Ethan Gach

Tips For Getting Started In Destiny 2: Beyond Light

With Beyond Light, Destiny 2 is a lot more straightforward than it was just a week ago, in part due to all the content that just left the game and the existing loot that was just sunset. Still, there are some things that are easy to miss as you settle into exploring Jupiter’s second moon…

Diablo-lite Minecraft Dungeons is finally getting cross-play on November 17. Players on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC will all be able to matchmake with one another to loot mobs together.

The Brotherhood of Steel officially arrives in Fallout 76 on December 1. The game’s Steel Dawn expansion will include new story missions and player-vaults called camp shelters.

They Brought Back Destiny’s Loot Cave, But Not The Loot

Destiny’s prodigal cave has returned and it comes bearing, well, not much. Back in 2014 when Destiny 1 first launched, the loot cave was all folks could talk about. Bungie invested years and millions into making a vast shared world scifi game and all anybody wanted to do was aim their gun into a dark…

My First Three Hours With Destiny 2: Beyond Light

Today is Destiny 2’s big day. Beyond Light, the game’s third major expansion, is finally live after a seven-week delay, and with it a major new patch and the latest season. I have a lot of feelings right now that will take days, if not weeks, to fully shake out. But at the moment I’m…

The PS5 Doesn’t Support 1440p Output Now, But It Could In The Future

Keep bugging Sony about it and the PS5 might one day support 1440p just like the Xbox Series X/S. This ray of hope comes via an interview with Japanese tech outlet AV Watch in which two Sony VPs explain that there’s nothing technically holding the PS5 back from outputting in 1440p, the native resolution of…

Destiny 2‘s Live Event Has Let Players Into Its Gorgeous Last City

Destiny 2 servers are set to shutdown tonight for maintenance ahead of tomorrow’s launch of the Beyond Light expansion, but just before they do Bungie decide to treat players to a nice relaxing stroll through the game’s breathtaking Last City. Players have been anticipating some sort of live in-game event to cap of the game’s…

PS5 Designer Originally Wanted It To Be Even Bigger

Yes, you read that right. The biggest console in modern gaming history started out even bigger when Sony senior art director Yujin Morisawa first put pen to paper. “In the beginning, when I started drawing, it was much larger even though I didn’t know what engineering was going to do,” Morisawa said in an interview…

Let’s Catch Up On Destiny 2’s Story Ahead Of Beyond Light

Destiny 2’s next big expansion, Beyond Light, is out tomorrow, so it’s a great time to catch up on all of the game’s confusing lore. Clovis Bray corporation, K1 anomaly, Exo Stranger, Deep Stone Crypt—if all of this sounds like the babbling of a space wizard on e-acid, you’re in the right place. Destiny’s universe…

Destiny 2 is having a mini-live event sometime today to wrap up Season of Arrivals. Nobody’s sure exactly when it will take place or what it will entail but players are currently betting on somewhere between 7:00 p.m. ET and the when the game goes down for maintenance at 10:00 p.m. ET

Ubisoft To Remove Controversial Guest From Watch Dogs: Legion’s Podcasts

Ubisoft will replace two of Watch Dogs: Legion’s in-game podcasts in which British journalist Helen Lewis appears, after becoming “aware” of offensive remarks she’s made in the past about gender identity. “We were made aware of controversial remarks from a journalist whose voice-over performance appears in two in-game podcasts in Watch Dogs: Legion,” a spokesperson…

P.T. Doesn’t Work On PS5, Though At One Point It Apparently Did

Playable horror teaser P.T. isn’t backwards compatible on PS5, even if you try to transfer it directly from an existing PS4, and it’s not clear why. Load up the library of games associated with your PlayStation Network account on the next-gen console, as Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo did, and P.T. will have an icon with…

Control‘s Messy Next-Gen Upgrade Delayed To Next Year

The controversial PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of Control won’t be out until sometime in “early 2021,” Remedy Entertainment announced today. “We want the final quality of the game to be awesome, and so we need a bit more time to work on it,” the studio wrote on Twitter. Control will of course still…

A Year Later, Google Stadia Is Finally Getting Family Sharing

Family Sharing, a Stadia feature that was announced a long, long time ago, is finally beginning to roll out on the eve of the video game streaming platform’s one-year anniversary. The feature lets anyone in a Google Family group easily share Stadia games with one another, regardless of who originally bought it or is currently…

Destiny 2 Players Are Once Again Trying To Solve A Mysterious Alternate Reality Game

It’s less than a week before the launch of Destiny 2‘s next big expansion, Beyond Light, and Bungie has decided to pass the time by inviting players to participate in another elaborate ARG puzzle. It all began a couple weeks ago when some folks started to receive their collector’s edition of Destiny 2: Beyond Light.…

Godfall will only be a PS5 exclusive for six months. The game’s new launch trailer confirms at the very end that the loot slasher can come to other consoles after May 12, 2021.

Warframe Is Getting Upgraded For PS5 Later This Year

Warframe was there for the launch of the PS4 generation and will return in an upgraded form on PS5 sometime before the end of the year, developer Digital Extremes announced today. The studio shared some impressive comparison shots between the current and next-gen versions of the free-to-play loot shooter over on the PlayStation Blog today,…

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:…