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Earlier today, Sega shared a brief look at Sonic Frontiers , the next installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise launching on every m...

Guide: How To Prepare Your 3DS And Wii U For Retirement - Hard Drive, Battery, Backup Tips

Recommendations to help get your affairs in order. The announcement that Nintendo will be closing the 3DS and Wii U eShop stores and effect...

Life Is Strange Devs DONTNOD Announce Rebrand, Plus A Peek At Their New Games

We've been saying it wrong this whole time. French video game developer DONTNOD — who you may know from games like Life is Strange , Te...

Lovecraftian Point-And-Click 'Saint Kotar' Will Spook On Switch This October

Unsettling horror for Halloween. Publisher Soedesco and developer Red Martyr Entertainment have announced that their point-and-click horror...

First Manga Worker Union Forms Amid Alleged Union Busting

Last week, workers at Seven Seas Entertainment , a Los Angeles-based publishing company that sells licensed manga, webcomics, and light nov...

New 30th Anniversary Kirby Nendoroid Includes Retro Kirby Face

What a polite young orb. Usually, someone saying you have a "retro face" would not be a polite or pleasant comment, but in the ca...

Feature: 10 Top Metroid Cosplays - The Best Samus Cosplays We've Ever Seen

Plus a handful of villains. The Metroid series has delighted fans for over 30 years and currently spans 15 different games, with Metroid Pr...

Moonrise Fall Is An Intriguing Exploration Puzzle Game That Drops On Switch Soon

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"A brain teaser-filled world". The Switch eShop is home to plenty of interesting smaller games, a number of which slowly made the...

Triangle Strategy Producers Talk HD-2D And Why Other Devs Haven't Used it

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"It costs more than you’d think". With the release of Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy — and the upcoming Live A Live a...

"Big News" Promised At Evercade's 2nd Anniversary Show

20-minute YouTube show airs tomorrow. Evercade – a family of gaming hardware which plays physical collections of retro software – turns tw...

Embracer Games Archive Is Striving To Preserve And Celebrate Gaming Culture

"We want to archive and save as much of the video games industry as possible". The Embracer Group is a significant gaming company...

Rumour: Datamine Reveals Six More Neo Geo Pocket Games Potentially Coming To Switch

Including two never-before-localised titles. Last week, we got the surprise Switch release of the Neo Geo Pocket Color's Biomotor Unitr...

Guide: Where To Pre-Order Mario Strikers: Battle League On Switch

Best deals, cheapest prices and pre-order bonuses detailed. First announced in the February Nintendo Direct, Mario Strikers: Battle League ...

UK Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Still Leads Nintendo's Contenders

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Sniped down a spot. The latest UK charts data has arrived, bringing with it a new number one and a familiar slate of Switch titles in the t...

Soapbox: Help, I Can't Stop Buying Japanese Games I Don't Understand And Will Never Play

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Nintendo sixty-moarrr. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stu...

Feature: Backlog Club: Week Zero, June - Return Of Backlog Club, Return Of The Obra Dinn

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Gather round, mateys. Rule number one of Backlog Club: Work through your pile of unplayed video games one at a time, and discuss them with ...

Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #98 - Super Mario Strikers

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It's kick off time! Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! In last week's edition , we took a look...

A New Limited-Time Pokémon Sword And Shield Distribution Event Has Been Announced

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Receive a champion Sableye this June. Pokémon Sword and Shield may no longer be the newest Pokémon game on Switch, but it's still rece...

Dragon Quest Creator Yuji Horii Shares Brief Update On Next Mainline Entry

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Team "working hard on building Dragon Quest XII". Dragon Quest Day was held earlier this week - celebrating 36 years of the belov...

The Official Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Sound Library Will Be Shut Down Next Week

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Download these tracks while you still can. The Pokémon Company has announced it will be shutting down the Pokémon Diamond & Pearl soun...

Gotham Knights Dev Addresses Details That've Had Fans Feeling Concerned

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In recent weeks, WB Games Montreal has been shedding new light on its upcoming Batman game sans Batman, Gotham Knights , and some details h...

