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Sonic Co-Creator Charged With Illegally Trading Over $1 Million In Final Fantasy Stock

High On Life Players Are Getting Perma-Trapped In Applebee’s

These players are stuck in the digital restaurant chain with no way to order a triple chocolate meltdown

Claire Jackson

I Hope You Didn't Just Buy Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Because It's January's PS Plus Game

Jedi: Fallen Order headlines another banner month for Sony's online subscription

Ethan Gach

Twitch Streamer Pokimane Wants Tougher Laws On Revenge Porn

Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys wants to ‘facilitate’ laws that enforce action against non-consensual nudes

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

Genshin Impact Has Made Farming So Tedious, I'm Regretting Everything

That New Sonic Game Is A Weird, Lonely Mess (That I Can’t Stop Playing)

God Of War Ragnarök's NPCs Actually React To Kratos Looting Everything And It's Amazing

This Cringe Fail Anime Girl Is The Undisputed Meme Queen Of 2022

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Team Ninja's Next Game Is Giving Me Sekiro PTSD

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The Top 4 Romance Anime to Watch During The 2022 Cuffing Season

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Mythic Quest’s Charlotte Nicdao Teaches Us Some Handy Australian Slang

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The Best Marvel Snap Deck For Winning With Agatha Harkness

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

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

Gallery

Our Favorite Cosplay From Anime NYC 2022

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

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Our Favorite Cosplay From New York Comic-Con 2022

Cosplay

New God Of War Game Means New God Of War Cosplay

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Our Favorite Cosplay From Dragon Con 2022

Outriders, Six Months Later: Meh

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

Genshin Impact, Six Months Later

Sisi Jiang

Marvel's Avengers, Six Months Later

Ghost Of Tsushima, Six Months Later

Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Six Months Later

Behind the Voice

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

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

Justice Washington Can Do So Many Overwatch Voices

Michael Pasquariello

When Things Go Wrong With Players Solving Escape Rooms

How teambuilding can become room-wrecking as players get over-enthusiastic

Kenneth Seward jr.

The 9 Most Busted Games Of 2022

Incredible Mod Recreates SimCity 2000 Cities In Minecraft, Down To The Trees

The project, which has been worked on for eight years, even does some basic interiors

The Best Shooters Of 2022

2022 was another fantastic year for shooter fans with a mix of big, small, colorful, and gory adventures

The Best And Worst Battle Passes Of 2022 From Overwatch 2 To Fortnite

Let's evaluate this year's battle passes like the graduating class of I Want Your Money High

Alyssa Mercante

The Complete, Surprising Eight Year History Of LEGO's Poop Piece

12 Extraordinary Games You'll Want On Your Wishlist Straight Away

10 Incredible Games You Should Be Wishlisting Right This Minute

Total Recall

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

Designed by geniuses who'd worked on Street Fighter and Fatal Fury, Sega's GBA sequel brought new joy to the hedgehog's speedy movement

Cole Kronman

The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me

Claire Jackson

The Story Behind Mortal Kombat’s Iconic Dragon Logo

Ethan Gach

Metal Gear Solid 3 Could Have Had A Boss Battle That Would Take Two Weeks To Finish

The X-Wing Team Were Working On A Cancelled Xbox Game

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

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

Fine Art

The Human Body Is A Wonderful Thing

Fine Art

Pokemon

Pokémon Cards Get Rid Of Those Hideous Yellow Borders After 23 Years

TGC will now match Japan's designs, and there are a bunch of new quality-of-like tweaks

Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Contains One Of The Greatest Facts Of All Time

These Upcoming New Pokémon Cards Are The Most Beautiful Ever Made

15 Of The Most Messed Up Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Pokédex Entries

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Giant Stuffed Leek, Winners!

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

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Giant Stuffed Leek

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

Shop Contest

'Shop Contest: Father's Day, Winners!

Congrats to the winners of this week's Photoshop Contest

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

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

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

Elden Ring Beaten In 20 Minutes With Ridiculous Teleporting Glitch

Twitch

Twitch Star Hasan Piker Banned After Rebroadcasting Unhinged Kanye Interview [Update: He’s Back Early]

The prolific political streamer wasn't booted for saying the word 'cracker' this time

Twitch Star Gets ‘Cracker Pass' From Wheat Thins After Getting Banned For Saying It

Isaiah Colbert

300 Tries Later, A Twitch Streamer Bodied 7 Souls Games Completely Unscathed

Buy Two Twitch Subs And They’ll Throw In A 3-Month Xbox Game Pass Trial

Isaiah Colbert

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…

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…