I Appreciate That Final Fantasy XV Lets Us Troll Its Ending

Final Fantasy XV’s ending is a trainwreck, so it’s fitting that the game lets us choose to make it even goofier. Spoilers for the ending of Final Fantasy XV follow. Really, I shouldn’t say ending. Like many a JRPG before it, Final Fantasy XV ends in waves, some of which are good, some of which…

Smash Bros. Players Infuriated Over Surprise Setting Tweak At Big Tournament

Although Super Smash Bros Melee closed out this weekend’s Genesis 4 with a bang, a cloud of controversy hangs over the tournament due to rule complications during the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U finals. The competitors most affected are looking for answers and, perhaps most surprisingly, compensation for the match errors they encountered. The…

A Year Later, Yandere Simulator‘s Dev Says Twitch Still Hasn’t Explained Ban

The developer of Yandere Simulator, a game about a sociopathic high school girl who murders her classmates, is demanding answers from Twitch, which banned the game exactly one year ago. Today, he posted a YouTube video describing his year of begging Twitch for a reason, which he says has led to nothing. Still in development,…

What Games Are You Playing To Cope With Stress?

You know what sucks? Everything. This weekend, instead of engaging with the world, I crawled under the covers like an enormous baby and played some puzzle games on my phone. Being politically engaged and reading the news is pretty important, but it’s just as important to recognize that sometimes you need a break. After Friday,…

PS4 Fans Are Baffled As To Why Sony Is Promoting Crappy-Looking Games

Earlier this month, the official PlayStation YouTube account uploaded a trailer for a game called “Life of Black Tiger.” The mature adventure game, which appears to be a port of a free mobile title, looks like crap—but it has sparked a discussion over the quality of games that players expect to see on consoles. Now,…

Well, That’s Settled

It’s pretty common for some people to ask for less politics in games. Turns out, that’s not really possible, even if you’re just here to kill some zombies. This tweet from Naughty Dog creative director and The Last of Us Part II writer Neil Druckmann reaches the heart of the matter. It was in reply…

Miitopia Is Nintendo’s Wonderfully Strange Take On JRPGs

Think Tomodachi Life meets JRPG. That’s Miitopia, for you. Released last December, Miitopia is a very Nintendo spin on the role-playing genre. There are traditional RPG classes like Knight and Mage, but untraditional ones like Flower and, well, Pop Idol. As with Tomodachi Life, you create Miis and set their personalities. You then go on…

The Dragon Ball Anime Might Have Its First Super Saiyan Woman 

A teaser for the upcoming episode of Dragon Ball Super shows off what certainly looks to be a female version of the character Broly. This might be the first Super Saiyan woman in any Dragon Ball anime or manga. Broly, of course, is a male Super Saiyan. Check out the upcoming episode’s transformation scene below.…

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Sean Spicer Is A Fan Of Cosplay Conventions

Katsucon, one of the biggest anime and cosplay conventions in the United States, has a surprise fan and former attendee (at least outside the resort): embattled White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Given his recent rise to infamy, folks have been digging through Spicer’s old tweets, and found these from 2013 (if you’re wondering about…

Counter-Strike Pro Wins Epic Shootout Against The Entire Enemy Team 

Team Liquid should have lost to Team EnVyUs well before the game’s eventual ending scoreline of 25-21. But Josh “jdm64″ Marzano had other plans, including mowing down the entire enemy team as the last man standing After watching his teammate get shredded right in front of him, jdm64 managed to get payback for his fallen…

Artist Making His Own Awesome Overwatch Statues

Blizzard is doing a terrible job at getting us official Overwatch figures and statues. Until they sort that out, there are artists like Mankej doing good work in their stead. He’s made a few statues of Overwatch characters himself, and has recorded progress builds on his YouTube site (he also streams on Twitch) so you…

80s Gaming Nightmare Returns To Haunt Us All

There were a lot of frustrations to be had in old Sierra adventure games, but one of the worst was the way the games always made you traverse treacherous stairs, with one wrong keypress killing you instantly. So, yeah, here’s a game just about that. It’s called Stair Quest, and it’s a painstaking recreation of…

Don’t Have Kids

So for the last two weeks, my PlayStation 4 hasn’t been working. To be more precise, it was refusing to play discs. Everything else was fine: downloaded games worked, apps worked. But the PS4 wouldn’t read any disc at all. Most of my games are on the hard drive, but there were a couple of…

The Week In Games: Show Biz Yakuza

Some games just wanna have fun. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this. Yakuza 0 is a prequel to the rest of the series, so theoretically it should make more sense for those of us hopping on the bandwagon so late in the game, except probably not. Remember that time the Yakuza…

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: A Bush And His Poncho 

January 21, 2017 was a historic day. The United States swore in its 45th President. Also, George W. Bush played peekaboo with a plastic poncho. It was rainy on Friday at the nation’s Capitol, but the country’s 43rd President had come prepared. It was a bold fashion statement that verged on performance art. Bush didn’t…