Expect Trinity Trigger To Be A "Traditional RPG" With Local Multiplayer, Say Devs In Translated Interview

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The game is apparently 70% done. Japanese gaming outlet Famitsu recently sat down with four of the developers behind upcoming RPG, Trinity...

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Sequel Coming Next Year

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor , the highly-anticipated sequel to 2019's Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was finally revealed today via a new t...

Random: NBA Player's Game Day Routine Involves Playing Nintendo, Avoiding Basketball

Oh! Same!! Celebrities! They're just like us! In this case, it's Klay Thompson — one of the NBA's superstars, who plays as a sh...

Guide: Every Nintendo Switch Online SNES Game Ranked

All the SNES games, ranked by you. Updated with Rival Turf! and Congo's Caper from Nintendo's May 2022 update to Nintendo Switc...

Cursed Mario Kart Clone Starring Peter Griffin Is Actually Pretty Good

I was horrified by the trailer for Warped Kart Racers , a new kart-racing game that blends together several popular animated shows. But lik...

Soapbox: Dragon's Dogma Is A Janky, Weird, Ageing RPG, And Everyone Should Play It

Pawn stars. Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen turned 10 years old this week, and to celebrate, Kate's been reminiscing about her first t...

Xbox Boss Says He Will Recognize Raven Software's Union After Acquisition Closes

In today’s internal all-hands meeting with Xbox Game Studios employees, Head of Xbox Phil Spencer said that he would recognize Raven Softwa...

New Dragon Quest Treasures Teaser Drops For Series' 36th Anniversary

No platforms announced, but surely? It's 27th May in Japan, which means the Dragon Quest series is celebrating its 36th anniversary! A...

GTA Vice City, Goodfellas Star Ray Liotta Dead At 67

Actor and producer Ray Liotta , famous for his starring role as Tommy Vercetti in the PS2 open-world classic Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , ...

Cursed Mafia III Studio Hangar 13 Hit With New Round Of Layoffs

Hangar 13 can’t catch a break. The studio behind Mafia III , which suffered multiple rounds of layoffs in the years that followed its 2016 ...

EA Tells Devs It Won't Take Stand On Abortion Rights, Encourages 'Healing Circles'

Electronic Arts won’t be joining some other big game studios in publicly supporting abortion and transgender rights , Kotaku has learned. ...

Real Life ‘Witcher School’ Shuts Down Over Organizer’s Ultra-Conservative Political Ties

Until recently, a “Witcher School” in Poland ran live-action role-playing (LARP) events for fans of the wildly popular fantasy series with...

Dark Souls’ Awful Basilisks Taught Me How To Play The Game

It’s the color of a shrunken oily olive. Its true eyes are pinpricks of light situated on either side of its threateningly wide mouth, and ...

Yoshitaka Amano Makes Batman Look Like Final Fantasy And I’m Here For It

A future issue of DC Comics’ Detective Comics (that’s Detective Comics Comics’ Detective Comics for those of you keeping score at home) w...

Five New Street Fighter Characters Enter The Ring Today In Ubisoft's Brawlhalla

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M. Bison, Luke, Sakura, Ken and Dhalsim. Ubisoft and Capcom have teamed up once more to add five more Street Fighter legends to the roster...

Elon Musk’s Dumb Elden Ring Build Proves The Billionaire Is Maidenless

Elon Musk, who is 50 years old, is just like any other 13-year-old. Between long days spent fanboy-tweeting at Metal Gear Solid video game...

Someone Just Bought Two Super-Rare Golden Funko Pops For $100K Cash

On May 5, a man in Glendale, California met up with another man to buy from him a sealed two-pack of ultra-rare Funko Pops for $100K cash ....

Seth Green Created A TV Show Around His NFT Ape, Then Someone Stole It

Seth Green is having a bad time after he claims some of his NFT apes were stolen from him using a phishing scam. One very special ape in pa...

Fortnite Pro Spouts Racial Slur, Shows Off Gun Stockpile In Widely Condemned Video

An esports pro has been lambasted after a video surfaced online in which an individual, who is allegedly Fortnite Champion Series Grand Fi...

How To Get Halo Infinite’s Kick-Ass WW2-Inspired Armor

Nope, that key art above isn’t a promo image for Wolfenstein . It’s a promotional shot for a cosmetic set of Halo Infinite armor called Ea...

