Ethan Gach

Bungie Hears Destiny 2 Fans, Will Add Some Loot Back To Beyond Light

Destiny 2: Beyond Light does a lot of things right, but loot isn’t one of them. Responding to a week and change of negative player feedback about the lack of new gear to chase in the game’s latest expansion, Bungie said it will add some old guns back into the rotation. The loot changes are…

In Case You Missed It, Reagan Was A Scumbag

America’s 40th president was a lot of things: a right-wing talk radio host, a Hollywood actor, a Red Scare monger, a charismatic liar. A great leader wasn’t one of them but for some reason Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War seems keen to revive that long-standing conservative fantasy. I can only guess how many…

Google Is Bringing Stadia To iOS

Google announced today that public testing for a web app version of Stadia on iOS will begin rolling out in the next several weeks. Launched a year ago, Google’s video game streaming service is currently available on any desktop or laptop with a Chrome browser, most Android phones and tablets, and TVs using the Chromecast…

Nintendo Continues Cracking Down On People Selling Switch Hacks

Nintendo filed a lawsuit Wednesday against an Amazon Marketplace user who was allegedly selling devices called RCM loaders. Used to help people jailbreak their Switch, shutting these down is the latest in the company’s efforts to stop players from pirating its games. As first reported by Polygon, the lawsuit against reseller Le Hoang Minh seeks…

The Makers Of Hitman Are Working On A New James Bond Game

IO Interactive, the Danish video game studio behind the stealth series Hitman, announced today they’re working on a James Bond game currently titled Project 007 Here’s the teaser: It doesn’t reveal much. Over on IO Interactive’s website, the studio says this game will be an original Bond origin story where players work to achieve Bond’s…

Star Wars: Squadrons Is Getting A New Map And More Ships

While definitely not a live service game, Star Wars: Squadrons is getting more DLC this holiday season, including a ship called the TIE Defender. The game’s development team announced two more free updates coming to the game over on EA’s website, and provided preview of what players can expect to find added to the game…

Host Geoff Keighley announced the 2020 Game Awards nominations today, including Final Fantasy VII: Remake, Ghost of Tsushima, Hades, The Last of Us Part II, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Doom Eternal for Game of the Year You can checkout the full list here.  

Ubisoft Removes Managing Director Of Its Skull And Bones Studio

Hugues Ricour, the man in charge of overseeing Ubisoft’s Singapore studio, which is currently developing Skull and Bones, has been removed from that position following the result of a “leadership audit,” according to a copy of an internal company email sent out earlier this week and obtained by Kotaku Ricour had been in that role…

Destiny 2‘s Season Of The Hunt Looks Promising So Far

Follow the trail of glowing green vapors, kill the monster at the end, and collect some new loot—that’s the basic structure of Destiny 2‘s new Wraithborn hunts. So far it’s a nice change of pace from the game’s past seasons. How deep and rewarding it will be after a few weeks, let alone months, remains…

Destiny 2 Will Be Stadia’s First Actually Free-To-Play Game

Destiny 2‘s base game will be free to anyone with an internet connection and access to a Chrome browser through Stadia starting November 19, Google announced today. Called Destiny 2: New Light, free-to-play Destiny lets players explore all of the game’s locations and participate in a number of multiplayer activities like Crucible matches and strike…

Destiny 2’s new Season of the Hunt goes live this afternoon, but you’ll need to have finished the first mission from the Forsaken and Shadowkeep expansions before you can start it, Bungie confirmed on Twitter last night.

PlayStation Boss Won’t Say If Next God Of War Will Be On PS4 Too

God of War: Ragnarok is set to come to come to PS5 some time next year. Could it come to PS4 as well? The head of PlayStation isn’t saying. In an interview with the Telegraph published today, Sony Interactive Entertainment president and CEO, Jim Ryan, was asked point blank whether God of War Ragnarok will…

Your PS5 May Be Playing The PS4 Version Of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

Download bugs and weird defaults are making it a pain for some people to get the PS5 to install and play the next-gen version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. As first reported by Eurogamer over the weekend, PS5 players with the Cross-Gen bundle or Ultimate Editions of the latest Call of Duty…

Destiny Has A New Loot Cave

Players have discovered a new monster closet that can be farmed for easy loot and I’ve already spent an hour mindlessly shooting into it. Naturally, it’s in the Cosmodrome, the same planetary location as the original loot cave that quickly became the stuff of legend back when the first Destiny launched. While Bungie did bring…

Police Evacuate Ubisoft Montreal HQ Amid Hostage Rumors, Say No Actual Threat Identified [Update]

Police were outside the Peck building, which houses some of Ubisoft Montreal’s offices, responding to a possible hostage situation Friday afternoon. Update – 3:58 p.m. ET, 11/13/20: The Montreal police are now evacuating the building and wrote on Twitter that “No threat has been identified for now.” TVA Nouvelles is now calling the 911 call…

The PS5 Music Is A Whole Existential Mood

Last night I set up my PS5, started to download some games, and was immediately sucked through a haunting wormhole of self reflection by the next-gen system’s brooding menu music. I’ve been following all of the pre-release news and read dozens of PS5 reviews, including Kotaku’s own, so I had a pretty good idea of…

Remastered Nioh Collection Coming To PS5 In February

Samurai action games Nioh 1 and 2 are getting next-gen upgrades, including graphical enhancements and higher framerates, on PS5 come February 5. In a post on the PlayStation Blog, Team Ninja creative director Tom Lee writes that both games will support 4K, run at 120 FPS, have much faster load times, and let players bring…

Destiny 2: Beyond Light‘s New Stasis Powers Have Turned PVP Into A Mess

Destiny 2: Beyond Light’s brand new Stasis powers let players freeze one another, but they aren’t too happy about it. Play through Beyond Light’s main story campaign and you’ll get to command powers that freeze mobs of enemies and then let you shatter them into a million crystalline pieces. Stasis, a new elemental subclass derived…

Day One Patch To Fix Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War‘s Overpowered Sliding

Treyarch announced it’s going to fix one of Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s most powerful and controversial tactics ahead of launch: sliding. While Black Ops Cold War doesn’t come out until tomorrow, players have already gotten a taste of its multiplayer during weekend betas earlier in the month. One of the major verdicts?…

Forget About The Pandemic For A Second And Look At This Chill Game About Bird Watching

Monument Valley creators Ustwo Studio couldn’t have picked a better time to release a new game about exploring nature on a breezy Mediterranean island. In Alba: a Wildlife Adventure you spend a summer with your grandparents taking hikes, cleaning up litter, and snapping pics of all the wildlife you run into. First announced earlier this…