Here Are Some Things You Can Do In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

The newest Deus Ex game, Mankind Divided, comes out next week. It tells the gripping tale of a man with robot arms and his quest to steal alcohol from every apartment in Prague. I’ve completed Mankind Divided’s story (took me about 26 hours on the middle difficulty), as well as a bunch of the included…

Metroid Prime: Federation Force: The Kotaku Review

Despite abundant expectations that it would be bad, Nintendo’s new Metroid spin-off turns out to be very good. Metroid Prime Federation Force, which runs on the 3DS, is the first game with the M-word in its title since 2010. It is barely a Metroid game, something series fans sniffed out the moment it was first…

No Man’s Sky Proves Games Don’t Have To Be About Winning

What does it take to be a game? Win states? Rules? The questions pop up again and again. And as expectations for games grow, we try to answer these questions with increasing confidence. Are games just code, or are they something more poetic? Titles like No Man’s Sky or Abzu offer richly realized spaces to…

Style Savvy: Fashion Forward Certainly Keeps A Girl Busy

This is me, 43-year-old bearded man Mike Fahey, taking a short break from being a fashion boutique manager, hair stylist, makeup artist, clothing designer and interior decorator in Style Savvy: Fashion Forward. I can’t imagine how I found the time. The third installment of Nintendo’s Style Savvy franchise has arrived, transporting us to a magical…

Oh, If Only Mega Man Still Looked This Good

Poor Mega Man. Forgotten by Capcom, even his spiritual successor is terrible. But people out there still love the little guy, and one of those people is artist Steven Zapata, who has worked for companies like DC, Universal and Google. Attempting a bit of “self therapy after the lukewarm arrival of Mighty No.9″, he decided…

The fate of a kingdom lies in your hands in Reigns, a hilarious game where you will swipe left or right to make decisions (just like Tinder!). Watch me play it in this video, or read more about it here.

What A Gaming Laptop Decked Out With Two Desktop GPUs Can Do

Nvidia recently gifted laptop gamers with fully functional GeForce 10 series GPUs. Our coverage of the launch and details on Nvidia’s new mobile lineup can be found here, but for those who missed the announcement the big news is that Pascal brings GPUs with near exact specifications to laptops as their desktop counterparts. This is…

Hamster Vs. Super Mario Bros. Level 1-1

Oh, this is just a hamster trying to clear the hamster version of the very first stage in Super Mario Bros. That’s all. Yes, this stage is shorter, and yes, you can’t go down the first pipe in the real game. But put those concerns aside, because we have a Hamster trying to put on…

Cities Skylines, It’s Time To Burn

Cities Skylines is an amazing city building game, but destroying them? That’s a SimCity thing. Or it was, until the announcement of Skylines’ Natural Disasters expansion. Cute trailer. In terms of what it brings to the game, turns out there’s more to it than just watching your world burn. There’s a ton of stuff being…

Valve Forbids Coaches From Helping Out During Pro Counter-Strike Matches

As time has passed, coaches have become increasingly invaluable parts of pro Counter-Strike teams. During matches, some keep track of strategies, monitor the in-game economy, and call plays. Valve has decided this doesn’t gel with their goals for Counter-Strike In a move that took many by surprise, Valve has banned coaches from communicating with players…

Capy’s Below Delayed Until…The Future

Below, the next game from Capy (Sword & Sworcery, Super Time Force), was meant to be out this Summer! Now it’s not. Now it will be out…well, one day. Announcingthe delay on their site, they say “We told you BELOW would be out this summer. Our team worked hard to make that deadline a reality.…

Thanks To New Emotes, Overwatch Players Are Sitting Through Matches

In Overwatch, sitting and laughing are totally OP. Just like in real life. Yesterday’s new test patch didn’t just nerf Genji, make Gremlin D.Va canon, and stuff smelly socks down the throats of bad sports. It also added a ton of new sitting and laughing emotes. Here are all of them, courtesy of Seba: It’s…

If you like Earthbound or Undertale, make sure to check out our video playthrough of the Glitched demohere. It’s a fourth-wall breaking RPG where the characters realize the player exists, and it’s excellent.