Poor Lara Croft. She didn’t deserve this. Last night I decided to finish Rise of the Tomb Raider on PC. I’m not really sure why: maybe because we’d been discussing finally adding it to our list of the best Xbox One games? Mostly because it was sitting in my Steam library and I was bored…
Ubisoft Massive has pushed out a couple of hotfixes to remove several widespread exploits from The Division, including the weapon talent-stacking bug, double revives, and the endless materials exploit.
Ubisoft’s caveman adventure Far Cry Primal has been one of the stranger, more beguiling games of 2016. Last week, they added a free survivor mode for console and PC players. If you’re willing to start a new game to try it, it makes things much more interesting. I initially played Primal for about six hours,…
The Division has already beenhaving a rough week, and things just keep getting rougher: A newly found exploit lets players temporarily boost their gun’s damage output to game-breaking levels. Update 4/21: Ubisoft has issued a couple of hotfixes, the second of which removed the talent-stacking bug from the game. Original story follows. The exploit requires…
They thought they had the bomb covered. No way the other team could get to it. They didn’t count on flying ninja squirrel soldiers, of course. No one expects a flying ninja squirrel. All you really have to know to understand this play (via MLG) by Call of Duty pro Jared “Nagafen” Harrell is that…
Good morning, everyone! Welcome to Kotaku’s review of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Since the two of us—Jason and Kirk—have already spent a ton of time talking about Danganronpa, we figured we’d team up to review the sequel together. [This review originally ran on 9/02/2014. We’ve bumped it up in light of the 2016 PC port…
Like chocolate and peanut butter, Minecraft and virtual reality go together about as well as two things can. This is easily one of the best things I’ve done in VR. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game: I’m playing a version of Minecrift that’s been designed to work with the HTC Vive.…
In Tom Clancy’s The Division, there’s a war on the streets. There’s a war on the message boards and in the forums, too. This game is having a tough time all around. The real-world forum war centers around bugs, changes to the endgame economy, and a handful of exploits found in the new endgame “Incursion”…
Three weeks ago, the future arrived. A week later, the future arrived again. Two hotly anticipated virtual reality headsets came out in the space of seven days. That’s a lot of future! I’ve been using the Oculus Rift for almost a month now, and the HTC Vive for a couple of weeks. I’ve played a…
Back in 2014, Facebook raised some eyebrows when they bought the virtual reality company Oculus for $2 billion. This week at Facebook’s F8 developers conference, we got a look at some of their ideas for VR. The above video, uploaded by Marketing Land, shows Facebook chief technical officer Mike Schroepfer demonstrating some in-development ideas for…
For the last month, it’s been pretty easy to play both The Division and Destiny. That changes tomorrow. The Division benefitted from the fact that it launched during a low Destiny ebb. There hadn’t been much new to do in Destiny for months, and plenty of hardcore players (raises hand) had been in the midst…
It’s getting hot over here on the west coast. So hot! Better stay in and play games instead. Now that the big VR headsets are shipping and I’ve exhausted myself making videos of VR games, I’m taking a break from head-mounted displays and playing stuff on a regular screen. This weekend I’ll mainly be playing…
I started playing Quantum Break on Xbox One last night and was surprised by how much I liked it. If I’d been playing on PC, sounds like it would’ve been a different story. I raised an eyebrow last week when I heard the PC version’s main menu didn’t have a quit button—never the sign of…
On this week’s Kotaku Splitscreen I’m joined by game designer, composer and Idle Thumb Chris Remo. We spend most of the episode talking about jazz. Just kidding. Topics covered: The similarities between music and video games, the evolution of game controllers, what it was like to work on and release Firewatch, common criticisms of the…
Sure, they call it Job Simulator, but they could’ve called it Not Being Very Good At Your Job Simulator Here’s a video of me playing some of the game: What it is: Job Simulator is a fumblecore simulation comedy game where you take on a handful of different jobs as imagined by robots in the…
Ubisoft Massive has gone into greater detail about the crafting and loot changes coming in The Division’s big 1.1 update. They say the increase in High-End crafting costs will work hand in hand with increased High-End drop rates to change the way we acquire HE gear. Sounds okay in theory, but it remains to be…
Valve’s VR demo reel The Lab is extremely cool. It’s also frustrating. It’s got some of the most impressive virtual reality demonstrations I’ve seen, but I wish there were more to it. Here’s a video of me playing some of the best demos: What it is: The Lab is a free collection of minigames playable…
Look, I just want a VR game to make me feel like Neo from The Matrix. Does Space Pirate Trainer do that? It does! Sign me up. Here’s a video of me playing some of the game on HTC Vive: What it is: Space Pirate Trainer is an early access shooting gallery game that basically…
Today Bungie announced a bunch of small balance tweaks for Destiny, a video game about warping through the solar system trying (yet again) to remember the last time you played Destiny Next week’s big update will bring raise the light-level cap and bring some big changes to Destiny’s PvE Prison of Elders, and will add…
If the new VR game Windlands is any indication, I’d be really good with a grappling hook. It’s probably not a good indication, but it’s fun, so I’m okay with that. This week I’ll be playing a bunch more VR games to give people a sense of how they work and whether or not they’re…
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