It was an interesting weekend for Destiny. Thanks to a new exploit, players got a closer-than-usual look at how the game’s loot system works. What we’ve found is that there’s something weird going on with exotic drops. Here’s a story: On Friday, Destiny’s weekend vendor Xur turned up for his first appearance since The Taken…
If you started playing Destiny today, you may have noticed an unusual number of your friends doing the same ancient low-level mission. Why would they do that? The answer—of course this is the answer—is that the mission lets players take advantage of a new loophole and earn lots of powerful exotic items with a minimum…
…where a random shitty green gun has a higher attack value than a maxed-out Red Death from year one. We knew this was coming, but still… it stings a bit.
Destiny’s main story isn’t the only thing getting a new chapter with the Taken King expansion. Another less well-known (but far better) Destiny tale has been given a conclusion, and it kicks ass To catch newcomers up: I’m talking about the legend of two weapons: Thorn and The Last Word. It’s a cool story that…
The longer a game is, the harder it is to end it. The more sprawling the cast, the trickier it is to give its actors closure. The looser the dangling plot threads, the tougher to tie them up. Enter Dragon Age: Inquisition: Trespasser, the final downloadable expansion for last fall’s RPG epic Dragon Age: Inquisition.…
Playing Destiny after Tuesday’s 2.0 patch is a little bit like waking up in a just-barely parallel universe. Everything has shifted a little, but you can’t always put your finger on how. Did that thing always sound that way? Did that lady always stand over there? Was that thing always blue? The 2.0 update is…
It’s so beautiful… I can’t find the words.
Today’s big Destiny patch brings an immediately noticeable change: Actor Peter Dinklage’s famously mediocre performance as little robot Ghost has been entirely replaced by with new audio from veteran voice actor Nolan North. Good news: North sounds great. Polygon won the “Which gaming site can make the first comparison video?” race, putting together this thorough…
When the Vita game Tearaway came out in November of 2013, it was hard not to feel bad for the little guy. Here was this charming, idiosyncratic game, released exclusively on a stumbling handheld console in the same month as the PS4 and Xbox One were hogging all the limelight. Poor Tearaway! How nice, then,…
Today’s the day Destiny gets an overhaul. Bungie has posted patch notesfor the new 2.0 update, which went live today. Lots of interesting balance tweaks in there, particularly for Crucible obsessives. We’ll have impressions as soon as we’ve had a chance to play.
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What once was hot is cooling; what days were long, have shortened. It’s September, and fall is upon us. I was going to begin this month’s post with an Earth, Wind & Fire quote, but then had this niggling feeling in the back of my brain… I Googled and sure enough, I did that last…
Maybe you’ve heard: Destiny is about to get a whole bunch of changes. Some of those changes are tied to the upcoming Taken King expansion, but a fair amount of them will happen whether you buy the expansion or not. In the latest weekly update at the company blog, Bungie has explained a bunch of…
Not everyone was happy with the love triangle at the center of 2015’s hottest dating sim, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Fortunately, the game’s developers have been listening. Mild Spoilers For The Witcher 3 Follow. If you spend a bit of time looking around The Witcher 3’s online gathering places, you’ll see more than a…
Earlier this week I recapped my favorite story from Destiny’s buried Grimoire lore. If you liked the tale of Thorn and The Last Word, check out this dramatic reading by Ghosts and Echoes (Thanks, L-Rod!)
When you’re stuck in a video game, sometimes the only way through is to get creative. Most people who’ve been following Metal Gear Solid V probably know about Quiet. Even if you have no interest in playing the game, it’s been hard to miss the boobed-out bikini warrior with the sniper rifle who’s been featured…
Destiny’s story has been a punchline since the game came out. Story? What story? Destiny has a story? Good joke! And yeah, okay, yeah. Fair enough. This article was originally published on September 1, 2015. Of course, there is a lot of careful world-building going on in Destiny. You just wouldn’t know it from playing…
A quick reminder, in case you have a few gold chests left to find. A little while back, Bungie announced that all year-one Destiny players who complete a series of challenges in the game would earn an exclusive emblem that they could lord over all the rookies who’ll join up when the Taken King expansion…
Every time I would tell people I hadn’t played Final Fantasy VI—a claim which is no longer true, thank god—they’d respond with particular forcefulness because of how much I love music. Not only does FFVI have a famous soundtrack, it features a major musical setpiece: The Opera House. Last week, Kotaku news editor and towel…
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