As floods from Hurricane Harvey batter Houston, Texas and surrounding areas, we extend our sympathies and best wishes to everyone affected. Any readers who wish to help can do so by donating to the Red Cross (most easily by texting) or to numerous other charities. Read more
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“More is more” must be the mantra of the makers of The Division, Ubisoft’s fun but flawed post-disaster shooter that…
Microsoft is expanding their four-tier Xbox Insider program that lets users get early access to platform updates and software betas in exchange for testing features and offering feedback. New details from Microsoft explain how players can manually expand their access in the formerly invite-centric program. To join,… Read more
Similar to how reading Kotaku news stories will unlock rainbows of happiness in your life, reading a post on the…
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You’ll spend most of your time in Horizon Zero Dawn fighting giant mechanical dinosaurs. It’s the game’s most…
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Track: Captain Vegetable | Artist: Captain Vegetable with Eddie and Andy | Album: Sesame Street: Songs from the Street, Vol. 3
The excellent PS4 samurai action game Nioh is overloaded with loot, but its developers may have solved one of their…
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Hey! Pikmin, you are a disappointing game. Kotaku features editor Chris Kohler and I recently discussed our…
From time to time, I’ll make a stunt out of my interviews with video game professionals. I’ll do this when they’re…
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In a sign of just how hot the Switch is or just how in need of more releases publisher Take Two is this year, WWE 2K18 is coming to Nintendo’s newest console. A 10am ET press release said October 17, same as Xbox One and PS4; a corrected release changed that to “fall.” First in the series on a Nintendo console since WW…
A temporary Independence Day celebration in Watch Dogs 2 was suspended early on July 4 because it was enraging too…
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At E3 in Los Angeles last month, there were several obvious points of distinction between Assassin’s Creed Origins an…
We liked what we saw at E3 of zombie survival sim State of Decay II. The sequel still involves leveling up a group of survivors, still has permadeath. Adds online co-op (with permadeath!) and hundreds more character traits. Can a guilt-motivated groundskeeper co-exist with a fight choreographer who snores? Spring 2018… Read more
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We saw it. Now you can see it. Today, Ubisoft put out a video of Michel Ancel playing the Beyond Good & Evil 2 tech demo shown behind closed doors at E3. Look for radical zooming from planet surface to space, and planet-spanning flight. For more about what the game is supposed to be, read our interview with Ancel.
We played Shadow of War for 10 minutes at E3. The demo’s main event was a fortress siege (watch an archived E3 stream of one raid). Arkham-style combat returns, but you storm the gates with hand-picked Orc allies who unleash special attacks. Could be a gimmick. Could be deeply strategic. We’ll know on October 10. Read more
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We’ve written a lot about E3 this week and covered a lot of games, including Super Mario Odyssey. Still, here’s one…
One of the world’s top Super Smash Bros. players recently knocked Nintendo for not sufficiently supporting the scene…
We got a hands-off demonstration of this August’s standalone $40 PS4 adventure Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Quick impressions: Beautiful location? Check (India). Fun character banter? Yep (Nadine’s a bad-ass. Chloe’s wry). Dynamic firefights? Of course (looked like the best of Uncharted 4's). Read more
Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, is at E3 in Los Angeles this week to promote Nintendo’s latest…
No wonder E3 seemed extra-crowded this year. It was extra-crowded! The ESA, which runs the event, just announced that 2017 E3 attendance was 68,400, including, for the first time, 15,000 members of the public. Up from the ESA’s count of 50,300 total attendance at E3 2016.
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