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10 Questions I Have About That Weird Advertisement That Pops Up While Pooping In Death Stranding

Death Stranding is weird. In my first few hours with the game, I cradled a baby that was locked in a pod, carried a dead body, drank a bunch of Monster Energy drinks and met famous film director Guillermo Del Toro. But for me, the weirdest moment so far in Death Stranding is a moment…

The First Popular Mods For Red Dead Redemption 2 Are All About Skipping The Opening Chapters

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a slow game. The opening chapters are the slowest of the bunch, filled with tutorials, deep snow and lots of riding around the empty winter wilderness. And it seems PC players aren’t interested in dealing with that stuff, so they are creating and using mods that let them skip it…

The Best Level In Luigi’s Mansion 3 Lets You Help Or Betray A Friendly Ghost

Luigi’s Mansion 3 is, weirdly, set in a large hotel. Each floor of this hotel is a differently themed level, some more ordinary than others. For example, early floors feature kitchens and hotel rooms, while later floors feature deserts and pirate ships. But the best floor and level in Luigi’s Mansion 3 is one where…

Mario Maker Contest: Too Many Thwomps, Winners!

Last week I challenged you fine Kotaku readers to create some courses in Mario Maker 2 and load them up with Thwomps. I was curious how far you all would take the challenge. I discovered some of you really, REALLY like Thwomps. In many ways, I asked for my own punishment this week. Thwomps lend…

Did something hilarious happen to you in Death Stranding? Capture an incredible moment in Red Dead Redemption 2? We wanna see it! Send your clips to [email protected] and we might feature your clip on our show!

Fans Honor Deceased YouTuber Etika With A Stunning Mural

When YouTuber “Double A” watched Desmond “Etika” Amofah’s final YouTube video, one sentence stuck out to him: “I know this world’s gonna forget me.” “That’s just not true,” said Double A, who lives in New York City. “We all miss him. We all love him.” Amofah, a popular 29-year-old YouTuber who created videos about Nintendo…

Coming to PC in 2020 from developer Hosni Auji and AMC Games, Airplane Mode simulates being stuck in a window seat on a passenger plane for the real-time duration of a flight. Players eat snacks, read magazines, do crossword puzzles, and watch in-flight movies from the 1930s. It even features authentic baby crying ambient noise.…

Happy Death Stranding Day! Many critics (including myself) mentioned QWOP and Getting Over It in their reviews. I felt the need to go one step further, and invite Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy’s own Bennett Foddy into the Kotaku Goblin Bunker to play the game. I will give him an objective, and no instructions…

Six new games join the ever-growing Apple Arcade lineup today, including Guildlings, a magical episodic adventure from Sirvo Studios and Asher Vollmer, creator of Threes. Also new are puzzle adventure Discolored, Marble It Up: Mayhem, Sociable Soccer, UFO on Tape: First Contact, and bite-sized RPG Takeshi and Hiroshi.

GTA Online Players Are Having Fun As Animals

Grand Theft Auto Online has become a much stranger place since its latest update. The new update added peyote plants, which are found in the singleplayer mode of GTA V; eating these plants transforms the player into a random animal. From birds to dogs, to even Bigfoot, players are now getting up to all sorts…

Hideo Kojima Presents Death Stranding Starring Hideo Kojima As Hideo Kojima

Here, for your enjoyment this Thursday evening, is a Death Stranding trailer in which every single character is just Hideo Kojima. Made using Deepfakes, it’s basically the animated version of: It’s worth remembering that this tweet read differently in Japanese. It’s also worth remembering that this video is a joke, and a good one at…

I’m streaming Terry Bogard in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate alongside Nathan Grayson! Okay! Tune in!

Players who own Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st] will be able to upgrade to Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] for free when the game lands on PlayStation 4 next year The announcement mentions that there will still be some DLC charges involved, but the balance changes won’t require any additional purchases.

Pokémon Go Week in Korea will be held in Busan, South Korea later this month during the G-Star gaming expo. Inven reports that players can catch Illumise and Unown at parks near Busan Museum of Art, and at Busan Citizens Park. Both Pocket Monsters haven’t previously been available in the country. 

Epic Accidentally Tells Fortnite Players They’re Cheating Just For Watching Games

Earlier this week, Epic had a little problem with its a spectator mode in Fortnite, accidentally issuing formal warnings to some players who were just hangin’ out on a server watching other people play. Turns out the “spectate game in progress” mode was at fault, with the game mistakenly believing that players simply watching a…

Smash Bros. Might Make A Terry Bogard Fan Out Of You

Terry Bogard, who made his debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate today, wasn’t exactly the most-requested Smash fighter. He’s from a 30-year-old fighting game that a large swath of Smash players hadn’t played or even heard of prior to Nintendo’s September announcement. But he is fun as hell and totally weird. “Whether or not the…

Hearthstone’s auto-battler mode ‘Battlegrounds’ is in early access for select players. A public starts next week on the Tuesday the 12th. We’ll have more coverage down the line, but here’s an archive of a stream I did if you’re curious.

I’m hoping into some Need for Speed: Heat on our Twitch channel right now! Come join me in the chat and let’s live our lives a quarter of a mile at a time.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Pros Weigh In On Which Characters Are Strongest

Five Super Smash Bros. Ultimate pros recently shared their thoughts on which character they think is the strongest, and some of their answers are surprising. “I think the best character is clearly Joker now,” said Smash streamer and top Smash 4 player Gonzalo “Zero” Barrios, citing the domination of fellow pro and Joker player Leonardo…

Nintendo has sold over ten million Switch consoles (including Switch Lite) in Japan as of November 3. On November 15, Pokémon Sword and Shield will be released, so yes, that number will go up!