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EA announced today that The Simpsons Tapped Out is shutting down. The free-to-play mobile game, which launched back in 2012, is the most recent Simpsons video game to be released. Agatha All Along Star Sasheer Zamata On Witchcraft And Star Trek On September 26, EA announced that it had made the “difficult decision” to shut down Tapped Out. The mobile game—which featured hundreds of characters, quests, events, dialogue written by Simpsons writers, and let players re-build...

Image: Disney / Warner Bros. / Universal / Kotaku Movies often portray robots as the harbingers of something bad, whether they’re evil and want to take over the world (Terminator, I, Robot, The Matrix, etc.) or are being exploited by humans (Blade Runner, Ex Machina, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, etc.). But robots aren’t all bad—they can be fun, cute, and family-friendly, too. Children (and adults) love assembling robot toys and figuring out how different components interact...

The Binding of Isaac is deeply embedded within gaming culture, so much so that it inspired one of the most familiar and beloved emotes to ever spam a Twitch chat: BibleThump. It’s the roguelike hero’s head screaming/sobbing, frequently deployed to communicate complex feelings of horror, empathy, and sarcastic crocodile tears. And the Amazon-owned company says it will soon be deleted from the streaming network. Meet The Filmmaker Behind This Legend of Zelda Speedrunning Documentary “The...