In anticipation of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4‘s release on October 12, the Call of Duty brand has launched a wave of commercials that lean into what the community has been doing during the various betas this year. They’re funny! These videos, tagged with #CODNation, are made up of community created content that has…
Magic: The Gathering Arena is the venerable card game’s new entry into the digital space, and the free-to-play game is finally in open beta on PC after several months of closed beta. I’ve been playing it for those several months. I have some opinions. If you aren’t aware of Magic: The Gathering, it is a…
Fortnite broke all the rules by giving everyone cute and fun pets this week, so we need to even the score: I need you to put pets in every game. Listen, I don’t care how you do it, but no one is going to buy any game without pets in it in the foreseeable future.…
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 September 24. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 27. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
Data digger Lance McDonald has worked through the game files in the original alpha for Dark Souls III and has discovered some radical environmental changes that were implemented then cut from the game. The key to changing environment effects in the game has to do with what is labeled in the game files as “ceremonies.”…
An Instagram account called “jokulhops” is pairing specific Magic cards with beers that seem to go with them. This is the kind of Magic content that I enjoy. As you can see in the header, the delicious peach fruit that the Spike Feeder is, well, feeding on looks juicy and amazing. What better way to…
The Predator has fascinated us since its film debut all the way back in 1987, and now, through the power of modding, you can play as this intergalactic hunter in Grand Theft Auto V The Predator mod is developed by JulioNIB, who created the amazing Magneto mod that we featured a few weeks ago. While…
Pandas are coming to Minecraft. Pandas are coming to Minecraft! Pandas! Are! Coming! To! Minecraft! They were revealed in a Minecon World stream today, and they are “lazy and playful.” They will appear in the holiday update coming to Minecraft later this year.
The preliminary list of games for Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 has been released. The list is not final and will certainly change before a final schedule is made, but there are a lot of games to get excited about. The charity speedrunning event will happen in January 2019.
Minecraft: Dungeons, a new game set in the Minecraft universe, was announced during the Minecon Earth livestream this afternoon. While details on the game are slim, the developer interviews in a short video that played before the official trailer claimed that Minecraft: Dungeons is an adventure game where up to four players can team up…
Last week we got to see some new stuff from the upcoming Death Stranding, but it was confusing. So I asked you to ‘shop up some explanations for me, and you did a great job. Hideo Kojima, one of the key talents behind Death Stranding, has always leaned pretty hard on questions of “who the…
This week gives us a new Valkyria Chronicles, FIFA 19, and South Park on the Switch. This is a heavy week when it comes to games, and we’re slowly moving into an absolutely jam-packed fall of big, exciting games every single week. If you’re a soccer (or “football”) fan, then this is the big week…
Track: Ceremony | Artist: New Order | Album: Singles Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.
The newest episode of YouTube show Boundary Break jumps behind the scenes of Arkham Knight. It shows off how great the staging of the game is. There are lots of spoilers about Arkham Knight in this video. When I write “staging,” I mean it in the theatrical sense. While every game requires its developers to…
Ultimate Guard Pro Team won the 2017-2018 Magic Pro Tour Team Series today over Hareruya Latin. The team was stacked with some of the best Magic players of all time, including Jon Finkel, who has the most Pro Tour Top Eight finishes in Magic history.
A fan with a lot of time on their hands has recreated The White Stripes’s classic “Seven Nation Army,” which was released 15 years ago, with the sound effects from Battlefield V I have a fascination with this kind of thing. I love the idea of recreating recognizable music with tools that definitely were not…
Final Fantasy VIII is getting a crossover event with Mobius Final Fantasy, the mobile and PC free to play game. There is no release date yet, but it is “coming this winter.”
We’ve got some new Death Stranding footage, and it is just as confusing as ever. Your task this week is to make sense of the whole thing. When that guy whips off his golden mask in the footage, I thought, for just an instant, that something might become clear. I thought that there might be…
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 September 17. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published September 20. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…
You can do a lot of things with city builder games. You can replicate real cities, or you can simulate massive natural disasters. A YouTuber going by the name of “donoteat” uses Cities: Skylines to explain the politics and power behind the creation of American cities. The world of Cities: Skylines “builder” YouTubers is substantial.…
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