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Our Favorite Games From September

Happy fall, readers! The weather’s getting colder, which means it’s the perfect time to curl up inside and play video games. Here’s all the new games the Kotaku staff enjoyed in September. Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander We enjoyed our time with this indie game, which is a mix of FTL andXCOM You can get the…

Seanbaby’s Math-Based Strategy Card Game Is Getting A Sequel

Two years ago Sean “Seanbaby” Reiley and friends released Calculords, a digital collectible card game powered by math. It was the best thing. Now they’re back with Calculords 2: Rise of the Shadow Nerd, which is supposedly like Calculords, only better in every way. I’m in. The original Calculords was a breath of fresh math…

Skylanders Imaginators Players Can 3D Print Their Custom Characters

The latest installment of Activision’s toys-to-life series series allows players to create their own Skylanders characters. Thanks to a mobile app launching alongside the game later this month, they’ll also be able to make 3D printed figures, playable trading cards and t-shirts featuring their creations. My first question after being introduced to Skylanders Imaginators’ extensive…

A Rainy Day in Wageningan. By Aiman Ishak. 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!

Pro Gamer Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov Killed In Car Crash

Phillip “Phizzurp” Klemenov, a professional Call of Duty player and streamer, has died in a car accident in Colorado. He was 23 years old. The crash occurred early Sunday morning as he was returning home from dinner with his girlfriend Adrianna Lemuss and another friend. He had only been streaming hours earlier A local CBS…

Artist Yusuke Naora announced yesterday on Twitter that he has left Square Enix. Naora, who was art director on a number of Square Enix games, including Final Fantasy XV, got his start as a field graphic designer for Final Fantasy VI. According to Nova Crystallis, he will still work with Square Enix in the future.

The Mini-NES Makes Classic Games Look Better Than Virtual Console

If you’re in the United States, you still can’t pre-order Nintendo’s upcoming Mini-NES, due to be released on November 11. But you can look at its emulation capabilities compared to the Wii U virtual console thanks to a new video by GameXplain The head-to-head match-up compares video capture from three games: Super Mario Bros. 2,…

Twitch Starts Phasing Out Original Subscription Plan In Favor Of Amazon-Linked ‘Twitch Prime’

The game-streaming service Twitch will no longer offer $9/month Twitch Turbo subscriptions in the U.S. and other parts of the world where Amazon Prime is available, the company announced today. That’s because the Amazon-owned Twitch is now offering ad-free Twitch subscriptions as one of the many perks customers will get for $11/month Amazon Prime subscriptions.…

Hit Dating Game Mystic Messenger Makes A Game Out Of Emotional Labor

The Korean dating simulator Mystic Messenger has become somewhat of a sensation among over a million women worldwide. It’s an “otome” game (literally, “maiden game”) that offers female players a harem of anime boys to court. These suitors are all charming in their own ways and all have their particular emotional needs. And, goddamn, are…

The Sims 4 Players Who Are Being Haunted By Glitch Ghosts

In this week’s episode of The Save Files, we look at the ridiculous ways people have tried to exorcise ghosts in The Sims 4, a mystery within Binding of Issac, and the latest on Resident Evil 7’s finger. For those of you who missed it, THE SAVE FILES is a new YouTube show where we…

Clustertruck‘s Developers Are Pranking Its Twitch Streamers

Streamer Vinesauce was surfing a parade of trucks in the new physics platformer Clustertruck when, on screen, these words appeared: “Hello Vinesauce. We are in control now.” Since Clustertruck’s Tuesday release, its developers over at Landfall Games have been pranking the game’s Twitch streamers live, on-air. They enter their Twitch chats, to the surprise and…

Some Good News And Bad News About The Mini-NES

Most NES games do not hold up very well, but that won’t stop me from getting excited over the Mini-NES, a palm-sized device from Nintendo that gives you 30 classic games for $60. Today’s news: It’ll come with save states, digital manuals, and a selection of graphical settings. In a press release (and new trailer)…

Paladins Is Coming To Consoles, Just Like Overwatch

Afterlaunching into open beta on PC earlier this month and riding Overwatch comparisons to a steady spot on Steam’s ‘top games by player count’ list, Hi-Rez’s hero shooter Paladins is gearing up for its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One debut. Fun fact: Iplayed Paladins long before I got my hands on Overwatch, so the accusations…

Why Overwatch Fans Are Obsessed With ‘Shipping’ Its Female Characters

Since release, Overwatch has spawned reams of fan-created content, which is unusual for a game that has no single-player story mode. A sizable portion of this content centers specifically around the women characters, who are, in the fandom’s eyes, all totally dating and kissing each other. Slash, as this is known in fandom circles, has…

Dark shoujo magical girl anime Madoka Magica is heading to mobile in 2017 with Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Aniplex just created the smartphone game’s website, Anime News Network reports. It looks like it might be an adventure game. A release date is slated for Spring.

Some Of Amazon’s New Games Actually Sound Pretty Cool

Amazon finally showed their hand last night during TwitchCon, announcing a trio of new games that their studios have been developing over the past few years. A couple of them sound pretty damn cool. For example, there’s New World, an open-world game about colonizing a supernatural version of 17th-century North America: New World is a…

Kotaku UK wrapped up their Star Citizen investigation today with two new pieces. There’s a look at what happened to Star Marine, the game’s missing module, as well as a good summary of Kotaku UK’s entire series

Oh hey, it’s the Super Mario Kart development team in 1992. Lookin’ sharp, Mr. Very Young Tie Clip-Wearing Shigeru Miyamoto. Via Ninty Memories

Logitech’s Top Streaming Webcam Gets An Upgrade

Since its introduction in January of 2012, Logitech’s C920 has been the go-to webcam for high definition streaming. Today it takes a backseat to the new C922, able to stream and record at 60 frames per second and dynamically remove the background from broadcasts. It doesn’t feel like all that much of an upgrade initially.…

Here’s the English-language trailer for the Yokai Watch movie. As ANN points out, this is the dubbed version of the first film, which will be shown in select U.S. theaters on October 15.