Today on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’re joined by Monkey Island designer Ron Gilbert to talk about his newest adventure game, Thimbleweed Park. We’re also talking Zelda, Destiny, and much more. Nice and sunny here at Kotaku HQ, where we’re talking to legendary adventure game designer Ron Gilbert about his new game. First we cover this week’s…
The teasing is over: Destiny 2, a video game for which I am already brainstorming silly ledes, will be out September 8 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Here’s the reveal trailer: And here’s Bungie describing the game: Humanity’s last safe city has fallen to an overwhelming invasion force, led by Ghaul, the imposing commander…
Early in Thimbleweed Park, a new graphical adventure game, a pair of pigeon-suited plumbers tell you not to worry about dying, because there’s no way to lose in this game. “But playing classic adventure games has taught me to save often,” your hero replies. “That was true up until Monkey Island,” say the plumbers. “Then…
Final Fantasy XV, a Cup Noodles commercial cosplaying as a video game, got its first piece of downloadable content this week, and you really don’t need to bother with it. It’s short, straightforward, and—unless you’re particularly attached to Gladio—really boring. Episode Gladiolus, which came out yesterday for $5, starts off with the Final Fantasy XV…
If you’ve always wondered what can change the nature of a man but never wanted to play the clunky old version of Planescape: Torment (or bother with mods), here’s a new option: Planescape Torment: Enhanced Edition, announced today by the folks at Beamdog (best known for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition). I’ve played a couple hours…
The Destiny 2 marketing campaign is now in full force, and with it comes this teaser trailer, featuring everyone’s favorite rogue Cayde-6 hanging out in a bar as the Last City burns around him. (This is a fun one.) This teaser follows yesterday’s Destiny 2 logo reveal and last week’s retail leak. Looks like the…
At some point recently, Nintendo Switches all over the country (including several belonging to Kotaku staff) decided to stop connecting to the internet, offering up some nonsense about DNS errors instead of taking us to that sweet sweet eShop. If it’s happening to you, you’re not alone. All you have to do is reboot your…
If you are one of the many people who hated Final Fantasy XV’s thirteenth chapter, you will be pleased to hear that you can now skip it entirely, thanks to a new route that’s full of beefy Gladiolus shots and even political humor (see above). The “alternative” Chapter 13, which you can access from the…
First leakedlast week via poster, here it is: Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space, reminiscing about Destiny 1. It’ll be out this September. More details to come whenever Bungie announces them…
Valkyria Revolution, a spinoff to the Valkyria Chronicles series, will be out in North America on June 27, Atlus announced today. This one’s gota totally different combat system and will be out on PS4, Xbox One, and Vita.
Ex-film director and notorious crank Uwe Boll now spends most of his time running a restaurant in Vancouver, and by some accounts it’s the best thing he’s ever done. Yes, even better than Bloodrayne Boll, the subject of a fun Vanity Fair profile published today, no longer makes movies or challenges his critics to boxing matches.…
Final Fantasy XV’s update 1.07 is live, setting up Episode Gladiolus and making big changes to the polarizing Chapter 13. If you’ve already beaten the game, you can see the revised chapter from the menu. If you can’t imagine subjecting yourself to it again, stay tuned: I’ll check it out tomorrow morning and report back…
If you happen to run into Andrzej Sapkowski, creator of The Witcher, you might not want to bring up the video games. They haven’t made his life much better, in part because they’re not making him any money. Sapkowski, who spoke to Eurogamer’s Robert Purchese in an interview published today, has never been a gamer…
Breath of the Wild might be the hardest Zelda since the NES days, teaching players how to progress through its puzzles by killing them frequently and without remorse. Yet, paradoxically, it’s also one of the best games for people who don’t play a lot of video games. Last week, having spent the past month raving about…
Kirk and I have each had the Switch for a month now, and really, it’s grown on us quite a bit. Come listen to us discuss Nintendo’s new console on today’s episode of Kotaku Splitscreen We go over this week’s news including Telltale’s CEO departing (12:30) and Mass Effect animators getting harassed (20:06) before assessing the…
As has become an annual Bungie tradition, a retailer has leaked info on the next big Destiny release. It’s not much, but here’s your first look at the marketing materials for Destiny 2, a video game that we will no doubt come up with all sorts of pithy ways to describe over the next few…
If you, like me and several other Kotaku staff, have run into a consistent left Switch JoyCon signal issue, don’t worry: Nintendo says it’s not in fact a hardware problem, but a “manufacturing variation.” The company also says to contact them for a fix if you’re running into the problem. Here’s Nintendo of America’s full…
Years after Diablo III’s seasons first started, they’re finally coming to consoles. Just as PC players begin clicking their way through the game’s 10th season, those who decided to go with the superior version of Diablo III will get to start seasonal characters on Friday, March 31. Seasons, of course, are limited periods(usually lasting around…
Today, Sony released a new patch for Horizon: Zero Dawn that makes a bunch of improvements including quest fixes, X-axis inversion, and, most pivotally, a fix for “game running into issues when playtime exceeds 200 hours.” I don’t know what those issues are, exactly—Sony hasn’t responded to my request for comment—but I do know that,…
Over the weekend, Naughty Dog artist Alex Neonakis started getting nasty Twitter messages from GamerGaters and other internet cretins. Exasperated, she tweeted some screencaps, along with a message: “I just donated to @GirlsMakeGames in honor of these lovely boys. Thanks guys!” Other developers followed her lead. By Tuesday, hundreds of game developers had donated thousands…
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