Just after 4 pm ET on Tuesday, Destiny 2 players began to see a warning message. A red line stretched across the bottom of their screens, and the text below it stated: “Attention: contacting Destiny 2 servers.” Minutes later, huge numbers of players got booted from the massively-multiplayer online sci-fi shooter. At Kotaku, we lost…
Game developer Trick Dempsey recently started Googling to see if anyone had found a secret boss encounter in The Division 2, the giant Ubisoft game he helps make. “I was just like: I don’t [see] a video guide for finding this dude,” he said on today’s State of the Game developer stream. “There’s just nothing.”…
It’s been clear for a while that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is just about done in terms of game updates. The game’s free and paid add-ons are complete. Its store has been filled with extra gear to buy. Today, Ubisoft confirmed that October’s update will be the game’s last. The game’s October update will include the…
Destiny 2‘s big New Light overhaul today boosts all existing players to power level 750. It also may slightly adjust your progression. Here are some things that stood out at first glance when I logged into the game with my character today. First, there’s the character screen, now complete with Sparrow vehicle and Ghost along…
I started playing a new video game yesterday: Ghost Recon Breakpoint. But It might as well have been any other console game, in terms of how I set up the settings. Brightness? I’m going to make sure that symbol is pretty visible. After all, who knows what “barely visible” even means. It’s all relative. I…
On Tuesday afternoon, we published an article headlined “Animated Video Game Porn Could Be A Lot Sexier And Less Gross.” It’s a piece we immediately regretted and that I wanted to talk to you, the readers, about. I can spare you a click. It was about popular animated porn videos involving well-known gaming and geek…
Microsoft’s take on game-streaming will be in the hands of a select few members of the public next month. Project xCloud (not its final name) will let people play Xbox One games via the cloud, without the need for a console. Microsoft announced today that the service will begin a public trial in October, though…
Destiny 2 advice needed, please. It’s a week from the new expansion, which I’m interested in playing. But I only just finished Destiny 2‘s campaign and am ready to play more this week. I tend to like PvE, don’t like grinding, like seeing new areas, going on fun quests and sidequests. So… what should I…
I have hit the peak delusional stage of my ownership of the Nintendo Switch. Old delusion? I am going to play all these games I’m buying and downloading from the eshop. New delusion? I’m going to use my Nintendo Switch at all. The thing keeps dying on me right as I’m about to use it.…
The name might not be known to most readers, but the trajectory of the move is eye-catching. Dan Hewitt, who has spent over a decade as the top media communications person for the Entertainment Software Association (the industry lobby that also runs E3) is taking on the top communications role at Borderlands studio Gearbox next…
I put my cat to sleep on Tuesday afternoon. She sat on my lap, swaddled in a medical blanket and a favorite scarf of my wife’s. A veterinarian injected anesthesia to knock her out and then delivered a fatal shot. I knew Quimby the cat for 15 ½ years. Some readers of this site may…
The note atop the thread in The Division 2 subreddit was awkward. “The moderators have allowed for many congratulation raid completion posts,” it began. This was one of many threads in celebrating various groups of gamers for clearing The Division 2’s daunting eight-player raid. But, it continued: “This one is unfortunately being locked due to…
Back in April, players of the most recent Tomb Raider noticed something surprising. An in-game menu that was being used to list new downloadable tomb levels suddenly listed an eighth slot. The game’s publisher had only ever promised seven. At the time, there was still one more of the game’s seven announced bonus tombs to…
Ending a month-long hiatus, The Division 2’s otherwise weekly State of the Game stream returned today with promises of a wave of encouraging changes to the game’s loot, and a change in how content will be beta-tested, that should make the game’s season pass a less regrettable purchase. Content developer Hamish Bode and game designer…
Lots of games coming up. Got to think this through strategically. Gears 5? Finish that campaign this week. Then move to Destiny 2. Still haven’t cleared that game’s original campaign but don’t want to skip ahead. I’ve got two weeks or so to catch up. Probably won’t catch up but will get close. Somehow juggle…
I’m fighting the same video game battle for the 15th time in the past hour. This time, I think, I’m going to beat it. Enemy gets me with a chainsaw in the back. Nope. Try again. This time? Shot with a missile from afar. Deep breath. It’s going to all work out this time. But…
It seems that every major video game publisher wants their own perpetually-updated mega-game that has a post-release content plan longer a U.S. presidential election cycle. The pinnacle of this is Ubisoft, which does everything extra large and appears to be testing the gaming world’s appetite by trying to do this with two similar games at…
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey finally gets its Discovery Mode Tour this month, offering a way to explore the game’s recreation of Ancient Greece peacefully while maybe just learning something. As with all things Odyssey, it is intimidatingly large. I’ve only taken the quickest of tours in Odyssey’s new mode, just enough to see the game’s map…
In the vast video game version of Washington, D.C in Ubisoft’s The Division 2, there is a single police car that reads “POLCE.” The misspelling has been in the game for months, but only on Wednesday, after a prompt from the game’s creative director, did people finally start reporting its discovery. A Berlin-based gamer named…
I’ve exchanged some odd DMs with a colleague over the past week as we try to figure out an intriguing new video game about human evolution. He gives me tips about hugging. I give him tips about making sharp sticks. At one point, I told him, “I gotta figure out how to mate.” We are…
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