Sea of Thieves’ next update, to mark the game’s 12-month anniversary, has something cool: a series of quests that you can tackle solo. It’ll be out April 30.
The Human Story Behind Call Of Duty's Zombie Mode
Jesse Snyder, the creator of Call of Duty’s Zombies mode, sacrificed sleep and faced internal pushback when making the now-iconic undead mode for the game. In the process, he also realized he’d rather make less realistic games, not the gritty simulation fare of Call of Duty. Now, he’s the creative director at NantG,…
March At Dawn
Jama Jurabaev is a senior concept artist at Lucasfilm, and has recently worked on movies like Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Ready Player One and The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Amazon's Cheap Kindle Finally Got a Front Light
While not as...splashy...as the waterproof Kindle Paperwhite unveiled late last year, Amazon just quietly rolled out a new entry level Kindle that finally brings a lit screen to the entire e-reader lineup.
Cosplay Is Outgrowing Cosplay Conventions
For decades, cosplay conventions have followed the same basic formula: everyone goes to a hotel or convention centre, they meet up, they take photos, they party after then they go home. As cosplay grows in size and scope, though, some cosplayers are finding that the same ol’ same ol’ just isn’t enough anymore.
“Hey Gooch, why don’t you make Tetris with music?” — Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s recollection at GDC of how The Tetris Company’s Henk Rogers pitched him on the creation of Tetris Effect.
From the Panzer Dragoon GDC panel, here’s a look at the motion capture sessions from the 1998 Sega Saturn game Panzer Dragoon Saga. Note the actor riding a budget “dragon” made out of plastic beer crates.Â
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Epic Says Its Store Won't Sell 'Porn Games Or Bloatware'
It’s been a big day for the Epic Games Store. During its GDC keynote, Epic announced a boatload of new exclusives (including Detroit: Become An Epic Games Store Exclusive) and a deal with Humble. Momentum appears to be on the store’s side, with Epic now touting strong early sales and a more curated approach than that…
The 10 Best Deals of March 20, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.
The super-twitchy, theory-crafting rich roguelike Wizard of Legend got a massive free update on every platform today. There’s a new Sky Palace stage, a new Council of Magic wizard, a bunch of new enemies, relics, and arcana, and an endless mode. The full patch notes are available here.
Goat Simulator Developers' New Game Is About Building The Perfect Factory
The opening track “Ever” on the band Flipper’s classic first album, Album, contains the lyric, “Ever look at a flower, and hate it?” As I was playing Satisfactory, the new game from the developer of Goat Simulator, I realized that lyric pretty much sums up what the game is about.
Every Big Game Coming Out In Spring 2019
Today, just for an instant, the Earth’s equator will line up perfectly with the center of the sun marking the first day of spring, at which point we will be collectively thrust into another season chuck full of game releases.
Apex Legends’ New Character Octane Is Perfect For Blindsiding Enemies
After spending a day now with Apex Legends’ new addition to the roster, fast-moving Spanglish-slangin’ daredevil Octane, I find myself picking him naturally, since he gels so well with my play style. So I sat down with Kotaku’s Riley MacLeod to talk about everything we like about Octane and our trouble trying to make…
I’ve been doing a lot of interviews at GDC that I can’t wait to tell you about, but in the meantime can you guess who I was just talking with from this horrible sketch in my notebook? He was throwing a lot of punches and talking about how to make good action games.
Amazon Hacked and Slashed the Price of Fire Emblem Warriors Down to $32
Fire Emblem’s entry in the Dynasty Warriors series has a lot going for it on the combat front, even if the story might leave Fire Emblem fans feeling left high and dry:
The Second Cutest Final Fantasy Spinoff Is Back, And It's Brought Friends
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon passed the “cutest Final Fantasy game” crown to World of Final Fantasy and its hordes of adorable critters in 2016, but that’s okay. The 2007 Wii game, remastered today for the Switch and PlayStation 4 and renamed Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy, is still one of the…
Rainbow Six Siege Change Will Punish Griefers By Making Bullets Hurt The People Firing Them
There are few things more infuriating than getting popped by a teammate in a multiplayer first-person shooter. Rainbow Six Siege’s solution? The digital equivalent of making team killers smack themselves with their own hands and telling them to “stop hitting yourself.”
What We Know And Don’t Know About Google’s New Gaming Platform Stadia
Google shared a lot of information about it’s new video game streaming platform at yesterday’s GDC presentation, and we’ve learned even more about the technology through interviews, like the one Kotaku had with Stadia boss Phil Harrison on Splitscreen. But there’s still a lot we don’t know.
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