Ethan Gach

Control Comes To PS5 And Xbox Series X/S With Ray-Tracing In February

Remedy Games’ paranormal office thriller Control will come to next-gen consoles digitally on February 2, followed by a full retail release on March 2, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. The next-gen version of the game will include a performance mode to run at 60 fps on both platforms, while the standard 30 fps…

Dota 2 Gets New Hero And Massive Mistwoods Update

Dota 2‘s Mistwoods update dropped yesterday, making a ton of changes to the game and adding its 120th hero: a crossbow toting woodland creature named Hoodwink. Update 7.28 is Dota 2‘s fifth of the year, but arguably also its biggest, adding a completely new mechanic right before the holidays called Aghanim’s Shards: items that can…

Among Us is out on Game Pass for PC today, Microsoft announced in a blog post. The popular betrayal party game will come to the rest of Game Pass for Xbox consoles sometime next year.

Sackboy: A Big Adventure finally has multiplayer. Up to four-player coop was originally supposed to be available at launch but was delayed. Today’s update adds cross-gen cross-play and save transfers as well.

PSA: Cities: Skylines Is Currently Free On The Epic Games Store

The Epic Games Store is giving away the terrific building sim Cities: Skylines for free today, the first in a series of holiday giveaways going on throughout the rest of the December. According to a press release, Epic’s holiday event will give away 15 games in all, rotating a new one in daily from now…

Spotted by ResetEra, Nintendo referenced Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 in a new video about the series, which is interesting because it never released outside of Japan. Hmmmm. 

A New Invisibility Glitch Is Wreaking Havoc In Call Of Duty: Warzone [Update]

Call of Duty: Warzone players are getting merc’d by invisible foes thanks to the game’s latest helicopter glitch, and they aren’t happy about. Warzone’s latest season went live earlier this week adding a new map, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War weapons, and attack helicopters that players can exploit to turn invisible. The new…

Nintendo Of America President Calls Artificial Purchase-By Deadlines A ‘Celebration’

Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser was asked during a recent interview why some popular Nintendo games are only being sold for a limited time. His answer? “[T]his is a celebration.” Earlier this year, Nintendo released Super Mario 3D All-Stars to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the original Super Mario Bros. for the NES.…

Final Fantasy VII’s Snow Theme Tops My Go-To Blizzard Mix

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, we take a trip up north to gaming’s colder climates and the music that makes them so enchanting. Specifically, I want to invite you up to the humble wintery retreat of Final Fantasy VII’s Icicle…

Everything Nintendo Showed During Today’s Indie World Showcase

Nintendo aired a brief livestream today dedicated to indie games coming to Switch in the next few months, and there are a lot of them. The biggest news in the 15 minute presentation was that popular murder mystery party game Among Us is coming out on Switch later today. Developer Derek Yu of Mossmouth also…

CD Projekt Red Clears Up ‘Misconceptions,’ Says No Special Refund Policy In Place For Cyberpunk 2077

CD Projekt Red managers clarified that refunds for Cyberpunk 2077 will be subject to existing retailer policies during a call with investors yesterday, and said the company is not encouraging anyone to return the game. Investors twice asked CDPR to clarify what was going on with refunds, concerned about how they might impact the game’s…

Destiny 2’s Latest Quest References A Moment Cut From The First Game

Destiny 2’s new exotic quest for an old Destiny 1 gun makes reference to an alternate version of one of that game’s main characters only seen in an E3 2013 trailer, breathing a little life back into a story that never made it into the finished game. Hawkmoon is a small, agile exotic hand cannon…

Fallout 76 Will Soon Let Players Hoard Even More Junk

Fallout 76 players are about to see their junk allowance dramatically increased next month when a new update increases stash sizes by 50%. Players of Bethesda’s online post-apocalyptic sim spend most of their time scavenging the remnants of bombed-out Appalachia for building supplies, crafting materials, and occasionally powerful legendary equipment. As a result, anyone who’s…

Surgeon General Compares Developing Covid Vaccine To Playing Xbox

The first Covid-19 vaccines began being distributed in the US today, and amidst the rollout Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams took to Fox News to talk about the race to develop a cure for the pandemic. And to do that he started talking about Xbox. “I want to put it in Christmas-think for people out…

Halo‘s Master Chief & Blood Gulch Are Coming To Fortnite

Epic Games confirmed during tonight’s Game Awards that Halo’s Master Chief and a new Halo map mode are coming to the game. The new Master Chief skin is available starting tonight, while the Blood Gulch Red vs. Blue capture the flag map will be available starting tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. ET as part of Season…

Disco Elysium Director’s Cut Coming To PlayStation March 2021, Xbox And Switch In The Summer

One of last year’s best games, the anti-capitalist detective RPG Disco Elysium, is headed to PS4, PS5, PC and Stadia in March of next year, followed by Xbox Series X/S and Switch in the summer, with new quests and features. The new version, titled Disco Elysium – The Final Cut, will add full voice acting…

The Xbox Is Getting A New Perfect Dark

The next Perfect Dark game is an ecological sci-fi thriller being made by Microsoft’s studio The Initiative. Announced during the 2020 Game Awards, the new game looks like it will throw series protagonist Joanna Dark into the world of corporate espionage in the near future as humanity tries to engineer solutions to various climate disasters.…

People’s Dicks Are Clipping Through Their Pants

Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it has some bugs, one of which includes players’ characters’ dicks popping out of their pants. Cyberpunk has two penis types, with a size slider for each. Apparently some of the dicks players have selected don’t play nice with their character’s clothing choices on the equipment screen, clipping out past…

Netflix is making a new Sonic cartoon. The streaming platform announced today that the blue blurr will star in a 3D animated series produced with Sega, the WildBrain media company, and writer collective Man of Action Entertainment, set to air in 2022. 

Cyberpunk 2077 Is Looking Rough On PS4 And Xbox One At The Moment

I’ve spent an hour playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One, and it hasn’t been pretty. Sometimes it’s been straight up ugly. Based on screenshots and footage other people are sharing online, I’m not alone. Cyberpunk 2077 began rolling out on console earlier today starting in the New Zealand time zone, which is what I set…