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Last Year Was Nintendo's Most Profitable One Ever
6.5.2021
In 2020, Nintendo saw huge profits with people quarantined at home, playing video games.Read more
Sony Sued For Restricting Its Digital Game Sales To PlayStation Store
6.5.2021
Two years ago, Sony stopped selling digital download codes for its games through retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart. And now the gaming giant has been hit with a class-action lawsuit.Read more
Outriders Is Finally Giving Some Players Back Their Lost Gear
6.5.2021
Of all the many (many) issues to plague Outriders since its early April launch, few have caused more pain than the insidious inventory-deletion bug. As of today, affected players should start to see lost gear return, developer People Can Fly announced via the game’s subreddit.Read more
Nintendo Just Very Quietly Announced A Brand New Game
6.5.2021
Nintendo doesn’t always need a big Direct to announce a new first-party game. Sometimes they can just drop a trailer and say, hey, here’s a new thing, which is exactly what just happened with Game Builder Garage.Read more
Returnal Patch Aims To Reduce Crashes, Increase...Corpses?
5.5.2021
Returnal’s latest patch is out today, and while it’s not the new PlayStation 5 exclusive’s first update, it’s the first time developer Housemarque has released patch notes. They’re pretty thin, but they address various crashes players have been experiencing, as well as some other tweaks. Read more
Humble Bundle Rethinks Unpopular Charity Split
5.5.2021
Two weeks ago, Humble Bundle announced a controversial plan to remove sliders that allow users to customize what percent of their game purchase goes to charity. Today, Humble announced that it’s rethinking that plan.Read more
Flashback Getting A New Sequel For Its 30th Birthday
5.5.2021
With its gorgeous hand-drawn backgrounds, stunning (for its time) rotoscoped animation, and engaging science fiction storyline, 1992's Flashback is one of gaming’s all-time greats. Now original game designer Paul Cuisset is back, supervising a team of developers creating Flashback 2, coming...
GamesCom Wises Up, Goes Fully Digital
5.5.2021
GamesCom 2021 will be a fully digital event this year, GamesCom officials announced in a press release today. The move is a reversal of earlier plans for a semi-live event, inadvisable given the, y’know, roiling pandemic that’s still an ever-present aspect of everyday life.Read more
Resident Evil Village: The Kotaku Review
5.5.2021
I remember vividly the first time I played one of my favorite games of all time, Resident Evil 4.Read more
CS:GO Players Can Now Pay A Buck A Month To Access Better Statistics
5.5.2021
Why use free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stat tracking websites like csgostats.gg or Leetify when you can now pay a $.99 monthly subscription fee for Valve’s official and less comprehensive CS:GO 360 Stats service? Because they’re free and more comprehensive? Ah. Read more
The Best Star Wars Video Game
5.5.2021
You’ve no doubt seen countless lists of the best video games set in the Star Wars universe today, since so many websites like to do those things on May 4. I’d like to try something a little different, and tell you what the best Star Wars video game is. Read more
Please Enjoy Epic's Tim Sweeney Apologising Profusely To Ubisoft For Screwing Up
5.5.2021
While the documents and emails being released as part of the Epic v Apple case are often important and full of detailed information, I am very much enjoying the ones—like this—where billionaire executives are forced into embarrassing apologies when their company fucks up.Read more
Radiohead Lyrics Spotted In The Resident Evil Village Demo
5.5.2021
While many players keep occupied with seeing as much of Resident Evil Village as its one-hour demo allows, some folks go the extra mile.Read more
Epic Tried To Convince Xbox To Make Multiplayer Free Alongside Apple Fight
4.5.2021
An email between Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Xbox head Phil Spencer, made public today as part of the ongoing Epic versus Apple trial, shows Sweeney trying to entice Spencer to take “free-to-play” multiplayer out from behind the Xbox Live paywall to coincide with Epic’s war against the App Store.Read...
Epic Paid $115 Million For The Borderlands 3 Exclusive
4.5.2021
As the bizarro-world bunfight between Epic and Apple enters its second day in court, more extraordinary information is coming out in court documents. Like, how Epic paid Take-Two/Gearbox one hundred and fifteen million dollars for the exclusive rights to sell Borderlands 3.Read more
Tokyo Is Getting An Esports Gym
4.5.2021
This month, an establishment calling itself “Esports Gym” will open in Tokyo. It claims to be the first in the country.Read more
Xbox 360 Emulation Is Coming Along Nicely
4.5.2021
It was only a few months ago that we were taking a look at positive steps Xbox emulation has been making on the PC, but boy, Xbox 360 emulation is also looking very good in 2021.Read more
Tim Sweeney, Video Game Billionaire, Was Asked In Court If He Could Point Out A PlayStation 5
4.5.2021
You know how in courtroom dramas an attorney will ask someone if they can point out a vital piece of evidence and they slowly raise a finger before saying “this one...it was exhibit B”? In a Very Funny Thing that happened earlier today, Epic boss Tim Sweeney was asked to do just that, only for...
It's Very Important To Nintendo That Publishers Don't Work For The Yakuza
3.5.2021
After being delayed by technical issues that resulted in a conference call full of screaming Fortnite children, the long-awaited Epic vs Apple court trial is finally underway this week. As part of the proceedings, Nintendo provided documents that include a publisher contract—though honestly...
Did You Like The New Mortal Kombat Movie?
3.5.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more