Ethan Gach

Control: The Kotaku Review

Control is the latest game from the makers of Max Payne, Alan Wake, and Quantum Break. It’s a twisted, haunting odyssey through an old post-WWII office building under siege by parasitic beings from another dimension. Control has all the standard elements of a regular third-person shooter, but its exhaustive world building and all-consuming eeriness make…

Anthem: Six Months Later

It’s already been six months since the online shooter Anthem came out. A lot has happened during that time, though not as much as players had hoped. The game launched with many bugs and flaws, and both players and the developers have acknowledged that it needs a lot of work. While developer BioWare has addressed…

Koei Tecmo wants players to submit ideas for which Monster Rancher creatures should be linked up with what music when the game’s remaster gets ported to Switch and smartphones next year. The original game spawned creatures from CDs inserted into the PS1 but the new game will use a different system.

Fallout 76 Player Completes New Raid, Earns Useless Drill

Almost anyone who’s ever raided in a game before has a horror story about that time they worked really hard only to be rewarded with a piece of junk. At least one super unlucky Fallout 76 player recently joined their ranks. “We beat the final boss, opened up the loot chest at the end,” wrote…

Dota 2 Team Sent Packing From World Championship After Tragic Misclick

Painful counterfactuals stalk even the best athletes. On Monday, Manchester United star Paul Pogba missed an easy penalty, dooming his team to a 1-1 draw against a lesser opponent. Last night, a Dota 2 player tried to ban a particular hero from the match, but ended up selecting him instead. It’s impossible to reduce any…

There’s a long lost member of the Ginyu Force and her name is Bonyu. Designed by series creator Akira Toriyama, she’ll be introduced in the upcoming role-playing game Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Bandai Namco announced today. Her backstory will apparently get explored in one of the game’s side-quests.

Vermintide 2‘s ‘Winds Of Magic’ Expansion Adds More Grind But Not Much Else

Developer Fatshark has called “Winds of Magic” Vermintide 2’s first expansion, but while it offers a completely new mode and progression system, it currently just seems like another DLC. On top of that, it feels unmoored from the strong lore and ambient apocalyptic mood that guided previous additions to the game. “Winds of Magic” opens…

Have you ever wanted to skid off-road in a tractor trailer, potentially rolling down snowbanks or smashing into trees and watching your load go tumbling out into a winter wonderland? Well SnowRunner has you covered. An upcoming game in the MudRunner series, it’s set to come to release next year.

Fallout 76 Group’s Raid Attempt Foiled By Notorious Power Armor Glitch

In Fallout 76, power armor can keep you safe, or it can become a horrible tomb entrapping unsuspecting players until the end of time (or until they reset their game). That’s what happened to one group of players attempting Fallout 76’s brand new raid. Added today as part of patch 12, Vault 94 is the…

Yakuza 3 is out on PS4 today, Sega annnounced today on Twitter. The 2009 runs at 60fps in 1080p and includes content that was previously cut from the Western release like the game’s hostess clubs. Sega also said that Yakuza 4 will follow in October, as well as Yakuza 5 next February. 

Star Renegades’ art style looks even hotter in this new trailer. The role-playing roguelike always had lush pixel graphics, but the developers over at Massive Damage have added a bunch of depth that almost gives the game a Mode 7 look. The game is due out on PC and console next spring.

Pokémon Trophy Breaks The Moment Winner Touches It

Anyone got some Pokéglue? The Pokémon World Championships were this past weekend, with players from around the globe battling across the 3DS and trading card games to see who would become this year’s Pokémon masters. After all was said and done, Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara took to the stage to present all of the…

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt comes to Switch October 15. The release date for the port of the Complete Edition was announced via a new trailer during the opening night of Gamescom. The Switch version includes all of the DLC and apparently, magically, won’t break your Switch the second it boots up.

Everything Microsoft Showed On Today’s Inside Xbox

Microsoft showed off Gears of War 5‘s horde mode, NBA 2k20‘s career mode, and the new games coming to Game Pass during its latest episode of Inside Xbox The episode spanned over an hour and a half, and while it was mostly full of new trailers for games we already knew about, there were a…

Nintendo Switch Is Getting A Ton Of New Indie Games (Including Ori And The Blind Forest)

There are a bunch of indie games newly coming to the Switch, including the Microsoft-published Ori and the Blind Forest, which will be coming to the platform on September 27, Nintendo announced in its “Indie World Showcase.” It will join Cuphead, which released on Switch earlier this year and was also previously a console exclusive…

Minecraft Is About To Look Much Better On PC

It turns out that Minecraft is getting a visual update after all, just not the one that was originally promised. Overnight, graphics card makers Nvidia announced a new update for the game that will add Minecraft to the growing list of PC games that support real-time ray tracing. “Ray tracing is one of the key…

It’s The End Of A Generation At This Year’s Pokémon World Championships

At the 2019 Pokémon World Championships this weekend, trainers can choose any of the existing 807 known Pokémon to fight by their side. This is the last time they’ll be able to do so, at least in the near future. Earlier today, the Pokémon Company announced that Pokémon Sword and Shield will be the official…

Cloud Saves On PS4 Have A Weird Limit

Cloud saves are great. They keep your save data safe, providing backups for everything you’ve ever accomplished in a PS4 game. They also makes it easy to stop playing on one PS4 and pick up right where you left off on another. But PS4 cloud saves have a bizarre 1,000-file cap, and no one’s really…

The Chill YouTube Comments On Game Soundtracks Are A Pleasant Surprise

This hour-long video on YouTube, whose title roughly translates to “One hour corridor ‘Chrono Trigger,’” plays the same three-minute “Corridors of Time” track from the game over and over again. It has over 1 million views, and it also has one of the most pleasant comment sections I’ve seen, full of viewers devoted to celebrating…

Dicey Dungeons Is A Good Entry Point For Deck Builders

Life is an endless barrage of decisions. Some are big. Should you look for a better apartment? Most are small. Some pulp or no pulp? Sometimes it’s fun to decide. Often it’s exhausting. The burgeoning scene of roguelike deckbuilding video games is full of decision-making. It can be overwhelming. Thankfully, Dicey Dungeons, isn’t. The newest…