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Want to listen to a bunch of people talking about video game music? You’re in luck. Last week I stopped by the Portland-based podcast The Future of What to talk about music and video games. It was a really fun chat! Listen below or on Soundcloud. Read more
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Short version: The new PS4 Pro is a more powerful version of an already good console. We like the PS4 a lot, and the…
Here’s an unexpected disappointment to cap off an otherwise lovely and completely not-disappointing week: Dishonored…
It’s the middle of the day, and I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to figure out how to kill this stupid…
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, we’ve got more games than we can even handle. Titanfall 2! Skyrim Special Edition!…
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House of the Dying Sun rushes ahead with furious focus and great urgency, and it’s hard not to get caught up in its…
Every now and then I give this a shot, just to see what’ll happen. So far, no dice. But one day... Read more
My Gwent awakening has taken place entirely within the last couple of months. In that time I went from never…
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Each weekend, Destiny’s Trials of Osiris gives competitive players a chance to team up with two friends and take on…
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Patience is a virtue, people.
HBO’s new Red Dead Redemption LARP Westworld has been teasing us with mysteries for weeks. Among them: why doesn’t…
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, Jason and I tackle the biggest gaming question of the next five months: What…
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It’s Halloween in Destiny, a game about traveling the solar system destroying evil aliens and green engrams.…
Destiny’s Festival of the Lost is underway once more, bringing with it a heaping helping of masks, mirth, and…
Dark Souls speaks its own distinct language. The more you play, the easier that language is to understand. Dark…
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Destiny’s Festival of the Lost will return next Tuesday, October 25. It’ll run through November 8. Hope you’ve kept space in your vault for a whole shitload of masks! I want the eyeball one.
This week on Kotaku Splitscreen, I’m joined by deputy editor Patricia Hernandez to talk about Pokémon, Fallout, and R…
For years, I only played PC games with a mouse and keyboard. For years after that, I played almost entirely with a…
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In Overwatch, a bunch of elite superheroes team up to absolutely kick the shit out of arcade cabinets around the…