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Track: King of the Gutters, Prince of the Dogs | Artist: Murder By Death | Album: Good Morning, Magpie Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

There is a new trailer for Hitman 2 It is just a slow camera snaking through a jungle. I want to go hang out in that jungle. I’ll get to do that when Hitman 2 releases on November 13 of this year.

Magic: The Gathering‘s Pro-Focused Broadcast Experiment Is Paying Off

When broadcasting their Grand Prix or Pro Tour tournaments, Magic: The Gathering’s official Twitch channel tends to take the “sports” angle: they talk the whole tournament, watch different players, and show off the field. This weekend they’re following one single player, and it’s great. [Update – 6:05pm] – Reid Duke is out of the tournament…

Take A Moment To Calm Down With Cities: Skylines

I’m a believer in the power of Cities: Skylines cinematic videos as calming experiences, and a video of digital animals just hanging around is just what the doctor called for. In this instance, I am the doctor, and I’m prescribing you a few minutes of watching a camera sweep over animals that were introduced to…

‘Shop Contest: This Is Where The Magic Happens, Winners!

Last week we were living in the moments after the new D.Va short, and I asked you to show me where the magic happens when it comes to Overwatch’s greatest esports player / mech pilot. You didn’t disappoint me. I wouldn’t say that I am someone deep in the lore of the Overwatch universe, but…

Mass Shooting At Madden Tournament In Florida [Updates: Three Confirmed Dead, Suspect Named]

A shooter opened fire today during a Madden NFL 19 tournament at the GLHF Game Bar in Jacksonville, FL. Three people are confirmed dead, including the suspected shooter, while a further 11 have been injured. During a press briefing at 4:30 PM EST, Sheriff Mike Williams made some short remarks about the incident. Jacksonville Landing,…

There Is Video Evidence Of Steve Vai Shredding On The Halo 2 Soundtrack

The guitar legend Steve Vai makes a couple appearances on the soundtrack for 2004’s Halo 2, and now we have video to confirm that he did, in fact, absolutely shred in the studio. Posted in a thread by Resetera user jambo, the video is a rip of a DVD made by Halo composer Martin O’Donnell,…

‘Shop Contest: This Is Where The Magic Happens

We experienced a new Overwatch short this week where we saw some heroic D.Va action, and our ‘Shop Contest is in response to that. I want you to show me where the magic happens. In the short, D.Va explains that “this is where the magic happens.” Does she mean inside of her garage? Is her…

Sunday Comics: Update Troubles

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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published August 20. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published August 23. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Fantasy Games Are Better When They Don’t Focus On Magic

I’ve been playing through Dust and Salt recently, and I’ve been struck with how much I enjoy a fantasy game when magic isn’t the core focus of the narrative. Dust and Salt is gritty. You start as a ten-year-old who watches his father get murdered by conscripts from the city of Murk, and after rescuing…

Mobile puzzle game Monument Valley is going to be adapted into a movie. Deadline reports that the film will be a “live action/CGI hybrid family franchise.” There’s no word on when it might release. 

2016’s Doom Looks Very Silly In Third Person

There’s a new episode of Boundary Break, a YouTube series all about showing off the things in games we aren’t supposed to see, and it’s about Doom. It reveals how silly everything in that game looks when you’re not in first-person mode. While this episode is ostensibly about just showing off all kinds of strange…

Bloodborne Modder Restores Cut DLC Story Content

Lady Maria is a mysterious figure in Bloodborne. She appears front-and-center on the cover for The Old Hunters DLC, but when you finally meet her, she’s not exactly in the condition you might expect. Data digger Lance McDonald has figured out why. We’re going to spoil the Bloodborne DLC here. I’m spoiling it. You’re warned. Now…

Just Survive, Daybreak Games’s online survival game, is shutting down its servers on October 24, 2018. In a post announcing the shutdown, the team explains that “the current population of the game makes it untenable to maintain.”

‘Shop Contest: Snake? Snake! Snaaaaake! Winners!

I’ve been missing Snake recently, so I asked you all to ‘shop up some information about what the Metal Gear protagonist has been up to recently. You didn’t disappoint, and now I have a lot of Snakes to display. I’ve got a lot of respect for Snake. After all, he’s a guy who can’t catch…

The Week In Games: Vampires, Spies, and Wrestlers

It’s another week of interesting new game releases, ports of classics, and sequels. We’ve even got Night Trap! It’s a good week for people who like adventure games of all shapes and sizes. Night Trap, the famous game that helped kick off Senate hearings in the 1990s, is coming to the Nintendo Switch in a…

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Siege of Dragonspear have received a huge number of bug fixes and enhancements with the 2.5 update. The list of changes is massive across all platforms, and this might be the perfect time to dive into the classic game and its newer expansion. 

I Never Knew About The Amazing Throwback Mission In Ground Zeroes

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is an interesting experience, but I can’t say that I’ve thought much about it since the release of The Phantom Pain back in 2015. Now a let’s play series has got me appreciating an excellent mission that I missed before. Chip and Ironicus are some of my favorite let’s…

The Witcher Meets Star Wars In A Well-Edited Fan Video

Back in 2015, Kirk Hamilton floated a “crackpot theory” that Ciri from The Witcher III told a tale of traveling to the world of CD Projekt Red’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. What if he was wrong? What if she traveled to a galaxy far, far away? YouTuber Tolkfan has edited together a spiffy little video that…

There’s a new trailer for Battlefield V that shows off the fight for Rotterdam. It is splashy and impressive, and the developers wrote a trailer breakdown to let you know exactly what is happening in the gameplay footage. The game will release on October 19.