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‘Shop Contest: Final Fantasy VII Remake Creation Station, Winners!

Last week I asked you to show me some progress shots of Final Fantasy VII Remake, and you did not disappoint me. I’m looking forward to the Remake with a kind of grim fascination. I’m of the strong opinion that we don’t need it, that it doesn’t need to exist, and that if you like…

The Week In Games: Battle Frame

This week is a raucous combination of battles on fields, boys in storms, frames of war, and Nidhogg 2 My primary interest this week is going be concentrated on Battlefield V. What can I say? I put a few hundred hours into Battlefield 1, and I’m interested in getting up to that same skill level…

Track: You Know That I Love You | Artist: Jozef van Wissem | Album: We Adore You, You Have No Name Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Left 4 Dead 2 Speedrun Shows Off Some Neat Strategies

A group of co-op speedrunners have completed the Left 4 Dead 2 campaign “Dead Air” a record time of 7:53, and to do so they’ve used some interesting strategies. Runners burhác, LuckY, bill_play3, and JurasPatryk have claimed the world record in completing “Dead Air” the fastest in a thread on Reddit. Despite the lack of…

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 added Nuketown to PS4 this week, and it is coming to all of the other platforms next week. People like that map. It’s free.

Battlefield V Players Claim Checking A Menu Freezes The Game

Some Battlefield V players are posting on Reddit and the official forums that checking the assignments menu while in a game session freezes their game. Assignments are functionally quests in Battlefield V, and they can be as simple as doing a certain amount of damage with a gun type and as complicated as doing several…

‘Shop Contest: Final Fantasy VII Remake Creation Station

Final Fantasy VII Remake is apparently “progressing well” according to some key creators, but it isn’t going fast enough. So this week’s ‘Shop Contest is about speeding it up…by making it ourselves. As you can see up top, I have some ideas about what Final Fantasy VII Remake should have going on. If it does…

Sunday Comics: Flying Heavenly Clouds

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 November 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published November 15. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

Four Days In Hell With EA Help

Last week, I realized that I had a problem. My Xbox Live Gamertag was tied to an EA Account that was not my primary EA Account. Worse yet, I no longer had access to the email associated with that EA Account. I took a deep breath and prepared myself for a Customer Service Experience. An…

Track: Red Rainbow | Artist: Public Memory | Album: Demolition Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Finally, A Supercut Of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Favorite Cuss

If you’ve played Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, then you know that the game has a particular love of a single, solitary cuss: maláka. It means something between “jerk” and “asshole,” and it apparently fits in nearly any situation. And now there’s a supercut to show off the plenitude of the curse word. There might be some…

The PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developers have posted the results of their Fix PUBG campaign. In a long post on the game’s Steam page, Executive Producer Taeseok Jang highlights the game’s improved stability and framerate while committing to a complementary dev roadmap in 2019. 

Dark Souls Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

Hidetaka Miyazaki was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award yesterday at the 2018 Golden Joystick Awards that took place in London. Known for his work on From Software titles like the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne, Miyazaki was presented the award by game luminaries Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. Miyazaki often credits the pair’s Fighting Fantasy…

‘Shop Contest: Xbox Birthday Trip, Winners!

Last week, there was a big ole Xbox celebration, and with that came my new favorite video game personality: Xbox In A Hat. I asked you to ‘shop up some things for Xbox In A Hat to do for its birthday, and you didn’t disappoint. What makes an Xbox with a hat so special? After…

The Week In Games: Stealth Fallout

This week it is all about the bald clone Hitman, Fallout 76‘s Wasteland, and Ticket To Ride for PS4. That’s right, I said dang Ticket To Ride on the PS4. The classic board game that asks you to become a train magnate covering the United States in iron rails is now something you can play…

Track: Tooth For An Eye | Artist: The Knife | Album: Shaking The Habitual Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Desert Bus For Hope, a charity event where people play the game Desert Bus in a marathon, is going on right now. It goes until people stop donating. You can watch it on the official site. 

Artsy 2D PUBG Replay Is Excellent

A YouTube user name McDrahir has uploaded a replay that depicts a disastrous attempt at storming an apartment building in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But it’s also pretty good abstract art. From an “in game” perspective, what is going on in the video is pretty comical. A team of two players have posted up in a building,…

Netflix will no longer be available on the original Wii after January 30, 2019. The official Netflix site says that “Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii” on that date. 

‘Shop Contest: Xbox Birthday Trip

Yesterday’s X018 stream was full of Xbox news, but it also had something so much more important: an Xbox in a hat. Your job this week is to send that dang Xbox on some birthday adventures. As a part of a long celebration of all kinds of Xbox stuff, the intrepid hosts of Inside Xbox…