Ethan Gach

Demon’s Souls Characters No Longer Look Like Creepy Shells Of Humanity

Sony revealed Demon’s Souls Remake’s character creator today and it looks like you can now play the game as an actual person. “With this new character creator, you will be able to customize your appearance with up to 16 million permutations,” writes Sony Worldwide Studios’ creative director Gavin Moore over on the PlayStation Blog. “We’ve…

Among Us Will Soon Let You Report People For Being Assholes

Purple being toxic? Red using hacks? Among Us developer InnerSloth says players will have new tools for punishing these impure souls come December when the game gets a new account system. “[Accounts] will allow players to report accounts that are toxic and/or hacking,” the developer wrote in its latest unofficial roadmap on Monday. “They may…

Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Is 40GB Bigger On Next-Gen Consoles

Call of Duty games are routinely some of the biggest you can download on console, and this year’s Black Ops: Cold War is continuing that trend, especially on PS5 and Xbox Series X. Today, Activision revealed how much space you’ll need on each console’s hard drive to pre-load the game: PlayStation 4: 95GB PlayStation 5:…

GameStop Challenges Employees To TikTok Dance Contest To Earn Extra Hours During Black Friday

There’s something about Black Friday that seems to bring out the worst in GameStop’s corporate leadership, and this year the video game retailer has found a bizarre new way to appear petty and out of touch. The company has invited employees to submit dance videos in the hopes of winning prizes that include extra work…

Turn-based roguelite RPG Star Renegade is coming to Switch and Xbox One on November 19 and PS4 on November 25. It’s a beautiful game with a great combat system and thanks to a recent patch it now has an easy mode. It’ll also be on Game Pass.

RIP Destiny 2’s Useless Spicy Ramen Coupon

A bunch of old items are vanishing from Destiny 2 players’ inventories next week when its expansion Beyond Light launches, including an expired ramen coupon handed out years ago. Now players are celebrating the memento before it disappears, and its creator says he had originally hoped to do more with it. As first spotted by…

Watch Dogs Legion’s Podcasts Are Great When They Aren’t Constantly Restarting

I love listening to podcasts while I drive because I am sick in the head, so naturally I do the same thing when driving around in Watch Dogs Legion. Unfortunately, I spent my first few hours cruising the game’s London in a stolen hatchback while the same podcast reset over and over every time I…

Alundra, My Big Beautiful Elven Son, Play Us Some Songs

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to the soundtrack from Alundra, a 1998 PlayStation game in which you invade people’s nightmares and solve Zelda-like dungeons to help them wake up. Alundra’s a weird one (playlist /longplay /VGMdb). It was…

PC Mod Finally Gives Silent Hill 2 Thick, PS2-Style Fog

A mod for the PC port of Silent Hill 2 recently got a big update that adds new features, improves graphics, and most importantly makes the fog look just as dense and spooky as in the original PlayStation 2 version of the game. The mod Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition first came out in 2018…

The Steam version of Guild Wars 2 has been put on hold indefinitely, ArenaNet recently announced. The studio is instead focusing entirely on its next expansion, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons.

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor will lose all of its online features on December 31. This includes vendetta missions where you can hunt down your friends’ nemeses as well as the forge which lets you transfer nemeses to the sequel, Shadow of War.

Turn-Based League Of Legends RPG Coming Early 2021

Riot Games announced that Ruined King: A League of Legends Story will come to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch and PC early next year, marking the first time anything League of Legends related has come to consoles. The company delivered the news with a new cinematic trailer during this year’s League of…

Not All Assassin’s Creed Games Will Be Backwards Compatible On PS5 (Update: Ubisoft Pulls Listing)

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and a few of the series’ spin-offs won’t work on PS5, Ubisoft announced today Update – 9:06 p.m. ET, 10/30/20: Ubisoft has since taken down today’s support page announcing the backwards compatibility exceptions for PS5, and it now links to an earlier announcement about Ubisoft Connect. “We have pulled the Ubisoft Connect…

Overcooked! All You Can Eat is coming to PS5 at launch and Xbox Series X/S sometime after that. Part compilation, part remake, the game includes both Overcooked 1 and 2, all the DLC, and visual improvements including 4K at 60 FPS.

Destiny 2 Director To Players: ‘Delete All That Shit’ Taking Up Space In Your Vault

This week we got another heads-up on several changes coming to Destiny 2, both in its next expansion and beyond, including that players won’t need to keep copies of all their favorite-looking armor in order to take advantage of the upcoming stats-preserving transmog system. “You’re not going to have to have the copy in your inventory,”…

Far Cry 6 And Rainbow Six Quarantine Delayed

Far Cry 6 and Rainbow Six Quarantine have both been delayed until some time after April 1, 2021, Ubisoft announced today in its latest earnings report The publisher cited “production challenges related to work from home” during the covid-19 pandemic as part of the reason for the delay. “Benefitting from this strong momentum and despite…

Judge Sides With Dutch Government On Fining EA Up To $5.85 Million Unless It Ditches FIFA Loot Boxes

After a Netherlands District Court ruled in favor of the country’s Gambling Authority on banning loot boxes earlier this month, FIFA publisher EA has one week to remove loot boxes from the game or face up to $5.85 million in fines. The ruling, issued October 15 and published today, allows the Netherlands Gambling Authority (known…

Cyberpunk 2077 Delay Was Kept From Most Of The Team, Studio Says (Update)

A tumultuous 24 hours after CD Projekt Red announced Cyberpunk 2077 would be delayed for a third time, the studio has confirmed reports that most of the game’s developers were unaware of the decision before the news broke, stating the reason for the secrecy had to do with Polish stock market regulations. “In a nutshell,…

The PlayStation App Is Getting An Overhaul

Sony announced a bunch of changes to the PlayStation App that make it less terrible today, including folding in Messages and letting you remotely install and delete games on your PS5. The redesigned app is set to go live later today on both iOS and Android. Here’s what Sony says to expect, according to a new…

PC’s Pokémon-like MMO Temtem will make its console debut on PS5 first on December 8. It’s still in Early Access, and there’s no word yet on when it will come to other consoles, but the PS5 version will support cross-play with PC.