In 2012, in my second month running Kotaku, I introduced readers to four new staffers (and one new columnist) who would go on to do great things for the site. Eight years later, I’d like you to meet the five newest members of our team. I introduce them at a very different time in Kotaku’s…
Upcoming Assassin’s Creed games always sound terrific in the spring, when the marketing machinery jolts into motion to describe the series’ next potentially great adventure. The new one will mix the best of what’s come before, plus new things, all set, this time, in the exotic era of (the Renaissance)(the American Revolution)(ancient Egypt) the Vikings.…
Last weekend’s shocking leak of footage from The Last Of Us Part II was likely committed by hackers who exploited a security vulnerability in prior Naughty Dog games, according to a person who said they were familiar with the hack. Kotaku has confirmed some of the details with a second source who is familiar with…
The announcement of a new Assassin’s Creed has inspired people to prove their taste and expertise by ranking the series’ main games. That’s nice, but how about we rank the most important parts of each Assassin’s Creed game, shall we? From best to worst… III’s Modern Day Black Flag’s Modern Day Rogue’s Modern Day Brotherhood’s…
It was there and then it was not there, as multiple people spotted a teaser image on the website for the first-person-shooter Crysis this morning. That teaser promises that a Crysis Remastered will be released for PS4, Xbox One, PC and Switch. Update: It’s official and coming out this summer. The main image hyping the…
Sorry, Astrobot Rescue Mission, but you’ve been dethroned. I, a tough customer when it comes to PSVR, have found a new PSVR game to incessantly rave about. It’s called Paper Beast, and it’s a virtual safari of some very strange animals. I should have expected to be amazed by this game. Paper Beast was made…
I usually check the news on my computer or my phone, but sometimes I’ll tap the New York Times app on my iPad, which is old and slow and prone to displaying headlines from several days ago. Those headlines linger for several confusing seconds before the ones for the current day materialize. This past Saturday,…
Let’s call The Room series the Half-Life of puzzle games about locked boxes. It’s the best in its category, and its creators just released a sequel that’s only playable in virtual reality. The Room VR: A Dark Matter, the fifth game in The Room franchise, was released for PC and PlayStation virtual reality platforms last…
Capcom’s wonderful underwater 2D action-adventure Shinsekai: Into The Depths was just surprise-released for the Switch. We liked it a lot when it debuted on Apple Arcade last year, and it should please people looking for another Metroid-style game for Nintendo’s portable console.
The big March 24 update coming to Ghost Recon Breakpoint won’t just add a free overhaul that lets players ditch the game’s annoying tiered loot system. It will add a paid expansion (first mission is free) that, according to a new trailer, brings Splinter Cell’s Sam Fisher into the mix.
Take a look at Assassin’s Creed Odyssey protagonist Kassandra dressed as classic AC hero Ezio Auditore. (Alexios is in Ezio garb, too). This is a new, free addition to Odyssey, a game that hadn’t gotten new content since the fall, but we don’t yet know how players can unlock it.
We’ve informally done this for a while, but we recently officially committed to a plan at Kotaku to give staff who play a game after-hours for a deadline—usually for a game review—time off in exchange. If you’re a reader of our reviews, I hope you’ll appreciate us solidifying this approach. Playing a game for a…
PlayStation 4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC, as we reported in January, but Sony isn’t pulling an Xbox with its approach console and PC gaming, the head of PlayStation game development said today. Or at least, if they are, they’re not announcing it yet. “And to maybe put a few minds at…
In as extreme a case of eating crow as you’ll see from a big game publisher, Ubisoft said today that they are cancelling Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s planned second raid, reducing its aggravating always-online requirement, and will soon release an update that lets players deactivate its despised loot system. It’s all in service of trying to…
A bright spot of news for Google Stadia: The cloud gaming initiative has recruited PlayStation veteran Shannon Studstill, who led Sony Santa Monica during the creation of 2018’s acclaimed God Of War, to run a Stadia studio in Playa Vista, California that will focus on making exclusive games and game features.
The newest installment of the Major Nelson podcast breaks down some of the newly-announced Xbox Series X features. Among the intriguing details: the Series X doesn’t just let you suspend multiple games, but those suspensions can survive a system update. Pretty cool.
Rumors of Nintendo’s possible absence from this year’s E3 have proven to be unfounded, but doubts are still swirling around the 2020 edition of gaming’s signature mid-June hype festival in Los Angeles. Earlier today, longtime E3 participant Geoff Keighley announced he wouldn’t be involved with the show this year. “I have made the difficult decision…
The makers of The Division 2 have waited until nearly the last possible moment to give their frustrated player base a heap of potentially good news. After spending weeks failing to announce a release date for an expected small extension to the game, they’re revealing today that that mini-expansion—a free, two-mission excursion to Brooklyn’s Coney…
I was wrong about the Terminator truck that recently popped up as a reward in Ghost Recon Breakpoint The RT-5 Shepherd Mk. II was the ultimate reward for grinding through a batch of Terminator missions that were added to the big Ubisoft game a couple of weeks ago. Most of those missions, and the rewards…
The unusual 2D action-exploration game Dandara, in which your player can jump—but not walk—through a topsy-turvy world is getting a free expansion that will add new areas as well as additional in-game text, dialogue and music that should freshen up new playthroughs of the game. All that plus a new ending. No specific release date,…
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