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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Comes Out This June

Next-gen exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart releases on PS5 on June 11, Insomniac Games announced over on the PlayStation Blog today. Announced last June, the action platformer is set to be a showpiece for PlayStation’s new hardware, including levels where players seamlessly hop between multiple worlds, something that wouldn’t have been possible on the…

CD Projekt Red Resorting To Kickstarter To Launch New Witcher Board Game

CD Projekt Red, one of the biggest video game developers in Europe, is teaming up with board game makers Go On Board to produce a deck-building game based on The Witcher. It’s called The Witcher: Old World, and it’s going to use the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to do it. According to BoardGameGeek News, the game…

Abandoned Shooter Six Days In Fallujah Is Being Brought Back Over A Decade Later

Publisher Konami originally pulled the plug on Six Days In Fallujah, Atomic Games’ attempt to tell a realistic story about the war in Iraq based on the experience of US service members, for being too controversial. Now a new publisher and developer are resurrecting it. Production is being led by Victura, founded by former Atomic…

The Pokémon Company Can’t Print New Cards Fast Enough

Pokémon trading cards have once again exploded in popularity, and the Pokémon Company is struggling to keep up with demand. Prices are surging for new packs thanks to scalpers and resellers as a result. “We’re aware that some of you are experiencing difficulties purchasing certain Pokémon Trading Card Game products due to very high demand…

Hackers Bring New Version Of Android To Nintendo Switch

Developers who originally got Android running on Switch back in 2019 have reportedly now managed to port a new version of the operating system to Nintendo’s hybrid console, bringing with it a slew of new features and fixes. “Now based off of Android 10 (LineageOS 17.1 with Shield TV trees) it’s faster, more responsive and…

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Brand-New Tracks Kick Ass, Too

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m going to gush about just how amazing Final Fantasy VII Remake’s music is, and specifically a few of its new tracks that weren’t in the original. It took me a while to get into…

Destiny 2‘s Season Of The Chosen Is Good So Far

Season of the Chosen went live in Destiny 2 today, and with it a whole new set of things to grind for. So far, these things—new armor, guns, and exotic gear—seem pretty cool, with interesting new perks to make them worth chasing. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already feeling daunted by…

Over 10 Hours With Bravely Default II

Bravely Default II offers a return to a simpler time where heroes lined up on one side of the screen, fought monsters on the other side of the screen, and then rinsed and repeated until peace and tranquility were brought back to the land. I’ve spent over 10 hours with it, and while what I’ve…

Report: Later This Week, EA Is Going To Decide If Anthem Lives Or Dies

EA still isn’t sure if it’s going to invest in massively overhauling its failed loot shooter Anthem, according to a new report by Bloomberg. Instead, executives from the publisher are set to meet this week to decide whether it will abandon the BioWare game or not. The studio announced last year that approximately 30 people…

Epic Says Even More Epic Store Exclusives Are Coming In The Future

Epic pissed off a lot of people when it first revealed that big games like Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3 would be Epic Games Store timed-exclusives on PC. Now it says that even more exclusivity deals are on the way. “We have more exclusives coming in the next two years than we have published to…

Forza Horizon 4 Is Coming To Steam In March

Microsoft’s gorgeous British countryside racer Forza Horizon 4 is coming to Steam on March 9, the company announced today. It marks the latest in a long line of first-party Microsoft games coming to rival platforms, and the first time a Forza game has ever appeared on Valve’s storefront. The Steam version of Forza Horizon 4…

Terraria Dev Cancels Stadia Port Over Being Shut Out Of Google Accounts

The sprawling 2D world-crafting game Terraria has been ported almost everywhere. One place it won’t be going? Stadia. At least according to one of its creators who recently took to Twitter to cancel the streaming version of the game after—he says—Google locked him out of all of his accounts. “I absolutely have not done anything…

343 Industries teased a “a new place and way to play” Halo: The Master Chief Collection in its latest development update. It could mean just about anything, like maybe MCC is getting VR support, or maybe it’s just coming to a new storefront.

Nioh 2‘s PS5 Upgrade Is A Good Reason To Revisit One Of Last Year’s Best Action Games

Nioh 2’s free PS5 upgrade is out today, and with it there’s one less excuse for anyone to ignore last year’s best samurai combat game.

The Mass Effect Remaster’s New Look Isn’t Doing It For Me

This week we got our first good look at BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy remaster, and I have to say it hasn’t immediately won me over, especially when it comes to the first game. Mass Effect 1 was a finicky mess at times, but it also nailed its big moments and had an irresistibly eerie sci-fi…

Playing Cyberpunk 2077 will no longer leave your PC open to getting hacked CD Projekt Red announced this morning that it’s patched out the security flaw previously introduced through the game’s mod support.

WallStreetBets Mods Are Now Battling For Control Over The Subreddit [Update: Reddit Intervenes]

A couple weeks ago, most people hadn’t ever heard of WallStreetBets, the edgelord Reddit hangout for renegade investors and amatuer traders. Now it’s blown up to over 8.5 million users, and a war has broken out between the old mods and the new for control over the community and its future. “Big drama going down…

Congress Wants To Ask DeepFuckingValue Some Deep Fucking Questions About GameStop

Rep. Maxine Waters announcedthat Reddit investor DeepFuckingValue, aka YouTuber Roaring Kitty, aka former insurance marketer Keith Gill, will testify before Congress about what the hell has been going on with GameStop’s stock later this month. Waters made the announcement on Cheddar TV yesterday following Gill’s posts on the WallStreetBets subreddit, where he goes by the…

Destiny 2‘s Raid Rocket Launcher Is Supposed To Be A Lot Easier To Get

Eyes of Tomorrow is one of Destiny 2’s best rocket launchers. It’s also one of its rarest, and some players who have spent months trying to get their hands on one have still come up short. They’re especially shocked now that one of Bungie’s developers has confirmed it’s supposed to be easier to get the…

Genshin Impact Devs Awarded PS5s, Graphics Cards Via RNG

Raffles and gift give-aways aren’t uncommon at company parties, but the company behind Genshin Impact went a step further, randomly awarding hard-to-get graphics cards and PS5s to employees as thanks for helping make one of last year’s hottest new free-to-play gacha games. “MiHoYo, the developers of Genshin Impact, held their annual employee meeting where they…