Human Woman Kissing Simulator Sonic ‘06 Relisted In Xbox 360 Store

After over a decade away, it appears as if 2006’s Sonic the Hedgehog (or Sonic ‘06 to all the savvy hedgehog connoisseurs out there) is o...

The Final Fight Vibes Are Out In Full In 'Final Vendetta' Gameplay Preview

Rage through the streets of London. Numskull Games has given us a sneak peek ahead of time at all of the gameplay systems coming to retro t...

Reggie Fils-Aime: Companies Need To ‘Embrace’ Unions If That’s What Employees Want

In an interview yesterday, former Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime was asked about his thoughts on unions, which currently barely ...

Ex-NoA President Reggie Fils-Aimé Addresses Reports Of Worker Mistreatment At Nintendo

"I do believe it is the role of company leadership to set a culture". Early in April 2022, reports of poor working conditions at ...

Samurai Riot Is Streets Of Rage With Japanese Myth, Out On Switch This June

The Definitive Edition slashes onto Switch soon. 2017 co-op beat 'em up Samurai Riot is getting a brand new release — and the best part...

Gaming Gets Its First Union At A Major U.S. Studio

Despite months of negative talking points by Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, quality assurance staff at its Raven Software st...

We're Really Hoping Team Ladybug's New Shmup 'DRANIUS' Comes To Switch

Currently only available on Steam. Team Ladybug, known for its work on the Castlevania inspired Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder La...

UK Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Gets Knocked Down A Peg

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It's another relatively quiet week in the charts. We've got the latest UK charts data and it's looking very similar to last wee...

Colin Cantwell, Designer Of The X-Wing, Has Died

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While the great Ralph McQuarrie is rightly remembered as the primary visionary behind the look of the Star Wars universe , he wasn’t the o...

Soapbox: Free Game Updates Are Fantastic For Everyone, Except New Players

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I want my money back. You wouldn't complain about a free lunch, would you? Well, maybe you would — if the lunch was something you'd...

Feature: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles On Nintendo Systems - A Half-Shell History

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Ninturtles. With the upcoming bounty of TMNT goodness heading to Switch this year in the form of Konami's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:...

Box Art Brawl: Duel #97 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers

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Let's raise some shell. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening; welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! Looking bac...

Suda51 Teases New Grasshopper Manufacture Game Reveal, Possibly Before The End Of 2022

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"I want to hurry up and show everyone". Towards the end of 2021, the famous video game creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda ann...

Square Enix's Upcoming Release 'The DioField Chronicle' Rated By ESRB

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Scheduled to arrive at some point in 2022. Earlier this year in March, Square Enix announced a new "deeply strategic RPG" called ...

EA Reportedly Pursuing Sale Or Merger

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Has apparently spoken to Comcast, Disney, Apple and Amazon. Microsoft's recent acquisitions of video game companies like Bethesda and A...

Controversial Street Fighter Champion Banned From Several Major Tournaments

South Korean fighting game player Seon-woo “Infiltration” Lee revealed last night that he’s been barred from attending several major commun...

PSA: It's The Final Countdown For 3DS And Wii U eShop Credit Card Payments (North America)

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But don't panic... In late March 2023 we'll wave a tearful goodbye to the Wii U and 3DS eShop, stores with some wonderful exclusive...

New Pokémon GO Card Is Really Ditto In Disguise

The upcoming Pokémon GO expansion for the trading card game includes Melmetal VMAX, the original legendary birds, and a wild new Ditto tr...

Random: University Student Makes Brilliant Zelda-Inspired Animation, Gets An A

Hopefully not a C&D. Oooooh, I've always wanted to say this: Nintendo, hire this man! Jordan LeBlanc (AKA Hxx) is an animation stu...

22 Years Later, PS1 Classic Syphon Filter Will Soon Have Trophies

Starting next month, Sony is launching its kinda confusing tier-based PlayStation Plus service . For those who pay for the top tier, PS Plu...

