Ethan Gach

I Finally Queued Up With A Stranger In Borderlands 3 And I Wish I’d Done It Sooner

I’ve been stuck on Borderlands 3’s Katagawa Ball boss for weeks, but yesterday I finally beat it in the best way possible, thanks to the help of a random stranger. Vengeance, it turns out, is a dish best served with company. Katagawa Ball, a giant robotic orb reminiscent of a Dungeons & Dragons Beholder, has…

Fallout 76 Camp Tortures Players With Math

If you thought Fallout 76 couldn’t get any more nihilistic, there’s now a campsite that burns players alive if they don’t solve math problems fast enough. It’s the latest creation from Fallout 76 player Korindabar, one of the game’s most notorious builders. Korindabar is responsible for a number of “trap” campsites that lure in unsuspecting…

Wargroove’s free Double Trouble DLC is coming to Switch, Xbox One, and PC on February 6, with the PS4 version to follow later. In addition to a new coop story campaign and units, the update will also add competitive quick play maps and more mission editor tools.

Destiny 2’s New Exotic Mission Is Worth Doing Just To Hear Shaxx Sing

Destiny 2’s weekly update today brings with it a new exotic quest that’s short, easy to complete, and ends with one of the best character moments the game has ever had. Devil’s Run is a sidearm that shoots lasers and has one of the shortest questlines I’ve ever come across in the game. All you…

Hold onto your guns: Exit the Gungeon is coming to PC and consoles sometime in early 2020. The Enter the Gungeon spin-off, a side-scrolling twist on the main game’s roguelike bullet hell, was originally released on Apple Arcade last fall. It’s fun on mobile but is better with a controller.

Player Breaks Out Prop While Speedrunning Fallout 4 To Explain Glitch

Last night speedrunner Tomatoangus flew through all of the main Fallout games in just over 2 hours and 16 minutes, and he pulled out all the stops to do so, including an actual prop to explain how to glitch through an elevator in Fallout 4 While all of the Fallout games have a fascinating litany…

Escape From Tarkov Developers Say Adding Playable Women Would Be A ‘Huge Amount Of Work’

Battlestate Games, the studio behind the newly popular online shooter Escape From Tarkov, says they won’t implement playable female protagonists for “game lore” reasons and because it would be too much work. Right now, you can only play Escape From Tarkov as a man. “[T]here will be no playable female characters because of game lore…

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories about escaping a crumbling city is finally coming to PS4, Switch, and PC on April 7. The game was originally slated for PS3 but was cancelled after Japan was hit by an earthquake and tsunami back in 2011.

Nintendo has nearly doubled the number of courses you can upload in Super Mario Maker 2, raising the limit from 64 up to 100. The company says 10 million courses have now been created, a recent batch of which are using the new Zelda tools to create brutal dungeon courses

The First Witcher Game Has Not Aged Well

2007’s The Witcher is a fascinating but flawed artifact from PC gaming’s past and that’s probably where it should stay. I returned to the first video game entry in the popular fantasy series over the recent holiday break because, like a lot of other people, I’d just finished Netflix’s Witcher TV show and wanted to…

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Bad Destiny 2 Guns

Behold my Tango-45 XK5094, a completely mediocre Destiny 2 gun that I’ve finally decided to embrace after weeks of keeping it at a distance because life is too short to keep holding out for the perfect weapon. Last night I finally decided to upgrade it to a masterwork, something I haven’t done since the game’s…

How To Watch Awesome Games Done Quick 2020

Awesome Games Done Quick is back for its 11th year and just in time for anyone who needs a little pick-me-up after the holidays or a timely distraction from everything else going on in the world. The weeklong speedrunning marathon kicked off yesterday on Twitch at noon with donations going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation.…

Destiny 2‘s Eververse Store Is Getting Out Of Hand

One of the quintessential Destiny experiences is logging onto the game, dropping into a familiar activity and encountering a stranger who looks badass. Maybe they bailed you out of a tough fight, or out-gunned you in a Crucible match, or just have armor that looks light years better than what you’re wearing. You click over…

Bayonetta Director Calls Out The Nintendo Switch’s Crappy Menu

The co-founder of Platinum Games criticized how the Switch home screen is laid out and the console’s lack of organization options in a series of tweets earlier this week. One hopes this high-profile critique might help finally get the Switch’s menu fixed. Hideki Kamiya, the director of games like Resident Evil 2 and Bayonetta, called…

Yes I Know I Need To Put My Xbox One On An Actual Shelf (Someday)

My Xbox One has been precariously balanced on top of a stack of books for almost two weeks and will probably stay that way for several more because I am a monster with a million other things on his to-do list. I’d like to say I originally saw this set-up as an art installation, a…

The Year In Tiny Video Game Text, 2019

Games are cheaper than ever, but the three cataract surgeries I paid for this year in order to read the words in them has made the hobby itself way more expensive. In all seriousness, it’s 2019 and so many games, both big and small, are still impossible to read without squinting until a blood vessel…

Bethesda Patches Fallout 76 Cheat After Hacker Uses It To Steal Players’ Items

Last weekend, someone managed to steal items from hundreds of players in Fallout 76 using a new hack. While Bethesda patched the worst parts of the exploit, some of the affected players are still waiting to hear if the company will be able to restore their lost loot. A video posted Sunday on YouTube showed…

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2019

Despite video games’ best efforts to make me spend my time staring down at the floor and picking up random junk, I keep looking up to the skies above and the stars beyond. 2019 was full of lovely depictions of both. This is the third annual collection of video game skies, and each year I’m…

Ethan Gach’s Top 10 Games of 2019

It’s been a bad year for great games, but a great year for good ones. I say that not to disparage any particular game, big or small, but rather to help explain why this was the hardest list of games I’ve put together since I started writing for Kotaku three years ago. While a few…

This Year’s Dawning Event Is A Huge Gift To Players Grinding Destiny 2‘s Season Pass

Destiny 2’s seasonal “Dawning” event is showering players in experience points, helping to ease the months-long grind through the game’s second battle pass-style reward progression. The event went live last week and will remain in effect until January 14. During that time the Tower will have a nice, festive dusting of snow and players will…