What Are You Playing This Weekend?

It’s raining games! Hallelujah, it’s raining games! It’s also June. And it’s also the weekend! It’s actually not raining here in Portland; it’s hot as fuck, and it’s supposed to break 100 degrees tomorrow. Seems like a good weekend to stay inside and play some games with the air conditioner cranked. Maybe you’ve heard? It’s…

Someone made an NES version of The Witness, and it looks wonderful. Check it out right here. (You’ll need an emulator to play.)

Final Fantasy II Retrospective: The Black Sheep Of The Series

When you first open up Final Fantasy II, you’re asked to name four characters. Seconds later, those characters are stuck in an unwinnable battle, and you’re forced to watch them die. This is part two of Kotaku’s Final Fantasy Retrospective, in which we take a look back at every mainline FF game leading up to…

Regarding A Fake Kotaku Article

An article concocted to attack one of our writers and our publication as a whole several years ago continues to make the rounds, most recently in a video that’s garnered more than 500,000 views on YouTube in the last two days. To make it clear to those not able to figure this out on their…

Kiki’s Deep Space Delivery Service

Jan Buragay is a freelance artist from The Philippines who has a knack for sketching anime-stlye mechs and starships just the way I like ‘em. You can see more of Jan’s work at his ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them…

Watch Us Play Soft Body, A Puzzle Game About Doing Two Things At Once 

Soft Body is a new(ish) puzzle game for PS4 and Steam from game developer Zeke Virant. It’s a $13 test of your ability to control two blobs through a field of bullets and barriers, each steered with a different analog stick. One blob is weak but can paint walls. The other can take a bullet…