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Mass Effect 2 Almost Had Another Gay Romance, With Jacob
27.1.2021
Turns out Jack’s pansexuality wasn’t the only instance of BioWare scrubbing same-sex romance from Mass Effect 2 before it shipped. Jonathan Cooper, a former BioWare cinematic animator, revealed on Twitter this morning that his team also worked on a similar scene involving party member Jacob...
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Players Figured Out How To (Legitimately) Score That Secret Bow
27.1.2021
Over the weekend, players of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla uncovered a secret bow (the laughably powerful Noden’s Arc) by...smacking a rock in the middle of a lake over and over again. The trick bounced around the web. Ubisoft’s Darby McDevitt even chimed in, describing it as a “clever brute force...
Hitman Player Tries To Kill Every NPC In One Map With A Single Rubber Ducky
27.1.2021
Twitch streamer RTGame (meatspace name: Daniel) had a dream: to kill every NPC in a single Hitman level. But while you can find dozens of videos on YouTube of people doing the same thing, Daniel’s plan was a bit more explosive, chiefly because he intended to take out everyone at the same time....
Gamified yield farming with nonfungible tokens
27.1.2021
Game developers are now trying to use the foundational premise put forth by NFTs and to marry the idea with that of yield farming
There's A Lot Of Sonic And Nights In Balan Wonderworld's Trippy Demo
27.1.2021
Want to spend an hour or so wandering colorful cartoon dreamscapes crafted by the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog? Do you enjoy the sensation of being pleasantly bewildered? If you answered yes to either of those questions you’re going to want to play the demo for Balan Wonderworld. It’s something...
How To Actually Access The New Dead Cells DLC
27.1.2021
Dead Cells recently got a lot bigger. This week’s Fatal Falls expansion adds a crop of weapons and enemies to the game, plus two new biomes. Trouble is, actually accessing those two zones—the Fractured Shrines and the Undying Shores—eludes simple explanation. Classic Dead Cells, right? Here’s...
Here's February 2021's PlayStation Plus Lineup
27.1.2021
February’s PlayStation Plus games are great. You get Destruction AllStars for PS5, and the storied Control: Ultimate Edition as either the PS4 version or PS5 version. As always, these games are only “free” if you have an active PlayStation Plus membership.Read more
Modding Breakthrough Allows Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword To Be Recreated In Breath Of The Wild
27.1.2021
Breath of the Wild modder Waikuteru is on a roll. Last week, they salvaged the glorified storage unit that is Link’s house. Now they’ve taken full control of the giant house that houses Link’s house, by which I mean Hyrule.Read more
I Hope Bowser's Fury Is The Future Of Mario
27.1.2021
Bundled with the enhanced port of 2013’s Super Mario 3D World coming to the Switch on February 12, Bowser’s Fury is an open-world side-story that pits Mario against the scariest damn Bowser ever. So far it’s the most fun I’ve had with Mario since Odyssey.Read more
The Medium: The Kotaku Review
27.1.2021
The Medium is stuck between two types of video games. It seems like a throwback to classic, claustrophobic horror titles such as Silent Hill and Resident Evil, but it also feels like a more modern non-combat, narrative-focused scary game. The end result is a game that feels middle of the road. This...
OutRun’s Composer Rewrote Sega’s Sound Drivers So Sword Of Vermilion Could Rock
27.1.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re diving into the sounds of Sword of Vermilion, a middling RPG for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive with music that is anything but.Read more
In Japan, The Nintendo Switch Covers Itself In Monster Hunter
27.1.2021
To mark the release of Monster Hunter Rise this March, Nintendo is releasing a special emblazoned Switch in Japan.Read more
Borderlands Movie Outdoes Itself, Casts Kevin Hart As Roland
27.1.2021
Jumanji star and comedian Kevin Hart has been signed to play Roland in the upcoming Borderlands movie according to The Hollywood Reporter. Yeah, I don’t get it either.Read more
Too Fast Too Fantasy XV: Planes, Trains, And Wrecked Automobiles
27.1.2021
In my epic quest to finish Final Fantasy XV, I am literally and figuratively on a train that is barrelling toward the final stop. I am in FF15’s endgame—a section of short, brutal chapters that no longer allow you to freely roam the open roads of Eos. Even if I somehow could return to travel...
Here’s Where Dead Cells Is At In 2021
26.1.2021
It’s safe to say that Dead Cells is more alive than ever. First released in 2018 for PC and consoles, the excellent side-scrolling roguelike casts you as a reanimated soldier. You wield randomly chosen weapons, which you use to kill randomly spawned enemies as you roll through randomly generated...
Gollum Game Delayed To 2022
26.1.2021
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, currently in development by German studio Daedalic Entertainment, has had its release date pushed back a year to 2022.Read more
Holy Crap, Babu Frik Is Playable In The Next Lego Star Wars Game
26.1.2021
The Rise of Skywalker was a freaking nightmare, but it had one bright spot: a tiny Anzellan droidsmith named Babu Frik. And now the cute little guy will be making the jump to Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga when it launches later this year.Read more
Age of Empires II Is Still Getting New Civilizations, More Than 21 Years Later
26.1.2021
The classic real-time strategy game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings just keeps growing, and growing, and growing. Its latest expansion, decades after the game was originally released in 1999, is called Lords of the West and adds three more campaigns and two completely new civilizations:...
How To Get Back Into Destiny 2
26.1.2021
Destiny 2 is no spring chicken. Since the shared-world shooter first landed in 2017, Bungie has released a steady stream of paid annual expansions and tweaked the core formula to various degrees. Keeping up with Destiny 2 is a commitment—of time, of money, of patience—so there’s no shame if you’ve...
Two Developers Are Turning Bloodborne Into A Playable PS1 Game
26.1.2021
PS1-style demakes are in right now. From Cyberpunk 2077 to Untitled Goose Game, idle developers have been creating low-poly homages to Sony’s first gaming console, warping modern aesthetics and sensibilities into late ‘90s jank. Bloodborne PSX is another project in that vein, but unlike lots...