House of Wolves, the second expansion for Destiny, will be out in just over a month, publisher Activision announced today. We’ll be grinding again on May 19. Activision sent out a media blast this morning with a new trailer for House of Wolves, but it’s currently private. They say they sent the news early by…
Talk to just about anyone who works in gaming about the message board NeoGAF and you’ll hear the same thing said, often with shame, every time: “Oh yeah, it’s, uh, a guilty pleasure.” Founded in 2004 as an offshoot of the Gaming-Age forums, GAF has morphed into one of gaming’s most influential communities, a place…
One week in early February, three top employees from the independent game studio Darkside Games flew to Redmond, Washington for a secret meeting with Microsoft. Over the course of the meeting, which lasted two days, Darkside’s leadership tried to convince the mega-corporation to give them a few more million dollars, according to two people familiar…
Today marks the release of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, a smaller-sized version of the 2012 JRPG that was originally made for the Wii. The port—which is exclusive to the New 3DS—is a bit underwhelming. The interface is very clunky, and something about Xenoblade’s grandiose world makes it an ill fit for the 3DS’s small screens. To…
Sometimes you have to gamble. Sometimes you have to deny that you’re at a dead-end in life and push through. Sometimes you know you’re good at something and just want people to recognize it, and maybe pay you for it, too. In June of last year, I got an e-mail from someone calling himself Robin…
Management shake-up at Battlefield Hardline developer Visceral Games: general manager Steve Papoutsis (Dead Space) is out, replaced by Scott Probst (son of former veteran EA exec Larry Probst), Kotaku has learned. “We are thankful for Steve’s many contributions to EA and wish him the best,” said an EA rep.
Undaunted by yesterday’s leak, Square Enix today released the first trailer for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, the sequel to 2011’s Human Revolution. It’s all CGI, sadly. There’s no release date or even year announced yet for the much-anticipated fourth Deus Ex game, which will be released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. In other words,…
Since yesterday, Square Enix has been teasing a new game via a three-day alternate reality game that was due to end tomorrow. But their surprise has been ruined. Today, an early leak from the Russian website Kanobu.RU (as found by NeoGAF) has revealed that the big tease is for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a sequel…
We haven’t spent a lot of time talking about Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff-prequel that wrapped up its first season last night, which is too bad. Because it’s stellar. In just ten episodes, the folks behind Saul have crafted a story that is on par with if not better than the adventures of…
The Witcher 3 isn’t out until next month, but the folks behind it have already announced two big expansions—Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine—slated for late 2015 and early 2016, respectively. More info here
Proving once again that life is miserable and full of pain, the folks at publisher Level-5 announced this morning that the upcoming Fantasy Life 2 and Professor Layton 7 will both be for smartphones. Above (via Siliconera) you can see the burning husk of Professor Layton, who after years and years of wonderful adventures has…
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Last year, as the game company Crytek went through near-catastrophic financial struggles, they found help from an unlikely source: the tech giant Amazon. Amazon agreed to a huge licensing deal involving Crytek’s proprietary tech, CryEngine, according to four people familiar with the deal, all of whom spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak…
Mobius Final Fantasy, an upcoming 3D mobile game that for now has only been announced in Japan, has some ridiculous outfits even by Final Fantasy standards, but at least one of them was a bit too ridiculous for Square Enix. Above (via Hachima) is Wal, the hero of Mobius (formerly named Mevius), whose butt and…
As you may have noticed, we’ve launched a new series called Kotaku Asks, in which we bring interesting people to come take your burning questions. We’ve already got a great lineup of guests slated for April, but we want your feedback: who would you like to see us invite for the future? Famous game developers?…
In June of 2011, then-LucasArts president Paul Meegan spoke publicly about his plans for turning the company around. “In recent years, LucasArts hasn’t always done a good job of making games,” he said at the time. “We should be making games that define our medium, that are competitive with the best of our industry, but…
It’s been seven months since Bungie launched Destiny, a video game in which players travel the galaxy recreating the myth of Sisyphus, and this whole time, one of the game’s biggest issues has been idlers—people who log into strikes or PVP battles, put down their controllers, and let other players do all the work. See,…
Did you double-click on a piece of equipment in Pillars of Eternity and inexplicably erase your character’s stat bonuses? Good news: there’s a fix coming soon. The folks at Obsidian are planning a big patch for their stellar RPG that they’re hoping to push out today, and with it, they say they’ll fix that bizarre…
Want to know what it was like to translate the wacky Metal Gear Rising? Want to find out how long it took to get Fire Emblem: Awakening to U.S. shores? Today’s a good day to get answers. Welcome to Kotaku Asks, a weekly feature where we invite guests from the world of gaming to come…
Yesterday, Nintendo revealed the Super Smash Bros. ballot, a tool for requesting new Smash characters that will definitely be helpful for Nintendo and will certainly not be abused at all. (“Please limit your vote to one per person,” the site reads. Ha ha ha.) So in addition to some great serious suggestions—Geno, Bayonetta, Goku—the world…
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