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League of Geeks’ Armello isn’t just for furry animals anymore. The Dragon Clan expansion adds four scaly playable heroes to the fantasy board/card game, along with a fresh story and new quests. The $10 expansion is out today for Steam, with the Switch, PS4, and Xbox One version coming with the game’s 2.0 update in 2020. 

Overwatch Comes To Switch Next Month

One of tonight’s Nintendo Direct announcements has leaked early: Blizzard’s popular hero shooter Overwatch is coming to the Switch. It’ll be out next month. Word on this one comes from a couple of retail leaks, and we’ve confirmed its veracity with two of our own sources. Last month, Amazon accidentally spilled the beans on an…

Playing World Of Warcraft For The First Time Ever Is Wonderful

World of Warcraft Classic is allowing tons of dedicated and longtime fans to relive the early days of their favorite game. For someone like me who never had any experience with World of Warcraft, it’s a different sort of time capsule. It’s strange to be a total newbie to one of the biggest games in history,…

CD Projekt Red has announced that, yes, Cyberpunk 2077 is getting multiplayer. The game will launch with single-player next April. After DLC is released, the multiplayer will be rolled out.

Apex Legends’ New Event Turns Everyone Into Glass Cannons

Apex Legends got a big update today, called “Voidwalker” due to its focus on resident goth character Wraith. It adds updated challenges, limited edition items, changes to the map, and a limited-time mode featuring powerful weapons and minimal armor. Much like the previous Apex Legends event, which let playersplay solo, the biggest draw of Voidwalker…

Carole & Tuesday Is A Must-Watch Anime With The Catchiest Music

Early on in Carole & Tuesday, runaway rich girl Tuesday and orphan Carole drag bloated bags of laundry to a laundromat on a terraformed Mars. Inside, watching the machines spin, the broke aspiring musicians begin tapping on the ground and drumming on their plastic stools. Round and round, the dancing laundry / Let’s lose our…

Pokémon Masters received its first big event today. “Reach for the Top” gives players the opportunity to team up with Blue and his Pidgeot in a handful of new story chapters while also making the original Pokémon rival more likely to drop in the random trainer pull. Good luck!

We (Tim Rogers & Jason Schreier) are playing Final Fantasy VIII Remastered on the Nintendo Switch over on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. In direct contrast to our glacial Chrono Trigger playthrough, we’re starting in medias res and playing super-fast. Come on over and hang out.

Following in the footsteps of other fighting game devs, SNK recently announced an official competition for both Samurai Shodown and King of Fighters XIV The SNK World Championship is scheduled for March 2020, and the entire shebang will feature a prize pool of over 10 million yen, or around $95,000.

We have once again updated our story about the Genesis Mini’s inclusion of a fan-made port of the game Darius. Although Sega told Kotaku at the time that the Mini’s version was unrelated to the fan version and that developer M2 did the port, it has since revealed that it is based on the fan’s…

New Nintendo Direct tomorrow! Nintendo’s latest showcase is happening tomorrow at 6PM Eastern time, featuring over 40 minutes of information on 2019 Switch games including Pokémon Sword and Shield and Luigi’s Mansion 3. 

Announced today and coming in 2020 to iOS and Android, Lego Star Wars Battles is an action-strategy game that has players build decks of light or dark side characters and vehicles from across all nine movies in the Skywalker Saga, pitting them against other players in online battles. Why Lego? Why not?

Don’t give up on Transformers’ planet eater just yet. Originally slated to end on August 31, Hasbro has extended the deadline for its $4.6 million Unicron crowdfunding campaign to October 6. Where’s the fun in crowdfunding if a project can’t fail?

The latest Pokémon TV anime is called Pocket Monster The show’s title font resembles the font from the original 1997 show. As with the recent movies, this Pokémon TV anime looks like a reboot of sorts. 

Samurai Gourmet Is The Best Food Show On Netflix

Lately I’ve been watching a bit too much TV, which has led to the seemingly impossible problem of running out of TV to watch. Between all the different streaming services, there’s no dearth of stuff I haven’t seen before, but sometimes I just want something familiar. I know this is hard to believe, but there’s…

PlayStation 3 servers for Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and The Last of Us will be disabled tomorrow. Most players have long since moved on to the PS4, but if you’re eager to enjoy some fun multiplayer modes consider logging in today for one last time.

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered Is The Best Way Ever To Play Final Fantasy VIII

After years of its suspicious absence from Square Enix’s unstoppable barrage of ports and re-releases, Final Fantasy VIII has emerged remastered for all consoles (and PC). This is the best version of the game that has ever existed. Watch me play it for 47 minutes, while discussing 20 years’ worth of crystallized thoughts about the…

Reigns,a very good video game, has now been turned into a board game. You can check out the Kickstarter here

18 Years Later, We’ve Got The Perfect Halo Action Figure

There have been a lot of Halo figures over the years, but this new one by 1000toys is easily my favourite. Based on Master Chief’s original Halo 1 design, but also tweaked by Japanese mech designer Izmojuki, it’s 1/12 scale and costs….USD$125. That’s a lot for a figure, but then, it’s a very nice figure.…

I Love The Posters Found In Control

Control is a wonderful game. I can’t stop thinking about it and I can’t wait for the weekend to end so I can get back to playing it instead of working. But while many are talking about the incredible visuals or exciting action, I want to take a moment to showcase a small part of…