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Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a new trailer and a new release date of February 13, 2018. The “no magic bullshit” medieval RPG was originally due back in 2015 before slipping year after year. Building massive open worlds is hard it turns out, hence the cinematic trailer without gameplay.

Sunday Comics: Still Gonna Buy It

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 June 6. Read more of Nerf NOW!! Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published June 5. Read more…

The Xbox One S Will Be $50 Cheaper Starting Tomorrow [UPDATE: ‘For A Limited Time Only’] 

Ahead of unveiling Project Scorpio at Sunday’s press briefing, Microsoft announced today on Twitter that the existing Xbox One S will cost $50 less starting June 11. Just about every version of the console currently available at places like Amazon and GameStop are offered as bundles, meaning that come tomorrow, the 500GB Xbox One S…

EA Sports FIFA 18 on Nintendo Switch (yes that’s what Nintendo’s calling it) will include all the stuff FIFA games normally have minus the Alex Hunter story mode hyped at today’s EA event. Instead, the Switch version will have an exclusive “Kick Off” mode. Nintendo is calling it the “deepest portable FIFA ever.”

Battlefield 1’s Next DLC Is In the Name of the Tsar, Out This September

Battlefield’s next expansion will be In the Name of the Tsar, a campaign that looks at World War I’s Eastern front through the eyes of, among others, the “Women’s Battalion of Death.” The expansion will be out this September and add six new maps, eleven new weapons, as well as new vehicles like the Ilya-Muromets…

The latest Nukazooka video takes Mario Kart to a dark place. Andrew McMurry and Klay Abele’s special effects collaboration follows a dude whose car breaks down on the way to a job interview. Pro tip: if that ever happens to you, whatever you do don’t try to get in a go kart instead.

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Speedrunner Gets Owned By Log

Last night speedrunner Zant was attempting a Master Sword RTA run of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild when the log he was flying on decided to reverse direction and wreck him instead His eventual time of 2:42:27 was still good enough to earn 7th place in the category overall (the Master Sword…

The Weekend Esports: Epicenter 2017, Nairo Saga, And More

The spring Rocket League Championship Series is over and the League of Legends summer season is just getting started, but punctuating the relative quiet this weekend are some big showdowns in both Dota 2 and Smash Bros. Wii U. Also Nintendo seems to have finally gotten on board with its grassroots competitive fans. Below you’ll…

Today is Memorial Day. I invite you to celebrate it however you see fit, which for me includes grilling up some fine meats and witnessing M3nt’s latest world record speedrun achieved earlier today in the original Lethal Weapon game for NES. 26:30 deserves a sax solo

Some Blue Shells Have Minds Of Their Own

You’re in first place and the finish line is in sight. Everything is going just fine until you hear that weird electronic whirring coming from behind. Someone’s dropped a blue shell and you think you’re doomed when all of the sudden it hits the person just behind you instead. Sacré bleu! If you’ve been playing…

Some Thoughts On Arms After Playing This Weekend’s Open Beta

Arms is hard to pin down, both literally and figuratively. While this weekend’s global testfires offered a good introduction to the house of whimsical party combat Nintendo is trying to build, a quick stroll around inside left me wondering, Peggy Lee-style, if that’s all there is. Across the roughly three to four hours I spent…

Rime Dev Says It Will Drop Denuvo DRM Once The Game Is Cracked

Rime, the indie game caught halfway between Ico and Journey was released last week. With Denuvo DRM. Like a lot of games. But that made some players angry, and prompted the developer, Tequila Works, to state that once the Denuvo DRM is broken, which it eventually always is, the company will release a DRM-free version…

The Plot Twist In Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time Is A Lot More Believable Today 

Most video games are content just to string the player along through dungeons, towns, or corridors full of machine gun cover while dishing out character arcs and weapon upgrades. Only a few try to reflect on the nature of reality and human existence. Star Ocean: Till the End of Time tried to do both. The…

Fire Emblem Heroes Adds Wedding Costumes

These are the latest heroes to be added to the game starting May 30. The spring event came with bunny costumes, so naturally a series of special characters sporting bridal gowns was the next logical step. The latest trailer for Nintendo’s mobile slot machine shows off old characters all dolled up for the big “I…

The Week In Games: Tokyo Vice

Tokyo 42, Star Trek: Bridge Crew (for real this time), and a bunch of other stuff comes out this week. As Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, it’s only fitting that release schedule starts winding down as well. The last few months still feel like a blur though, so I’ll be taking this…

Everything You Wanted To Know About Super Mario 64‘s Surfaces 

People have been playing Super Mario 64 for years but few have plumbed the depths of how it was constructed and the unique ways its world works the way speedrunners have. “Every surface in SM64 is made up of triangles,” writes YouTuber, speedrunner, and Mario 64 analyst Pannenkoek at the beginning of his latest video…

This Sure Is A $600 Mega Man X Statue

Good statues don’t come cheap and Mega Man X is no exception. But for the price of six months’ car insurance or a round-trip flight to the North American coast of your choice, it could be yours. The little blue robot man measures 21″ and is 1/4th scale, so naturally it’s already sold out. Produced…

Track: Karova | Artist: Com Truise | Album: Galactic Melt Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

There’s More To Phantom Trigger Than Just Another Beautiful Pixel Brawler

Phantom Trigger is, in the words of its development team, a “neon slasher,” and it’s slated to arrive on the Nintendo Switch later this year. But don’t let pink and teal pixel art fool you, it’s more than just Hyper Light Drifter-lite. Revealed two months ago, the PC action adventure game with roguelike elements looked…

We’ve Spent Way Too Much Time Not Playing Games On Our Microwaves

You should probably be playing video games on your microwave or doing absolutely anything other than watching it slowly count down while your leftovers are getting nuked. In the most recent episode of his Invention Show on YouTube, gadget stunt man Colin Furze revealed the “Play-O-Wave,” a fully functioning microwave with a screen and component…