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Kate Bishop Makes Avengers Exciting Again, At Least For A Few Hours
9.12.2020
The Kate Bishop version of Hawkeye has arrived as a new playable character for Marvel’s Avengers, bringing with her three or four hours of fresh single-player content to Square Enix’s stale co-op superhero game. To be fair, any new playable character would have had the same effect, but Kate...
It’s Super Easy To Make Kanye West In Demon’s Souls
8.12.2020
Unlike the original Demon’s Souls, the PlayStation 5 remake includes a fairly robust character creation system. While I was mostly content to make a generic, purple-skinned lady for my first playthrough, folks have been able to craft some interesting characters.Read more
Facebook's New Program Pays Black Streamers To Help Them Go Full-Time
8.12.2020
Facebook Gaming is far from the biggest video game streaming platform out there, but it has at least shown a tendency to put its money where its mouth is—a practice Twitch and other industry leaders could learn from. Today, Facebook announced a program to aid Black creators in their pursuit...
How To Avoid Burnout And Finish Any Open-World Game
8.12.2020
Do you ever feel like there are too many open-world games, and too many of them take up too much time? Just consider some offerings from this year alone. There’s Ghost of Tsushima, the gorgeous samurai action game, which can take you more than 60 hours to check off every objective. Ubisoft released...
Seven Video Games Where You Beat Up Your Dad
8.12.2020
Our culture suggests that this time of year is all about family, and while family can be a lovely thing, it also tends toward being very complicated. Recent years have seen the emergence of Dad Games, in which you play as a complicated father figure protecting his child/ward. This Dad Game dynamic...
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Pushed Back To March 18
8.12.2020
The upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake won’t be able to make its original January 2021 release window, developer Ubisoft announced today. It will now arrive on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 18, 2021.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077 Causes Seizure, Doesn’t Contain Warning
8.12.2020
Game Informer associate editor Liana Ruppert reported yesterday that she suffered a grand mal seizure while playing a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077, due to the game’s use of various flashing visual effects. She wrote an article for the site advising players on how to avoid similar experiences...
Rhythmic Drumming Makes For Strange RPG Battles
8.12.2020
Released last week for the Nintendo Switch, Taiko No Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack is a bundle of two Japanese role-playing games in which players bang a drum to get through random encounters and boss battles. It’s weird. Read more
Crisis!! Super Street Fighter II Turbo Weird-Version Music Deathmatch!
8.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, a knock-down, drag-out brawl to the death between two little-heard arranged versions of Capcom’s most enduring fighting game. Fight!Read more
How One Retailer Is Fighting PS5 Scalpers
8.12.2020
In South Korea, game retailer Gamewoori has a banner that reads, “Pre-Order Now” next to images of the PS5. The PS5 launched there on November 12, but like everywhere supplies are tight and hopeful customers still must reserve consoles from future shipments.Read more
Monster Hunter Movie Producers Apologize After Backlash In China
8.12.2020
As Kotaku recently reported, a racist line of dialogue led to thousands of negative online reviews in China and calls to ban the film. The movie’s producers have now apologized.Read more
RIP Chuck Yeager
8.12.2020
Chuck Yeager, one of the United States Air Force’s greatest ever pilots and the first man to break the sound barrier, has died at the age of 97.Read more
Hohokum Was Almost The Perfect PS4 Game
8.12.2020
I’ve done a lot of big-picture stories for our Last Generation roundup, but tonight I want to zoom in a bit and talk about one game in particular: Hohokum, aka the most relaxing video game of the PS4 era.Read more
40 Boxes Of RTX 3090 Graphics Cards Stolen From Warehouse In China
8.12.2020
It’s bad enough that bots and scalpers are buying up all the stock of Nvidia’s new graphics cards, but some thieves in China have taken things to the next level and stolen 40 boxes of RTX 3090s, valued at around $340,000, from an MSI warehouse.Read more
Square Enix’s Project Athia Is Console Exclusive On PS5 For ‘At Least 24 Months’
8.12.2020
Project Athia, the next game from the team behind Final Fantasy XV, will be console-exclusive to the PlayStation 5 for “at least 24 months,” a new Sony demo reel of upcoming games revealed.Read more
Call Of Duty: Warzone Players Hunting Glitchers Who Spawn Unlimited Juggernauts
7.12.2020
The massive armored suit upgrades known as juggernauts are proliferating in Call of Duty: Warzone thanks to a new glitch, leading some skilled players to go out of their way to hunt down opponents who are using them.Read more
WoW’s Revendreth Makes Me Question If Bad People Deserve To Go To Hell
7.12.2020
I really didn’t want to have to think about my country’s carceral state while playing a video game and yet, while strolling through Revendreth, learning about its vampiric venthyr denizens and where they fit into the bureaucracy of Death that is the Shadowlands, my mind couldn’t help but make...
Medal Of Honor Bigger
7.12.2020
Call of Duty big. Medal of Honor bigger (depending on how you count).Read more
Quick Resume Is Working For More Xbox Series X Games
7.12.2020
Microsoft is slowly starting to roll out more Quick Resume support on Xbox Series X|S again, after it took the supposedly signature next-gen feature offline for some games right before the console’s launch last month. This is according to Xbox director of program management Jason Ronald.Read more
Are You Going To Play Cyberpunk 2077?
7.12.2020
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