‘Ugly Sonic’ Is Slinging Merch In The New Chip ‘n Dale Film

Do you remember “Ugly Sonic,” the internet’s colloquial name for Paramount Pictures’ “realistic” take on Sega’s Blue Blur that featured we...

Borderlands 3 (And Its Billions Of Guns) Is Currently Free To Download On PC

This week is the start of the Epic Game Store’s annual “Mega Sale,” and as the name implies, there are currently a massive number of games ...

WWII Narrative RPG-Lite, 'Gerda: A Flame In Winter', Gets Switch Release Date

DONTNOD-published title is still a Switch console exclusive. Late last year Nintendo's Indie World showcase included a look at the publ...

Japanese Neo Geo Classics 'Breakers Collection' Return With Limited Editions

Break out of obscurity. It's been a while since we've had any news on Breakers Collection , the compilation of three Neo Geo beat ...

Some Of The Best Puzzle Games Ever Made Are On Sale Right Now

Draknek & Friends is the ever-changing collective of developers behind some of the last decade’s most well-loved puzzlers. From A Monst...

Nexomon + Nexomon: Extinction: Complete Collection Is Heading To Switch

New monsters also on the way in post-game content. The Switch has some interesting monster catching games that aren't Pokémon, and over...

Skyrim Anniversary Edition Has Been Rated For Switch In Taiwan, Sparking Rumours Of A Port

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Get ready to play Skyrim, again, maybe. It's a tale as old as time: Some big developer announces that their game is available on "...

All Pop Culture Is Merging Into Mush, And The Iron Giant Is The Latest Casualty

WB Games recently released a new trailer for its upcoming Smash -like fighter Multiversus . In it, characters like Harley Quinn, Bugs Bunn...

Layoffs At EA Austin Following Split With FIFA

Electronic Arts is laying off a ton of customer service staff at its Austin office, according to internal emails viewed by Kotaku . One sou...

AI: The Somnium Files Sequel Gets A New Trailer Showing Off Its Eclectic Cast

nirvanA will be here soon. Sony has published a new trailer for Spike Chunsoft's upcoming murder mystery sequel, AI: The Somnium Files ...

New York Attorney General Investigating Twitch, Discord Following Buffalo Shooting

In the wake of the horrific shooting that took place in Buffalo on May 14 , New York Attorney General Letitia James has officially launched...

Thunderful Reveals Three More SteamWorld Games Are In Development

Strawberry, coffee, and caramel go well together. Thunderful Group's latest interim report is out now (which you can read here ), and w...

Dead By Daylight Dev Announces Dating Sim Spin-Off, Gives Killers Amazing Glow-Ups

Yesterday the ever-evolving 2022 bingo card got even more unpredictable when Behaviour Interactive, the developer behind popular asymmetric...

PUBG Mobile’s Neon Genesis Evangelion Crossover Is Plain Weird

The latest PUBG Mobile event melds the handheld battle royale with anime masterpiece Neon Genesis Evangelion . Among other things, this me...

Forage, Fight, And Marry Other Cats In 'Cattails: Wildwood Story', Pouncing Onto Switch In 2024

RPG: Really Pretty Grimalkins. Way back in 2018, before Animal Crossing: New Horizons , before the pandemic, and before the Nintendo eShop ...

Real Lego Figures Vs Skywalker Saga’s Digital Recreations

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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is excellent . It’s one of my favorite video games of 2022 and is probably my favorite Star Wars game ...

Genshin Impact Dev’s Rad AF ‘Urban RPG’ Is Living In My Head Rent Free

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Last week HoYoverse, the developers behind the popular RPGs Genshin Impact and Honkai Impact 3 , released a trailer for its newest IP—and ...

Video: We Take A Look At Limited Run Games' Brand New Store

Update: The full video is out now! Update Well, the update came a lot sooner than we expected! Zion's full trip to Limited Run Games...

From VR To Vibrators, Video Game Sex Tech Now Has Infinite Possibilities

In 2002, games journalist and researcher Jane Pinckard used the Trance Vibrator— a USB accessory that would vibe in time with the music o...

Part Fort, Part Nite, All Cop: Robocop Is Now In Fortnite

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And so is Ali-A, who is not a robot or a cop. The latest IP crossover is (rolls dice) Robocop in (rolls dice) Fortnite , which means that t...

