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Slay The Spire Has Some Fun Infinite Combos 

Slay The Spire is one of Steam’s latest Early Access gems thanks to its polished combination of roguelike dungeon crawling and traditional card game mechanics. The game’s quite challenging at first, but some players have already been discovering special combos that allow them to rip through the game with ease. Twitch streamer RiskyCB is one…

Tactical RPG Ikenfell has a new trailer and is set to release on Steam this summer. The game was Kickstarted two years ago and basically takes the setup for Harry Potter and turns it into an RPG with Paper Mario-esque combat. Perhaps best of all the Steven Universe people put together the music.

Recreating Oblivion In Skyrim Means Paying Close Attention To Trees

Skyblivion is a project by a volunteer team of modders to recreate the map for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion inside Skyrim. It’s been years in the making, dating back to 2012, and the team recently released an updated trailer to showcase their accomplishments so far. Their progress will give you a new appreciation for…

Zelda Player Turns Map Progress Into Wall Art

Since its first DLC, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has given players the option to look back at all the places they’ve traveled by showing their path in green, known in the game as the “Hero’s Path.” While the feature has always been neat, it looks even more unique and intimate when…

Three Years Later, The People Behind Halo: The Master Chief Collection Are Still Fixing Things

In a developer update posted last night, 343 Industries outlined ongoing plans to update Master Chief Collection, an anthology of Halo games for Xbox One whose multiplayer has been plagued with problems ever since it released in late 2014. Beginning last fall, 343 has been rebuilding MCC to take advantage of improvements in Xbox Live…

A free demo went up on the 3DS’s eShop today for Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology. It was one of the DS’s better JRPGs when it originally came out back in 2010 and definitely worth checking out. The full game releases later this month on February 13.

Valve Will Start Patching Dota 2 Way More Often [UPDATE]

IceFrog, Dota’s head developer, tweeted late last night that the publisher will take a different approach to how the game is updated going forward. Instead of a few dramatic patches peppered throughout the year, Dota 2 will now get smaller updates every two weeks. “We want to try taking a different approach to how gameplay…

GOG has changed its mind and decided to accept Opus Magnum after all. The brilliant little puzzle game was originally denied a place in the store for unclear reasons, but GOG recently tweeted that it would now be added thanks it part to community feedback

Slay The Spire Is A Roguelike Card Game, And I’m Hooked

Slay the Spire, a roguelike where you try to deckbuild your way out of brutal dungeons, went into Early Access on Steam last November and has since been slowly winning over unsuspecting players who go into it with low expectations. I am one of those recent converts. Developed by Mega Crit Games, Slay the Spire…

Trump’s State Of The Union Donation Stunt Feels Straight Out Of Twitch

Prior to last night’s State of the Union speech, Donald Trump’s re-election campaign contacted the President’s supporters to ask them for small donations. Unlike in the past, however, anyone who donated the day before the speech would get their name added to a ticker running at the bottom of the campaign’s livestream of the event.…

Gwent‘s Latest Card Art Continues To Look Beautiful

A new open PTR (Public Test Realm) has gone live for Gwent, CD Projekt Red’s card game based on The Witcher. Players have already collected some beautiful new artwork for potential cards from it. Gwent has some amazing artists working on it, and the latest batch of files culled from the PTR bear that out.…

The Week In Games: Final Fantasy Fighters Unite 

Square Enix’s fighting game joins the mix this week but not much else. There was a time when I would have bought anything I could get my hands on that sported the words “Final Fantasy.” Ten years ago the prospect of a Square fighting game that wasn’t Ehrgeiz would have made my jaw drop. And…

GTA V‘s North Yankton Is Beautifully Incomplete 

Ludendorff, North Yankton is where the prologue of Grand Theft Auto V takes place. You’re there to steal some cash and then things go sideways, setting in motion the game’s main events nine years later. The town is sort of an after thought, in other words, with lots of low-res textures and missing stuff. That’s…

Track: Real. Now. Love. | Artist: Jerry Paper | Album: Big Pop  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Monster Hunter: World Matchmaking On Xbox One Is Currently Busted [UPDATE]

Monster Hunter: World is a multiplayer game meant to be played online with other people. Unfortunately, matchmaking on Xbox One isn’t yet working as intended. [Update- 7:00pm, 2/1/2018] Capcom patched the game today to fix matchmaking on the Xbox One. While many players have reported it’s now working for them and they’re able to search…

PlayStation Network is currently experiencing some problems. A note on the service’s status page reads: “You may have some difficulty launching games, applications, or online features. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, and we thank you for your patience.”

A Super Mario Sunshine World Record Years In The Making

AverageTrey first got into speedrunning Super Mario Sunshine back in 2013. He’d always loved the game as a kid and thought the records in the 120 Shines category still had plenty of room for improvement. Five years later he’s finally cracked the three hour barrier in one of speedrunning’s most popular games. “It’s truly been…

Sunday Comics: Boat Words

Welcome to Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics that usually occurs on Sunday except when it doesn’t. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira. Published January 26. Read more of Nerf NOW!!  Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published January 22. Read more…

The latest update for They Are Billions adds waypoints, new housing styles, and towers out in the map that can be repaired. It also adds a bunch more languages and some new music for when the zombie hordes come knocking, but the waypoints are especially nice, letting players make more complex patrol routes.

YouTuber SWEGTA’s latest dump of Bully content that didn’t make it from the beta into the final game is a super eerie song that was intended to play during Mr. Hattrick’s math classes. By way of Polgyon, the song is pretty good though and will help tide you over until Bully gets remastered.