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Saturday's Best Deals: Samsung 70" 4K TV, Asus Gaming Monitor, Cutlery Brushes, 2L Hydration Bladder, Grepro Jump Starter, and More
10.4.2021
A Samsung 70-inch smart 4K tv and a Grepro jump starter lead Saturday’s best deals.Read more
McDonald’s vast catalog of video games is better than any PlayPlace
9.4.2021
Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.Read more
Friday's Best Deals: M1 MacBook Air, Dark Souls: The Board Game, Tacklife Random Orbit Sander, Segway Electric Scooter, Bellesa Spring Sale, and More
9.4.2021
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Only After I Embraced My Doom Did Abadox Reveal Its Charms
9.4.2021
I’ve been playing a lotta Nintendo Entertainment System lately, partially to make sure RetroArch’s workin’ fine on this new PC, and also just because I’m jonesin’ for some simple, classic fun. Natsume’s 1989 shooter Abadox was one of the first new-old games that came to mind, so I took it for...
Neo: The World Ends With You Returns To Shibuya July 27
9.4.2021
It took nearly 14 years, but the long-awaited sequel to 2007 action RPG The World Ends With You is right around the corner. Neo: The World Ends With You launches for PlayStation 4 and Switch on July 27, setting a new cast of characters, as well as some familiar faces, loose on the 3D streets...
Nintendo Superfan Recreates Company's 19th Century Office To Store His Collection
9.4.2021
Fabrice Heilig, a Nintendo collector from France, has been amassing stuff for so long that his house was running out of space to store it all. So he decided to expand, and when he did, he had one hell of an idea.Read more
Oh Dang, You Can Actually Dismount Bloopers In Super Mario Sunshine’s Cursed Surfing Level
8.4.2021
Love it or hate it, Super Mario Sunshine has a handful of truly awful levels. But it turns out players discovered a way to make one of the game’s worst stages much, much simpler.Read more
New Beginnings: The Sobering Journey To Restore My Game Boy Micro
8.4.2021
We all have our coping mechanisms. Last summer, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mine was reliving my childhood by purchasing old models from Nintendo’s long-retired Game Boy lineup. While I’m not a particularly nostalgic person—hell, I didn’t even grow up with half the consoles I’ve...
The Nintendo Download: 31 New Games For The Switch This Week
8.4.2021
Every week, Nintendo releases a list of new games coming to the Switch. It is, almost always, a very long list. This week’s list includes Spry Fox’s Cozy Grove, Switch Online exclusive Pac-Man 99, the Switch version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, and 28 more games, many of which...
Personal Trainer: Cooking offers two screens, one kitchen, and a whole world to explore
8.4.2021
Welcome to Gamer Week, in which The Takeout will be celebrating the edible side of video games all week long.Read more
Hunting for Pokémon Cards Has Become a Different Kind of Game
7.4.2021
A few weeks back, during a particularly unremarkable late night of insomnia-fueled doomscrolling, a notification slid its way onto my phone’s screen that quickened my pulse and dilated my pupils. For the next few minutes or so—there was no way to be sure for how long—the long out-of-stock Pokémon...
The 10 Best Deals of April 7, 2021
7.4.2021
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The Best Controller Chargers for the Latest Video Game Consoles
7.4.2021
There are … a lot of video game controllers this day. Gone are the days of each console having one official controller and a handful of third-party knockoffs. If you grab a Switch, you’ll have both Joy-Cons and the Pro Controller to choose from. Xbox owners can grab a standard Wireless Controller...
Welcome To Backlog Month
7.4.2021
April’s pretty thin as far as new game releases go. So we at Kotaku are taking the moment to focus on something shared among every gamer: a backlog. You could call it a month...about backlogs…surely there’s some sort of cutesy phrase we could use? Aha! Backlog Month!Read more
Pac-Man 99 Is A Free Switch Online Exclusive Battle Royale
7.4.2021
Announced last night and going live today at 9pm Eastern exclusively for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, Pac-Man 99 is a 99-player battle of pellet-munching attrition in which players eat the spirits of the dead in order to sic them against their opponents until all are devoured. Yay, Pac-Man!...
The 10 Best Deals of April 6, 2021
6.4.2021
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You Might Be Able To Play Diablo II: Resurrected This Weekend
6.4.2021
If you haven’t signed up for a chance to play Diablo II: Resurrected early, you should get on that: Blizzard just announced plans to hold a private alpha test on PC over the weekend.Read more
It's Official: E3 Returns As An All-Digital, All-Free Event June 12
6.4.2021
Following the cancelation of 2020's event due to covid-19, and much rumor and speculation regarding this year’s iteration of what was once the most important video game trade show in the world, the Entertainment Software Association today announces E3 2021, a free all-digital event running June...
Record Covid-19 Cases In Osaka As Universal Studios Japan Limits Visitors
6.4.2021
Today, Osaka posted its highest daily number of covid-19 cases: 719. This is the eighth straight day that covid-19 cases have been increasing in the prefecture. The numbers are also climbing in the surrounding areas.Read more
The Best Free-to-Play Games for the Xbox Series X/S
5.4.2021
The latest Xbox Insider program update nixes the Xbox Live Gold requirement for free-to-play (F2P) Xbox games for users in the Xbox Insider Alpha & Alpha Skip Ahead rings. The change will roll out to other Xbox Insider levels in the coming weeks, and, hopefully, everyone else soon after.Read...