allow stream viewers to click…

Here’s The Official Trailer For Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War

As revealed by Targetover the weekend, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is getting a sequel on August 22 called Shadow of War. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, here’s nearly two and a half minutes of standard Middle-Earth cinematics, with the promise of gameplay on March 8. As expected, players will be wielding a…

Today Is Pokémon‘s 21st Anniversary

Can you believe it? On February 27, 1996, the first games in the Pokémon series were released in Japan. The world has never been the same. In Japanese, the games were titled Pokémon Red Version and Green Version, and the series hit North American two years later in 1998. The trading card game wasn’t released…

Jim Sterling Returns With A New Jimquisition About The Dismissed Lawsuit 

Last week, the $10 million lawsuit against Jim Sterling was thrown out of court. This week, Sterling is back with much more to say.  Sterling previously commented to Kotaku about the dismissed suit, but has much more to say in a nearly forty minute, rather somber YouTube video. Toward the end, Sterling says, “I’ve done…

Get Ready For More Nier: Automata Cosplay 

Now Nier: Automata is out in Japan and soon coming to the West, expect more and more cosplayers to bring the main android protagonist to life. Nier: Automata isn’t new per se. I mean, 2B outfits were already make their way through the internet last fall. But in the past month, there has already been…

Boy Uses Dragon Ball Z To Survive Bee Attack 

An 11-year-old boy in Phoenix ended up in intensive care after being stung by 400 bees. He says he got through that terrible attack by channeling Vegeta. According to Gila Valley Central, Andrew Kunz and a friend were shooting BB guns at an old rusted car. A colony of Africanized bees had taken up residence…

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Blame!’s Anime Adaptation Looks Like A Blast

The projectwas first shown off last year, but now there’s a proper trailer (and release details) for the anime adaptation of Tsutomu Nihei’s manga masterpiece Blame! As discussed, Blame! is my favourite manga of all time, because it’s weird and lonely and fascinating and has some of the most breath-taking art you’ll ever see in…

Clearing Up A Little Confusion About The Uncharted Movie

In an interview published on Collider on Saturday, writer Joe Carnahan talks a little about his work on the Uncharted movie, which he thinks series creators Naughty Dog might be “happy with”. About that, Joe… Here’sthe relevant part from the interview, which he admittedly tempers with some Trumpian qualifications: I’m very happy with the script,…

The Switch’s Neon Joy-Con Point Toward Nintendo’s Colorful Past

With just under a week left until the release of the Nintendo Switch, it’s time to talk about the system’s beautiful, neon-colored Joy-Con. The name might be silly and the way they have a knack for losing sync with the system is no small thing, but the mini-controllers mounted to the side of the Switch…

PlayStation VR Is Doing Better Than Expected, Sony Says

PlayStation chief Andrew House told The New York Times late last week that PlayStation VR has sold 915,000 units as of February 19. That puts the device on a path to exceed the company’s goal of one million sold in the first six months. It’s not difficult to meet expectations when they’re set low, and…

A King’s Tale: Final Fantasy XV will be free to download on PS4 and Xbox One March 1 according to a report by DualShockers. The side-scrolling beat-em-up was originally a pre-order bonus for buying Final Fantasy XV from Gamestop. The art looks better than the gameplay, but at least it’ll be available to everyone now.

Target Leaks Shadow of Mordor Sequel, Shadow of War

The sequel to Shadow of Mordor is called Shadow of War. Warner Bros. hasn’t quite announced this yet, but Target spilled the news early (lol) along with the box art and some info (via NeoGAF).  From what I’ve heard, the story will be based on Talion and Celebrimbor (the two protagonists from Shadow of Mordor)…

This is what it looks like when the Ghost Recon Wildlands open beta launches you across a ravine into a pond. It sounds like the game still has some kinks to work out, but ridiculous rag doll physics are half the fun of any open world game. The beta is available for the rest of…

Talking To The Composer Behind Night In The Woods

In development for over three and a half years, Night in the Woods came out last week and has been making waves with its unique art style and intimate take on daily life in a small, stagnant town. The game’s soundtrack, which Riley MacLeod called “intensely beautiful” in Kotaku’s review, is a big part of…

The Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Star System Was Hiding In Elite: Dangerous All Along

NASA had some big news this past week. No, it wasn’t aliens. It was the next best thing: the discovery of seven new “Earth-sized exoplanets,” a few of which could be hospitable to life. Now, it turns out that Elite: Dangerous actually predicted the existence of the TRAPPIST-1 star system where they’re located. Elite: Dangerous,…

Odd Tales’ The Last Night gets a new teaser trailer and Raw Fury has signed on to publish it. The work of Tim and Adrien Soret, which originally grew out of the 2014 Cyberpunk Jam, The Last Night is inspired by the brooding sci-fi aesthetics of games like Another World and Oddworld and the pixel…

Sources: GameStop Changes Controversial Circle of Life Program

GameStop’s controversial Circle of Life program is changing next week, according to several store managers. Though the retail chain will continue to use and monitor Circle of Life scores, GameStop plans to enact several changes that will make the program more accommodating to employees. The “Circle of Life” score, as Kotaku has reported, is a…

The Sims 4 Celebrity House Update: Introducing, Blac Chyna and Prompto

Last week I moved out Rihanna and Dwayne Johnson after their wedding, to frolic in San Muyshuno and hopefully have some children I can micromanage sometime soon. I asked readers to help me figure out who to add for the two remaining slots in the house. Blac Chyna and Prompto were too tempting to pass…

A Game Developer’s Digital Fight Against Fascism

In these turbulent times, it can be hard to focus on making video games. The world is on fire! Tightening up the graphics on level three probably won’t do much to put it out. Ramsey Nasser was feeling that way, so he decided to make games about punching nazis. “It’s something that has come up…