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It is exhausting, keeping track of all the controversies in Destiny 2 these days. But here we are again, with Bungie…
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Nintendo today announced Nintendo Labo, a wild new experiment for the Switch that will allow players to insert the…
UK developer Playground is making a new Fable game, Eurogamer reports. We’ve heard the same, although we’ve also heard that it’s very early in development, and Microsoft does have a history of canceling big projects if things aren’t going well. In other words, stay cautious. Read more
Last week, after a temporary hiccup thanks to a power supply that was dead out of the box, I finished building my…
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Last week was a seven-day bonanza full of exciting speedruns, as the Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 marathon raised…
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The next Scribblenauts is a party game, coming March 6 to PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. It’ll come with a four-player Showdown mode with a board-game-style map and a two-player Versus mode where you can battle in various mini-games.
What’s it like to speedrun huge role-playing games like Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger? What kind of tricks are…
Twenty-five-year-old Tyler Barriss was charged today in Kansas for involuntary manslaughter and two other counts in…
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The 3DS game Detective Pikachu is coming to the west in March, The Pokémon Company said today, and with it comes a…
It’s been a rough few months for Destiny 2, a video game in which players travel through space, shooting aliens and…
The excellent Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age is coming to PC on February 1, publisher Square Enix said today. This version of the game will run at 60 FPS and include New Game Plus and New Game Minus modes, among other features. Read more
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After days of hype and feverish anticipation, Nintendo this morning dropped a surprise Nintendo Direct mini. It…
This will be a short update on my PC building adventures, because there isn’t much left to say, except this: I HAVE…
The Polish developer CD Projekt Red first announced Cyberpunk 2077 in May 2012. After a few brief teases, the studio…
Pokemon Go is discontinuing support for Apple devices that can’t upgrade to iOS 11—in other words, starting February 28, your iPhone 5 won’t be able to play it. “This change is a result of improvements to Pokémon Go that push the application beyond the capabilities of the operating systems on such devices,” says The… Read more
More than 10 years after the release of BioShock, an obscure error message has popped up again thanks to an unlikely…
Last week, I wrote that my PC building adventure would lead to a three-part series on Kotaku, unless something went…
Assuming we don’t all die in a nuclear holocaust, what will video games bring in 2018? This week on Kotaku…
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On a whim a couple of months ago, I decided to start rewatching Lost, a show about people on an island eating fish…