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The Latest LEGO Minecraft Building Kits Are 20% off at Amazon
18.3.2021
LEGO Minecraft The Pig House | $40 | AmazonLEGO Minecraft The Trading Post | $16 | AmazonLEGO Minecraft The Abandoned Mine | $16 | AmazonLEGO Minecraft The Bee Farm | $16 | AmazonRead more
X-COM’s Beloved Tactical Gameplay Took Months To Get Just Right
18.3.2021
Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: UFO Defense tells the story of the early years of legendary strategy game designer Julian Gollop and the making of the original X-COM, and is funding now on Kickstarter. In this excerpt from the book, Julian and designers from publisher MicroProse...
Reports: Nier: Automata's New PC Version Is Better Than The Busted Original Release
18.3.2021
A new PC version of Nier: Automata, part of the Become As Gods Edition, has just been released on the Microsoft Store and Game Pass. And early reports are that, unlike the version available on Steam, this one actually works.Read more
Dying Light 2's Developers Are Indulging Toxic Gamers
18.3.2021
As promised, Polish developer Techland put out a video today updating the world on the state of zombie parkour thriller Dying Light 2. and it’s an extremely concise look at one of the most toxic cycles underlying the video game industry.Read more
Fortnite's Weird Relationship With Directors Is Getting Even Weirder
18.3.2021
Even if you don’t play one of the biggest video games on the planet, there stands a good chance you’ve heard about Fortnite recently—memetic songs about chug-jugging or otherwise—thanks to the launch of its latest season of content. But the game’s status as this bizarre black hole of media content...
Go, Fortnite Chicken, Go
17.3.2021
Perhaps you, like me, forget which games have fall damage and which don’t. You get spoiled by the invincibility of Apex Legends, only to switch to Breath of the Wild and plummet to your death. At least you won’t be doing that in Fortnite anymore, if you can catch a chicken.Read more
PSA: Next Week, You’ll Be Able To Claim A Bunch Of Free PlayStation Games
17.3.2021
Earlier this month, Sony revived last year’s Play At Home initiative, a program designed to provide free games to PlayStation players in the hopes of promoting social distancing. Next week, Sony will expand the initiative by offering a whole bunch of games.Read more
Disco Elysium’s Beefed-Up Director’s Cut Coming March 30
17.3.2021
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut will launch on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Steam, and Stadia on March 30, developer ZA/UM announced today.Read more
The Worst (And Not-So-Bad) Video Game Movies
17.3.2021
More often than not, video game movies take something we know, love, and obsess over and transform it into an unrecognizable monster at worst—or a forgettable, underwhelming experience at best. Happy endings in the video game movie genre can be hard to come by.Read more
Buy This Kingdom Hearts Costume for $28 and Become as Cool as This Man
17.3.2021
Kingdom Hearts Sora Costume | $28 | AmazonRead more
A Short Film From Medal Of Honor Has Been Nominated For An Oscar
17.3.2021
It’s not quite a video game winning a film award, but a short film that was part of Respawn’s 2020 VR game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). It’s possibly the first time a video game studio has been nominated for...
Xbox Game Pass For PC Finally Gets EA Play Tomorrow
17.3.2021
Planned for release late last year but delayed until now, EA Play comes to Xbox Game Pass for PC tomorrow at no additional cost to subscribers, complete with the newly-added Star Wars: Squadrons.Read more
Doom Eternal's Next DLC Comes Out Tomorrow
17.3.2021
Hell yeah! Doom Eternal’s next and final expansion, The Ancient Gods - Part 2, will come out tomorrow, developer iD Software announced today.Read more
Players Aren't Happy About Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Transmog Tax
17.3.2021
A couple months after release, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla finally has transmog, but not as some players had originally envisioned it. The feature falls short of how it’s been implemented in past games, and comes with a 50 silver tax on each transaction to boot, leaving a lot of us, myself included...
Eternal Sonata Literally Includes Some Of The Greatest Music Of All Time
17.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. This morning I am totally cheating by presenting you with tracks from Eternal Sonata, the Bandai Namco RPG that features music composed by 19th-century Polish classical superstar...
Sony Chose PlayStation's First Office Location With Late-Night Drinks In Mind
17.3.2021
When Sony Computer Entertainment first established its flagship PlayStation brand in 1993, its executives’ chief concern was making sure the company’s first offices were located in an area with late-night bars. At least that’s the story Ken Kutaragi, who’s widely known as father of the PlayStation...
Jade Raymond Forms New Studio, Working On Unannounced Game For PlayStation
16.3.2021
Former Assassin’s Creed producer and EA manager Jade Raymond announced the formation of a new independent studio called Haven today. It’s first project will be a brand new IP being developed for PlayStation, she wrote in a post over on the company’s blog. Read more
Stadia Exclusive Super Bomberman R Online Is Coming To PC And Consoles So People Can Play It
16.3.2021
Launched exclusively on Stadia on September 1, Super Bomberman R Online is all the explosive cartoon fun of Super Bomberman R plus a 64-player online battle royale mode that plays out across multiple game boards. Today Konami announced the game is coming soon to consoles and PC with crossplay,...
Dark Alliance Is A D&D Loot Brawler That Doesn't Have Much In Common With Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
16.3.2021
I went into my recent Dark Alliance demo with development studio Tuque Games expecting to briefly relive the grim, bloody hack and slash glory of the original Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games. The new game, while pitched as a spiritual successor, feels very different, however. Not bad, just...
Animal Crossing's Next Free Update Is A Boon For Designers
16.3.2021
Animal Crossing: New Horizons will celebrate its one-year anniversary with cake delivered to all players in its March 18 update, but the real present is 50 new slots for the normal and pro designer, and the ability to customize fans, umbrellas, flags, and photo stands. Read more