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CultureHitman 3 Comes Out January 20, Next-Gen Upgrades Will Be Free
Hitman 3 will be out January 20 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Stadia and PC via Epic Games Store, IO Interactive announced today. Itāll also let players upgrade digital copies of the game to their next-gen versions for free. āYes, weāre doing a next-gen upgrade for consoles and yes, itās free,ā the…
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CultureNetflix Confirms It’s Working On A Resident Evil TV Series
A new live-action series based on Resident Evil is in development over at Netflix, the livestreaming platform announced today on Twitter. The show will apparently focus on the āWesker kidsā, a possible allusion to Albert Wesker, a central antagonist in Resident Evil and one of several children who were part of a eugenics projects involving…
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OpinionMaybe Just Delay Next-Gen Already
The Xbox Series X comes out in November, probably around the same time as the PS5 if Sony ever gets around to announcing its release date. But they donāt need to come out then. In fact, maybe it would be for the best if they were just delayed until some time next year. Lately Iāve…
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CultureCall of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Out November 13
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will have a full campaign, multiplayer, and Zombies mode when it releases this November. The game, which was originally teased last week and has had several leaks since, was officially revealed today during a special event mode inside Warzone. It began by having players queue for a special…
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CultureSinking City Developer Says Game Was Pulled From Stores Because Publisher Stopped Paying Royalties
Search for The Sinking City on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Xbox One, or PlayStation 4 and you wonāt find it. The Lovecraftian detective game released last year has been missing for a couple months now. Today, Ukrainian developer Frogwares finally revealed why: for the last year itās been in a legal dispute with the…
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CulturePhew, Cyberpunk 2077 Will Let You Embiggen Its Tiny Subtitles
CD Projekt Red recently shared a screenshot of a scene from Cyberpunk 2077 with subtitles turned on, which immediately made the internetās eyes hurt. Fortunately, the publisher now says players will have some options for that tiny text bigger. Hereās the shot CD Project Red tweeted out on Friday: āThose subtitles are next to impossible…
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Culture2000ās JRPG āSummer Of Adventureā Saw Square At The Height Of Its Powers
Twenty years ago this month Square released Chrono Cross, a big, beautiful mess of a game bursting at the seams with style, atmosphere, and Japanese RPG minutia. But it wasnāt the only major game Square released that summer. The publisher also delivered Threads of Fate and Legend of Mana, two other games that riffed on…
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CultureBatman Arkham Developer Rocksteady Responds To Harassment Claims
Rocksteady Studios released a statement on Twitter today addressing recent claims that it failed to respond to concerns about sexual harassment at the studio, saying it ādealt with issues raisedā in the past, and is committing to work with an independent third-party to address any new complaints that might come up in the future. On…
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CultureCrysis Remastered Comes Out In September, For Real This Time, Probably
After lots of leaks, confusion, and backtracking, Crysis Remastered finally has a new release date and itās coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on September 18. The remaster, which is only of the first game in the series and doesnāt include any multiplayer, will have a number of graphical updates like ray-traced reflections and…
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CultureHere’s Everything Destiny 2 Is Losing Later This Year
Bungie went into more detail about what precisely will be disappearing from Destiny 2 later this year, when the studio begins vaulting content for the the first time in gameās history and…itās a lot. The base gameās main campaign will all but disappear and most of its existing free-to-play content along with it. The Destiny…
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OpinionImpressionsChill Out, Battletoads
Iām not exactly sure what Iām supposed to call Battletoads 2020. A long-awaited sequel? A spiritual reboot? A love letter to an old classic whose most memorable quality was that hardly anybody could beat it? In any event, it feels good to play in short bursts, but its humor and chaos overshadow it. I wanted…
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CultureHow’s It Going? RIP Summer Edition
Itās cold where I am, at least too cold to take a swim. Which is good because our poolās been empty since a tropical storm flooded the yard (and our basement) earlier this month. Do we clean it out and fill it back up? Take it down and admit this summer blew? I should probably…
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CultureSony Says PS5 Is Definitely Still Launching This Year
We still donāt know how much the PS5 will cost nor its exact release date, but in a new interview Sony executive Eric Lempel said the ongoing global pandemic hasnāt changed the companyās plans to launch the console later this year. āWe will launch this yearāthat will happenāand from my end we will absolutely make…
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CultureNew Souls-Like Looks Cool Even If It Might Never Come Out
Overnight, Chinese developer Game Science Studio released a 13-minute gameplay video for a project itās working on called Black Myth: Wukong and it looks amazing, even if itās nowhere near coming out. An action adventure game that appears to be inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West, the trailerĀ features a monkey warrior fighting…
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CultureControl Publisher Posts ‘Explanation’ About Next-Gen Upgrades That Doesn’t Explain Much
505 Games tried to explain why owners of the existing version of Control wonāt be able to upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in a blog post today and didnāt succeed. Last week, the publisher of Control announced a new version of the game called Control Ultimate Edition that would include the…
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CultureWriter On Original Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines Has Been Fired From The Sequel
Brian Mitsoda, a lead writer on the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been laid off from the development team working on Bloodlines 2, Hardsuit Labs and Paradox Interactive announced on the gameās website today. Creative director Kaāai Cluney is also no longer working on the game as part of larger āorganizational changesā to…
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CultureE3 Apologizes After Sexist Tweet Gets Ratioed
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was one of those times when the three gremlins in a trenchcoat controlling the E3 Twitter account tweeted something so insulting and ridiculous that all you can do is screenshot it and wait for it to be deleted. At 11:37 a.m. ET…
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CultureOdds and EndsBaldur’s Gate III Delivers The First Actually Good Not-E3 Developer Livestream
Now this is how you do a Summer of Not-E3 video game livestream. I havenāt seen friends or family in any sort of natural or sustained way for months, the unemployment rate is only slightly below where it was during the worst months of the Great Recession, and hundreds are still dying every day of…
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Ethan Gach
I'm a senior reporter who's been writing about games and internet culture at Kotaku for almost 10 years. I cover everything from company earnings and player boycotts to emerging trends in gaming like AI, creator economies, and the changing console landscape. You can share story and news tips securely and anonymously at [email protected] or over Signal at +12673263042.
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