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What It’s Like To Review A Video Game Console That Hasn’t Even Been Announced

Yesterday, reporter Laura Kate Dale posted a review and video of the PlayStation 4 Slim. Problem: the console isn’t out yet, nor has Sony announced it at all. This is not the first time an apparent PS4 Slim has been seen in the wild. Earlier this month, one appeared on UK auction site Gumtree. It…

42 Minutes Of The Turing Test, The New Portal-Style Puzzle Game

Like first-person games that challenge you to solve puzzles in room after room? The Turing Test is one of those. We livestreamed it on Facebook today, and you can watch the archive here. It starts with a cleverly-built puzzle that’s not too tough, but then we hit one that stumps us badly. The Turing Test…

Happy 9th birthday, Hatsune Miku! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

World Of Warcraft: Legion‘s Order Halls Are A Good Reason To Play All The Classes

The Druids. Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing. In World of Warcraft: Legion what they’re doing is spending a lot of time in their lush and vibrant Order Hall, the latest expansion’s answer to one of Warlords of Draenor’s more contentious features. I loved Warlords of Draenor’s Garrison feature, which gave…

A Newcomer’s Take On The Witcher 3

As we’ve established, many on our staff adore The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. We’ve written tons of articles about the game, and several of us have played it all the way through more than once. Our EIC Stephen Totilo, however, is still only a little ways into his first playthrough. In the video above, he…

Nine Players Who Kicked Ass In Battlefield 1’s Beta

Battlefield 1’s beta is in progress on Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Players are showing off some amazing snipes, clutch artillery shots, and outright unbelievable engagements. Here are nine players pulling of some of my favorite moments so far. The Most Cinematic Sniper I’ve Ever Seen Like something out of a sweeping war movie,…

A Year Later, One Mario Maker Player Is Still Trying To Make The Hardest Level Ever

Francis Travers spent has spent over 650 hours creating, and then trying to beat, a single level in Mario Maker. Travers’ ambition is to create the most challenging Mario level ever, even if it means spending 2016 trying to best a creation that may actually be impossible. Perhaps this story sounds familiar. Immediately after it…

Come On Buddy, You Can Do It

You can stand on the bridge. I believe in you!

EpiPen Tycoon Pokes Fun At The Dark Reality of Pharmaceutical Controversies 

There are only three controls in EpiPen Tycoon. You can increase the price of an EpiPen by $5, reduce it by $5, or, in the rare occasions that the public gets too mad at you, deploy a few outrage-deflating special bonuses. The goal is simple: you, Heather Bresch, are the CEO of Mylan. You want…

Furthering its commitment to working with the community to make a better game, Ubisoft announced today that a public test server for The Division will soon launch on PC.

Four Sided Fantasy Cleverly Changes How Sidescrollers Work

Four Sided Fantasy as a puzzle game by Ludo Land all about redefining boundaries. It is out now on the Playsation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Giving the player the ability to lock the screen in place, they can wrap around, fall upwards, and change what it means for a screen to end. Join…

The Highs And Lows Of VR Gaming, Five Months In

It remains frustratingly difficult to convey what is good or interesting about new VR games, especially to anyone who hasn’t already played games while wearing virtual reality goggles. New VR games come out weekly, many of them not so great. Sometimes, though, we find a game with a spark of promise we need to tell…

Filming for the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation has wrapped up, Crunchyroll reports. Will the Italy-shot Warner Brothers film do justice to one of the best anime of all time? We’ll find out next year. Previously, we reported that the film’s cast (unlike live-action Ghost in the Shell’s) is all-Japanese.

R.L. Stine Would Probably Love New Text Adventure The House Abandon

Choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps novels were so frustrating. Some fancy has me kicking open the locked door (it was locked for a reason) only for a thrashing beast to tear me down. Flip back to page 37. But the relief of finding the truest route was worth every false start. Today, I played a classically-styled horror text-adventure…

EVE Online Goes Free-To-Play In November 

After more than a decade spent slowly building a tight-knit community of paying customers, science fiction MMO EVE Online is ready to open the free-to-play floodgates. With the introduction of Clone States in November’s big update, everybody can play EVE Online for free. Unlike other massively multiplayer online games that launch to an explosion of…

Blizzard, Why Didn’t You Make Roverwatch?

I mean, I like Overwatch. But this seems like an improvement. Because it’s the same game, just…with cute dogs. Actually, if we’re gonna do this, make it the same game, with everyone except Mercy and Soldier 76 as cute dogs. These are the work of former Naughty Dog artist Lily Nishita. I cannot stop laughing…

World Of Warcraft: Legion Realizes The Dream Of Widescreen Loading Graphics

After years of clinging desperately to the squarish 4:3 aspect ratio, Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team finally let go, diving deep into glorious, modern monitor filling 16:9 for all of Legion’s loading screens. It’s a bit jarring, really. As of the previous expansion pack, 2014’s Warlords of Draenor, the only time a widescreen image was…

There’s A Marvel Tsum Tsum Game Out Now

I’ve been having trouble understanding the world’s fascination with tiny Disney character heads, but now that there’s a game featuring tiny Marvel character heads, it’s a little less trouble. Marvel Tsum Tsum is now out on Android and iOS in North America. They’re not technically decapitated heads. They’ve got feet. If anything, Disney’s removed the…

Konami Has No Plans To Finish MGSV The Phantom Pain‘s Mission 51

One of Metal Gear Solid V’s most important plot points, Mission 51, ended up on the cutting room floor. Today, Konami said it does not plan to finish this mission. As Kotaku reported last year, footage of a deleted mission, made up of concept art, narration, and half-finished cut-scenes, appeared in the game’s previously released…

How Western Animation Has Changed

In the past, Kotaku has shown how Japanese animation has changed (here and here). But we haven’t really had a look at how Western animation designs have evolved over the years. So let’s do that. A while ago, animator Harry Partridgedrew this wonderful and fascinating comparison. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look:…