If you’re using a controller to play a PC game—I know, I know, shhh, it’s okay—chances are the on-screen prompts you see will match up with an Xbox controller. But you don’t have to use Microsoft’s controller with your PC; you’ve actually got a lot of options, including the PS4’s DualShock 4. I really like…
The first time my team completed Destiny‘s Vault of Glass raid, it took us more than 10 hours. The second time, it took us 90 minutes. The time difference between our first and second attempts reveals something crucial about what makes the Vault of Glass special. Its difficulty lies not in how it demands dexterity,…
Last week I got on the phone with Bungie’s Luke Smith, lead designer on Destiny‘s Vault of Glass raid. We had a cool chat, and I included a bunch of quotes in the feature we just ran on the main site. However, I thought some people might be interested in reading our full Q&A. Smith,…
Legendary and exotic guns in Destiny all have names. Some of those names are pretty good. 74. Viper P3 73. Crusader I 72. Hawkmoon 71. Prestige IV 70. Judgment VI 69. Vanquisher VIII 68. Cryptic Dragon 67. Praedyth’s Revenge 66. Red Death 65. Deviant Gravity-A 64. Vex Mythoclast 63. Radagast’s Fury 62. Silmar’s Wrath 61.…
I mean, we all knew it was coming. Bungie had already mentioned that they felt that Destiny‘s auto-rifles were overpowered and too accurate, and that a “fix” was en route. I guess I just started telling myself that they’d forgotten or something. They did not forget. Starting tomorrow, a Destiny hotfix will make a number…
The unexpectedly great 2012 open-world game Sleeping Dogs has gotten a remastered “definitive edition” for new-gen consoles and PC. Is this new version of an old game worth the price of admission? It depends. The Hong Kong crime caper surprised us when it first came out two years ago. What could’ve been a run-of-the-mill Asian-themed…
In today’s Weekly Destiny Update, Bungie’s David Dague addressed some of the complaints surrounding the new Iron Banner event, both defending the way Bungie designed it and suggesting that future events could work differently.
Open-world Hong Kong crime game Sleeping Dogs has gotten a “definitive edition” re-master—it’s out on PC now and hits consoles next week. While the definitive edition comes with updated graphics and includes a bunch of already-released expansion missions, my favorite improvement is less noticeable. See, if you boot up the original version of Sleeping Dogs,…
Destiny‘s Vault of Glass raid is easily the most challenging, interesting part of the game. The bar for entry is awfully steep—you need a coordinated team of six players, all level 26 or higher—but as it turns out, a fair number of players have cleared it. A group of us completed the Vault of Glass…
Destiny’s Iron Banner multiplayer event was expected to be a hardcore, no-holds-barred fracas. It’s called “The Iron Banner,” after all! But as it turns out, it’s not as extreme as some players were hoping it’d be. Destiny is a first-person shooter that works like a role-playing game, in that the gear and abilities you acquire…
Sure, Smash Bros. is a game about watching a bunch of colorful characters duke it out. But it’s also about arguing over which character is best. I’m not a Smash die-hard like some of our staff members, but I’ve been having a hell of a good time with the new 3DS version of Super Smash…
It’s Jump-Kick Time: The PC version of Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition just launched on Steam a couple of days ahead of its scheduled October 10 release date. Nice to see you again, Wei.
Welcome to the space station Sevastopol! It’s a lovely place to die. Alien: Isolation is avery cool game, but it can also be immensely difficult, stressful, and frustrating. It’s possible to spend an hour or two stuck in the same place dying over and over, making zero progress. To top it off, Isolation doesn’t do…
Knock, knock. Who’s there? An alien. It kills you. While many a video game has been designed for people who enjoy killing aliens, Alien: Isolation can only have been created for people who derive some perverse pleasure out of being killed by an alien. Sometimes the alien will kill you while you’re running away… …and…
Alien: Isolation isn’t exactly a “fun” game to play. It’s super stressful and really difficult. It’s definitely fun to watch other people play it, however. Once this game is out, I sense there will be a lot of good times to be had watching people hide, flee, and panic as they attempt to survive. In…
First, you play Destiny. Then, you complain about Destiny. Then, you play some more. That’s been our process over the last few weeks, anyway. Several of us here at Kotaku have been playing Destiny regularly, and every time we play, we come up with more things we wish the game did differently. Bungie has already…
Thanks, team. That was one for the books.
It’s wild to think that one film director—Ridley Scott—is responsible for two of the most influential sci-fi films of all time. Alien: Isolation, the (pretty good!) new horror game from Creative Assembly, pays direct homage to one of those films, Scott’s 1979 horror classic Alien. What I totally missed while playing it (I can’t believe…
It’s October! A time of turning leaves and too much candy, when the crisp fall air makes it easier to stay in and play video games, and the flood of new games means there’s always something to play. What are you playing this October? We’re just beginning the real deluge, and I’m curious which games…
It’s no secret that Destiny is going to get bigger in the months and years to come; Bungie has already announced two expansion packs for the game. Now, thanks to an odd-looking bug, we’ve gotten what appears to be a look at what those expansion packs will add. This video, posted to YouTube by Scott…
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