Welcome to our weekly column, in which YouTuber NimbleThor brings you a short list of the best new mobile games for your Android device. Whether you’re into casual time wasters or hardcore shooters, you’ll find something in here to exercise your thumbs with. From Aunt Mary to your best friend Michael, everyone is Black Friday and Cyber Monday…

League of Legends cinematic, “A New Dawn.”Image: Riot GamesYesterday, one current and one former employee of Riot Games filed a class action lawsuit against the League of Legends publisher, accusing it of endemic gender-based discrimination and fostering a “men-first” environment. The lawsuit comes three months after a Kotaku investigation into the sexist culture at Riot…

“The Legend of Zelda” won multiple game of the year awards in 1998, but was it the best seller? “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time”/Nintendo Starting from the humble days of “Pong” and “Space Invaders,” video games have grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, with single games garnering hundreds of millions of sales. As the…

Best answer: Not exactly. NVIDIA winded down production of the 500GB Shield TV Pro in 2018. It’s no longer available from retailers such as Amazon or Best Buy but still appears to be for sale direct from NVIDIA’s website for $299 (linked below). Alternatively, you can find consoles on eBay selling for as high as…

PlayStation Classic is a faithful reproduction of the experience of playing original PlayStation games in the mid-1990s. In that respect, it succeeds. What it lacks is passion.This piece originally appeared 11/27/18. We’re bumping it today for the PlayStation Classic’s release.With Nintendo roundly rejecting the idea of a Nintendo 64 Classic in the foreseeable future, PlayStation…

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — Liam Kirk occasionally takes a 15-minute stroll from Peterborough Memorial Centre to The UK Shoppe in search of a taste of home. Kirk, 18, is 3,400 miles away from his family in Maltby, England, playing ice hockey — a sport many of his friends teased him about while growing up.In June, the…

Bit Brigade isn’t cashing in on the speedrunning or vintage video game craze. They’re musicians first, and NES players second, which means they don’t care about internet fame. It’s all about the stage.”We’re a rock band,” bassist Luke Fields said. “You need to come see us play a rock show.”If Fields sounds like your dad…

Reggie Fils-Aime is in hype mode. That is the main gear for the president of Nintendo of America the week before Black Friday as he sits in a 38th-floor Manhattan hotel suite full of Nintendo game and system boxes. “As we look forward to the next 45 days or so,” he says, “we’re excited that…

Illustration: Sam WoolleyOn March 25, 2015, the weather in Bellevue, Washington was just warming up enough to play hacky sack, a favorite activity of the employees at the game development studio Her Interactive. That morning, they had something more pressing to think about, though: they couldn’t log into their computers. Server problems, some reasoned. They…

So I’ve decided, after watching Ella Purnell traipse humorously about the wasteland, that I want in on this Fallout thing, too. So where does an aspiring Wastelander, one who has little experience with the series, start? The answer to that is usually “at the beginning,” but I’m gonna focus on Fallout 3 through Fallout 76…

Collecting video games is easy. All you have to do is create an eBay account and click “Buy It Now” on every video game you ever wanted. Congratulations, you have a video game collection! Your bank account balance is now negative a million dollars.It’s collecting video games without going broke that’s hard. In the first…

Cover Story Codenames! Catan! Sorry! Transform screen time into game time with these immortal classics. For some families, game nights are at the very core of who they are and how they live together. From generation to generation, brothers and sisters and cousins in game families have shared in-jokes, swapped anecdotes, and passed down the…

Fallout 76 isn’t good for much, but it is giving gamers one more chance to learn a valuable lesson. Don’t pay for a product you do not want—particularly when you know you are paying for a product you do not want. Let me be up front: I think this game is bad. The critical consensus,…

In 2001, a young graduate named John Hopson wrote a detailed article for the industry website Gamasutra on the topic of behavioural game design. Hopson, an amateur game-designer, decided to pair his hobby and his research, detailing in coolly clinical terms concepts that the industry had previously handled primarily through intuition and artistry. “Under what…

After a 14-month search, Amazon announced Tuesday that it will open a pair of regional offices in two major metropolitan areas where it already has a presence: the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York, and Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington DC.The decision comes after more than 230 cities submitted bids…

Golden State games will be sold out for the foreseeable future, but they’ve discovered a new way to sell the experience: offering fans passes that don’t include a view of the court Want to see the Golden State Warriors’ Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala in person? Don’t buy an ‘In The Building’ Pass.…

(Image credit: Meta AI / Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central) After nearly a decade in the shadows, a brand new Batman Arkham game was finally announced this past week. Fans salivated at the idea of being able to play Batman again after so many years — especially after the disappointment that was Suicide Squad —…

5.23pm EST17:23 Here’s Bryan’s report off today’s game, which you can replay below. Be sure to join us on Saturday for minute-by-minute coverage of Game 11. Game 10 ended in a draw after 54 moves. 3.43pm EST15:43 “I think at some point I had a big advantage but I couldn’t see how to play it,”…

Dec 17, 2018Mark OgdenSenior Writer, ESPN FC The path to the 2019 Champions League final in Madrid has now become clear following the draw for the round of 16, which has thrown together some of Europe’s biggest clubs.Heavyweight clashes between Liverpool and Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain, Atletico Madrid and Juventus, and Ajax…

Image: Prime VideoAfter what feels like a very long cryogenic sleep in an underground nuclear bunker, Amazon’s take on Fallout dropped like a bomb on Prime Video late last week—but whether or not you’re complete newbie to the world of Interplay and Bethesda’s legendary roleplaying games, or a series veteran, was it worth the wait?…

Marc Saltzman, Special for USA TODAY Published 7:01 a.m. ET Dec. 8, 2018 | Updated 12:01 p.m. ET Dec. 8, 2018CLOSE Tech columnist Marc Saltzman gives his take on the best family-friendly video games of the year. USA TODAYIn Nintendo’s “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can pick your favorite fighter and play against the game’s…

poly-lt-wire-logo BelowCapybara Games Capybara Games’ long awaited dungeon-walker requires zen-like patience There’s much to admire about Below — and plenty to deplore. It’s pleasing on the eye, but often dull to play. It pulls me forward with the temptation of discovery, while forcing me to retrace well-trod paths. It offers up familiar gameplay tropes, simultaneously…

Kotaku Game DiaryDaily thoughts from a Kotaku staffer about a game we’re playing.  Back in 1998, Insomniac Games gave us a small purple dragon who’s a joy to control, colorful free-roaming playgrounds and backed with exquisite music. The Spyro Reignited Trilogy looks different, but it feels just as good.Released in 1998 for the original PlayStation and…

Uno Show ‘Em No MercyIf we’re being honest, you may no longer be your mom’s favorite after you’ve both indulged in a round of Uno Show ’Em No Mercy. The updated version of Mattel’s classic card game sends game-turning betrayals into overdrive with more skips, more draw cards, and new stacking rules that let you…

Kaeo Milker (L) and Findlay Milker (R)Photo: Kaeo MilkerHow I WorkThe How I Work series asks heroes, experts, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Have someone you want to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? [Email Nick](mailto:nick.douglas@lifehacker.com).  Kaeo Milker has enjoyed a long and eye-opening career at…