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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart: The Kotaku Review
8.6.2021
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is an enormous, breathtakingly beautiful third-person action platformer for PS5. It has hours of exquisitely crafted worlds, world-leading platforming, and a bold, engaging story told by a superb cast. It’s just… so did 2016’s Ratchet & Clank. And, well, 2002’s...
Tonight, The Internet Broke
8.6.2021
It’s not just you or the sites you visit. A huge part of the internet went down earlier tonight, and everything from entertainment providers to video services to news sites was impacted.Read more
Huge Fallout 2 Mod Finally Translated From Russian Into English
8.6.2021
Olympus 2027, a famous Fallout 2 mod that completely replaces the original game with a new setting and storyline, is now finally available to play for those of us who can’t read a word of Russian.Read more
Homeworld 3's Weird Crowd-Funding Scheme Has Been Cancelled
8.6.2021
It was very exciting to hear back in 2019 that Homeworld 3 was in development. The news was tempered a little at the time, though, by a very strange crowd-funding scheme that was attached to the project, despite the fact the game was being bankrolled by Gearbox, a major publisher.Read more
The Best Moments In E3 History
8.6.2021
Before E3, everyone gets excited for the big new announcements. But after E3, all anyone remembers—and cherishes—are the kind of screw-ups, misfires and awkward heroism you can only get when corporate executives and video game developers have to get on stage and act like salespeople in front...
Guilty Gear Strive Is Too Stylish For Its Own Good
8.6.2021
I’ve been having a great time with Guilty Gear Strive, out this week on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Steam, but I feel like developer Arc System Works might have gone a little overboard in the aesthetics department this time around.Read more
Terra Nil Is A City-Builder Where You Rebuild A Shattered Environment
8.6.2021
While most city-builders pitch themselves as something idyllic, all blue skies and green grass, the upcoming Terra Nil for the PC goes in a slightly different direction, giving you a world that has suffered environmental collapse then asking you to clean it up a bit.Read more
E3 Avatar Creator: The Kotaku Review
8.6.2021
E3 is here. Registered participants will soon be able to log in to the E3 portal to connect with developers, industry professionals, and fans. Since the event is purely digital, the ESA is encouraging participants to create avatars so exhibitors who may or may not be there and who may or may...
Facebook's 100% Subscription Money Deal Turns Twitch Streamers' Heads
7.6.2021
Facebook has made no secret of its desire to lure streamers over from Twitch’s saturated pastures. Its latest salvo in the streaming wars? Full subscription profits for streamers for the next two years.Read more
Resident Evil Village Glitch Gives Ethan A Finger Gun
7.6.2021
Last week, a Reddit user shared a brief video on the Resident Evil subreddit demonstrating an interesting moment from their Resident Evil Village playthrough.Read more
Dying Light, A 6-Year-Old Game, Just Got Free DLC
7.6.2021
Six years, four months, and three weeks ago, a major developer released a big-budget action game set in a sprawling open world. In 2018, that same developer announced a sequel slated for the following year. It has since been delayed. And now, the original game is getting more content. Such is...
Rainbow Six Quarantine Officially Renamed Extraction
7.6.2021
The next Rainbow Six game is no longer named Quarantine, Ubisoft announced today. Instead, the upcoming co-op shooter is now called Rainbow Six Extraction.Read more
Days Gone Mod Makes Zombie Hordes Ludicrously Large
7.6.2021
It was only a matter of time until Days Gone’s newfound PC audience began to tear out its insides and refashion them into something gnarlier, and now that day has arrived. A new mod ups freaker (aka zombie) horde sizes to the point where they basically blot out your whole screen.Read more
Super Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
7.6.2021
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beavis....
FFXIV Artists Used Their Free Time To Get Bunny Boys Into The Game
7.6.2021
When Final Fantasy XIV introduced female-only Viera and male-only Hrothgar as playable races for its Shadowbringers expansion, fans were not happy. It turns out the game’s graphics team weren’t happy either, so they worked in their free time between patches to get male rabbits and female bestial...
Fighting Game Legend Tokido Appears In BMW Ad In Japan
7.6.2021
Hajime “Tokido” Taniguchi isn’t only one of the greatest Street Fighter players ever, he would also like to tell you about the BMW 2 Series.Read more
Logan Paul Wore A Pokémon Card To Mayweather Fight, Says It's Now Worth A Million Dollars
7.6.2021
There wasn’t a knockout in tonight’s Logan Paul versus Floyd Mayweather exhibition fight. One clear winner did emerge: Pokémon card collectors, Paul included.Read more
Nvidia's DLSS Sorcery Is Coming To Linux
7.6.2021
DLSS, a technology I do not want to understand because then it will no longer feel like magic, has until now been available only to folks playing Windows games. Thanks to some work from Valve and Nvidia, though, that’s about to change.Read more
Red Dead Redemption Fire Art Climaxes Spectacularly
7.6.2021
Welcome to tonight’s instalment of “Video Game Art”.Read more
The Week In Games: Final Fantasy Rift
6.6.2021
It’s the week before E3, so let’s look forward to some games we can actually play before we all get excited about games we can’t play yet. This week has a lot to look forward to, including Ratchet & Clank, Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, and Guilty Gear Strive. Here are the video games...