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Japan Gets Its Own Mini-NES, The Mini-Famicom

America is getting the Mini-NES. Japan, naturally, will be getting a Mini-Famicom to match. It’s the same basic deal, bundling 30 classic games into a small system (which you can’t swap out or add to, they’re pre-loaded) that you plug into the TV via HDMI, only here obviously it’s a slightly different roster of titles,…

Fan Creates Terrific Intro For Indiana Jones Cartoon Series

Indiana Jones superfan Patrick Schoenmaker has, for the last five years, been working on this animated sequence which imagines the intro to an Indy cartoon series that never actually existed. Similar to Paul “OtaKing” Johnson’s Tie Fighter clip, then, only with a more Western style. And more Nazis. Love the Fate of Atlantis stuff in…

Disneyland Has A Pokémon Go Problem

A reader’s girlfriend works at Disneyland, and sends word that it looks like management is having some trouble with staff playing Pokémon Go on the sly. She sent him this shot from behind the scenes at the park, where the bosses have had to put up a sign barring “cast members” from playing the game…

The Best Twitch Overlay of 2016 (So Far)

Okay, pidgezero_one, I laughed. For those who are confused: the overlay is a picture of Bernie Sanders looking at the debate from earlier in the week. Here’s the original: And here’s what the Twitch overlay looks like in action:

YouTube celebrity PewDiePie announced today that he’s designing his next game with one of the masterminds behind Goat Simulator, a satirical game that owes its popularity to YouTubers, the Verge reports The details of the game are unclear, but it will be on PC, iOS and Android. Today, PewDiePie released his newest game, Tuber Simulator.

Look At This Shiba Inu Game

Year of the Dog is a slice-of-life game about owning a Shiba Inu in San Francisco, and it looks wonderful. Seriously, look at these GIFs showcasing moments and gameplay, courtesy of developer @keanerie: So idyllic~ Even the glitches look hilarious: Some features listed on the Year of the Dog’s official website: -12 interactive vignettes of…

Ask Kotaku‘s Staff Anything

It’s Thursday afternoon, fall is finally here, and we’re all getting ready for an exciting next few months of video games. (Except for me—I’m going on sabbatical in October. See you suckers later.) Kotaku’s staff will be here for the next hour-and-a-half to answer your questions. Ask whatever you’d like.

Source: Battleborn Is Going Free-To-Play Soon [UPDATE]

The underperforming hero shooter Battleborn will go free-to-play within the couple of months, a person familiar with plans for the game told Kotaku. Word is the announcement will come by mid-November, but that could change. (We hear the move has already been delayed a couple of times.) The source, speaking under condition of anonymity, said…

A Horror Game Where The AI Learns From Your Every Move

Ever been curious about a neighbor—so curious that you’ve considered snooping? Announced today, stealth horror PC game Hello Neighbor will take that spying, meddling impulse to the extreme. Also extreme is your enemy, just a friendly neighborhood AI who learns from your every move. In Hello Neighbor, an advanced AI will come after you if…

Overwatch‘s Best Brawl Is Back

Most of Overwatch’s Weekly Brawl alternative modes are not very good. Arcade is. Arcade was actually the first-ever official Weekly Brawl, and now, months later, it’s getting a second go at the spotlight. If you’re a lapsed, bored, or frustrated Overwatch player, I highly recommend that you hop in and give it a try. It’s…

Bungie Removes Destiny‘s Most Popular Exploit

Farewell, Omnigul farming. Thanks to a new hotfix, Destiny players will no longer be able to repeatedly kill Omnigul for blue loot. Moon wizards, rejoice. Of course, this doesn’t solve the major problem that Rise of the Iron brought to the table. The problem, as anyone who’s played Destiny over the past week knows, is…

Twitch’s Channel page just got a much-needed facelift. Now, it will be easier to browse past streams when a channel is offline and subscribe to new streams hosted by your favorite channels.

Burly Men at Sea Is A Small Game About Shipwrecks

I have a thing for shipwrecks. Readers might remember that I lived on a boat, which sank. I have a tattoo of Shackleton’s Endurance sinking. Boats sink a lot in Burly Men at Sea. But unlike in real life, in the game I actually wanted my boat to sink, just so I could see what…

24 Perfectly Legitimate Reasons For Why You Lost At A Game

You lost at a video game. And definitely it was not because you were bad. In fact, there are a slew of perfectly good reasons for why you lost. This time, you lost because you had a finger spasm. You lost the next round because you thought you heard something growling in the freezer. Surely,…

Lost Odyssey, the underappreciated Xbox 360 JRPG, is now backwards compatible on Xbox One. Anyone with a disc copy—well, four-disc copy—of the Mistwalker game can play it on their new Xboxes starting today. Enjoy those short stories.

Pokémon Player Beats Elite Four Champion With Level One Rattata

For most players, the Elite Four is a place to take high level Pokémon, as they can sweep through the league with ease. Sometimes, though, you find a clever way to get through the final boss in Pokémon. While this battle by isleep2late happened earlier in 2016, I still felt that I needed to share…

Fencing Game Nidhogg Is Getting A Sequel With A Very Different Look

Indie game favorite Nidhogg will look less abstract in its newly announced 2017 sequel. Developers Messhoff just revealed the game, titled… Nidhogg II, with a trailer and some PR-provided bullet points: – Completely overhauled detailed environments and animations – 10+ levels of fencing goodness – Local and online multiplayer and tournament mode – Play single-player…

Gundam x Pokémon, The Sequel

Reader Khris, who earlier this year modified some Gundam models to look like mechanised Pokémon, is back with three more. These are based on the legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. You can see more of Khris’ model work at his Facebook page

Oh No, The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Launches In English Next Month

This is not good. The only thing standing between my wallet and the more than 2,000 cards in the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game was all of that Japanese text. Now Square Enix is launching the game in English. On October 28. Great. For nearly six years, Japanese Final Fantasy fans have been greedily devouring…

When Capcom Does Persona 5, It’s Strange

Persona 5 characters and costumes look cool in, well, Persona 5. But how do they look in Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma Online? Kinda strange! Famitsu and 4Gamer report that Capcom is collaborating with Atlus to bring four P5 outfits (the Phantom Suit, the Panther Rubber, the Trickster Suit, and Trickster Rubber) to its free-to-play title Dragon’s…