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Yoshitaka Amano's Harley Quinn Cover Is So Good I'm Gonna Cry
18.12.2020
Stephanie Phillips, writer on DC Comics’ upcoming Harley Quinn comic series, recently shared an excellent variant cover from the first issue, provided by none other than legendary Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Third-Person Bug Reveals V Is A Shambling Monstrosity
18.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is a disaster that the executives at CD Projekt knew full well was going to crash and burn. That said, one of its numerous bugs has the benefit of giving players what they’ve asked for since the game’s long-ago 2012 reveal: a third-person mode.Read more
Microsoft Is Offering Full Refunds To Anyone Who Bought Cyberpunk 2077 Online
18.12.2020
Microsoft has expanded its refund policy for players who purchased Cyberpunk 2077 digitally, guaranteeing money back for the notoriously broken CD Projekt game.Read more
Beat (Stupid Sexy) Sephiroth In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate And Unlock Him Five Days Early
18.12.2020
Sephiroth officially joins the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cast next week, but players eager to open their presents early can unlock this surprisingly shirtless Final Fantasy VII villain right now by simply kicking the crap out of him.Read more
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting Barret, Tifa, Aerith, And Geno Mii Fighter Costumes
17.12.2020
During today’s Sephiroth presentation, Super Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai showed off some of the new Mii Fighter costumes that will be added to Ultimate alongside the Final Fantasy villain.Read more
Dragon Ball FighterZ Adds Super Baby 2, Whoever The Heck That Is
17.12.2020
Dragon Ball FighterZ has gone off the rails. I can understand, on some level, the thousands of Goku variations that make up its cast. I’ll even overlook the two Brolys, if only because both versions are so popular. But recent reports that the Arc System Works fighting game is getting Super Baby...
Ubisoft Waits A Month To Start Selling XP Booster For Assassin's Creed Valhalla
17.12.2020
What do you do when you launch an Assassin’s Creed game, include the option for your customers to pay $10 to level up faster, draw all kinds of negative reactions—many of them suspicious, wary—and then launch a new Assassin’s Creed two years later? Launch with that controversial paid booster again?...
Rabbits Won’t Stop Jumping In Front Of My Fucking Horse
17.12.2020
With the release of the PlayStation 5, I’ve taken the opportunity to go back and play through a few games from the previous generation to see how they take advantage of the new console. One of those games is Rockstar’s western epic Red Dead Redemption 2. It’s great fun, but I can’t help but wonder...
Smash Community’s Conduct Panel Reaches Breaking Point After Tumultuous Summer
16.12.2020
The independent Super Smash Bros. Code of Conduct Panel is formally disbanding after a summer that saw the competitive Smash community explode with allegations of sexual misconduct.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Execs Say They 'Ignored' Signals That The Console Versions They Hyped Were In Rough Shape
16.12.2020
It’s clear by now that Cyberpunk 2077 is a bit of a disaster, especially on consoles. During a recent conference call with CD Projekt Group’s management board, executives said they knew the game was busted before its December 10 launch.Read more
GameStop's Last-Minute Console Rush Puts Workers At Risk
14.12.2020
A new allocation of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S bundles brought crowds of hopeful customers to physical GameStop locations over the weekend, according to a report by Bloomberg and corroboration by a Kotaku source. Staffing shortages and the threat of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic in...
Report: Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Will Now Receive Bonuses No Matter How It Reviews
12.12.2020
CD Projekt executives said they accept responsibility for Cyberpunk 2077’s shortcomings in an email sent to staff earlier today, Bloomberg reports.Read more
Demon's Souls, One Month Later
12.12.2020
Can you believe it’s been a month since flagship PlayStation 5 game Demon’s Souls released? I feel like I’ve spent every waking hour of the past 30 days with the Bluepoint Games remake. While the game is mostly the same as the PlayStation 3 original, the community has been hard at work sussing...
Cyberpunk 2077 Gets Epilepsy Fix
11.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 was updated today with a patch that, among other things, fixes the strobing effects that reportedly caused a Game Informer journalist to suffer an epileptic seizure.Read more
Among Us Gets New Map Set On Airship
11.12.2020
Among Us, which has already earned its developer Innersloth two awards at The Game Awards, just revealed a brand-new map.Read more
Sephiroth Is Coming To Smash
11.12.2020
During tonight’s broadcast of The Game Awards, Nintendo announced that Final Fantasy villain Sephiroth will be heading to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.Read more
New Cyberpunk Bundle Includes Loads Of Cyberpunk Games That Aren't Cyberpunk 2077
10.12.2020
Interested in the cyberpunk genre but not willing to shell out money to CD Projekt Red for Cyberpunk 2077? Well, the “Be a Better Cyberpunk” bundle on itch.io might be right up your alley.Read more
With Flash Games On The Chopping Block, One Popular Site Turns To Emulation
9.12.2020
Armor Games, one of the largest repositories of Adobe Flash-based games on the internet, is choosing to shift to emulation next year as a way to mitigate Adobe’s planned phasing out of Flash after December 2020.Read more
A Video Take On Cyberpunk 2077: Familiar, Convoluted, But Also A Good Time
9.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 is undoubtedly the most anticipated release of 2020. Over the past handful of years, fans have dreamt of the possibilities. And The Witcher 3 being a damn fine game only fueled the hype-train further. Remember when Keanu Reeves came out on Microsoft’s E3 2019 stage? I was fortunate...
Yakuza: Like A Dragon’s Best Boss Theme Makes Me Wanna Break Stuff (In A Good Way)
9.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we’re looking at what I think is the best boss battle theme in modern history.Read more