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Dig The New Cloak, Link My Man

Teguh Rinaldi is a freelance artist from Indonesia You can see more of Teguh’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Grand Theft Auto V Is Getting A New Radio Station

Six years after its release, Rockstar is still fine-tuning Grand Theft Auto V’s radio lineup, with December 12 seeing the arrival of a new station hosted by Danny Brown called iFruit Radio. Artists featured include Travis Scott, Young Thug and Brown himself, while the highlights are probably: And: The station will be running on both…

Choose Your Own Adventure’s Owners Are Going After Some Indie Games

Chooseco, the company that owns the rights to the trademarked title Choose Your Own Adventure, has begun issuing takedown notices to indie games hosted on itch.io that have been using the term. While it’s understandable that folks could be thinking that Choose Your Own Adventure is more of a genre than a title, and/or that…

The First Epic Exclusives Are Now Arriving On Steam

In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death Stranding, Geoff Keighley touches down for the briefest of moments in December to host The Game Awards. Last year, this led to an announcement that was curious indeed: a store, from grumpy old mega-corporation…

All The Big Announcements From Nintendo’s Indie World

Today’s “Indie World” presentation from Nintendo was surprisingly packed full of big announcements, including sequels to indie Switch hits Axiom Verge and Golf Story. Here’s a rundown of the big stuff you missed if you weren’t watching along. Developer Tom Happ showed a short look at Axiom Verge 2, which  will be available in the…

Axiom Verge is getting a sequel. Axiom Verge 2 was just announced during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase, and is coming Fall of 2020. It looks….like Axiom Verge! Hooray!

Boyfriend Dungeon, a game where you can go on a date with a sword, is coming to Switch. I’ve been screaming about this game since it was announced, and I’m glad I’ll be able to play it under the covers where no one can see how much I’m blushing.

Bonkers New Indie Game Lets You Mash Up Different Genres

Supermash is a game about mashing up video game genres, and it’s coming to the Switch in May 2020. I’m psyched y’all. I know I’ve had daydreams about gameplay mechanic crossovers I’d love to see. Just a second ago, Kotaku managing editor Maddy Myers and I were talking about how dope it would be if…

Sports Story Is Golf Story Except With Lots More Sports

Just announced during Nintendo’s Indie World showcase this morning, Sports Story is a sequel to Golf Story, the 2017 golf RPG that was a breakout indie hit on Switch. It’s coming in mid-2020 and will launch exclusively on Switch. Not only are we talking about more sports, we’re talking about a mashup of every sport.…

Jeopardy Puts Up Pokémon Category That’s Somehow Even Easier Than Pokémon Games

Last night, trivia game show Jeopardy had a Pokémon category. It was almost embarrassingly easy and lowkey I’m kinda pissed about it. I’m not talking easy for Pokémon fans—these questions were so easy that I think my mom could have answered them, and my mom can barely use a computer. In fact, I just called…

Hades is out today on Steam in Early Access. I’m checking it out live on our Twitch channel. Come join me in the chat!

Everything Sony Announced At Today’s State of Play

Here’s everything Sony announced during today’s State of Play. A Resident Evil 3 remake will come to PlayStation 4 on April 3, 2020, along with Project Resistance, an online survival game with its own campaign mode. The Kingdom Hearts III DLC expansion is coming with new characters and battles on January 23, 2020. Untitled Goose…

Resident Evil 3 Remake Announced, Out In April

Nemesis returns to terrorize Resident Evil fans all over again. During this morning’s PlayStation State of Play presentation, Capcom confirmed the rumored Resident Evil 3 remake is coming to PlayStation 4 on April 20, bundled together with the four-versus-one Resident Evil Resistance multiplayer game. The remake was introduced during the presentation as the unannounced single-player…

Track: Blind Leading the Blind | Artist: Mumford & Sons | Album: Sigh No More

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A Frosty Encounter

Damian Żukowski is an artist at Bloober Team, the Polish studio behind games like the new Blair Witch You can see more of Damian’s stuff athis ArtStation page

Scammers Are Impersonating Popular Twitch Streamers

Anybody can make an account on Twitch. It’s a quick, simple process that takes only a few minutes. You (a super villain, in this hypothetical scenario) might be wondering what’s to stop somebody from naming an account after a popular streamer and, say, scamming a bunch of people. Not much, it turns out. Over the…

Oh Hell Yeah Vanquish Is Getting Remastered (And Bayonetta Too)

Sega will next year be remastering two of PlatinumGames’ best releases—Bayonetta and Vanquish—and bringing them to the PS4 and Xbox One. Bayonetta, cool, we all know Bayonetta, but fuck yeah Vanquish is back! The cult classic shooter kinda split opinions at release in 2010, but as its 2017 release on PC showed, its slippy-slidey gunplay,…

I’ll Pass On These $1140 League Of Legends Sneakers, Thanks

League of Legends has a fashion collab with Louis Vuitton that’s now out and available to purchase. If you’ve ever wanted to spend over $600 on a video game T-shirt, now’s your chance. There’s a line of mostly women’s focused apparel and a pair of sneakers available, and as you’d expect with such a gaudy…

Destiny Player Earns Every Title In The Game (And It Only Took 1,200 Hours)

One Destiny 2 player has collected every Guardian title that currently exists in the game. It took him over 1,000 hours to pull off, yet, he tells Kotaku, he doesn’t regret it. Titles in Destiny 2 are special achievements that players earn by completing various tasks, some very grindy and others incredibly hard. They range…