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Rockstar Just Got Everyone Talking With One Simple Image [Update]

Earlier this morning, Rockstar Games went red, with new versions of its logo appearing on social media accounts like Twitter and Facebook, as well as the loading screen for the company’s official website. Update: A second image appears, with cowboys. The studio didn’t actually mention the words red, dead or redemption. Instead, it simply tweeted…

47 Terrible Name Suggestions For The New Red Dead Game

Okay, so we don’t know for sure that Rockstar is working on a new Red Dead game but… come on! It’s going to happen eventually. What will it be called when it’s finally announced? God only knows, but I’m pretty sure that it won’t be any of these 47 names I’ve written down in the…

Odell Beckham Jr. Rocks Kirby Cleats In NFL Game

Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. was wearing these Nintendo-themed cleats for today’s game against the Ravens. Beckham—who had himself a game—worked with Kickasso, a custom sneaker artist, to come up with the special one-of-a-kind footwear. Sole Collector sayhe chose Kirby because of his colour, so as to coincide with the NFL’s annual breast cancer awareness…

Studio Ghibli’s TV Series Is Coming To Amazon

Famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli (Totoro, Spirited Away) has signed a deal with Amazon to stream its kid’s TV series, Ronja the Robber’s Daughter, online in the West (or at least places that can get Amazon Prime). Directed by Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro, Ronja is an adaptation of a book by Swedish author Astrid…

Game Boy Jam Shows Everything That Made The Handheld Special

The fifth annual Game Boy Jam just wrapped up last weekend after receiving over four hundreds of entries. The rules were simple: all assets had to be created during the jam, the screen resolution had to match the original Game Boy, and each game could only include up to four colors. You can currently find…

Adam Levine and Maroon 5 reenact Pokémon Go for their “Don’t Wanna Know” music video in the hopes it might get you to still care about them. Sarah Silverman, Vince Vaughn, and other celebrities also make an appearance. Unfortunately, Kendrick Lamar’s verse from the single is nowhere to be found.

A Party Game That Lets You Remix Levels On The Fly

The 2016 IndieCade Festival is going on right now in Los Angeles, which means there’s a lot of weird, cool stuff being shown-off, including a video game console called DOBOTONE The party game uses a combination of two-button controllers and a single Game Remixer that lets one player manipulate different variables with knobs while the…

World of Warcraft’s next patch will arrive on October 25, bringing with it a new Karazhan dungeon. According to Blizzard, “Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan will take you further into the ongoing stories within Legion and bring with it new and exciting challenges.” You can find out more about Patch 7.1 in a recent Q&A

Artist Re-Imagines One Little Corner of Final Fantasy VII

Ben Nicholas is an artist and concept designer formerly with 343 Industries who worked on Halo Wars 2. He’s also a huge fan of Final Fantasy VII, which is why he decided to embark on a project to re-imagine the game’s various interiors, beginning with pharmacy nestled deep inside the Wall Market strip of the…

Free Game Recommendation: Really Bad Chess (iOS)

Ever-interesting game designer Zach Gage has made a chess game for those of us who aren’t good at proper chess and might enjoy something a little more ridiculous. Really Bad Chess, released yesterday on iOS, is chess with a random mix of pieces. Take a look at the screenshot above. It’s a Really Bad Chess match…

A patch scheduled for October 18 will raise the light level in Destiny to 400 and improve the light levels of loot offered in the game, hopefully making players’ rise to 370 to access Rise of Iron’s raid less of, in our reviewer’s word, a “slog.” Good news, given that the creatively-designed raid is worth playing.

Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets

Japan’s highest grossing film of 2015 is pretty silly. Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie, making its U.S. debut at a special Fathom Events theater showing this weekend, keeps the wacky humor of the television show rolling, even when the fate of the entire world is at stake. I got to watch a special preview of the…

FFXIV Announces Stormblood Expansion: New Jobs, Zones And Battle System [UPDATE]

Final Fantasy XIV is releasing its second major expansion, Stormblood, early Summer 2017. At today’s FFXIV fan fest, Game Director Naoki Yoshida announced Version 4.0 and a variety of coming changes. Development has already begun on Stormblood, which will primarily take place in the new Ala Mhigo zone. “The main concept is getting Ala Mhigo…

Battlefield 1’s Multiplayer Undercuts Its Dramatic Single Player Campaign

Diving into Battlefield 1 has been a surprising experience. Making a game that focuses on the absolute tragedy that was World War One seemed like a setup for failure. The single player campaign has genuinely impressed me, but when multiplayer is added to the mix, there’s a fundamental tension that cannot be reconciled. Battlefield 1’s…

Nerdcore Scene Fires Back At That Troll Alex Trebek

Top troll Alex Trebek recently spent a few seconds of Jeopardy dismissing nerdy, game-loving, sci-fan-reading fans of nerdcore hip-hop as “losers.” Naturally, he didn’t get the last word. Up top, we’ve got nerdcore rapper Mega Ran–whose music is usually drenched in video game references–with a finely argued dis track about Trebek. Below, his concert-goers in…

Dark Souls III’s player-versus-player trailer dropped yesterday. It features an epic 3v3 multiplayer battle.

Possibly The Most Pointless Video Game Pre-Order Of All Time

The editorial staff at Kotaku has repeatedly advised readers to not pre-order video games, and today we can reveal two more reasons not to pre-order: radical life changes and transformations to the gaming industry. It’s possible that, when you pre-order the game you are excited about, you might be living in Sweden and the game…

Overwatch Player Makes Banana Controller For Winston

Overwatch is no stranger to gimmick controllers. People have used flight sticks for D.Va and turntables for Lucio. This Winston controller, though, is completely bananas. Rudeism, who you might remember from previous over-the-top controller setups, has finally gone too far. He’s created a controller not from plastic or metal, but from organic material. And also,…

World of Warcraft‘s Game Director Is Leaving The MMO

World of Warcraft’s Game Director announced in a Battle.net post yesterday that he’s leaving the 12-year-old MMORPG’s team. Tom Chilton brought the blockbuster game from alpha to its latest expansion, Legion In his post, he says that “It’s with a mix of excitement, sadness, and gratitude that I’m saying farewell to the WoW team.” Chilton will be…

New Pokémon Sun & Moon Trailer, Everyone

Hark! A new trailer for Pokémon Sun & Moon. Featuring some new evolutions and monsters. Two new trainers, as well. On the creature end of things, we’ve got Sivally, a Pokémon that changes type depending on the item it is holding, making it right for every occasion. Hakkomo-o’s evolution to Kommo-o is as impressive as…