Ethan Gach

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…

Call Of Duty Players Are Getting Quick Nukes Thanks To Spawn Camping On New Map

Tactical nuke kill streaks are supposed to be hard to get in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but some players have been getting them incredibly fast thanks to bad spawn points on the game’s Shipment map. Over the weekend the TapXNation YouTube channel put up a video showing a player by the name of Streaking…

Man Masters Time Crisis, Playing On Two Screens At Once

On December 15, cosplayer and light gun arcade game master Eddie Esguerra went viral on social media. DC Comics editor Andi Khouri Tweeted a video of him dual wielding two pistols in Time Crisis 2 as if he were a character in an anime by. The video, in which Esguerra dodges like a boxer and…

CD Projekt Red and Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski have signed a new agreement “further solidifying their relationship,” the studio announced in a press release today. It said it’s received new rights to the property, but didn’t go into more detail. Sapkowski had previously threatened to sue for additional royalties.

Saint-14 has officially returned to the Tower in Destiny 2 The legendary Titan appeared after the game’s daily reset and has a handful of quests to give players, including one to help build an Obelisk in the Tower. Hopefully that one’s not bugged too.

Fans Are Hard At Work On A Witcher Total War Game

The Witcher books have already spawned a role-playing game trilogy, a spin-off card game, and even a Netflix TV show, but now some fans are trying to mod strategy game Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms into a Witcher game. The fan project, first spotted by PC Gamer, is titled Witcher: Total War and aims to…

Finisher Roulette Is My New Favorite Low-Key Destiny 2 Feature

Killing hordes of the same aliens over and over again feels a lot livelier thanks to Destiny 2’s new random finishers. Finishers seemed like a fun but mostly superfluous idea back when Bungie added them to the game with the release of the Shadowkeep expansion in October. The option to perform a finisher kicks in…

Borderlands 3’s Quest Cycling Option Is Amazing

I’m getting pretty sick of opening up menus in games, so when I realized I could just toggle through quests at any time in Borderlands 3, I was overjoyed In previous Borderlands games you could highlight a limited number of quests to pursue at one time. The latest game effectively lets you track all of…

Soccer Superstar Removed From China’s Pro Evolution Soccer After Calling Out Human Rights Abuses

Video game publisher NetEase has said it will remove Arsenal player Mesut Özil from Pro Evolution Soccer 2020 in China, after Özil criticized the country’s mass imprisonment of its Uighur Muslim population. “The German player Özil posted an extreme statement about China on social media,” NetEase wrote on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, according…