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EA Blocks Entire Country From Playing Games On Origin, Says They Plan To Fix It

Electronic Arts says they’re working to fix Origin in Myanmar in the wake of recent news that players could not access their EA PC games in the Southeast Asian country. The ban, widely reported on Reddit (and emailed quite a bit to Kotaku’s tips line today), prevents Origin users in Myanmar from playing any of…

Resident Evil Taught Players How To Love Survival Horror

My love for survival horror games began with the first Resident Evil. As a kid I hated everything related to horror, but, after Resident Evil, I came to love and even seek out horror games. I didn’t know anything about the game and had no idea what to expect. The opening, with its live-action footage,…

Some Skyrim: Special Edition Improvements You Might Have Missed

Whenever a game gets remastered or upgraded, it’s not always immediately obvious what makes the new version so much better. While a couple side-by-side screenshot comparisons can show surface level improvements in lighting and textures, more nuanced improvements can usually take a while to pick out. That’s especially true for a game as massive as…

You can download a free, ad-supported version of Sonic CD from the App Store for a limited time. That’s according to a tweet from Sonic himself. A $1.99 IAP will remove ads, which apparently were showing up even for people who had already purchased the game after a recent update. This problem now seems to…

Bethesda Says It’s Going To Fix Skyrim: Special Edition‘s Audio Problems

If you’ve been playing Skyrim: Special Edition on PC or Xbox One, you might have been a little surprised by what you heard in the game. According to a Reddit user by the name of LasurArkinshade, that’s because the audio files for these new versions of the game use a compressed format that makes them…

Minecraft’s Boss Update Is Underwhelming and Buggy

Following an E3 tease earlier this year, Minecraft’s “Boss Update” for the Pocket version and Windows 10 has finally arrived. The most exciting aspect of this update has to be the add-on system, which allows players to edit various values in the game to create their own modified Minecraft experience. It’s not full-on modding, because…

Elite Dangerous Player Uncovers Biggest Alien Secret Yet

Somewhere in Elite Dangerous’ gargantuan (and, some might say, dangerous) universe, there are aliens. Or there were. Nobody’s entirely sure yet. But players keep finding clues, and the latest discovery—or at least, the way it occurred—even shocked the game’s developers. A played named xdeath (not to be confused with Elon Musk’s character, Spacexdeath) discovered a…

The Kotaku Store Is Now Open

As the weather gets colder, you need to wear more layers. We’d love if one of those layers had the Kotaku logo on it, and you can make sure that happens by buying some official Kotaku apparel at our new online store. The initial batch of items includes t-shirts, hoodies and stickers. What’s next? Maybe…

Critically-acclaimed anime movie Your Name is on a U.S. theatrical run that may qualify it for an Academy Award. It’s the story of a small-town girl and a Tokyo boy switching bodies—and changing each other’s lives—that is the fifth highest-grossing anime film of all time. In 2003, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away won the Best Animated Film Academy Award.…

20 Mods You Should Get For Skyrim: Special Edition on Xbox One and PS4

So, you’re about to start an exciting new adventure in Tamriel. Maybe you’ve played Skyrim before. Maybe this is your first go-around. If you’re playing on console, a wealth of options are now available to you, all thanks to the power of mods. Accessing mods is easy: there should be an option right on the…

Imagining Horror Stories Of A Never-Ending Overwatch ARG

Imagine a world in which the Sombra Overwatch ARG never ends—a horror world where there are only unsolved mysteries and the bitter, masochistic masses who hunt them down, forever. Are you picturing it? Here’s a twist: You don’t need to! You’re living it. In a dark browser window called Discord, a spirit haunts the realm…

The Most Hardcore Pokémon Challenge Changed How I Felt About Pikachu

As a kid, I never liked Pikachu much, preferring the softer and squishier Jigglypuff or the catlike Eevee. I didn’t see the point in capturing a Pikachu. Pikachu was the mascot. Everyone loved Pikachu. I could save my love for someone else. 20 years later, I decided to try the “Nuzlocke Challenge” in Pokémon X.…

Battlefield 1 Has A Flying Tank Problem

For some time now, the trenches of Battlefield 1 have been capturing the most authentic aspects of World War One. Snipers on horseback, soldiers leaping into planes from the ground, and medics that don’t heal people. But the most authentic and real to life thing might be the flying tanks. Just like the old days.…

No Man’s Sky Accounts Apparently Hacked, Send Bogus Apologies For The Game

Compromised accounts tied to No Man’s Sky developer Hello Games led to a series of faked official statements today calling the ambitious space exploration game “a mistake.” Two sources close to the development of the game indicated to Kotaku that that “mistake” tweet and subsequent e-mails sent purportedly to press by Hello Games chief Sean…

Netflix is now streaming all 12 episodes of the first season of Skylanders Academy. If it helps, just think of it as Spyro and Friends.

Klonoa‘s Getting An Anime Adaptation

Klonoa, Namco’s dream travelling cat with grippy ears thing who starred in several wonderful platformers for the PlayStation 1, 2, Wii and Game Boy Advance, has long been in need of an anime adaptation. Now it’s getting one, courtesy of anime production companyHenshin, Inc. Up until March of 2014, Henshin, Inc. founder Rob Pereyda worked…

Halloween 2015. Tokyo, Japan. By Patrick Young. JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line! 

One Of The Best Skyrim Mods Got Started With A Punch To The Face

The Forgotten City is a mod available today for the PC and Xbox One versions of Skyrim: Special Edition (and regular ol’ Skyrim). But it wouldn’t have ever been made if its creator, Nick Pearce, hadn’t been randomly punched in the face by a stranger. “I got started writing when I got punched in the…

Skyrim Never Changes

The fancy re-release of Skyrim is out on PC today! It’s got new visuals. Still the same ol’ Skyrim under the hood, though, by the looks of it. Here’s PC Gamer’s Chris Livingstone getting…well, not even past the intro before Skyrim gonna Skyrim Can’t wait to see a dragon fight.

Over at Eurogamer, the reporter who broke details about the Nintendo Switch’s design says his sources have pegged the Switch’s touchscreen at 6.2 inches, displaying at 720p and, like most phones and tablets, supporting capacitive multi-touch. The 3DS and Wii U used stylus-oriented resistive touchscreens.