Take-Two CEO Acknowledges Frustrated Red Dead Online Players, But Offers Nothing Else

It’s been nearly a year since Red Dead Online’ s last major update. The long wait for new content has led to a growing movement among some ...

NYC Funding $2 Million Bachelor’s Degree Program In Game Design

City College of New York will begin offering a bachelor’s degree in game design this fall, New York City mayor Eric Adams announced today, ...

Top Halo Pro Stops Playing In Protest Against Own Team

Tyler “Spartan” Ganza , one of the best professional Halo Infinite players in the world, has voluntarily benched himself for the rest of t...

The Wholesome Direct Returns With News On Coffee Talk, PuffPals, And Moomins

Moomincredible news. What do cats, frogs, birds, witches, and snow-white Finnish teddy-bear-things all have in common? That's right! Th...

Random: Indie Horror Dev Launches Kickstarter To Create A Game For Pokémon Mini

Pokémon Silver Falls. Hands up — who had a Pokémon Mini back in the day? The microconsole launched in 2001 in Japan and North America — rig...

Random: Stop Calling Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl A 'Smash-Killer', Pleads Lead Artist

"I'd really rather you not". When Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl launched on the Switch in October 2021, the comparisons to a ce...

UK Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Is Number One For A Third Week

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Kirby tilts 'n' tumbles out of the top 20. It's a very similar story in this week's UK charts. The top two spots remain unc...

The Best Lord Of The Rings Video Games

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Tolkien’s influence on video games stretches back decades. Fans have been playing games based on The Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit ) f...

Somehow, The N64 Can Do Portal

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Valve’s Portal , released in 2007 (!), is one of the last games you’d expect to see the humble little N64 being able to manage, and yet her...

Feature: Handheld Face-Off - Nintendo Switch OLED Model Vs Steam Deck

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Which of these expensive monsters belongs on your credit card bill? When Valve announced that it planned to make a handheld called the Stea...

Poll: Box Art Brawl: Duel #96 - Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

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Which one doesn't suck? Hello hello hello , and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl ! Last week , it was Mother's Day...

Random: Daisy Fans Are Worried She's Been Dropped From Mario Strikers

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Benchwarmer. It's been a big week for video game football - with Electronic Arts and football's international governing body FIFA ...

Video: Bandai Namco Shares New Gameplay Footage Of Digimon Survive

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Launching on Switch this July. In case you missed it, Digimon Survive has finally locked in a release date - it'll be arriving on 28th...

Atlus Wants To Know If You Would Like More Nintendo Switch Games

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It's open to ports, remakes and new releases. It's that time of year again when Atlus releases its annual survey - asking fans abou...

Mass Shooting Apparently Planned On Discord, Streamed On Twitch, Investigated As Hate Crime [Updated]

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Tragedy struck New York on May 14 as an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people in the city of Buffalo, police said. The...

13 Killer Strategies For Dead By Daylight

If life were a Scream movie, I would likely have already been trapped under a garage door by now. It would have been punishment for spend...

The Super Mario Daisy Fandom Is Ready To Riot Against Nintendo

Nintendo fans are currently up in arms, but not over graphical downgrades or Pokédex revamps . Nope, this time, it’s over a shunned charac...

Lego Star Wars Becomes First Non-Nintendo Game To Top Switch Charts In Over A Year

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga did something very few games have done over the last few years: It topped April’s NPD Switch sales char...

Skyrocketing Retro Game Price 'Manipulation' Controversy Goes To Court

The market frenzy leading to record-breaking prices for retro games appears to have slowed since last year, but frustration over the colle...

Random: This "Vibe Check" Of Splatoon 2's Characters Is A Map Of Memes And In-Jokes

Inkdecipherable. Following on from the news that the Octo Expansion DLC for Splatoon 2 is now available for free as part of the Nintendo ...

A Cyberpunk Game That's Blade Runner Meets Groundhog Day

Loopmancer is what would happen if a cyberpunk Sleeping Dogs was made into a Groundhog Day- esque roguelite. Read more... from Kotaku...

Elden Ring Officially Mainstream As Sales Top Call of Duty