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Pokémon’s Most Useless Move Is Actually Good In Sun and Moon 

“Splash” has traditionally been a move of total disappointment, hence why people associate it with Magikarp. Splash usually does absolutely nothing. Well, not in Sun and Moon. Sun and Moon introduces something called “Z-Moves,” which are high-powered moves that can only be used once per battle, provided you have the right item. As the official…

A Board Game Version Of 2D Fighting Games

2D fighting games are a very video game kinda thing, but where there’s a will, there’s a Way of the Fighter, an upcoming board game that tries to replicate the digital genre on a tabletop. It looks like a pretty decent attempt at an adaptation. There’s a stage that players move back and forwards across,…

Two German-based directors made an anime opening for the Nintendo Switch, inspired by Transformers.

The Deadline Update Is One Of The Best Things In GTA Online

The Tron lightcycle is one of the coolest vehicles of all time…and now you can drive it in GTA Online, thanks to a new “Deadline” mode. The update is one of the best additions to GTA Online in a long time. The big new toy in this update is the Nagasaki Shotaro, which is basically…

One-Dimensional Dungeon Crawler Continues To Get Bigger And Brighter

Line Wobbler isn’t how most gamers picture a dungeon-crawler. It’s a long LED strip stretching down from the ceiling connected to a spring-based joystick—more installation art than video game. Its developer, Robin Baumgarten, didn’t expect his niche little project to gain much traction in the gaming community. A physical thing, a few dozen copies of…

Five Hours In, Dishonored 2 Is Pretty Fun 

I spent all of yesterday creeping through the shadows and stabbing people in the back in Dishonored 2. It’s a damn fine stealth game. Here are some early thoughts on what works and what doesn’t. 1. The stealth gameplay has improved. The first Dishonored was clunky at times. The level design offered multiple paths, but…

People Are Having A Hard Time Buying The NES Classic [UPDATE] 

As has become standard procedure for Nintendo’s hardware systems, the NES Classic is very hard to buy. If you want one, you’re going to have to work for it. This morning, Nintendo fans came out in droves to line up at Targets and Best Buys across the country (including our own Best Buy here in…

Pokémon Sun and Moon Are Going To Have A Major Cheating Problem

Pokémon Sun and Moon may not be out yet, but a cheating scene is already starting to form around them. Don’t be surprised if, from day one, you might have to look closely to determine whether or not traded monsters are actually legit. Veteran fans all know about PKHeX, a program that allows players to…

Battleborn Players Rally To Save The Game On Battleborn Day, November 12

Tired of seeing a perfectly good game plagued with low server populations, the Battleborn Reddit has organized a special day to help new players get into the game, and the devs are backing them up with special bonuses throughout the weekend. Battleborn is a great competitive/co-op shooter that got a bad rap. The marketing was…

Get A Very Good Racing Game For Free

Dirt 3 is currently 100% free on the Humble store. All you need is a Humble account. Free is good at the best of times, but the Dirt games are some of the finest racers of the past decade, so this is as good a time to try one if you’ve never played them.

A Fascinating Study On Destiny Player Behavior

Look, I’m not going to pretend that everyone should read this, but if you play Destiny—or are just curious about what would make a Destiny player tick—then this research paper based on the game and its players is an interesting read. Called Guns and Guardians: Comparative Cluster Analysis and Behavioral Profiling in Destiny (remember, it’s…

Overwatch‘s Pharah Can Fly Forever Now

Forged in the blue (plate) flames of the Tribes series, I am a Pharah main. You may not come across many of us, but that’s because we have better things to do than play in the dirt with all the worms and Reaper mains. Things like owning the damn skies In a recent update on…

GTA V Helicopter vs 100 People

The Grand Theft Auto V community’s fixation with destroyingthings in their 100s continues, with this showdown between a crowd of floating human beings and the rotor blades of a large helicopter. As with the other vids, it’s not about the explosions or gore. It’s about the joy in testing just how far you can push…

Tyranny Makes It Fun To Be Evil

I usually play good characters in RPGs, but in Tyranny, I’ve found myself drifting toward the most diabolical path possible. Tyranny, the latest classic-style RPG from Pillars of Eternity and Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian, takes place in a world where evil won. Overlord Kyros (a name that falls just below “Adolf Sauron” on the…

Video Game About A One Night Stand Is As Awkward As It Sounds

One Night Stand is a game about, well, a one night stand. In this game you wake up naked in a stranger’s bed and try to piece together how it happened. While the scenario can play out in 12 different ways, the story as a whole is a gentle look at how two people can…

A Note About The Election

Here is as good a place as any to discuss the rise of Donald Trump to the highest office in the land. Kotaku is and always has been a site that is foremost about video games and the culture around them. Our site is written and run with an attempt to be honest with you…

Skate 3 Comes To Xbox One BC, Still No Word On Skate 4

Skate 3 is coming to the Xbox One’s backwards compatibility program, in part thanks to renewed interest in the Skate series as the result of an inexplicably loud movement for Skate 4 This news comes attached to the one-year anniversary of this backwards compatibility feature, which allows Xbox One owners to play any of the…

All 30 NES Classic Games, Ranked

Most NES games have not aged very well. The Nintendo Entertainment System relied too much on antiquated principles from coin-operated arcades—timers, limited lives, inflated difficulty—that just don’t make for good video games in 2016. That doesn’t mean the NES Classic, which comes out Friday, is a waste of your money. For $60 you’ll get a…

People Are Still Competing To Beat A Mini-Game Record In Smash Melee

The Super Smash Bros. Home-Run contest always felt like a joke. Ha-ha, the developers must have thought, Let’s have a mode where you hit a bag with anime eyes with a bat across a field Pass the Asahi. Where is the drama? The art? On Tuesday, these questions were answered when HRC typo, a Super…

Dishonored 2 Is Having Trouble On PC

Here’s an unexpected disappointment to cap off an otherwise lovely and completely not-disappointing week: Dishonored 2 is rougher than expected on PC. The first Dishonored has always been an incredibly smooth game for me on PC, so I was expecting no less when I installed the sequel last night. Everything seemed fine at first, but…