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Halo: Infinite Devs Destroyed A Piano To Create Some In-Game Sounds
27.3.2021
As my great uncle often said, “To create art, sometimes you must destroy an old, unwanted upright piano.” He was a strange man.Read more
Dusk Makes My Head Bang And My Knees Shake
26.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re going old school and grooving to the creepy, heavy soundscapes of modern retro-shooter Dusk.Read more
Back 4 Blood Delayed Until October 12
25.3.2021
TTurtle Rock Studios announced today that its upcoming Left 4 Dead-like game, Back 4 Blood, has been delayed until October 12. Read more
Serious Sam 2 Gets Massive Update 15 Years After Release
23.3.2021
Croatian studio Croteam has partnered with independent developer Nathan “DwK” Brown to release a huge update to Serious Sam 2 today, more than a few years removed from the first-person shooter’s late 2005 launch.Read more
Half-Life & BioShock Come Together In A Very Strange Mod
23.3.2021
Return to Rapture is a “campaign” made for Half-Life: Alyx that takes Valve’s star and drops her into the completely unrelated first-person world of 2007's BioShock.Read more
25 Years Later, Doom II's Super Shotgun Is Still The Best Video Game Shotgun
21.3.2021
Recently, I played through the newer ports of Doom and Doom II. And playing Doom II again, I was reminded of a simple fact: The super shotgun is amazing and is still the best video game shotgun ever made.Read more
'Shop Contest: Bethesda+Microsoft, Winners!
20.3.2021
You got Halo in my Fallout! You got Doom in my Forza! Well, this is a giant mess. At least we get more Game Pass games out of it all. And a fun contest! Read more
Elites In Halo: Reach Contain A Gross Secret
20.3.2021
I’ve played a lot of Halo: Reach. In fact, last month I played through the entire game again with my brother via the Master Chief Collection. But I had no idea that inside the playable Elites in the game lurks a somewhat disgusting little secret: Their innards...? Guts? Bones? Hard to tell.Read more
Black Panther Coming To Avengers, Gotham Knights Delayed, Outriders Launching On Game Pass And More
20.3.2021
This week on Morning Checkpoint we celebrate the death of Fortnite’s Peely, learn more about upcoming Square Enix games, see who’s the next big hero coming to Avengers, eat a baby(?) and get a look at the next generation of PSVR controllers.Read more
Next Big Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Will Fix Cops And Cars
19.3.2021
CD Projekt Red released a weird update on Cyberpunk 2077's next big patch today, including a brief explanation of changes coming to how its open world works, delivered by an in-universe news broadcaster. *Sigh*.Read more
Activision Yanks Crossbow It Accidently Released Early Even After Players Spent Time Grinding For It
19.3.2021
What Call of Duty giveth, Call of Duty taketh away. Yesterday, a fancy new crossbow went live in Call of Duty: Warzone and Black Ops Cold War by accident, and now players who spent hours trying to unlock it are frustrated that Activision has taken it back out of the game.Read more
The Halo Pringles That Taste Like a Fictional Bird: A Review
19.3.2021
Halo Moa Burger Pringles | $1 | WalmartRead more
Doom Eternal's Next DLC Comes Out Tomorrow
17.3.2021
Hell yeah! Doom Eternal’s next and final expansion, The Ancient Gods - Part 2, will come out tomorrow, developer iD Software announced today.Read more
Warren Spector Thinks Deus Ex Is Too Real For 2021
15.3.2021
The Game Developers Conference kicked off today as a week of virtual talks. In a live chat alongside a rebroadcast of his 2017 GDC talk, Deus Ex designer Warren Spector talked about why he wouldn’t make the game today.Read more
Destiny 2's Trials Of Osiris Still Offline Following Match Fixing Scandal
15.3.2021
It’s been a rough year for Destiny 2's high stakes competitive mode. Trials of Osiris has been plagued by cheating, glitch exploits, and lopsided matchmaking. Now it’s a hotbed of match fixing, as players try to game the system to get its coveted rewards without actually putting in the work...
Nine Inch Nails’ Ambient, Droning Quake Soundtrack Massages My Brain
15.3.2021
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, lull yourself into productivity with the sound of nightmares. (Hmm, I’ma keep workshopping that.)Read more
Expert Doom Players Continue To Complete Challenges Once Thought Impossible
14.3.2021
Classic Doom players are continuing to pick away at some of the hardest remaining community challenges left, beating missions without attacking a single enemy in some of the hardest retail Doom levels ever released.Read more
Warzone Is (Slowly) Teasing A Zombies Event
12.3.2021
With the arrival of Call of Duty’s Season 2 on February 25, zombies took the story spotlight. Black Ops Cold War got a great Zombies “Outbreak” mode, and Warzone’s Verdansk map got a ship full of the undead. Warzone is slowly being infected by the undead, leading up to a potential new mode...
So, Which Bethesda Game Pass Game Should You Play First?
12.3.2021
Starting today, you can play a bunch of Bethesda-published games on Game Pass, thanks to Microsoft and ZeniMax’s recent marriage. Some were previously available. Many are new. However you slice it, if you’re a member of Microsoft’s games-on-demand service, you now have 20 largely excellent games...
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Menus Suck
11.3.2021
Booting up the newest Call of Duty, I was greeted by terrible-looking menus, an overwhelming amount of options, too much information, and some ugly-looking ads. It’s not a great first impression and feels like a cobbled-together mess. In other words: It bad.Read more