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I’m Still on My BS, But Now I Get Healthcare
24.8.2021
Hello again, Kotaku readers. My name is Sisi. I am an award-nominated game designer, a roleplaying game enthusiast, and mobile gaming casual. Maybe you’ve already read some of my pieces about Genshin Impact, and I’m psyched to be doing this for you on a full-time basis. Read more
The Best Gamescom Surprise So Far Is This Spell-Casting Shooter
24.8.2021
Fans of fast-paced first-person shooters that send you beyond the earthly plane to murder demons while heavy metal plays in the background should have their interest piqued by a certain upcoming release. No, no, not another Doom. We’re talking about an indie game called Into the Pit, which looks...
Holy Crap, Gjallarhorn Is Coming Back To Destiny 2
24.8.2021
Today’s big Destiny 2 info drop included details about the release date for The Witch Queen expansion (a bunch of 2s) and the specific height of its villain (very tall). That’s cool and all, but here’s the real meat and potatoes: Gjallarhorn, the comically powerful rocket launcher that more or less...
Hopefully The New PS5 Model Will Solve The Console’s Weird Wi-Fi Issues
24.8.2021
The PlayStation 5 is a large, lovely piece of hardware, but it’s not without its issues...issues like Wi-Fi connections completely disappearing until the system is powered off and on again. It’s a problem many PS5 owners have run into since launch, and while there are workarounds, it would be nice...
Destiny 2 Witch Queen Out February 2022, Adds Weapon Crafting
24.8.2021
Bungie finally revealed Destiny 2's Witch Queen expansion today and it looks like it’s exactly what the game needs, even if it won’t be launching until February 22, 2022.Read more
Major Game Devs Set Up Fake Company To Launch New Game
24.8.2021
What do you do if you’re a developer so incredibly famous for one particular game, and you want to release something completely different? If you’re Supercell, the creators of mobile phenomenon Clash Of Clans, you create an entirely fake developer and soft-launch your new product under a fake...
Xbox One’s ‘Black Screen Of Death’ Is Bricking Consoles (Again)
24.8.2021
Most everyone remembers the infamous “red ring of death,” an Xbox 360 hardware malfunction in which the console power ring would turn red and the console would just...stop working. The problem was eventually fixed after Microsoft dropped a cool $1 billion on it. But now there’s another flaw...
Destiny 2 Latest Game To Boldly Announce Gargantuan Gal
24.8.2021
Today, Bungie proudly joins the ranks of Capcom, FromSoftware, and other lovers of big ladies everywhere. The upcoming Destiny 2 expansion stars the Hive Witch Savathun, a long-teased major villain from the part of the lore I actually know about (ask me anything about sword logic), and Bungie...
Is This The Real Life Or Is It Just A Sims Stream?
24.8.2021
Life imitates. Or art imitates life. Or the two imitate each other enough that we can’t tell which is which. And if we can’t tell which is which, then how can we know if we exist in life or in art? How are we to know that this life isn’t just a giant Sims playthrough?Read more
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Disk Modded Into Final Fantasy XIV Controller
24.8.2021
The idea was simple. In Final Fantasy XIV, Astrologians use cards. Yu-Gi-Oh! characters use cards. Why not combine the two? Read more
Eight Very Convincing Reasons To Make Better Video Game Horses
24.8.2021
There are two reasons I am posting about this list called “8 Common Horse Mistakes I Want Game Developers to Stop Making”. Number one, it’s a good list. Number two, it comes from a video game horse-themed website called The Mane Quest.Read more
Straight Up Not Having A Good Time
24.8.2021
Victor Cloux is an artist based in China.Read more
The Best Strategy Games On PC
24.8.2021
The PC is home to just about every type of video game under the sun, but few are as quintessentially PC as strategy games.Read more
Modders Finally Add Wall-Running To Apex Legends
24.8.2021
Know what the coolest thing about Titanfall was? Piloting spritely, giant robots. Know what the second coolest thing was? Being able to run along the walls. So it has long been very strange that Apex Legends, a game set in the same universe as Titanfall, has allowed you to do neither of those...
Trees Have Become The Pokémon Fandom's Ultimate Brain Worms
23.8.2021
While the latest trailer for Pokémon Legends: Arceus shows the open-world monster-collecting game shaping up nicely compared to its initial reveal, some onlookers are not impressed. And so, for the second time in recent memory, the Pokémon fandom is once again talking about trees.Read more
Bungie Escalates War On Destiny 2 Cheat Makers
23.8.2021
Bungie’s legal war against businesses distributing Destiny 2 cheat codes escalated last week with fresh lawsuits for copyright infringement filed against Elite Boss Tech, Lavicheats, and VeteranCheats.Read more
Report: Unity Employees Not Thrilled Their Work Is Supporting The Military
23.8.2021
You probably know Unity as a popular game engine, but Unity Technologies, the company behind the tool, doesn’t just make money from aspiring and established game developers. It also contracts work with various entities outside of gaming, including the government and, crucially, the Department...
Twelve Minutes Might Have The Worst Video Game Ending Of The Year
23.8.2021
Twelve Minutes is, or at least should be, a game about trauma. It is, but it isn’t.Read more
The Giant Destiny 2 Leak Everyone Can’t Stop Talking About
23.8.2021
Speculation over a notorious batch of supposed Destiny 2 leaks has reached a fever pitch ahead of the Season 15 and Witch Queen expansion reveals. Bungie’s live-service loot shooter is no stranger to data mining deep dives from players and theorizing based on those findings, but what makes...
When Your Fallout Mod Is So Good Bethesda Hires You Before It Comes Out
23.8.2021
Stephanie Zachariadis, head writer of the highly anticipated Fallout: London mod, is leaving the development team after being hired as an associate quest designer at Bethesda Game Studios, project lead Dean Carter announced recently.Read more