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Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story
8.9.2022
Legacy media publications can keep their sexiest men and women of the year awards because the world finally has a winner in one of the internet’s most contentious beauty contests: the Tumblr sexyman award. And that winner is Sans from Undertale. Long may he reign.Read more
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Introduce Auto Battle, Which Will Cut Back The Grind
8.9.2022
Yesterday, the official Pokémon website announced that November’s Scarlet and Violet will introduce an auto-battle feature to the long-running creature-collecting series. Called “Let’s Go!”, the feature enables players to send a Pokémon out into the world to automatically collect items and battle...
11 Hours In, Dreamlight Valley Is Way More Than A Disney Animal Crossing Knock-Off
7.9.2022
It’s almost surprising that it took this long for a game like Disney’s Dreamlight Valley to finally be made. The new game, out now in Early Access, combines the life-sim gameplay of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley except with a deadly combination of famous Disney characters, films, and worlds....
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Villains Are The Bad School Kids, New Switch Hardware Coming
7.9.2022
Two professors. A true open-world. Legendary Pokémon that can turn into freakin’ motorcycles. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet are incrementally shaping up to be some of the most intriguing role-playing games of the fall. Today, the Pokémon Company made that even more clear with a new trailer that...
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mass Effect Game
7.9.2022
It’s hard to hear the name BioWare without conjuring up some image from Mass Effect, its groundbreaking series of sci-fi RPGs. Mass Effect was pretty damn good. Whether you were in it for its smoochable aliens, expansive world building, or its choice-driven gameplay, Mass Effect had a little bit...
Pokémon Has Finally Taken Over My Entire Life, And I Love It
5.9.2022
In my mid-40s, my life is so latterly being taken over by Pokémon. After falling down the Pokémon GO hole in 2020, and then chronicling its slow takeover of my spare time, I have since found myself the primary Pokémon GO correspondent for Kotaku. And now, as if that weren’t enough, I’ve finally...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3's Most Deliciously Cringe Moments
2.9.2022
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9 Farming Games To Fall In Love With After Stardew Valley
2.9.2022
I do not want to be a farmer—I’m a city girl, or, on my most vulnerable days, a suburban wife in the making—but something about farming games is simply so relaxing.Read more
Hopefully Fortnite's Fantastic New Destiny 2 Crossover Mode Sticks Around
1.9.2022
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Pokémon Company Sues Six Chinese Companies, Wants Them To Apologize For Making Millions Off Similar Game
1.9.2022
The Pokémon Company has filed a lawsuit against six Chinese companies over a mobile game for “copyright infringement and unfair competition behavior.” It is claiming over $72 million in damages and demanding public apologies on major social media platforms, gaming websites, and app stores....
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's Best New Monster Reveal Happens In A Fake Documentary
1.9.2022
The Pokémon Company has revealed the latest new rascally little monster to appear in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, and it’s quite the scamp. Grafaiai, as the name somewhat implies, is a graffiti artist, and he’s tagging your trees.Read more
The Best And Worst Parts Of Every Mainline Pokémon Game
31.8.2022
For as much as Pokémon has stayed the same, it’s also changed quite a bit over the years. Nintendo’s decades-long Ash Ketchum biopic (bio…game?) has stayed true to its turn-based, monster-collecting roots. But every new iteration comes with something that differentiates it from its immediate...
Pokémon Scarlet And Violet’s Preorder Bonuses Are So Terrible, They're Getting Mocked
31.8.2022
Gamer salt over preorder bonuses is nothing new. But this time, the Pokémon community’s salt feels partially justified. Amazon recently showed an infographic that details what fans can get by ordering Scarlet and Violet digitally ahead of launch: A set that includes 10 potions, 10 antidotes,...
Pokémon GO TikTok Seems To Say The Quiet Part: People Are DTF Pokémon
31.8.2022
Look, it’s not a comfortable topic. But, unafraid as we are to cover the more controversial, divisive topics at Kotaku, we think it’s time to acknowledge it: Some Pokémon are just kinda hot. And it seems even official Pokémon companies may be willing to acknowledge this.Read more
Destiny 2's Latest Raid Keeps Destroying Player's Eardrums With An Eldritch Scream
30.8.2022
For the past few days, Destiny 2 has been afflicted with a bug that’s as hilarious as it is terrifying. If you end up getting wiped during a fight against Golgoroth, a boss who appears partway through the recently resurrected King’s Fall Raid, the ogre will emit a nightmarish scream.Read more
Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s Britishisms Are Corrupting My American Dialect
29.8.2022
After being thoroughly underwhelmed with Digimon Survive’s insufferable dialogue and bland characters, I braved the time-consuming Japanese RPG waters once again by diving headfirst into its release date competitor, Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Although I initially got into the series to ironically...
After Years Of Disappointment, Pokémon Go Fest Finally Gave Me The Magic I've Been Missing
29.8.2022
As has been chronicled on Kotaku, my journey into Pokémon GO has been one that began two years ago in lockdown-induced happiness, and then slowly descended into disappointment after disappointment. However, this weekend, despite what appear to be Niantic’s best efforts, I finally experienced...
Amazon Prime’s New Free Games Include The Best Assassin’s Creed, Lord Of The Rings, And More
25.8.2022
Starting next month, Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to grab eight free PC games, including the best Assassin’s Creed game, Football Manager 2022, and the open world stab ‘em up, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Read more
Destiny 2's Massive Pirate Update: The Good, The Bad, The Broken
25.8.2022
Destiny 2’s Season of Plunder went live on August 23 and brought with it pirate ships, treasure hunts, and a bevy of new Exotic weapons and armor. The update is one of the game’s biggest since The Witch Queen expansion launched earlier this year, overhauling Arc 3.0 abilities and buffing a bunch...
Destiny 2 Disables Heavy Grenade Launchers After Glitch Makes Them OP
25.8.2022
Season of Plunder is off to a fun but rocky start, and there’s no better example of that then Destiny 2's heavy grenade launchers. Almost all of them have been temporarily disabled just a day into the new update after a glitch was discovered that was making them output more than double their...