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YouTuber Buys Every Single Video Game On The Wii U and 3DS eShops Before They Close

This takes 'get em before they're gone' to a whole new level

Luke Plunkett

News

Man Arrested After Making 'Minecraft' Death Threat To Sheriff

Luke Plunkett

News

Destiny Players Pay Tribute To Lance Reddick, Their Fallen Commander

Levi Winslow

News

Let Me Solo Her Is Playing Elden Ring, But Every Enemy Is Malenia

The Elden Ring legend is taking on his biggest challenge yet

Kenneth Shepard

News

Blizzard Bans 120,000 World Of Warcraft Classic Death Knights

The Death Knight was an easy gateway into endgame content for bots

Kenneth Shepard

News

Destiny, Horizon Actor Lance Reddick Dies At 60

Ethan Gach

News

Silent Hill 2 Team Shows Terrifying Gameplay Preview Of Their OG Horror Remake

Ashley Bardhan

News

Resident Evil 4 Remake Has Devs Explaining Why Games Make Things Extremely Obvious

Sisi Jiang

Kotaku Game Diary

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Kotaku Game Diary

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s Most Frustrating Enemy Can Go To Hell

Team Ninja's latest Soulslike has lots of frustrating enemies, but the assassins are the worst

Levi Winslow

Kotaku Game Diary

I Met The Most Annoying Yakuza NPC In Like A Dragon: Ishin!

Like some people in real life, Sakiko will test your patience with her meandering stories

Trek To Yomi Is The Best Time You’ll Never Want To Have Again

The tough-as-nails Akira Kurosawa-inspired side-scroller got a port to the Nintendo Switch this week

Eric Schulkin

Kotaku Game Diary

Overwatch 2’s Ramattra Embarrassed My Mains And Reignited My Competitive Spirit

Ramattra the tank engine is a force to be reckoned with when put in a skilled player’s hands

Isaiah Colbert

Odds and Ends

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The Yakuza Devs Should Cast These Celebs In Their Next Hostess Club Minigame

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Silent Hill 2 Team Shows Terrifying Gameplay Preview Of Their OG Horror Remake

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Comparing Resident Evil 4’s Chainsaw Demo To The Original Game

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The Last Of Us' Merle Dandridge On How She’s Like Marlene

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The Week In Games: Umbran Witch Suplex

Retro

Who Knew A Game Boy's Insides Could Be So Beautiful?

Grid Studio is turning old Game Boys, DSes, PSPs and more into mechanical works of art

Mike Fahey

Retro

Play These Classic Games Created In Communist Czechoslovakia

A project by the Slovak Game Developers Association sees them receive their first English translation

John Walker

Retro

Atari’s New Collectible Game Cartridges Off To A Rocky Start

Atari is making game cartridges again, but it’s a little foggy on some of the details

Mike Fahey

Cosplay

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Gallery

Our Favorite Cosplay From Holiday Matsuri

Just because a nerd show is in December doesn't mean it has to be cold

Luke Plunkett

Gallery

Our Favorite Cosplay From Los Angeles Comic Con 2022

A gallery and video showcase of some incredible cosplay

Luke Plunkett

Gallery

Our Favorite Cosplay From Anime NYC 2022

A music video and collection of photographs from November's big show

Luke Plunkett

Gallery

Our Favorite Cosplay From New York Comic-Con 2022

NYCC returned in 2022 with around 200,000 people turning up

Luke Plunkett

Six Months Later

Outriders, Six Months Later: Meh

The game's most notorious issues are fixed, but it still has some fundamental flaws

Ari Notis

Six Months Later

Genshin Impact, Six Months Later

Sisi Jiang

Six Months Later

Behind the Voice

The Last Of Us' Merle Dandridge On How She’s Like Marlene

As the Firefly commander, she's the only cast member to hold the same role in both the game and the show

Sonic Prime's Lead Voice Actor On Bringing Swagger To The Iconic Role

Deven Mack voices the speedy hedgehog in his latest animated series releasing December 15 on Netflix

Chainsaw Man's English-Language Cast Weighs In: Subs Vs. Dubs

The manga adaptation's Denji, Makima, and others share their thoughts on the age-old debate

Chainsaw Man Voice Actor Says Makima Is More Than Just A ‘Dommy Mommy’

Suzie Yeung, the English-language voice actor for Makima, shares some insight into the character

Eric Schulkin

Feature

Escape Room Worker Uses Metal Gear Solid Sneaking Skills To Help Unwitting Players

While you were playing stealth games, this Breakout Games employee was being Solid Snake

John Walker

Feature

The Fierce Microsoft Battle That Led To One Of The Biggest Video Games Of All Time

Kyle Orland

Feature

What To Expect From Valve (And Steam) In 2023

The company behind the Steam Deck is famously secretive but there’s still reason to speculate about what it’s up to

Claire Jackson

Feature

Dragon Ball Is Secretly Great At Romance

Goku, Chi-Chi, Vegeta, Bulma, Krillin and Android 18 are all perfect examples of romances that feel lived-in

Sean Aitchison

Feature

Experts Taught Me How To Score A Boyfriend In World of Warcraft

It turns out that dating isn’t so easy when you’re a Blood Elf

Ashley Bardhan

Feature

Everything That’s Happened In The Microsoft-Activision Merger Saga

Zack Zwiezen

Feature

Damn, There's A Lot Of JRPGs Coming To The Switch

Ethan Gach

Feature

You Haven't Played A Survival Game Like This Creepy Car One

Ethan Gach

Total Recall

Let Us All Enjoy This 1999 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Card Commercial

It's wild thinking of a time that the entire concept of 笔辞办é尘辞苍 had to be explained

Luke Plunkett

Total Recall

Wait, The GameCube Nearly Had An Official LCD Monitor?

