Ethan Gach

Red Dead Redemption 2 Comes To Game Pass

Red Dead Redemption 2 goes free to download as part of Xbox Game Pass starting May 7. The blockbuster western, which former Kotaku editor Kirk Hamilton called “exhaustively detailed and exhaustingly beautiful” in his review, is the latest in a series of big games that have recently come to Microsoft’s subscription-based download library. The Witcher…

Stop Killing This Poor Fallout 76 Radstag

There’s a new mutant in town, and it’ll lead you to treasure if you’re not a sociopath. If you’ve been playing Fallout 76 since last week’s Wastelanders update went live you may have run into a new type of irradiated deer called an Observant Radstag. It’s friendly and won’t attack you. That hasn’t stopped many…

Nintendo Slashes Interest Rates In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Animal Crossing’s latest update cuts the amount of money players can earn just by letting all of their bells sit in the bank, a lesson to all you hoarders out there to get out and spend. The news came by way of a letter from Tom Nook. It was waiting in players’ mailboxes following last…

Mario Maker 2‘s Final Update Would Be Better If It Weren’t The Last One

Super Mario Maker 2 received its big version 3.0 update today, adding a bunch of new items, characters, and a whole new mode for building entire worlds. There’s a ton of great stuff to play around with in it. But as a final update, it leaves a lot on the table. First the big stuff:…

Bugged Fallout 76 NPCs Are Looting Some Players’ Corpses

Sharing is caring, right? At least it is when the person you lend your stuff to eventually gives it back. Some of Fallout 76’s newly added NPCs aren’t doing that, though. Thanks to a bug, they can occasionally nab your prized loot when you die and keep it for themselves. “I was playing the riding…

GameStop Will Reopen Some Stores In The Middle Of A Pandemic

GameStop’s CEO is taking a 50% salary reduction as part of pay cuts across the company as it prepares to re-open stores in some states, the company announced today. “The Company has begun the process of re-opening stores in Italy, Germany, Austria and the states of South Carolina and Georgia and is preparing for the…

Destiny 2’s Guardian Games Is Another Boring Bounty Fest So Far

Destiny 2’s latest event is a generous but all-too-familiar bounty grind, and I’m not sure I have it in me to stick with it. Revealed last week, Guardian Games is Destiny 2’s spin on the Olympics. Instead of individual players competing to see who’s the best, players of a particular class—Warlock, Titan, or Hunter—pool their…

Nvidia’s Streaming Service Keeps Losing More And More Games

Games like Oxygen Not Included, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, and the entire Arkham series are set to be pulled from GeForce Now on April 24. Nvidia announced the latest round of departures in a blog post last night about the future of its fledgling video game streaming platform. “We’re transitioning as many games to GeForce…

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot’s first DLC is out April 28 and adds Beerus to the game. The god of destruction will be level 250 but Vegeta and Goku will have their Super Saiyan God forms available. Still, the game’s producer said he’s only beaten the fight one out of every 10 tries.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Getting Leif, Jolly Redd, And More Seasonal Events

Nintendo announced Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ next set of free updates this morning, and they include upcoming visits from the the shrub merchant Leif and art dealer Jolly Redd. The updates include both visits from new villagers and a series of limited-time events pegged to upcoming holidays. They start rolling out on April 23. Here’s…

Super Mario Odyssey Gets Remade In Mario 64

Pack your bags—we’re going to New Donk 64. Mario modder extraordinaire Kaze Emanuar is back with their latest project: a Mario 64 mod called Super Mario Odyssey 64. As the name suggests, it recreates much of the Switch game inside its Nintendo 64 predecessor, resulting in a nifty demake that looks like it would be…

Another World Creator Shares Toy Car Footage He Used To Make Video Game Art

Over the weekend, game designer Éric Chahi shared footage of him playing with a toy car that was used to make one of the cutscenes in 90s scifi adventure game Another World come to life. It’s a cool look at what goes on behind the scenes of classic game animation. 1991’s Another World holds up…

Since actual matches are still suspended the Premier League is going to hold a FIFA tournament this week instead The 20 team single-elimination bracket gets underway April 21 at 7:00p.m. ET with the early matches streaming on YouTube and the semifinals and beyond airing live on NBC Sports.

This Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox Is Too Much

Happy Friday: this special edition Xbox One X comes with glow-in-the-dark graffiti that says “No Future.” It’s probably right. I wasn’t down with this Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X when it leaked on the Canadian Walmart website yesterday. Instead of something bright and neon-fueled, it looked to me like the sort of colorful scrap metal…

Taxi cab whodunit Night Call is getting a big update on PC today. Called “The Long Way Home,” it adds a new passenger system, more guests to interrogate, and a free roam mode where you can explore neo-noir Paris at your own pace. The update comes to console later this year.

It’s Not Gonna Happen But I Still Want A Physical Copy Of Final Fantasy VII Remake [Update]

I made the mistake of trying to get a physical copy of Final Fantasy VII Remake, the game I’ve been waiting over a decade to play, ever since the idea of it first started knocking around my early-20s brain. It never came, and now I’m staring at page after page of scalper prices on Ebay.…

The indie studio behind OlliOlli has a new experimental game out called RUNME.EXE. In the words of its creators it’s “an esoteric turn based puzzle game with glitch graphics, weird sounds, and a bunch of strangeness.” Sounds perfect. Also it’s free. You can give it a try over on itch.io.

Fallout 76’s NPCs Don’t Care About Getting Nuked

This week’s Fallout 76 Wastelanders update added human non-player characters to the game for the first time. Naturally, one of the first things players tried to do was nuke them. Players have been finding all sorts of curious new details in the game thanks to its burgeoning populace, from the return of pizza rolls to…

Destiny 2 Is Getting Its Own Version Of The Olympics

Destiny 2 is getting a new limited-time event called Guardian Games next week. The event will have players try to out-compete one another for the honor of having their guardian class represented in the Tower for the rest of the year. The Guardian Games were teased in this season’s roadmap but didn’t have an exact…

Gamescom 2020 Won’t Happen In Germany, Goes Digital

Gamescom, one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world, won’t be happening in Germany this year. Gamescom 2020 is canceled, its organizers announced today, but a digital version of the event is in the works. “It’s official: unfortunately, gamescom will under no circumstances take place on site in Cologne this year,” the German Games…