It is with great sadness that I report that I have delayed yet another game: Ni no Kuni II is now coming out in January. The role-playing game, a PS4 and PC sequel to the 2013 PS3 game Ni no Kuni, was previously scheduled for November. “We have decided that more development time is required in…
One of the great tragedies in video game history is the demise of StarCraft: Ghost, a game that spent nearly a decade in development hell before fizzling completely. Although we’ll likely never play that game, there exists a decent substitute inside of a game Blizzard did release—StarCraft II Last year, Blizzard released a series of…
One of the strangest features in Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, which comes out today, is called the gambit system. This system allows you to write out a sequence of if-then statements, like “if you see an enemy, then attack it” or “if your HP goes below 100%, then use a Potion.” You can…
Star Wars Battlefront 2 will get a multiplayer beta in October, EA said today. It’ll be on all three platforms starting October 4 for pre-orderers (and October 6 for everyone else).
A lot of people played video games very quickly last week, raising $1.7 million for charity in the process. All of the speedruns at Summer Games Done Quick 2017 were entertaining, but if you don’t have time to catch up on them all, here were some of my favorites. Final Fantasy VII (starts at 11:15)…
Today’s Kotaku Splitscreen is made just the way you like it: heavy on the Fahey and the Final Fantasy First, Kirk regales us with stories from his backpacking adventures before settling down with me to talk Destiny 2 soccer (9:58), Mass Effect: Andromeda’s lack of DLC (15:43), and Zelda’s new content (24:44). Then we bring…
The people who make enhanced editions of old role-playing games like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment want to do the same thing for Icewind Dale II. There’s just one problem: nobody knows where to find the code. Beamdog, a Canadian publisher best known for releasing snazzy new versions of old Infinity Engine RPGs like the…
The highlight of this week’s Summer Games Done Quick marathon happened very early this morning, as the charismatic speedrunner Andy broke the hell out of Link to the Past, beating the whole game without using a sword. The run lasts around an hour and 20 minutes and is mostly a showcase for glitches, boundary breaks,…
The very good adventure game Thimbleweed Park is coming to Nintendo Switch, AKA the perfect place for it.
Video games like The Witcher 3 are enormous, complicated pieces of machinery with thousands upon thousands of moving parts. Make one mistake and you can break everything—or, as one developer discovered, you can accidentally unlock every door in the game. In October, I visited CD Projekt Red’s offices in Warsaw, Poland, for my book on…
A new patch for Horizon Zero Dawn adds an Ultra Hard difficulty mode and New Game+, in case you feel like playing through Aloy’s adventures yet again before the expansion hits. Horizon, which came out for PS4 in February, remains one of the best games of 2017. We just tried to boot up the New…
In 2006, when I first played Final Fantasy XII, I thought it was just fine. In 2017, I realize how silly that was. Final Fantasy XII is not “just fine.” It is tremendous. For the past week I’ve been playing an early English copy of Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, the remastered PS4 version…
From SNES Classic games to Nier: Automata, this ultra-long episode of Kotaku Splitscreen’s got it all. We even snagged ourselves a Chris Kohler. First, Kirk and I talk about FFXV: Episode Prompto and Cave Story + on Switch. Then we get into Vidcon drama (19:27), Diablo III getting a Necromancer class (29:14), and Destiny 2…
Yesterday, a widely shared Facebook post claimed that BioWare had canceled Mass Effect: Andromeda’s downloadable content. The good news: that Facebook post was a hoax. The bad news: they guessed correctly. Mass Effect: Andromeda will indeed not be receiving any single-player DLC, three people familiar with BioWare’s plans have told me. This will be a…
While Nintendo fans across the globe wonder if the Switch will ever get some sort of Virtual Console, the Wii U continues to get an inexplicably steady stream of classic games. Why? Because Nintendo. Today’s entries are Bonk 3: Bonk’s Big Adventure and Devil’s Crush, two TurboGrafx-16 games that will undoubtedly be popular among all…
Everybody knows a Prompto in real life, don’t they? Prompto is the guy who’s always cracking dumb jokes, who hits on everything that walks, who tries his hardest to keep everyone smiling and feeling good. He’s also the guy harboring deep-seated insecurities that sometimes manifest as visions of his childhood self. Also he might be…
Here is a thing you can do in Episode Prompto, the surprisingly good Final Fantasy XV DLC that’s out today. Impressions coming tomorrow.
Lost Sphear, the next game from Square Enix’s Tokyo RPG Factory, looks to improve upon its predecessor in several ways. The combat system is more complicated. The enemies are more challenging. And—hope you’re sitting down for this one—there are inns This is the second role-playing game in a series that Square is calling ‘Project Setsuna,’…
Forget the NES Classic—this is the vintage system we’ve been waiting for. Nintendo today announced the Super Nintendo Classic, which will be out on September 29 for $80 and come with 21 games including the previously unreleased Star Fox 2 The lineup, which is excellent, also includes Earthbound, Final Fantasy III, Link to the Past,…
Insomniac CEO Ted Price joins us on today’s Kotaku Splitscreen to talk about virtual reality, what it’s like to be a CEO at E3, and how the Spider-Man PS4 game came together. First we talk about some of the games we’ve been playing, like Nier: Automata (3:53), StarCraft II (8:15), and Wolfenstein. Then it’s time…
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