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Minecraft Earth Ends This Summer
5.1.2021
Augmented reality mobile game Minecraft Earth is shutting down in June, developer Mojang Studios announced this morning.Read more
The Medium Finally Has The Hardware To Match Its Ambition
5.1.2021
Upcoming horror game The Medium is about a psychic trying to solve a crime. Developers at Polish game studio Bloober Team tell me it’s also about breaking down player’s preconceived notions about the world.Read more
Nintendo Buys Canadian Studio Behind Luigi's Mansion 3, Super Mario Strikers
5.1.2021
Nintendo just announced that it has purchased Next Level Games, the developers behind titles like Luigi’s Mansion 3, Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon and the Super Mario Strikers series.Read more
Xbox Emulation Is Coming Along Nicely
5.1.2021
While platforms as recent as the PS3 and even the Switch are now running very nicely in emulators, the original Xbox has remained something of a thorn in the side of the scene. So it’s cool to see the xemu emulator making such solid progress.Read more
Jarod Nandin, "The South Park Guy" Cosplayer, Has Died
4.1.2021
Jarod Nandin, a World of Warcraft player and cosplayer best known for his depiction of South Park’s Jenkins, has died of Covid.Read more
Video Games Predict A Grim 2021
4.1.2021
2020 was a bad year for most of us, but a surprisingly good year for video games. As we enter 2021 with the hope offered by the vaccines, and the light at the end of the tunnel just about visible, it might soon be possible to allow hope back in. Unless, it seems, video games are your guide.Read more
What’s On Your Gaming Wishlist For 2021?
4.1.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Breath of the Wild NPCs Appear To Be Based On 'Advanced' Miis
4.1.2021
If you’ve ever stared at one of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s random villagers and thought, “Hey, that looks like a Mii,” it could be because the two might be related.Read more
Immortals Fenyx Rising Is Even Better If You Remap The Buttons
4.1.2021
Immortals Fenyx Rising, Ubisoft’s latest open-world game set in mythological Ancient Greece, is pretty damn good. It’s even better if you shake up the standard control scheme.Read more
My New Exercise Regimen Is A Plastic Taiko Drum Controller
4.1.2021
Stuck in bed most days due to an ongoing medical condition and paralyzed from the chest down, I don’t have a lot of options for cardio exercise. Hand bikes, weights, and tension bands are boring. You know what’s not boring? Beating the hell out of Hori’s drum controller for Bandai Namco’s Taiko...
What's Great About Bowser
4.1.2021
How do you evolve a franchise with an almost-static main character? You look to his antagonist: Bowser, King of the Koopas. Also known by his objectively superior Japanese name: Great Demon King Koopa.Read more
Some Of 2020's Nicest Screenshots
4.1.2021
As I’ve done the last few, when a year comes to an end I like to look back on some very nice screenshots by one of my favourite screenshot artists, and 2020 was no different.Read more
Unfinished Japanese PS1 Game Completed, Released Two Decades Later
4.1.2021
In 1998 a small team of Japanese developers spent eight months working on a game called Magic Castle, which they sent off as a pitch to seven major publishers, including Sony. It never went anywhere, but thanks to emulators and the efforts of one of the original team, we can now play it and enjoy...
Cyberpunk 2077 Gets "Working" Third-Person Mod
4.1.2021
There’s now a mod available that lets you play Cyberpunk 2077 in third-person on the PC, but be warned, while it works in the most basic, functional sense, it’s not something you’re going to want to be using for any real stretch of time.Read more
The Week In Games: Werewolves
3.1.2021
Another quiet release week. One of the biggest games coming out later this week is the Switch port of Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest. Read more
Sunday Comics: Almost Done
3.1.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
'Shop Contest: 2021
3.1.2021
It’s a new year. We are in the futuristic-sounding year of “2021!” How exciting. Let’s have some fun... in the future! (Which is now.) Read more
Nier: Automata's "Final Secret" Has Been Found And It Lets You Skip The Whole Game
3.1.2021
A new secret cheat code has been found in Neir: Automata that lets players skip the entire game after only beating the first boss. This new discovery has also been confirmed to be the “final secret” that the game’s developers teased a few years ago.Read more
How To Watch Awesome Games Done Quick 2021
3.1.2021
Awesome Games Done Quick, back for its 12th year, starts today. After a terrible 2020, these fun and impressive speedruns might just be the best way to kick off 2021.Read more
'Shop Contest: Miyamoto In A Pipe, Winners!
2.1.2021
2020 is over. But we got some unfinished business to take care of: one last 2020 ‘Shop Contest needs to be judged. So, let’s get to it. Let’s see what you assholes did to Miyamoto.Read more