Ethan Gach

The Makers Of Jackbox Are Launching A Celebrity Livesteam Show For Charity

A new livestreaming series called Celebrity Jackbox: Games & Giving will pit some mildly famous people against one another as they play Jackbox party games to raise money for those affected by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. “Every episode, a new crew of famous personalities will play a variety of games from Jackbox’s collection of 30…

Game Pass now has over 10 million subscribers. Xbox boss Phil Spencer announced the stat in a new blog post outlining the downloadable game service’s continued growth. That’s up from 9.5 million monthly users last year. Spencer said subscribers are playing games twice as much since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic. 

Tom And Isabelle Dance It Out In Animal Crossing Fan Videos

Animal Crossing: New Horizons players have been making clips of the game’s two stars getting their groove on at work, set to all sorts of music. It’s become my new favorite playlist for chilling out during these stressful days. Run by three Animal Crossing fans, the Twitter account TomAndIsabelleDanceTo takes short clips of island administrators…

Modern Warfare‘s Massive Updates Are Gobbling Up Players’ Hard Drives

Yesterday Call of Duty: Modern Warfare received a new update and additional data pack, adding over a dozen gigs to an already huge game and eating up ever more space on people’s console and PC harddrives. Lots of games want to be the only one you play; Modern Warfare seems to want to be the…

Goodbye Maddy Myers, Blog Bounty Hunter And Revered Mutantologist

Maddy Myers, deputy editor and undercover Samus clone, has wrangled her last blog and now prepares to take up a new position as weekend host for Here’s the Deal As is tradition, we will now say mean things about her, only it’s hard, so we mostly said nice things. Who cares if she’s disappointed about…

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Coming To Stadia Later This Year, Other EA Games To Follow

Electronic Arts has agreed to bring a number of its games to Google’s video game streaming platform, Stadia, including FIFA, Madden, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, according to The Hollywood Reporter While Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will arrive on Stadia some time later this year, sports series FIFA and Madden won’t arrive until…

Get a load of this brief clip for an upcoming game called Infinite Guitar It’s about mech battles where the fighting happens through turn-based rhythm challenges. I’m down, especially if it supports hacks to let me use an old Guitar Hero guitar as the controller.

Fallout 76 Robot Won’t Stop Spamming Players With Communist Propaganda

Fallout 76’s Communist Collectron would rather help emancipate the proletariat than find rare weapons for players. The robot is one of the latest things you can buy from Fallout 76’s in-game shop. Like a traditional Collectron, it’s programmed to scavenge for resources while players are out adventuring. This one has a Commie twist, though, droning…

The Last of Us II Will Come Out In June, Ghost of Tsushima Delayed Until July

The Last Of Us Part II finally has a release date again: June 19. Sony announced the news over on the PlayStation Blog alongside an update that Ghost of Tsushima has been delayed by a month until July 17. Tsushima was originally set to release on June 26. Meanwhile, The Last of Us Part II…

2K Games Wants To Spend More Time Developing Next Game After The Disaster That Was WWE 2K20

2K Games announced today that it’s going to take more time and make use of a new executive producer to try and avoid another botched release like WWE 2K20. Last year’s World Wrestling Entertainment tie-in was a buggy mess when it launched. Five major updates later, 2K Games says it knows fans “want more from…

The Little Things Helping Kotaku‘s Staff Keep It Together During Isolation

Covid-19 has turned things upside down. The first-order problems of the pandemic have left millions infected and nearly 200,000 dead. The others have led to school being cancelled, the closure of non-essential businesses, and social distancing measures becoming second nature. Below are some of the sources of pleasure and distraction members of the Kotaku staff…

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age just got some important new features on PS4 and PC. Thanks to a new update you can finally reset the license boards and swap between three different gambit loadouts on the fly. These features were previously only in the Switch and Xbox One versions.

Fallout 76 Devs Want To Add Pets To The Game

The dream of having a pet Deathclaw to cuddle with on cold Appalachia nights could soon be a reality Fallout 76‘s developers did an AMA on Reddit yesterday addressing all sorts of questions about the game and its future. While some things, like expanded camp building budgets and additional NPCs, could be a ways off,…

Square Enix is adding flying to Final Fantasy XIV’s A Realm Reborn maps. The long requested feature will come alongside a streamlining of the Realm Reborn main quests which will be a boon to anyone who’s ever picked this game up and then dropped it five hours in.

Bungie’s Working To Get Rid Of Destiny 2 Cheaters And Make Trials Of Osiris More Rewarding

It’s been great finally having Destiny’s top-tier competitive activity Trials of Osiris back in the game, but the mode’s return has been marred by stingy prizes and thousands of cheaters. Bungie now says it’s working on addressing both of these shortcomings. “Cheating in Destiny 2 is up roughly 50 percent since January, and significantly more…

Paradise Killer is a stylish murder mystery headed to PC this summer. You play as detective Lady Love Dies responsible for interrogating witnesses on an edenic island and finding out which of them is responsible for doing some murders. It looks very weird and cool.

The next season of the Pokémon anime is going to be a Netflix-exclusive in the U.S The first 12 episodes of Pokémon Journeys will debut on June 12, with the rest getting added quarterly. Ash and Pikachu remain the stars, but the two will be visiting multiple regions and meeting new characters.

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…