Stephen Totilo

Level 8? More Like Level 28

Just over a month ago, I wrote about my level 8 newbie adventures in Destiny. In the weeks that followed, I played chunks of the game but resisted grinding, got stuck at level 26 for two weeks and just today finally got enough strange coins to get my first exotic gear. So now, finally, I’m…

Batman Arkham Knight DLC Still At A Drip-Feed, Still Needs Something Great

We’ve been hard on the six-month downloadable content roll-out for Batman Arkham Knight, because, so far, it just hasn’t been that good. The newest morsel, released yesterday, isn’t much of an improvement, but this month does bring promise of a potential turnaround. Yesterday’s addition was a $1.99, 76.2MB bundle of extra battle maps called the…

Free iOS Game You Should Try: Sage Solitaire

My go-to mobile game for time-filling fun used to be Drop 7. Then it was Threes. These days it’s Sage Solitaire, a new riff on solitaire from the ever-interesting developer Zach Gage. I’m making pairs, straights and flushes, often while listening to a podcast. I’m hooked! The game’s default mode is free, and it’s fun…

Smaller New 3DS Finally Coming To North America

Word from the ongoing GameStop Expo today is that Nintendo will finally release the smaller version of its New 3DS hardware in North America, responding to consumer demand and apparently making good on a hint the company gave us at E3 in June. Nintendo rapidly followed that with a press release making it all official,…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

August is nearly over, and what do we have to show for it? Among other things, another week of good Kotaku stories. I recommend reading (or in some cases viewing) these: Well, The Witcher 3 Sure Proved A Point – Shrewd news analysis by Luke: “In many ways, a game like The Witcher 3 doesn’t…

The first playable episode of Blues and Bullets, the noir adventure that really impressed Nathan and Mike, is now out on Xbox One. $5.

Sony has apologized for “unintentionally” disabling a feature that would let players of nifty new PS4 horror game Until Dawn archive streams of the game on Twitch. They say they’re “working on a fix” and will provide an update once they get it working. Currently, after you stream the game on Twitch via PS4, your…

Excellent PC Strategy Game Dungeon of the Endless Runs Great on iPad

People with iPads, here’s your new “what should I play on my next airplane flight/long car ride?” game. It’s part roguelike. It’s part tower defense. It was born on PC. It survived its port to tablets. It requires brains and reflexes. And it’s also really good. Check out 17 minutes of Dungeon of the Endless…

XCOM 2 Delayed To February

PC strategy game XCOM 2 has been delayed from November to February 5 of next year, according to dev studio Firaxis and their publisher Take Two. Hello XCOM fans, We want to give you an update on the release date for XCOM 2. We’ve set a high bar for the sequel and the entire team…

The New Turn-Based Lara Croft Game Is Actually Really Good

Five bucks spent and an hour in, I’m having a very good time with Lara Croft GO, the new mobile Tomb Raider spin-off that came out a few hours ago. It’s turn-based. It’s full of tomb raiding. How about I show you? You’ll see some early levels—and a comparison to the very cool precursor Hitman…

Why Lois Lane Told The World That Clark Kent Is Superman

It’s long been unclear who is the worse reporter: Clark Kent, who lies to his readers daily by not mentioning that he’s the guy he is always writing about, or Lois Lane, whose ability to recognize Kent’s true identity is kryptonited by a pair of glasses. Well, at least they won’t have those problems anymore.…

Some Thoughts After Attending Three Great Nights Of WWE In Brooklyn

I’m obsessed enough about pro wrestling to have spent $340 to go to Summerslam this past weekend…. to sit in $75 nosebleed seats, since my order for floor seats apparently never went through. That was the second of three nights of sold out WWE action that I saw in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, 12+ hours of…

Fan Gets Original Ezio Actor To Fix Recent Assassin’s Creed‘s Bad Voice Acting

When Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China came out last spring with a sound-nothing-alike voice actor growling through the handful of lines scripted for iconic franchise hero Ezio, a series superfan who goes by the name Loomer could have done nothing. But no. He’s gone and fixed things with the help of Ezio’s original voice actor. Even…

Time Loop Video Game Gives You 12 Minutes To Not Die… Again And Again

The most interesting unreleased video game I’ve played this year is an adventure called Twelve Minutes. It involves living and dying in the course of 12 minutes, all of them spent in a three-room apartment. Then your character wakes up back in time with a memory of what happened and tries to survive those 12…

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

I’m back from a week of sort-of vacation, and there’s plenty to catch up on. The site looked good while I was away. Here are my five favorite pieces. Hero Completes Fallout: New Vegas Run That Nobody Thought Was Possible – Patricia regularly chronicles the adventures of some of the most daring gamers out there.…

YouTube’s Top 10 ‘Trending’ Games For July

Anyone remember July 2015? Ended a couple of weeks ago? Well, people watched a lot of video games online that month, as they do. And, as YouTube does, the video giant has shared a list of top 10 “trending” games on the service for the month. Remember, this list is not strictly a list of…

44 Marvel Secret Wars Tie-In Comics, Reviewed

The second most-surprising thing about Marvel Comics’ big 2015 crossover comic book event is that it’s very good. These epics tend to disappoint, but not this one. The bigger surprise? Even the comics tying into it are mostly really good. That never happens. There are more than three dozen Marvel mini-series that tie into Secret…

“We probably should have announced the run button before launch…” So say the developers of the new (and pretty good!) story-and-exploration game Everybody’s Gone to The Rapture. A last-minute change to the game’s controls left the run option unintentionally hidden from gamers. Just hold R2 for a bit!

My Five Favorite Kotaku Stories From Last Week

It’s summer, the so-called slow season. Sure, there was some product-related excitement out of Gamescom, where Microsoft held an impressive press conference about upcoming Xbox stuff and where our Kotaku UK pals checked out some games. But most of that’s about the future. Happily, gaming’s present remains plenty interesting, and our team was all over…

Five Unreleased Games From Rare, Revealed

It took two whole days, but someone has finally unlocked the videos in new Xbox One release Rare Replay that show off a quintet of games that the studio behind Blast Corps, Jetpac and Banjo-Kazooie started working on but never released. Some look pretty cool, especially Kameo 2 The videos could only be unlocked by…