Ten Games For Your Friends Who Don’t Play Games

It’s only natural to want to share your hobbies with people you love, but video games can sometimes have a barrier of entry based on skill. If you have friends who you’d like to play games with, but haven’t played any before, here’s a few good places to start. Quiplash Almost all the games in…

Russian News Accidentally Airs Video Game Clip During Segment On Syrian War

Russian state news network Pervi Kanal accidentally aired footage from military shooter Arma 3 during a segment about the Syrian War on Sunday. After the fact, Arma 3’s developers told Kotaku that although they’re happy that their “efforts to make authentic simulation gameplay [appear] pretty successful. . . this is definitely not a method we…

Halo: Reach Players Spent Seven Years Trying To Get Into A Cutscene Room

Halo: Reach’s ninth campaign level, The Package, has a cutscene where Noble Team goes through a destroyed science wing. This area only exists for the story—it never becomes playable, nor was it meant to be explored by real people. And so, a team of hardcore Halo fans sought to achieve the impossible: they wanted to…

Chrono Trigger Gets Surprise Release On PC

The best thing about today’s surprise announcement of Chrono Trigger on PC is that Square Enix hasn’t changed the graphics. This is a port of the mobile version, which didn’t get the sort of ugly remake that Final Fantasys V and VI received. UPDATE (2:44pm): Oh no The $15 purchase of 1995’s Chrono Trigger, widely…

PlayStation’s New VR Mouse Game Is the Best Pet Shop Visit Ever

As a kid I spent a lot of time at the local pet shop in front of the small animal cages. Hamsters and mice went about their business, ignoring my looming presence, but occasionally a pair of tiny feet would press against the glass, beady black eyes peering my way. PlayStation VR adventure Moss feels…

After Months Of Controversy, ESRB Will Add ‘In-Game Purchases’ Label To Games

As pressure from pundits and politicians mounts, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) said today that it will start adding the “In-Game Purchases” label to any game that lets you pay real money for digital goods. The label will apply to “bonus levels, skins, surprise items (such as item packs, loot boxes, mystery awards), music,…

The Short Life Of An Erotic Game Itasha

On February 24, Twitter user Kuronosu’s Suzuki Swift was minted with erotic game characters. Three days later, he drove it into a ditch. Characters for the adult computer game Riddle Joker were emblazoned on each side of Kuronosu’s Swift, turning the vehicle into an itasha (痛車 or “painmobile”), which refers to cars covered with anime…

YouTuber Potato Chips Go On Sale In Japan

Potato chips featuring the images of popular Japanese YouTubers, such as Hikakin (pictured), are going on sale later this month. In Japanese, the bag reads “Yuuchuubaa Chippusu” (ユーチューバーチップス). The chips are “lightly salted flavored.” The chips come with collectible YouTuber cards, and there are already inevitable YouTube clips. Of course, there are. Kotaku East is…

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Fired League Of Legends Coach: The Story I Told “Wasn’t Sexually Explicit,” But Could Be “Construed Or Interpreted As Sexual Harassment”

Three weeks after Golden State Warriors-owned League of Legends team Golden Guardians fired head coach Yoonsup “Locodoco” Choi, the former coach broke his silence. Choi, who was fired just four games into the team’s season, said tonight that his firing was a result of him telling a “personal story” which was not “sexually explicit,” but…

Widowmaker’s Figma Is Very Nice

Out at the end of the year, and running around USD$65, this is Good Smile’s Widowmaker Figma from Overwatch You can order it now. The figure includes her sniper rifle, venom mine, grappling hook and alternate “aiming” squinty face. Widowmaker joins Genji and Tracer as Figma’s third Overwatch figure. Mercy next, please.

Be Gone, Evil Spirits

Borislav Kechashki is a senior character artist at Ubisoft’s Sofia studio, where he’s worked on games like Assassin’s Creed Origins. You can see more of Borislav’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the…

Mod Adds Goku (And All His Powers) To Grand Theft Auto V

GTA mod team JulioNIB have just released this script for Goku that gives you access to all kinds of crazy powers as well, from flight to teleportation. Here’s a demonstration of the havoc you can wreak: Note that this mod covers the important under-the-hood and UI stuff; the actual model itself you have to grab…

A LEGO Version Of Star Wars Episode I: Racer

If nobody is going to muster the will/cash for a new video game version of Star Wars’ pod-racing, then we’re going to have to settle for this movable, interactive LEGO take on it instead. Alexis Dos Santos built this using MINDSTORMS, LEGO’s robotics tech. The surface of the race scrolls past the user on a…