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Daigo Immortalized With Statue (That You Can Buy)

Daigo Umehara is getting his own piece of fancy merch later in the year, when statue company Kinetiquettesreleases this piece commemorating the Street Fighter legend. Flanked by two of his favourite characters—Ryu and Evil Ryu—Daigo’s at the back, just chillin’, holding his arcade stick. The statue will stand around 18 inches tall when it’s done…

Axiom Verge is finally coming to Vita on April 19. If you already own the PlayStation 4 version of the Metroid-inspired action game, it’s free.

The Division‘s Endgame Is About To Get A Lot of New Stuff

There are some rad changes coming to Ubisoft’s online shooter very soon. As part of a livestream this afternoon—the archive is right here—the company revealed a bunch of changes coming to The Division’s endgame. First and foremost, there’s incursions, which seem similar to Destiny’s raids. These extremely difficult challenges can be played over and over…

Streaming Video Games All Day Is Harder Than You Might Think

It’s a little bit shocking that you can make real money playing video games all day. For a certain generation, this was the dream: being a “streamer,” one of the legion of men and women who live a joyful existence of being likable while playing games on camera. Against all odds, it’s an actual career…

High-Powered Cast of FFXV Movie Won’t Be In FFXV Game

Last night, Square Enix announced Kingsglaive, a splashy CGI movie connected to Final Fantasy XV which will feature big-deal Hollywood actors in major roles. But the talent best known for playing characters in Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad won’t be playing those parts in the actual game. In a tweet from earlier today, Square…

Ubisoft says they’ve identified the cause of The Division’s nasty backpack bug, and while they still haven’t patched it, they say a fix is their “top priority.” In the meantime they advise you “not to attach mods on items you are not using.”

VR Game At A Glance: Playing With My Alien Friends in Farlands

Have you ever wanted to visit an alien planet and make friends with some cute alien creatures? Farlands might be your jam. It’s a neat Oculus Rift exclusive that takes a little Pokémon Snap and a little Animal Crossing and puts it all in virtual reality. Here’s a clip of me playing some of the…

​The Ten Commandments Of PC Gaming

PC gaming is pretty much the best. You get the prettiest, cheapest, most flexible versions of almost every game, along with hundreds of games that aren’t available anywhere else. But despite all that, some of the people who make video games don’t treat PC gamers all that well. This piece originally appeared 12/12/14. We’vereturned to…

Square Enix says we shouldn’t expect a PC version of Final Fantasy XV anytime soon, according to an interview at Engadget. Once the console version is done, the developers will “take a good, hard look at PC and what we need to do, and consider all [their] options.”

Mod Fixes The Biggest Problem With Fallout 4‘s Robot DLC

For whatever reason, Fallout 4’s Automatron DLC did away with the ability to put a cute bowler hat on Codsworth. Thankfully, there is a mod that fixes that, and it also allows you to put other cutesy hats on your robo companions. Yay!

According to Twitter, Episode Two of Hitman, Sapienza, will be released April 26. You can see what we thought of Episode One here

Cursing Is Still Allowed In Nintendo’s Miitomo App

Today is the day that Miitomo launches in the United States and many other countries. When Nintendo’s first mobile release came out two weeks ago in Japan, you could get your Mii character to say curse words. As of right now, your Mii can still drop f-bombs to friends and family. After Miitomo went live…

It’s 2016 And Warframe Is Still An Excellent Free-To-Play Game

In the distant future of Warframe, you are a space ninja who has woken from a long slumber to find the solar system in disarray. Armed with a variety of exciting powers, you must fight an army of decaying clones, tech-minded science jerks, mutant freaks and other awesome enemies. The entire game is free to…

Fallout 4‘s Head-Exploding Rifle As A Rusty Replica

The talented folks over at Show and Tell Props made a real life version of Fallout 4‘s limb-destroying, unique gauss rifle, The Last Minute It’s an awesome-looking replica and with that scrap table in the background, it’s ready to get some mods too. Here’s some work in progress pics by Show and Tell Props and…

EVE Online Is Moving Towards Its Largest Conflict in History

After two years of relative peace, various recent events are dragging the players of online space MMO EVE Online towards another massive war. This time it’s between the game’s biggest coalition, The Imperium, against an alliance of smaller factions. A group of 40,000 players (basically a coalition of gaming guilds), calling themselves The Imperium (also…

That Time Sega Killed The Dreamcast

Some people have always lived in a world where Sonic the Hedgehog shows up on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms, but it wasn’t always that way. In January 2001, the company announced it would stop making its own hardware and go third-party. Yes, that actually happened. This story was originally posted on October 30, 2015.…

All This Week’s Big Final Fantasy XV News

Last night, Square Enix held its Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV event in Los Angeles. The big news was the game’s release date. Which leaked early. Heh. But that wasn’t all. Here’s a round-up of Kotaku’s coverage. Final Fantasy XV’s Release Date Final Fantasy Movie Coming This Year With Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad Actors Final…

The Final Fantasy XV Anime Compared with the Game

We’re talking looks here. Square Enix just began streaming a Final Fantasy XV anime, so let’s see how the anime stacks up to previously released game footage. A-1 Pictures is handling the animation, and while it obviously doesn’t look exactly the same (which, honestly, isn’t necessary because these are different mediums!), there are some interesting…

Final Fantasy XV’s Platinum Demo is now available to download for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.

Square Enix Slips A Free-To-Play Mobile Game Into FFXV

Justice Monsters Five is a pinball mini-game within Final Fantasy XV. It’s also a free-to-play game coming soon toiOS, Android and Windows devices. Players can pre-register on iOS or Android to earn free in-game currency. Great.