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‘We Are All Scared For Our Jobs’: GameStop Employees Share Their Circle Of Life Stories

GameStop employees have always been pushy, but an aggressive new policy at the video game retail chain is taking their forcefulness to a new level. And some GameStop staff say it’s making them feel like they have to lie to customers or lose their jobs. For a decade now, GameStop has subscribed to a company…

Oculus’ John Carmack Has Serious Doubts About $500 Million Lawsuit’s Expert Witness [UPDATE]

Oculus CTO and renowned Quake and Doom programmer John Carmack slammeda Dallas jury’s Wednesday decision against Oculus in a $500 million copyright and non-disclosure agreement lawsuit. On Facebook, Carmack specifically takes issue with an expert witness whose testimony, he says, is “just not true.” For two years, Oculus has battled allegations of intellectual property theft.…

American Truck Simulator’s next map expansion will feature New Mexico, SCS announced yesterday. The roads draw ever closer to my house. Excellent.

Fire Emblem Heroes Fans Are Deleting And Reinstalling The Game For Better Characters

Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo’s free mobile strategy game, released yesterday afternoon in the U.S. Instead of actually playing the game, many are finding themselves repeating the opening sections over and over again, in the hopes of cheating the system a little. You see, Heroes is a Gacha game, meaning it is full of random potential…

SecretLab Titan Review: A Big Gaming Chair For Big Gaming People

Standard office and gaming chairs are not built for big and tall people. They cower before our broad frames, shudder beneath our weight and generally fear us. The SecretLab Titan, built for the larger-than-guy-sized gamer, has no fear. Finding a comfortable place to sit for long periods is not an easy task for the big…

PS4 Is Finally Getting External Hard Drive Support

If you, like me, are sick of your PS4 telling you that it’s out of space, here is some game-changing news: Sony is adding external hard drive support in the next update. There’s no date for this update, 4.50, although it enters beta today so it’s likely coming within the next couple of months. In…

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Haha Look At This Dungeons & Dragons Thing

This is a massive and elaborate GM screen for your Dungeons & Dragons (or any other role-playing game) adventures. For those who want to flex on their tabletop crew. I like Wyrmwood’s stuff, but this screen is on a whole other level, both in terms of how much it does (it does a lot) and…

Let’s Meet Swery

toco toco tv is a YouTube channel “where Japanese artists and creators introduce places in Japan that inspire them”. There are some cool video game people interviewed, like Suda51, Swery65 and pro gamer Fuudo.  

Notorious Game Key Reseller G2A Gets Torn To Shreds In AMA

G2A is a site where people sell game keys. You’ve probably heard of it thanks to YouTubers/streamers who cut juicy sponsorship deals to promote it. However, the site’s also received widespread criticism for lax security, fraud, and making money at developers’ expense. G2A recently tried to hold an AMA. It did not go well. People…

I Cannot Play Horror Games, But I Wish I Could

Are you enjoying Resident Evil 7? Are you thrilling at the scares, reveling in the fear, shivering at the spooks? If yes, then know that I envy you. I tried playing Resident Evil 7 last week. I didn’t really play Res 5 or 6, but remember loving Resident Evil 4, so was looking forward to…

Conor McGregor Impersonator Plays Overwatch

“Who the fook is that guy?” I don’t think the real Conor McGregor plays Overwatch, but this fake Conor McGregor that Reeve encountered is an extremely acceptable substitute. His impression is spot-on as far as purposefully over-the-top parodies go, as is his penchant for melodramatic braggery (and calling everybody a pussy). The whole “I’m finding…

Ask Kotaku’s Staff Anything

It’s time again for another edition of Ask Kotaku’s Staff Anything. We’ll be answering your questions for the next hour or so. Ask whatever you’d like.

The PS4’s Nioh Is Basically Samurai Bloodborne, And It Is Very Good

Look, I didn’t expect to spend the last two nights obsessively playing Nioh either, but here we are. Nioh is a new PS4-exclusive action game from Team Ninja, the studio behind the Ninja Gaiden and Dead or Alive series. It’s out in about a week, on February 7. The game has been floating at the…

Why Overwatch Hacking Is Such A Big Problem In Korea

In a now-famous Overwatch video, a Korean player is banned mid-match because of his shameless hacking. He’s streaming himself as Widowmaker, effortlessly flinging himself across the map and landing perfect headshots in-air. A Hanzo approaches, and in a moment, he’s gone. Widowmaker’s crosshairs, which were feet away from him, rubberband to his head. A few…

Final Fantasy XV Voice Actors Playing Their Own Game Is Excellent

Last night the voices of Ignis, Prompto and Noctis streamed the game they star in, Final Fantasy XV, on Twitch. Unsurprisingly, it was adorable Adam Croasdell (Ignis), Robbie Daymond (Prompto) and Ray Chase (Noctis) were also joined by fellow voice actor Max Mittelman. While the stream hasn’t been archived, fans have clipped the highlights. Of…

Internal GameStop Memo Says ‘Vast Majority’ Of Employees Aren’t Misleading Customers

This afternoon, following yesterday’s Kotaku report on GameStop’s controversial Circle of Life program, the retail chain sent out a memo to all stores condemning some of the actions we spotlighted and claiming that most of their employees don’t behave that way. “While the behaviors described in the news article are disappointing, I know they don’t…

Some PS4s Have Become A Bit Laggy Recently

If you’re noticing that your Playstation 4 is a bit sluggish, you’re not the only one. Recently, players across social media are reporting increased delays when navigating the Playstation 4’s menus. Players are noticing slowdown on their Playstation 4s. Complaints center around lag on the Playstation 4 when browsing media or simply moving through the…

Square Enix Is Treating Final Fantasy XV Like A Live Game 

Final Fantasy XV just won’t stop changing. We already knew that Square Enix was adding new cutscenes and overhauling Chapter 13, and now, director Hajime Tabata says they’re adding a free-drive mode for the car, among other things. In an Active Time Report video presentation last night, as translated by Gematsu (which you can watch…

Account Snafu Might Explain Why Pokémon Players Keep Failing Global Missions

For months now, we’ve seen people repeatedly fail Pokémon Sun and Moon’s Global Missions, the community missions that net players rewards if they reach certain gameplay goals. Turns out, many players can’t even register and log in to Pokémon Global Link, the online service which logs their progress in Global Missions, something that would explain…