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A Tale Of Love On The Overwatch Battlefield

It was an Overwatch romance that was never meant to be, that nobody asked for. Her, a pro gamer turned mech pilot with attitude. Him, a cheap Party City Halloween costume possessed by someone’s dad. Both of them controlled by cruel gamer gods with a thirst that no amount of Mountain Dew could quench. They…

More Perfect: An excellent podcast about the Supreme Court What it is: A six-episode podcast mini-series that tells the story of seven or so major Supreme Court cases and their impact on America today, all meticulously reported by the team behind WNYC’s acclaimed Radiolab podcast. What I’ve listened to: All of it. Is it good?…

Let’s Talk Overwatch! We’re back for another episode of our weekly chat series where we get together to talk about the ups and downs of the week in Overwatch. This week Cecilia, Nathan and I cover the new competitive season, how we feel about competitive play in general, and which character is going to be…

The Smash Community Is Brawling Over A Non-Existent ‘VIP Room’

“You know why I’m here,” Kenneth Bradley, a ranked Street Fighter IV player with Evil Geniuses, yelled into a camera last week. It was to talk about the latest Super Smash Bros. controversy, something that has affected the fighting game community at large. Bradley took issue with certain competitive Super Smash Bros. players who say…

Battlefield 1‘s Horses Are Unstoppable Killing Machines

Battlefield 1‘s grand maps are full of deadly tanks, poison gas, bayonets and bombs but there is one threat more dangerous than anything other: horses. These equine bastards cannot be reasoned with. They will find you. They will kill you. I already looked at some of the most badass players in the Battlefield 1 beta,…

How To Get Into Trails, One Of The Best RPG Series Out There

So you’ve listened to Kotaku Splitscreen and are wondering just what the hell this “Trails” thing is and why you should care. Fear not. We’re here to help. For years now I’ve been preaching about the Trails series to anyone who will listen, mostly because it comprises some of the best modern JRPGs you can…

Up 1-0 with a fully stacked hand. Feels good, man. I’m finally getting into Gwent and, to no one’s surprise, I really like it. I do wish my AI opponents were more clever, however. If you play Gwent in The Witcher 3, what kind of deck do you play and where can I find an…

With Star Wars: Clone Wars, Dolphin Emulator Finally Boots All GameCube Games

Until recently, the folks behind the popular Dolphin GameCube and Wii emulator software have been able to run every GameCube game in the official Nintendo library save one: Star Wars: Clone Wars. Now it finally works. The Dolphin team has been tirelessly working to make the perfect GameCube emulator for years, rewriting and tweaking the…

New Game From Peter Molyneux’s Studio Pops Up On iTunes

The Trail, a game in development at Peter Molyneux’s embattled game studio 22Cans for years, now has a page on the iTunes store The game appears to be a third-person adventure in which you walk along a massive trail, collect items, travel through various landscapes, craft, and trade. There’s also mention of town-building functionality, which…

Echo was a standout at the PAX Indie Megabooth last weekend. The concept is very cool: You have to infiltrate and explore a futuristic techno-palace. Every so often, the whole place reboots and goes dark. With each reboot, your past playthroughs “echo” as AIs that try to take you down using whatever tactics you used…

Five Anime That Are Better The Second Time Around

Anime is like chocolate: often, easily consumable with a machine-stamped taste and shape; less often, a rich, subtle experience you can’t quite understand after just one bite. The former type of anime, sugar-sweet with fan service, is its own art form. But its obvious character tropes and riffs on past blockbusters can strike too hard,…

Hitting World Of Warcraft: Legion’s Level Cap Is Only The Beginning

Hitting World of Warcraft: Legion’s 110 level cap isn’t the end of the game. In fact, it’s when the expansion really starts picking up speed, dropping an overwhelming amount of activities on the player all at once. The initial series of quest that take players through four of the expansions new zones, searching for powerful…

Two Surprisingly Good Hours With Final Fantasy XV

You’ve gotta wonder how much it cost to make Noctis’s hair. I mean, look at it. It’s a tangled black crown of spikes that sometimes seems to have a will of its own, its strands flowing like octopus tentacles every time Noctis moves. How many animators did Square Enix hire just for those sweet locks?…

Becoming A Raider In Fallout 4: Nuka World Really Pisses Preston Garvey Off

Preston Garvey is famed for sending players on endless settlement liberation quests. Often, these settlements will be threatened by raiders. Incidentally, the latest Fallout 4 DLC lets you become a raider. You see where this is going, yes? The first thing that popped into my mind when I started the new DLC was, “what would…

Pokémon Go Glitches, Turned Into Nightmare Fusions

Sometimes, Pokémon Go borks everything up and displays different monsters merging with one another. One artist is using these glitches as inspiration for completely new (and often disturbing) creations. @BrachyZoid’s Twitter feed has, for the last few weeks, been re-imagining screenshots sent by Pokémon Go fans. Originally the screenshots were just bugs, but BrachyZoid transformed…

The Final Station Never Quite Reaches Its Destination

Perhaps fittingly for a game littered with half-eaten human corpses, The Final Station is a game full of half-finished ideas. A 2D shooter/survival horror experience, The Final Station has you play a train driver on a journey from “regular working day” to “zombie ghost monster apocalypse”. Set in a sci-fi world whose history is hinted…

Hitman Episode 5, “Freedom Fighters,” will be released on September 27th The episode takes place in Colorado and features four targets.

Biker Mice From Mars Gets An Advance Wars Style Prequel

Classic ‘90s cartoon Biker Mice From Mars follows a trio of alien rodents attempting to save the Earth from the evil army that destroyed their home planet. Mobile strategy game Biker Mice: Mars Attacks tells the story of the Plutarkian war on Mars. Weird. Well, not so weird considering that Biker Mice From Mars has…

After a delay, Batman: Return to Arkham will be out on October 18, publisher Warner Bros. announced today. It’s a bundle containing remastered versions of Arkham Asylum and Arkham City—as well as all the DLC—and it’ll hit PS4 and Xbox One.

Nintendo Took Down No Mario’s Sky Fan Game, So Creators Renamed It DMCA’s Sky

Last week, Kotaku reported on No Mario’s Sky, a procedural game where you could make the plumber leap in a spaceship and explore different worlds. Two days ago, the team received a copyright takedown notice. Undeterred, they rebranded their game and pressed forward. After the team received the takedown notice from Nintendo, the project was…