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Gravity Falls‘ “Summerween” Is An Excellent, Spooky Adventure

Lately, I’ve become enamored with cultural experiences associated with Summer—namely, the spookiness of ghost stories and myths, where wild imaginations help whittle away the hot days. Re-watching Gravity Falls fuels my interest, and its “Summerween” episode is a perfect nightmare—with a twist. It’s difficult to talk about a single episode of Gravity Falls being a…

Helllooo, Kotaku!

My name’s Narelle, and I’ve crawled my way from the Upside Down known as TAY to be your Guest Weekend Editor. Wait…is TAY the Upside Down, or is it the other way around…? Puzzling life questions aside, I’m a freelance writer, and an admin over on Kotaku’s wonderful Reader-run community blog, TAY. You may already…

UFC 202 Isn’t Conor McGregor’s Show, It’s Nate Diaz’s

This weekend at UFC 202, Conor McGregor takes on Nate Diaz in a rematch of their first slobberknocker, which McGregor lost in dramatic fashion even though Diaz took the fight on extremely short notice. Last time, the lead-up was all McGregor. This time around, it couldn’t be any more different. This fight is a strange…

The New Sandcastle Pokémon Is Terrifying

It is 2016 and official Pokémon art now depicts Pikachu DYING. What a time to be alive (or not, in this case!) We’d already heard that Pokémon Sun and Moon would include a haunted sandcastle Pokémon, but today The Pokémon Company unveiled footage showing the critter in action: The official Pokémon website also updated with…

Game Freak’s Latest Non-Pokémon Joint Is This Odd Early Access Puzzle Platformer 

Releasedyesterday via Steam’s Early Access program, Giga Wrecker is a messy little puzzle platforming game with messy dialogue, questionable physics and some strange design decisions. Other than all that, it shows promise. Every once in a while the folks at Game Freak, known primarily for those pocket monsters, likes to flex its creative muscle and…

After Yesterday’s Overwatch Video, People Hate Bastion A Little Less

Yesterday, Blizzard released a cinematic video about Overwatch’s Bastion, a killer robot built for the specific purpose of annoying everyone to death. It told the heartfelt story of a budding bird/bot relationship. And also PTSD. Bastion isn’t exactly Overwatch’s most popular character. In the game’s early days, especially, he was the bane of everyone’s existence,…

The No Man’s Sky Player Who Still Hasn’t Left His First Planet 

The planets in No Man’s Sky are so vast, that one player has spent 30 hours adventuring on his starter planet. It’s amazing. Meet Kahbaatangs: Discovered by 27-year-old gamer Jorgen Fernandez, Kahbaatangs is a mostly barren desert with a 24 hour rain cycle. “The worst thing about my planet was the lifelessness and lack of…

Here Are Some Things You Can Do In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The newest Deus Ex game, Mankind Divided, comes out next week. It tells the gripping tale of a man with robot arms and his quest to steal alcohol from every apartment in Prague. I’ve completed Mankind Divided’s story (took me about 26 hours on the middle difficulty), as well as a bunch of the included…

The Super Smash Sisters Are Encouraging Badass Women To Compete At Smash

Toeing the line between camaraderie and fierce competition is near-impossible, especially in fighting games communities, but the Super Smash Sisters have mastered it, with bite. Smash Sisters isn’t a club as much as an ongoing event, a series of Super Smash Brothers Melee and Smash 4 crew battles across the country. The goal is to…

Overwatch’s McCree Says ‘I’m Your Huckleberry’ Wrong And It’s Killing Me [Update]

In the popular cosplay game Overwatch, one of the characters is a robot cowboy named McCree. He has a cowboy hat and a cowboy six-shooter. He’s pretty good at being a cowboy. Yet he does not seem overly familiar with the best cowboy cinema. One of McCree’s most popular voice lines is “I’m your Huckleberry.”…

No Man’s Sky Proves Games Don’t Have To Be About Winning

What does it take to be a game? Win states? Rules? The questions pop up again and again. And as expectations for games grow, we try to answer these questions with increasing confidence. Are games just code, or are they something more poetic? Titles like No Man’s Sky or Abzu offer richly realized spaces to…

Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Certainly Keeps A Girl Busy

This is me, 43-year-old bearded man Mike Fahey, taking a short break from being a fashion boutique manager, hair stylist, makeup artist, clothing designer and interior decorator in Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. I can’t imagine how I found the time. The third installment of Nintendo’s Style Savvy franchise has arrived, transporting us to a magical…

Oh, If Only Mega Man Still Looked This Good

Poor Mega Man. Forgotten by Capcom, even his spiritual successor is terrible. But people out there still love the little guy, and one of those people is artist Steven Zapata, who has worked for companies like DC, Universal and Google. Attempting a bit of “self therapy after the lukewarm arrival of Mighty No.9″, he decided…

The fate of a kingdom lies in your hands in Reigns, a hilarious game where you will swipe left or right to make decisions (just like Tinder!). Watch me play it in this video, or read more about it here.

What A Gaming Laptop Decked Out With Two Desktop GPUs Can Do

Nvidia recently gifted laptop gamers with fully functional GeForce 10 series GPUs. Our coverage of the launch and details on Nvidia’s new mobile lineup can be found here, but for those who missed the announcement the big news is that Pascal brings GPUs with near exact specifications to laptops as their desktop counterparts. This is…

Parthenon in Centennial Park. Nashville, TN. By Evan Zenobia 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!

Akinfenwa dancing? Vardy telling a ref to fuck off? Wenger despairing? This is a very good FIFA 17 trailer. Very realistic.

Cities Skylines, It’s Time To Burn

Cities Skylines is an amazing city building game, but destroying them? That’s a SimCity thing. Or it was, until the announcement of Skylines’ Natural Disasters expansion. Cute trailer. In terms of what it brings to the game, turns out there’s more to it than just watching your world burn. There’s a ton of stuff being…

Capy’s Below Delayed Until…The Future

Below, the next game from Capy (Sword & Sworcery, Super Time Force), was meant to be out this Summer! Now it’s not. Now it will be out…well, one day. Announcingthe delay on their site, they say “We told you BELOW would be out this summer. Our team worked hard to make that deadline a reality.…

Thanks To New Emotes, Overwatch Players Are Sitting Through Matches

In Overwatch, sitting and laughing are totally OP. Just like in real life. Yesterday’s new test patch didn’t just nerf Genji, make Gremlin D.Va canon, and stuff smelly socks down the throats of bad sports. It also added a ton of new sitting and laughing emotes. Here are all of them, courtesy of Seba: It’s…