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Square Enix Puts Sky Pirate’s Den Back In Final Fantasy XII Remaster

When Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age released this summer it came with a new set of PSN trophies instead of the game’s original, unique achievement system. Square Enix announced earlier today that the feature will be returning with the game’s November 22 patch 1.04. While some people were no doubt hoping for new content…

The Week In Games: River City Giving 

They are still making these games. The Kunio-kun series has been going on for over two decades now and shows no signs of slowing down. Whatever other strange projects Ark Systems gets itself involved it appears little pixel dudes beating up each other will remain constant. Rival Showdown is the latest game in the series…

Rainbow Six Siege‘s Operation White Noise Adds Invisible Cloaks And Phone Hacking 

Rainbow Six Siege is getting three new characters and a new map as part of its Operation White Noise update that hits the game’s test servers on November 20. The details surrounding Rainbow Six’s last content drop before 2018 came at the season 3 championship tournament going on today in Brazil. The new map called…

Guy Finally Tries To Decode Skyrim Note Two Years Too Late

Sometimes you’re in a relationship with someone. Sometimes that someone decides to give you a note written in cryptic dragon runes from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. If that happens you should probably get to translating that note as soon as possible. Over the weekend, a person who goes by byeblee posted such a note…

Someone At A Smash Bros. Tournament Paused A Bunch Of The TVs On Donkey Kong Shrugging 

The Super FamiCon convention is a celebration of Nintendo and gaming culture. It also hosts a number of competitive tournaments in the Greensboro Marriott’s conference rooms. This morning an attendee who goes by Mossy showed up early only to find someone had put Donkey Kong performing his taunt on as many of the gaming stations…

CD Projekt Red Says Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be ‘No Bullshit’ Story-Driven RPG

The Polish game studio tweeted earlier today that its upcoming scifi game would be “nothing less than” The Witcher 3. The statement was aimed at quelling fears Cyberpunk 2077 might include microtransactions after studio CEO Adam Kicinski said “there will be a certain online element related to Cyberpunk” in an interview earlier in the week…

Sunday Comics: 8K TVs In The Back Alley 

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 November 16. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published November 13. Read more…

It’s Time For A New Aquaman Game 

The Justice League movie might not be great, but it potentially sets up DC’s characters for some better stand-alone movies. One of those is the Aquaman movie, due out next December, and given the renewed excitement surrounding the guardian of the Earth’s oceans, it’s probably time for a new Aquaman video game as well. Thanks…

Track: Summer’s Gone | Artist: The Vernes | Album: The Vernes  Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

Assassin’s Creed Origins Player Tries To Kill A War Elephant With Their Bare Hands

The ancient Egypt of the latest Assassin’s Creed game is a sprawling expanse of lush vegetation and vibrant wildlife. Some players apparently are satisfied with simply taking in the beauty though and instead keep hunting for bigger, and bigger challenges to overcome, like punching an elephant to death. The battle elephant is one of the…

Minecraft’s Super Duper Graphics Pack Gets Delayed, Newest Enemy Type Will Be Flying Manta Rays

Minecraft fans got the chance to vote on what would become the game’s next enemy type during MineCon Earth 2017 this weekend. They chose the one that tries to kill you if you don’t get enough sleep. In addition to having fans vote on the latest enemy to be introduced into the game, Mojang announced…

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The Weekend In Esports: IEM’s Battlegrounds Invitational

2017’s breakout battle royale game comes to the Oracle Arena in Oakland for its first Intel Extreme Masters tournament. Even if PUBG is all some people ever seem to talk about though it’s not the only thing going on this weekend. The Rainbow Six Pro League will have its third season championship while top Dota…

If The NES Had A Screensaver, It Might Look Like This

Alter Dark is a new project that lets you create your own screensavers out of NES ROMs. It was put together by Rachel Weil, an NES homebrew expert and glitch enthusiast, and recently shown off at NodeConf EU in Dublin. For Weil, it combines two of her favorite things: messing around with NES software and…

There are some great new Street Fighter II music remixes. They were put together by DJ Ryan Hemsworth, Knxwledge, Wavves and ASMARA for Red Bull’s Music Academy. They’re worth checking out and you can also download the song to make your own for a fan Street Fighter II remix contest.

The Call Of Duty: WWII Fiasco vs. The Star Wars: Battlefront II Mess: The Comparison We Had To Make

Call of Duty: WWII and Star Wars: Battlefront II are two giant games that have somehow both managed to spawn clusterfucks surrounding their release. It’s only natural that we try to do a thorough accounting of which one fucked up more. Activision’s WWII had massive server issues at launch leading the series’ most diehard fans…

Super Hexagon Developer’s New Game Creates Surreal Worlds Through Typing

“Type stuff in, see what happens!” is Terry Cavanagh describes his latest game, Constellation. It’s a simple pitch that belies a mind-bending journey of free association. The free, browser-based PC game was commissioned and created for Now Play This 2017, a small alternative gaming festival hosted at the Somerset House in London. For an art…

Players Are Having A Lot Of Fun With Vaulting On The Battlegrounds Test Servers

A recent update to the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ test servers has added vaulting and climbing. The game’s island is now part morbid death trap and part playground for extras in an 80s buddy cop movie. I say that because vaulting in PUBG is almost exclusively about anxiously climbing over things the way you might if, like…

Bungie Details Destiny 2 Curse Of Osiris’s ‘Infinite Forest’ And ‘Raid Lair’

Today on a livestream, Bungie showed off footage and discussed some details surrounding Destiny 2’s next DLC, Curse of Osiris, which comes out December 5. Curse of Osiris will include “new raid content” and a new area called the Infinite Forest. The Infinite Forest is actually a simulation created by the Vex. Referred to by…

The mysterious new fighting game from Akira now has an official name and it’s…Fighting EX Layer There’s also a trailer. Akira Nishitani, the developer behind Fighting Layer andStreet Fighter EX announced the news over at PlayStation Blog. The game is also getting a two week beta test on PS4 starting December 11.