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‘Shop Contest: Everyone Is Santa

Christmas is coming, and that means Santa Claus. I want you to make all of the video game characters into Santa. For those who celebrate it, Christmas can be stressful. Families get together, travel is involved, and it can swing from wildly pleasant to incredibly bad. However, I think that most of us can agree…

Sunday Comics: Wolf Elf

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 December 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 20. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Kingdom Hearts Is Weirdly Similar To Twin Peaks

What I love about both Twin Peaks and Kingdom Hearts is that they simply trust me with a massive amount of knowledge

Assassin’s Creed Origins Composer Posts Unreleased Tracks

Composer Sarah Schachner, whose credits include Assassin’s Creed Origins, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, and the upcoming Anthem, has released a number of previously-unreleased tracks from Origins on her Soundcloud page The tracks seem to mostly be songs that are in the game in some form but were not released on the official soundtrack for…

Bethesda has announced on Twitter that anyone who logged into Fallout 76 during 2018 will receive a copy of the Fallout Classic Collection on PC. The collection contains Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics. It is currently unclear how the collection will be distributed.

Modder Transforms Super Mario 64 Into Super Mario Bros.

The brain behind a number of Super Mario 64 mods has done it again by recreating lots of Super Mario Bros. levels inside of Super Mario 64. Modder Kaze Emanuar has taken the 2D level design of that older game and crammed it into the engine of Super Mario 64. Judging from the video that…

Dragon Quest XI is releasing for the Switch in Japan during 2019. It’ll be called Dragon Quest XI S, and while details are thin currently, it will have a significant amount of voice acting. There’s no word yet on a release date or whether it will release outside Japan.

‘Shop Contest: Watch Out In Firewatch, Winners! 

Last week I asked you to pitch some secrets for the Switch version of Firewatch, and you all delivered things that are better, and more secret, than I could ever imagine. Let’s dig in. Our winner this week really went for the massive, composite secret experience. I mean, they really just jammed this universe full…

The Week In Games: Donut Watch

This week we’ve got Firewatch coming to the Switch, Cook Serve Delicious 2 hitting the PS4, and lots of other interesting games that you might not know about yet. We’re skating right into the end of the year now, and that means that releases are really slowing up. While there are some interesting ports coming…

Track: Heavy Days | Artist: Grumbling Fur | Album: Furfour Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Memorable Encounters Of Baldur’s Gate Still Resonate 20 Years Later

Baldur’s Gate is, to me, the classic isometric role-playing game. No game quite hit the nail on the head in the way that it did, and in celebration of the game’s 20th anniversary this week, I wanted to talk about what makes the game so special to me: the encounters. 1998 was a time before…

Speedrunning Turns Alpha Protocol Into A Very Fast Spy Thriller

The new world record for playing Alpha Protocol really fast in New Game+ is 1:39:15, and it was accomplished by TemA in a lightnight-quick speedrun of the weird RPG. Released by Obsidian back in 2010, Alpha Protocol is a truly unique spy thriller role-playing game that has you traveling the globe, managing relationships with allies…

The Dark Souls Mimic Is Getting A Statue

The mimics in Dark Souls kick so much ass, and now First 4 Figures are going to release a statue that commemorates how great these monsters are. There is perhaps no greater feeling in a Dark Souls game than getting completely annihilated by a mimic that you were not prepared for. These creatures lurk in…

‘Shop Contest: Watch Out In Firewatch

Firewatch is out for the Nintendo Switch next week, and they could have added anything to the game. There could be new secrets in the game! We’re speculating about Firewatch secrets in this week’s ‘Shop Contest. If you haven’t played Firewatch before, you should know that it is spooky. There’s some mysteries. There are disembodied…

Sunday Comics: Hammer Doctor

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. From the archive, originally ublished December 2017. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 13. Read more of Corpse…

The teaser trailer for the anime prologue to Final Fantasy XV Episode Ardyn is out now. Episode Ardyn is a DLC set 30 years before the events of Final Fantasy XV, and I guess to truly understand it you will need to watch an anime. 

Getting Motion Sickness While Playing A Game Sucks

I have never been a victim of the dreaded “motion sickness” while playing a video game, but Katamari Damacy Reroll has put me down for the count twice this week. I’m not a person who tends to get motion sick when playing games. While I’ve had my share of VR experiences that went wrong, and…

Hyss is out now, and it has one of the most charming launch trailers I’ve seen in a while. The game apparently has you throwing cows to solve puzzles. It looks neat. 

Nier: Automata Has A Score Attack Mode That Was Cut From The Final Game

Data digger Lance McDonald has sorted through the files of Nier: Automata and found a very interesting, and complete, score attack mode that is not accessible in the final game. According to McDonald, the score attack mode was meant to be something that the player could do while waiting for the game to finish downloading…

Project Stream testers who play an hour or more of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey between now and January 15 will get a copy of the game on PC for free As we’ve previously reported, Project Stream is software for streaming games into your internet browser. You can still sign up for the Project Stream test.