Luke Plunkett

Total Recall

In 1999 Nintendo Had A Real-Life Wrestling Match Starring Mario And Pikachu

Luke Plunkett

Total Recall

The Story Of Nintendo's Favorite Football Team

Luke Plunkett

Total Recall

Sonic Advance 2 Perfected The Series 20 Years Ago (Maybe Video Games, Too)

Cole Kronman

E3

Nintendo Scores Highest Peak Viewership Of E3

3.1 million people tuned in to watch Kazuya Mishima kill Captain Falcon

Ash Parrish

No More Heroes 3 Hired Shao Kahn To Voice A Cat

A bold, new direction for the No More Heroes franchise

Ian Walker

Guardians Of The Galaxy Devs Say It's Single-Player For Better Storytelling

Guardians of the Galaxy wants you to hang with the team, not control them

Ian Walker

Fine Art

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Fine Art

Crash Landing

Tonight's Fine Art looks at the work of Anshuman Kashyap

Luke Plunkett

Fine Art

The Art Of God of War Ragnar?k

A collection of illustrations and concept art that went into the game's creation

Luke Plunkett

Fine Art

The Art Of Ghost Of Tsushima

A huge collection of artwork and models from Sucker Punch's modern masterpiece

Luke Plunkett

Fine Art

Some Of My Favorite Images From ArtStation's AI Protests

Breathing, human artists have spent the week giving AI-generated imagery--and ArtStation--the middle finger

Luke Plunkett

Pokemon

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Pokemon

笔辞办é尘辞苍 TCG Scarlet & Violet's New ex Cards Are Ridiculously Powerful

However, the new era offers some disappointing pull rates after the high of Crown Zenith

John Walker

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Pokemon

We're Losing More Than We Realize When These Classic Pokémon Games Get Pulled

笔辞办é尘辞苍 has always been synonymous with Nintendo handhelds, and the 3DS has been the last bastion of preserving its past

Kenneth Shepard

Pokemon

The Best 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Card Art Sets That Tell Amazing Stories

There are hidden narratives in a surprising number of collectible 笔辞办é尘辞苍 TCG cards

John Walker

Pokemon

Incredibly Rare 笔辞办é尘辞苍 Card Auctioned For $480,000, Nobody Bids

A mint-condition ‘Illustrator Pikachu’ fetches zero interest on eBay

Ethan Gach

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Giant Stuffed Leek, Winners!

This is the end, beautiful friend. This is the end, my only friend

Zack Zwiezen

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Giant Stuffed Leek

Give me your biggest leek....no...that's too big...

Zack Zwiezen

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Father's Day, Winners!

Congrats to the winners of this week's Photoshop Contest

Zack Zwiezen

Speedrunning

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Speedrunning

Breath of the Wild’s Hottest New Speedrun Is Getting All The Hoes

Twitch streamer Limcube collected all 11 gardening tools in under 30 minutes

Levi Winslow

Speedrunning

Sekiro God's No-Damage Run Was Three Years In Making

YouTuber TheUrbanOrb studied for over 4,000 hours to destroy FromSoftware’s ninja game

Levi Winslow

Speedrunning

Only A Computer Could Do This Super Mario Bros. Trick—Until Now

Discovered in 2018, the 'top clip' trick had been considered too difficult for human speedrunners to achieve

Sisi Jiang

Speedrunning

Elden Ring Speedrunner Decides Eyes Are OP, Beats Bosses While Blindfolded

Speedrunner 'star0chris' has already slain Radahn and Rennala, now has Malenia and Maliketh in his sights

Levi Winslow

Twitch

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Twitch

Twitch CEO Steps Down After 16 Years Following Controversy-Filled Year

Amazon's streaming platform changes leadership at a tumultuous time

Ethan Gach

Twitch

Twitch Streamer Caught With Deepfake Porn Of Friends Returns, Wants To Help [UPDATED]

Brandon ‘Atrioc’ Ewing returned to Twitch claiming he’s spent the last six weeks working to help the women affected

Alyssa Mercante

Twitch

AI Seinfeld Is Back On Twitch, But Without Seinfeld (And Fans Are Upset)

Viewers on Discord and Twitch are begging the creators to bring Larry Feinberg back

Levi Winslow

Twitch

Twitch Streamer Kai Cenat Bodies Subscriber World Record During Black History Month

The record for most subscribers was previously held by Ludwig and Ninja

Levi Winslow

Very First

3D Monster Maze Was The Very First Horror Game

Long-running video game franchises and genres all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back to that origin point can show us not just how the greats began, but how far they’ve come since. Today we unearth the very first…

Zack Zwiezen

Very First

The Very First Skateboarding Game Was A Rad Arcade Hit From The '80s

Long-running video game franchises all have to start somewhere, and it’s not always pretty. Looking back to that origin point can show us not just how the greats began, but how far they’ve come since. Today we unearth the very first skateboarding…

Zack Zwiezen