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Two Years After Microsoft’s Promise, FFXIII Finally Comes To Game Pass
1.9.2021
Final Fantasy XIII finally comes to Xbox Game Pass on September 2.Read more
AI Gives Street Fighter Characters Human Faces
1.9.2021
While Street Fighter V’s character roster is (mostly) supposed to look human, everyone obviously has a cartoonish slant since the game has never tried to be photorealistic. Let’s imagine just for a moment, though, that Capcom was trying to make everyone look real.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Puddlegate's Latest Victim
31.8.2021
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch 1.3 was touted as another round of bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as giving players a new outfit and car. But some players quickly noticed other changes. Puddles seemed fewer and farther between. The roads were less slick and reflective. In general, the game’s...
Dying Light Is Coming To Switch, Which...Hmm
26.8.2021
Dying Light, the wildly popular 2015 game about doing awesome front flips over less-awesome zombies, is coming to Switch later this year as Dying Light: Platinum Edition. Developer Techland announced the news during the Gamescom edition of its “Dying 2 Know” video series, which aired earlier...
Cyberpunk, The Witcher Look Fantastic Tilt-Shifted
23.8.2021
Flurdeh is a YouTube channel that takes video games and applies a “tilt-shift” effect to them, turning their bristling 3D worlds into cute little dioramas.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Stream Leaves Fans Unimpressed
17.8.2021
Earlier today, a handful of Cyberpunk 2077 devs jumped on CD Projekt Red’s official Twitch channel to provide an overview of the game’s upcoming 1.3 patch and the new in-game content the studio plans to make freely available to everyone who downloads it. Like most things having to do with...
The BBC Still Doesn't Know What Gundam is
6.8.2021
Last week, a BBC commentator struggled mightily to try and explain what the big robot was that triathletes kept cycling past during the Olympics. Now the broadcaster’s social media team is running into the same problem.Read more
Olympics Commentator Tries His Best To Say 'Gundam'
27.7.2021
The bike section of the Olympic triathlons take a nice scenic lap around the giant Gundam statue in Odaiba’s DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, which has led to commentators having to occasionally try and describe the thing.Read more
The Witcher Fan Wins Gold At The Tokyo Olympics
26.7.2021
We wrote about Russian athlete and The Witcher superfan Vitalina Batsarashkina back in 2016 when she won a silver medal in the 10m air pistol at the Rio Olympics. At this year’s games she’s back with the same Witcher gear, only this time she won gold.Read more
Saying Goodbye To Friends, In-Game And Otherwise, Sucks
24.7.2021
No one likes goodbyes, whether it be saying farewell to the characters in your favorite video game as the final credits roll, or saying goodbye to two of the three voices who made this incarnation of the Splitscreen podcast so damn special. Bring some tissues, kids.Read more
The Witcher: Monster Slayer je tu. Stanete se zaklínačem s mobilem v ruce
22.7.2021
The Witcher: Monster Slayer je mobilní hra, která propojuje herní prostředí s reálným světem, a to pomocí mobilního telefonu. Stáhnout si ji můžete zdarma na iOS a Androidu
Help, Netflix Made The Witcher’s Vesemir Hot
21.7.2021
This morning, Netflix unveiled a teaser trailer for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, an animated film set in the Witcher cinematic universe. Folks, I’m sorry (or you’re welcome?) to report that its lead character, Vesemir—yes, that Vesemir—is now attractive.Read more
The Week In Games: Witcher On Your Phone
19.7.2021
A new Witcher game comes out this week. Calm down, calm down, it’s that game that looks a lot like Pokemon GO and is coming out only on phones. (The headline should have tipped you off already.) Read more
The 17 Best Games On Xbox Game Pass
15.7.2021
Xbox Game Pass is one of the best deals in gaming today. For $10 a month, you get access to a Netflix-style library of video games that you can download and play whenever you want. Some marquee games hit the service the same day they’re released, as with The Outer Worlds. In other words, it’s...
Geralt's Voice In The Witcher Show Was A Happy Accident
10.7.2021
During an interview that was part of WitcherCon, Henry Cavill explained that Geralt’s voice heard in the first season of the Netflix show wasn’t originally the plan. Instead, it happened by “accident” while filming a scene early on in production.Read more
The Witcher 3 Will Get Free DLC Inspired By The Netflix Show
9.7.2021
Announced today, The Witcher 3 will be getting new free DLC inspired by the popular Netflix show as part of the next-gen upgrade coming later this year. Read more
The Witcher: Monster Slayer Is Out July 21
3.7.2021
The Witcher: Monster Slayer, that odd-looking mobile game set in the Witcher universe and which looks heavily inspired by Pokémon GO, is coming out July 21 on Android and iOS. Read more
Goodbye And TKTK
25.6.2021
After almost five and a half years, today’s my last day at Kotaku. A good number of you are now probably scrolling to the bottom of this post to remember what I do here, since my articles aren’t a daily feature of the site. My job, mostly, was to hide out in the background and help. It was a pretty...
First Official WitcherCon Is Happening In July
11.6.2021
Toss a coin to your friends who are about to get extremely sick of an earworm they could’ve sworn faded into obsolescence a year ago. Today, during the final Geeked Week stream, Netflix officially pulled back the curtain on The Witcher’s upcoming second season in...a 12-second teaser. Then there...
Mass Effect Is Back, But It Seems Like Morality Meters Are Gone For Good
28.5.2021
Will you save the orphans or eat them? Will you blow up the planet or give it renewable energy and free healthcare? Will you hug Leonardo Da Vinci or let his outstretched arms wither? For a minute there, it felt like games were characterized by binary choices like these—even if their prevalence...