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Dawntrail Players Should Read The Damn Dialogue, Cloud Gaming Is Good Actually, And More Opinions For The Week
6.7.2024
This week saw some “discourse” flare up around the storytelling in Final Fantasy 14 and specifically its new expansion, Dawntrail, and we’ve got thoughts. Also, don’t miss our commentary on what appears to be Sony winding down active support for the PS4, and how cloud gaming can be really cool...
Resident Evil 9 Quietly Announced, Nintendo Has Plans To Thwart Switch 2 Resellers, And More Of The Week's News
6.7.2024
This week, we’ve got the latest on how Nintendo plans to prevent its Switch successor from falling into reseller hell the way its current console did upon release. Also, a game that was banned for featuring underage nudity made an appearance in a convention sales booth, and we’ve got 16 great...
After Just A Year, Capcom's Live-Service Dino Game Is Going Extinct
5.7.2024
Capcom announced today that after just a year of updates, its live-service dino killin’ game—Exoprimal—will be going on life support as it has no further plans to add new seasonal content to the game after its last update. Read more
Helldivers 2 Players Fear They’ve Been Tricked Into Unlocking A Weapon They Don’t Want
5.7.2024
Arrowhead, the developers behind the hit co-op shooter Helldivers 2, have recently been struggling to get a bit of weaponry into the hands of its community. Helldivers 2 players have consistently failed to unlock a new stratagem—deployable weapons and tools to use mid-match—for months on end....
Your First Look At Shadow In The Sonic 3 Movie Is Via A Leaked Popcorn Bucket
5.7.2024
We are just about five months away from Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s theatrical release on December 20. It’s been three months since Paramount gave fans a private premiere of footage from the film in April, but after months of waiting and theorizing about when a public trailer might drop, most fans...
It's Time To Jump Into One Of The Longest-Running Japanese RPG Series Out There
5.7.2024
Everyone knows at least one super fan in their life who won’t shut up about the Trails series, Nihon Falcom’s sprawling universe of beefy RPGs with an overwhelming number of sequels, subseries, and interwoven narrative arcs spread out across multiple decades. Fortunately, the latest game in...
Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 6 Great Games We’re Kicking Off July With
5.7.2024
July is here and so are its wonderfully (or not so wonderful) high temperatures. Here in the States, we just wrapped a holiday that feels…well, do I need to spell out how discordant and weird things are here right now? Probably not. Oh, hey, that’s right: Video games! Escapism isn’t always...
GTA V’s Story DLC Was Canceled Because Of ‘Cash Cow’ GTA Online, Former Dev Claims
5.7.2024
As one of the best-selling video games of all time, one that has individually outsold entire video game series like Assassin’s Creed, it’s always been disappointing that Grand Theft Auto V never got story DLC. The franchise has had incredible DLC in the past, like GTA 4’s outstanding The Ballad...
Escape From Tarkov Puts Bounties On Cheaters, Rewards Players For Reporting Them
5.7.2024
What better way to incentivize players to help keep the community clean than by offering up a reward? Plenty of online video games have a cheater problem, but sometimes developers need players’ help to track them down. That’s what Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games is doing, offering...
Newest Elden Ring Patch Weakens A Bunch Of DLC Weapons, Nerfs Final Boss Cheese Strat
5.7.2024
If Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree’s first patch was meant to make the DLC easier, this second one is out for blood again. Effectively, patch 1.12.3 issues a host of balance changes that weaken a bunch of Shadow of the Erdtree’s new weapons and Ash of War skills, including a popular build that...
Switch Gets 7 More Random NES Games, Including One Programmed By Nintendo's Former President
5.7.2024
Nearly six years after it launched, Nintendo Switch Online is still getting new NES classics added to its on-demand subscription service. Nintendo announced seven more games are now available to play. The esoteric bunch, which includes Mach Rider and The Mystery of Atlantis, means almost every...
With Dawntrail, Final Fantasy 14 Hits Highest Player Count In A Decade
5.7.2024
It’s normal for an MMO’s peaks and valleys in player counts to correlate with expansion releases and the fallow years in between. So it isn’t surprising that Dawntrail, the new expansion to Final Fantasy 14, has brought up the player numbers for Square Enix’s decade-old MMO. However, despite mixed...
Summer Games Done Quick Gives Us The Best Video Game Moment Of 2024
5.7.2024
Summer Games Done Quick is typically a beacon for good things. Every year, players break good games and perform wild acts of digital acrobatics as they do speedruns for a good cause. And the best good thing was the goodest of good boys Peanut Butter, a four-year-old Shiba Inu, hitting a home run...
16 Extraordinary Games You Need To Wishlist This Indie-Penance Day!
4.7.2024
Astonishingly, this is the fourth year in a row Kotaku has celebrated Indie-Penance Day, since the holiday was invented to mark the liberation of gaming from the cruel rule of the British monarchy. To mark the occasion, we’ve picked a selection of some of the most interesting, enticing, unknown...
Report: More Activision Games Coming To Game Pass Soon
3.7.2024
Thus far, only one Activision Blizzard-published game has made its way to Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service, almost a year after Microsoft finalized its deal to purchase the massive Call of Duty publisher. But a new report claims more Activision games will (slowly) start coming to the service...
Elden Ring Players Are Bullying An Old Boss After Mastering The DLC
3.7.2024
A lot of Elden Ring players have been struggling with the game’s recently released Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. The DLC, which takes place in an entirely new region, features a hard-as-nails boss gauntlet and a brand new leveling system that has raised the bar for folks, perhaps even a little...
The Dos and Don’ts Of Selling Your Friend On Your Favorite Game
3.7.2024
We all have that one game we love so much, we want to share with as many people as possible. Unless you’re a gatekeeper of the things that bring you joy, you’ve probably tried to get a friend, family member, partner, or stranger on the street to play a game you love in hopes that it will similarly...
The Watch Dogs Movie Is Actually Happening, Over A Decade After It Was Announced
3.7.2024
Production on a live-action Watch Dogs film has finally started over a decade after Ubisoft first announced the adaptation was in the works. Read more
Wield Spinning Blades Of Glory With Shadow Of The Erdtree's Curseblade’s Cirque
3.7.2024
The Curseblade’s Cirque is a Backhand Blade that can only be obtained in Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion. It’s one of the most visually distinct weapons in the DLC, and its unique Ash of War can be as thrilling to use as it is effective against your foes. If you’re going all-in...
Dead Rising Remaster Locks Classic Frank West Behind A Pre-Order Paywall
3.7.2024
When Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster releases later this year, fans will have to play as a new, different-looking Frank West. This “improved” version of the character hasn’t been well received online, so it’s nice to hear that Capcom is offering a different model based on the OG Frank West in...