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It's Never Been Easier To Find A Shiny Pokémon, For Better Or Worse
27.3.2023
Welcome to Exp. Share, Kotaku’s weekly Pokémon column in which we dive deep to explore notable characters, urban legends, communities, and just plain weird quirks from throughout the Pokémon franchise. This week, we’re looking at the history of Shiny Pokémon and how catching them became a huge...
Bungie Quietly Patches Destiny 2's Vagina Armband
24.3.2023
Destiny 2 has gotten a bunch of hotfixes since the Lightfall expansion launched several weeks ago, but none like yesterday’s update. A fix not mentioned in the patch notes secretly changed the game’s newest Warlock armband armor to make it look less like a vagina.Read more
Bringing Authenticity And Humor To Like A Dragon's 'Western Renaissance'
24.3.2023
The Like a Dragon series (formerly known as the Yakuza series) is the most video game ever. This melodramatic crime drama series about a bunch of burly gangsters with the power to rip their suits clean off from their lapels has wacky plotlines where you hire a chicken as a real estate employee...
PS5 Bundle Finally Goes On Sale For The First Time Ever, But It Won't Last
24.3.2023
The PS5 sold out for years. Now it’s in stock and, shockingly, currently on sale for the first time since the latest-gen hardware was released. But the discount only goes until April 6, and who knows how long these cheaper bundles will last.Read more
Elden Ring Ray Tracing Is Busted After Year Of Waiting
24.3.2023
Just yesterday, developer FromSoftware rolled out a new Elden Ring update that introduced ray tracing (RTX). It’s been a highly requested feature since the game’s February 25, 2022 launch. Unfortunately, just hours after patch 1.09 dropped, RTX is breaking the popular Soulslike in all kinds...
Destiny 2 Still Has More Lance Reddick Coming
24.3.2023
The Destiny 2 community has been mourning the loss of John Wick and The Wire actor Lance Reddick along with everyone else following his recent death. But Bungie confirms the voice behind lead character Commander Zavala still has a few performances left to come in the game.Read more
The Witcher 3 Devs Explain A Character's Surprising Death Years Later
24.3.2023
Vesemir’s death in 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt brought me to tears. Despite having very little familiarity with the games or the books before playing the third entry in this classic trilogy of RPGs, the moment my little band of misfit heroes lost an essential part of their found family was...
8 Minutes Of Diablo IV's Character Creator
24.3.2023
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Let's Rank The Fallout Games, Worst To Best
24.3.2023
In the 20+ years since the Fallout franchise was introduced to the world, most of the games have been met with praise—which means that ranking them isn’t easy. It’s especially difficult to pit the games against each other when you consider that the post-nuclear franchise has undergone a couple...
Blizzard Warns Diablo IV Open Beta Will Also Be A Mess At First
23.3.2023
Ahead of tomorrow’s Diablo IV open beta, Blizzard warns that—as was the case last weekend—players will likely suffer from long waits and other server issues as even more folks than last weekend all queue up to try to play the super-hyped sequel.Read more
Fortnite Players Are Already Making Incredible Things With Unreal
23.3.2023
This week, Epic Games revealed Unreal Editor for Fortnite, a toolset that expands on the battle royale’s existing creator resources and could completely revolutionize the game in the process. Players have wasted no time offering glimpses into that potential, using the new tools for everything from...
Sorry Sickos, Resident Evil 4 Remake Won’t Let You Kill The Merchant
23.3.2023
Resident Evil 4’s long-awaited remake is out tomorrow. And while this soon-to-be-released horror game is a mostly faithful adaptation of the original Capcom classic, not everything from the original game has been recreated in the remake. For example: You monsters who like murdering the mysterious...
What The Hell Is Everywhere, That New Creator Game From Ex-GTA Devs?
23.3.2023
Remember Everywhere, that ambitious-yet-vague open-world game spearheaded by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies? It’s OK if you don’t. After all, the project had only the briefest of reveals during last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation. However, after half a year...
Reduce Your Screen Time With These Video Game-Inspired Board Games
23.3.2023
Between my PC, PS5, Switch, GameCube (yeah, I still have one of those), iPhone, and my friend’s Xbox 360 (yeah, he still has one of those), it’s hard not to feel completely boxed in by screens leaking evil, sleep-disrupting blue light. Though I like playing games every day, I also have screen...
Women’s Pro Soccer Players React To Their Terrible FIFA 23 Characters
23.3.2023
The FIFA 23 lords giveth, and the FIFA 23 lords taketh away. Fans have been asking for the National Women’s Soccer League to be added to the game for over a decade, and EA finally dropped all 12 teams (plus the UWCL) into the game yesterday. Unfortunately for the women on those rosters, their...
Destiny 2 Fixing Gunship That Keeps Killing Everyone
23.3.2023
If you’ve played Destiny 2 at all in the weeks since Lightfall released, you’ve probably died more than once to a Thresher. The nondescript Cabal gunships have been utterly destroying players since the new expansion hit, but some much needed relief is finally on the way.Read more
Fortnite’s Unreal Editor Used To Recreate Original Map, And You Can Play It
23.3.2023
Last week, Epic Games announced that it would graft its industry-standard game engine into the most popular battle royale game on earth. Fortnite content creators are using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) to create all sorts of wild shit, including the original Fortnite map as it existed...
The Sims 4's Free Infant Update Can't Compare To The Growing Together Expansion
23.3.2023
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Elden Ring Gets Ray Tracing One Year Later, With Some Big Buffs And Nerfs
23.3.2023
In preparation for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree, FromSoftware has dropped a new update for the successful kill-you-nonstop Soulslike. Dubbed patch 1.09, this update makes several changes, from introducing ray tracing effects to nerfing certain skills related to Bleed and Intelligence...
The Sims 4’s Growing Together Expansion Pack Is An Instant Must-Have
23.3.2023
The Sims 4’s Growing Together Expansion Pack DLC is exactly what fans have been waiting for. If you’re a discerning Sims 4 fan wading through the massive amounts of Expansion Packs, Game Packs, Stuff Packs, and now the extra bite-sized Kits, searching for only the most crucial offerings, you’ll...