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Mass Effect: Corsair Was A Cancelled Spin-Off For Nintendo DS
6.7.2021
According to ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah, Mass Effect: Corsair was set to be a first person adventure on Nintendo DS where you’d fly around in a ship, exploring a far-away galaxy.Read more
Animal Crossing Monopoly Has Just The Cutest Little Figures
6.7.2021
A Reddit user has found an early copy of the unannounced Animal Crossing edition of Monopoly, and while for the most part this is unremarkable news, I thought the game’s accompanying miniatures were worth a closer look.Read more
Ubisoft Screws Up DRM Servers, Then Somehow Makes Things Worse
6.7.2021
Last month, Ubisoft decided to end online support for a bunch of older games, but in doing so also brought down the DRM servers for Might and Magic X - Legacy, meaning players couldn’t access the game’s singleplayer content or DLC.Read more
TIE Fighter Has Been Remade With More Modern Visuals
6.7.2021
If EA’s Squadrons wasn’t quite to the scale you were hoping for from your Star Wars flight game, never mind: you can always replay 1994 classic TIE Fighter, which now has vastly-improved visuals and some other modern tweaks instead.Read more
Indie-Penance Day: We Did It, We Bloody Did It
6.7.2021
With this fourth collection, that makes 44 indie games covered on Kotaku today! I committed, and in all seriously, each one of them contains just extraordinary-looking games that you’d never have read about anywhere else. No difference here. Another collection of fascinating projects you’ll likely...
Indie-Penance Day: Resurgence
5.7.2021
Iiiiiii Deeeeeee Fiiiiiiiive. That’s what the cool kids are already calling the first annual* Kotaku Indie-Penance Day. They’re all wishlisting amazing-looking indie games, and then high fiving and having all sorts of interesting sex with each other. Don’t miss out.Read more
Black Geyser Looks Like The BioWare RPG You've Been Waiting For
5.7.2021
Black Geyser: Couriers Of Darkness sure looks like a BioWare game. It isn’t, because BioWare hasn’t made BioWare games for centuries. This is in fact made by a small team, yet when it goes into Early Access next month, will apparently boast real-time combat, a set of companions, and over 300,000...
Japan Gets Its Chance At Star Wars With Anime Anthology
5.7.2021
This weekend, Disney announced Star Wars: Visions, an anime anthology of original shorts. Seven anime studios are putting their unique spin on the world of Star Wars, a first for the franchise. Yet, it feels like Star Wars has finally come full circle.Read more
Tekken Director's Failed Prank Could've Got Capcom In Trouble
5.7.2021
Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada and former Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono used to be hilarious Twitter rivals. Years ago, while at Gamescom, Harada thought he’d play a prank on Ono. It seemed like a pretty good one until he found out Ono had outsmarted him. Read more
American Troops Are Pulling Out Of Afghanistan, Leaving Pokémon Behind
5.7.2021
As the last major deployments of American and NATO troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, one of the most important milestones in their departure was the closing last week of Bagram Airfield, once the largest US base in the country.Read more
The Week In Games: Monster Hunter Stories 2
5.7.2021
A new Monster Hunter game is out this week on Switch and PC. What is Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin? I have no idea. But it’s out this week! Read more
Apex Legends Hackers Fill Game With Messages Complaining About Titanfall Hackers
4.7.2021
Early this morning, Apex Legends seems to have been hacked by folks who feel Respawn hasn’t done enough to fight hackers in its original game, Titanfall.Read more
The Top 10 Most Valuable Pokémon Cards In History
3.7.2021
The ongoing demand for rare and valuable Pokémon cards has led to a frenzy out there, as people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on unopened boxes and rare cards. Celebrities and popular influencers have got involved over the last two years too, blowing up the situation further. It’s gotten...
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
My Elder Scrolls Online Apartment Is Very Sad And Crappy
3.7.2021
I recently starting playing the Elder Scrolls Online again because... I don’t have a good reason. I guess, I just genuinely like the game and the overall Elder Scrolls universe. Read more
Dead By Daylight Just Hit Over 105k Concurrent Players On Steam
3.7.2021
Dead By Daylight is an online asymmetrical multiplayer game released back in 2016. Yet, the game is more popular than ever in 2021. And for the first time, Dead By Daylight just hit over 100k concurrent players on Steam, setting a new record for the online horror game.Read more
Mario Golf’s Fun, But Battle Golfer Yui Blows Sh*t Up
3.7.2021
I recently went from playing zero golfing games to two. The first, Mario Golf: Super Rush, arrived on Switch last week, whereas the second, Battle Golfer Yui, released for the Mega Drive (that’s the Sega Genesis for my fellow Americans) in 1991 and never left Japan. And while they share a host...
Star Wars: The Bad Batch's Newest Episode Has An Epic Gamer Moment
3.7.2021
Tensions are running high in the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, as our favorite group of misfit clones have to balance making money with keeping a low profile. With a number of close calls that nearly had Omega returning to the hands of the Empire, it’s clear that Hunter and co....
Justice Department Investigating Overwatch League
3.7.2021
The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the Overwatch League’s soft salary cap policy that punishes teams who pay players too much, according to a new report by Dot Esports.Read more
Okay, Hear Me Out: No Man's Sky Banana
2.7.2021
No Man’s Sky was a mess of broken promises and shattered dreams when it launched. Now it’s a playground for the imagination, with players forging cities, in-game companies, and all manner of epic bases. But none of that compares to this giant banana.Read more