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Stephen Totilo
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Former Editor-in-Chief. Kotaku forever!
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As with most games shown at E3 a couple of weeks ago, it’s too soon to say if Concrete Genie will be what its demo…
The rumored, leaked and teased nightclub management expansion to Grand Theft Auto Online is coming out some time in July. In a post today, development studio Rockstar noted players can “[r]un your nightclub business from setup, design, staffing and promotion.” More details to come. Read more
Like most things with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game’s Champions’ Ballad expansion did not…
Which games had the best E3? The data folks over at Thinknum (a site, full disclosure, run by my friend Josh Fruhlinger) have some charts showing how game companies and their games did. The biggest trailers were for Cyberpunk, Fallout and The Last Of Us; the worst backlash was to Command & Conquer. Read more
The traditional way to view game companies when it’s E3 season is to look at what they announce for the future. In…
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For the last year, I’ve been confused about Ubisoft’s upcoming pirate game. Perhaps you have been as well.
At an E3 where Nintendo and its partners largely played it safe with big Smash Bros. and Pokémon sequels, the…
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In an room in need of air conditioning in the Los Angeles Convention Center last week, game developer Nate Fox held…
With E3 now open to the public, the show has a lot more things in it for people to buy. The most conspicuous were all the carboard boxes people carried around. These boxes contained mysterious amounts of loot and were all the rage. Plenty of comparisons and contrasts to be drawn about that. Read more
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At Lego DC Super-Villains’ E3 Demo, I spent a little too much time in the character select screen. The game is all…
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Rise of the Tomb Raider, released in 2015, was an excellent game, so it’s no surprise that the new Shadow of the…
The Take-Two booth at E3 makes all other publishers look sweaty and sloppy. No insult to the others, really, because…
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Starlink: Battle For Atlas isn’t a Star Fox game. Nintendo’s furry pilot and his famous Arwing fighter are in the…
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The co-op cooking game Overcooked 2 was one of the featured third-party announcements during Nintendo’s E3…
LOS ANGELES—Neil Druckmann, creative director on the The Last of Us Part II, was nervous going into E3.
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Donkey Kong can throw allies and enemies around, making for some interesting new tactics in the expansion to the…
The Yoshi side-scroller for Switch that Nintendo announced a year ago and let people play at E3 is missing in action…
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Capcom’s remake of Resident Evil 2 will be out on January 25, 2019. A new trailer for the game ran during Sony’s E3 PlayStation press conference. The game is coming to PS4 for sure, and possibly to other platforms as well.