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Pokémon Sun And Moon Leak May Reveal Starters’ Evolutions [UPDATE]

Earlier this year, a leak appeared online alleging to contain some new, unconfirmed information about Pokémon Sun and Moon. There was even some concept art floating around. At the time, it seemed like bunk. But with yesterday’s big reveal, it seems more likely that the leak was true all along. As PokeJungle reported early in…

Watch Us Dungeon Dive in Brutal, An Upcoming Roguelike

I have fond memories of hack and slash RPG adventures like Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and while I love Diablo 3, variety is the spice of life! Enter Brutal (self stylized as Brut@l), a roguelike dungeon crawler by Stormcloud Games coming to the Playstation 4 on August 9th. With a great marriage of ASCII influenced…

Years After Raising $660,000, Playdek Keeps Breaking Promises To Unsung Story Backers

In early 2014, the company Playdek crowdfunded over $660,000 to make a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics alongside its creator, Yasumi Matsuno. Two and a half years later, they just can’t seem to stop breaking promises. Most Kickstarter backers—myself included—have long given up on ever seeing Playdek’s game, aptly titled Unsung Story. But it’s…

Banned Overwatch Players Are Not Reacting Well

Overwatch cheaters yesterday were squashed under Blizzard’s ban hammer. Predictably, they are whining on cheating forums about it. In the second banwave Blizzard has sent against Overwatch cheaters, players who use bots to boost play were removed from the game. By early June, just a few weeks after the game’s release, thousands of players had…

Legendary Articuno ‘Appears’ In Ohio, Tears Pokémon Go Community Apart [UPDATES]

UPDATE 8/3 2:14 PM: Niantic has now taken away the legendaries these Pokémon Go players. Original story below: Legendaries are supposed to be the rarest, most unique monsters available in Pokémon Go; the sorts of creatures you would expect to only show up during special events announced by Niantic. And yet, a couple has unbelievably…

Hitman’s next Elusive Target arrives August 5 and will be available for 72 hours. Players have to assassinate a target and retrieve an item.

Telltale’s Batman Series Starts Well, But Doesn’t Shock Yet

The first episode of Telltale’s new Batman series challenges players to see how far they’ll push the Dark Knight. The quality of this new series will be determined by how Telltale themselves can push Batman. The series’ two-hour debut, out today for PC, PS4 and Xbox One and following on more platforms “soon,” focuses on…

Size Comparison: Xbox One S Vs. Xbox One Vs PS4

The $400 2TB version of Microsoft’s new, slimmer Xbox One S is out today, but just how slim is it? Through the power of video, we have compared it to the original Xbox One, a PS4 and Quimby the cat. Remember, this new Xbox One S is pretty much even in power with the original…

Many Robots Die In The First Episode Of Transformers: Combiner Wars 

When calculating robot body count, do combiners count as one or five? Either way, a ton of sentient machinery is decommissioned in the first episode of Machinima and Hasbro’s Transformers: Combiner Wars. Death is not a spoiler in the adult-aimed series, having pretty much been part of the push from the beginning. The first episode…

Niantic Explains Pokémon Go Changes

With players turning on Pokémon Go, Niantic just put out a statement explaining why certain changes were made. As Kotaku reported yesterday, much of the controversy has been over the three-step “Nearby” feature. Niantic addresses that in today’s statement, which can be read in full below: Trainers, As many of you know, we recently made…

This is KenJu, an unreleased arcade game from 2005 that had been thought lost. Until collector ShouTime got his hands on it You can read more about KenJu’s brief, early historyat Arcade Heroes

Today, Overwatch cheaters were squashed under Blizzard’s ban hammer. Players who use a “triggerbot,” which shoots for players when their cross-hairs are over an enemy, or an “aimbot,” which aids accuracy, appear to have been banned en masse. “Justice rains from above,” quoth the hero Pharah.

All The New World Of Warcraft: Legion Stuff

As Kotaku’s resident non-Final Fantasy MMO player, I pretty much have to play through World of Warcraft’s upcoming Legion expansion. You have a choice. Blizzard’s dropped a video covering all the major new places and things meant to help you make that choice come August 30. Ten more levels, a new class with only 12…

How The Controversial Steam Key Marketplace G2A Got So Big

There’s a few reasons you might have heard of G2A, one of the Internet’s most popular spots to sell an extra Steam key. One, it’s been the subject of intense criticism for not doing enough about fraud. Two, you can’t watch a YouTube video or a Twitch stream without running into someone who’s taking money…

Horror fans will have wait a little longer for Outlast 2, as the developer’s announced the game has been delayed into early next year. Given how good the original game was, though, I’m happy for them to take their time.

How Final Fantasy X‘s Infamous Laughing Scene Happened

You know that part in Final Fantasy X where Tidus tries to force himself to laugh in an attempt to cheer up Yuna? You know how it’s become sort of a running joke in video game localization? Turns out it came from an acting class. Over at USGamer, Bob Mackey has a fun series of…

Death Road To Canada Makes Driving And Zombies Fun

When games let me roll a character before I start, I always make someone who seems cool, rather than min-maxing stats. In Death Road to Canada, I wanted someone who’d be fun to hang around with in a zombie apocalypse, rather than a simple zombie-clobbering machine. Given this, it’s probably no surprise most of my…

Even Pokémon Go’s Biggest Fans Are Turning Against It Right Now [Update]

In the course of a few weeks, Pokémon Go has gone from a mega hit, to a broken game even its most ardent fans cannot defend. This shift in the community is due to mostly one thing: a lack of communication from Niantic. It’s been like this since the beginning, really. When Pokémon Go originally…

Lucasfilm Gently Removes The Star Wars From Popular Battlefront Fan Project

Mod team turned development studio Frontwire Games been making a lot of noise over its free fan recreation of the cancelled Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Turns out Lucasfilm is fine with them making the game, as long as there’s no Star Wars in it. Back in June, Frontwire announced its fan-crafted version of the cancelled…