Sonic the Hedgehog is back (for a flash) in a new web series called Sonic Returns The first cartoon in the five part series dropped on the official Sonic YouTube channel today and it is absolutely adorable.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is spicing things up with special events—limited time game modes with special weapons and squad rules. The latest event, which kicked off yesterday, adds a special flare gun for calling supply drops. It’s a good idea, but the execution is too timid. Following Fortnite Battle Royale’s model of limited time events, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds…
Monster Hunter: World’s new event quests are live and the loot is absurd. Players completing the “Egg Lovers United” quest can unlock a head piece that turns their head into that of the goofy Kulu-Ya-Ku.
Sea of Thieves is a grindy game where even high level quests can grant only a pittance of gold and reputation. One dedicated streamer has reached maximum reputation with the game’s three factions to become a pirate legend and unlock a secret hideout. There are three major factions in Sea of Thieves: the covetous Gold…
Being a pirate in Sea of Thieves sometimes means being an asshole, using whatever methods you can to kill your foes and plunder their loot. Some Sea of Thieves players are taking this to the next level by relying on hacks to conquer the high seas. As first noted by WIndows Central, Sea of Thieves…
Bleed 2 initially released last year for PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One, but was ported to the Switch this month. It’s a relentless action game full of air dashes, bullet deflecting, and tons of bosses that feels freshly sprung from the mind of an eight-year-old on a sugar high. Developed by Ian Campbell, Bleed…
Last night, I completed a playthrough of The Order: 1886 on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. When the PlayStation 4 game released in 2015, the critical response, including our review, was less than kind. But I’ve found that playing it a few years later reveals a game that, while certainly flawed, offers an intriguing, believable, and well-crafted…
We’re finishing up our playthrough of the alternate history shooter The Order 1886 right now on Twitch. Chin up, lads! And ladies! And non-binary pals!
PUBG Mobile players struggling to survive the grand battle royale have a new problem to worry about. Crafty players using emulation and computer mouse and keyboard are playing the game, facing down other players with a massive advantage. Motherboard reports that a subset of PUBG Mobile players are using devices such as Chromecast or emulators…
Sea of Thieves is off to a rocky start; it’s a cool game but feels a bit like a beta. Developer Rare has been trying to address this by adding new features. One proposed feature, a sort of death tax, was met with immediate community disapproval, prompting Rare to quickly cancel the feature. There are…
A Way Out merges narrative games with couch co-op, and the result is a smart and emotional experience so good that it had to be reviewed by two Kotaku writers. We’ve never played a cooperative experience like it. The game cannot be played alone. It takes two players to guide a pair of convicts, a…
Sea of Thieves is mostly about hunting down treasure with your friends, but every now and then things get ugly. In a game where everyone wants loot and crews can battle each other at the drop of the hat, the line between being a pirate and being a jerk feels razor-thin. There’s only a few…
PUBG Mobile isn’t just a surprisingly solid port, it also has a few key features that the main game doesn’t. These changes could help breathe life into the game as it battles Fortnite and helps all us chicken dinner-seeking buffoons enjoy the game even more. Log-in Bonuses Mobile games often use log in bonuses as…
Paratopic is a horror game about cursed video tapes and horrible monsters lurking in the woods. Following an assassin, a smuggler, and a photographer, it’s a slow-burning tale of violence that uses film editing techniques to ramp up the tension. It’s a perfect, moody Indie Pick. Paratopic, available now for Windows PC, tells the story…
Last night I streamed Monster Hunter: World on Kotaku’s Twitch channel and teamed up with a group of loyal readers to hunt down the new monster Deviljho. Deviljho is a massive, pickle-looking monstrosity that’s able to body slam even the toughest of other monsters. A rainy battle against this slobbering beast became one of my…
Monster Hunter: World’s latest update brings back a series favorite monster: the massive, multi-toothed Deviljho. This pickle-shaped T-rex beast is one of the game’s most dangerous beasts and proves it by kicking the ass of every single monster it crosses paths with. Deviljho is a massive brute wyvern that was introduced in Monster Hunter 3…
A good game of Subterfuge can last weeks as players seek to steal territory and destroy their opponents. It’s a mobile game of deceit, backstabbing, and half-truths. This weekend I won my first game, and I barely needed to get my hands dirty at all. In Subterfuge, up to 10 players seek to control aquatic…
Star Wars Battlefront II’s new update overhauls the game’s loot box laden progression system. One of players’ biggest complaints since before the game was even officially out was how hard it was to unlock iconic characters like Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader. A new patch finally unlocks every hero character in the game. Prior to…
Banjo and his partner Kazooie haven’t been in a Nintendo game since 2005’s Banjo-Pilot thanks to complicated intellectual property rigamarole that cropped up when Microsoft acquired Rare in 2002. With a new Smash Bros. coming to the Switch, there’s plenty of speculation about new fighters. Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of Gaming seems completely fine with…
PUBG Mobile released in North America yesterday, and it’s pretty awesome. But between my own string of victories and the countless chicken dinners on social media, it sure feels like things are too easy. PUBG Mobile is a robust iOS and Android port of the popular battle royale game that allows 100 players to fight…
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