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You Can No Longer Catch Pokémon At Hiroshima’s Memorial Or The Holocaust Museum

After requests from Hiroshima officials, Niantic removed Pokémon, PokéStops and Pokémon Go gyms from Hiroshima Memorial Park before last weekend’s annual ceremony marking the city’s World War II bombing, the AP reports It is the 71st anniversary of the U.S. attack on Hiroshima, in which 140,000 were killed. Late July, in preparation for the city’s…

Want the true D.Va experience? Try playing Overwatch with flight sticks. That’s what streamer Rudeism did, with full face paint for good measure. There was a bit of an acclimation period, but he managed some strong plays before it was all said and done.

Kotaku Confessional!

It’s “senior week” at our parent company Gawker Media, a time to write what we really want to write, though that’s kind of what our sites have been doing for the past 14 years. What’s the occasion? Someone new is about to buy us, likely with a plan to infuse Kotaku’s budget with about a…

Blizzard Warns Players Not To Use Overwatch‘s Lucioball Character Glitch

Overwatch’s Lucioball mode is all fun and games until D.Va or Widowmaker shows up, and somebody loses an eye. Or a head. It’s a bizarre glitch, and Blizzard has some advice for people taking advantage of it: don’t. What began as something of a funny prank has turned into a game-breaking exploit. Some people have…

The first promo video for a 3DS game based on gag manga The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. launched today, Anime News Network reports. An anime rendition of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. began airing early July and follows a psychic high school student striving to lead a normal life. In the new video,…

The $20 million Dota 2 International tournament starts today in Seattle. For viewing info and a schedule, head over to the International website

Twitch Cracks Down On Cheating Pokémon Go Streamers

Twitch announced today that they’ll be cracking down on Pokémon Go streamers who rely on third-party cheats. Streamers who play the game aided by software that tracks Pokémon or spoofs their GPS location will “receive a strike on their account.” Three strikes results in a ban. Niantic defines cheating as “using modified or unofficial software;…

World Of Warcraft Expansions Revisited: Lich King It’s Cold Outside

Our trip through the first five World of Warcraft expansions on the way to Legion continues into Northrend, the frozen continent no one was paying attention to for the first four years of the game’s existence, but is actually a major threat to all existence. This piece originally appeared 8/6/16. InThe Burning Crusade the Dark…

Why ‘Day-One Patches’ Are So Common

This blog post, by game developer Rami Ismail, was originally published on his website. We’ve republished it here with his permission. No Man’s Sky didn’t send out review builds because the game wasn’t done. No Man’s Sky gets leaked by resellers breaking street date. Polygon, Kotaku, and numerous streamers obtain a copy before release date…

Late last month, game developer Manabu Daishima passed away while diving off the coast of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Daishima worked on an array of classic titles, doing monster designs for Romancing SaGa, field graphics for Chrono Trigger, and background design for Final Fantasy XII. He was 45 years old.

Particle, the same guys behind that neat wi-fi Lord of the Rings sword, have made a “cellular-connected Pokéball”. It’s a real world Pokéball that wiggles when it detects a nearby rare Pokémon in Pokémon Go

Look At This Amazing D&D Diorama

Suddenly a nice table and some beers just doesn’t seem good enough. This incredible tabletop setup was posted by Amazing Tabletop Terrain over the weekend. It belongs to (and was built by) Ryan Devoto, featuring the detailed and almost lifelike ocean work of Micheal Tiskus from Terranscapes The scale of it all just crushes the…

“Pay To Win” Protests Hit The Streets Of Black Desert Online

Korean MMO Black Desert Online—yes, the pretty one—recently made a change to the game’s economy. To say players are pissed would be to sell it a little short. The change, which lets players buy items using real money then turn around and sell them for in-game currency, has caused literal in-game protests. Like, characters marching…

Iran Becomes First Country To Ban Pokémon Go

Iran’s Supreme Council of Virtual Spaces, which is a real thing and not the dystopian government from a sci-fi TV show, has announced that Pokémon Go has been banned in the country. As the BBC reports, the ban is related to “unspecified security concerns”, and comes following a short deliberation where the Council “were waiting…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Mario And Sonic At The Real Olympic Games

With the real Olympic games going on, there’s no reason Mario and Sonic need to remain trapped inside their colorful fantasy land. Let’s send them to Rio, and hope they survive. What I’m looking for in this week’s contest, which might be my last for awhile, is Sonic and Mario characters inserted into real images…

Rocket League‘s Rumble Mode Brings The Goofy Power-Ups Next Month 

Giving players the ability to kick away other cars with giant boots or disrupt their driving ability are too silly for standard competitive Rocket League play, That’s serious business. Next month’s newly-announced Rumble mode looks to be anything but. Announced during the finale of the Rocket League Championship Series in Hollywood, California today, Rocket League…

AMD Radeon RX 470 Review: Almost The Next Best Thing

Looking to swipe some market share away from Nvidia before the arrival of its GeForce GTX 1060, AMD launched the Radeon RX 480 at the end of June. Codenamed Polaris 10, the company’s first fourth-generation GCN GPU appeared to have everyone rooting for it leading up to its release, and although we were largely satisfied…

A Bro In The Life Of A Steam Greenlight Developer

German independent developer Roman Uhlig recently had his excellent local multiplayer game 12 Orbits added to Steam Greenlight. He’s posted a lengthy, bro-packed conversation demonstrating the sort of attention such a move brings. 12 Orbits is a local multiplayer game for 2 to 12 players, currently available for free on iOS and Android. It’s good…

No Man’s Sky‘s Day-One Patch Will Make Some Huge Changes

If you’ve been playing or watching streams of No Man’s Sky over the past few days, you should know that things are about to get very different. Today on the No Man’s Sky website, director Sean Murray posted a list of the changes that will hit the game when the day-one patch goes live on…

What’s Up With World Of Warcraft‘s New Double-Jumping Fetish Elves

World of Warcraft’s second hero class goes live this week, and there’s a lot more to Illidan Stormrage’s elite Demon Hunters than meets the blindfold. Sometimes they can triple jump. Blizzard’s Demon Hunter developer preview will tell you all about them. The MMORPGs second hero class starts life at level 98 some ten years before…