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Hackers Find Way To Add NPCs To Fallout 76

New cheat programs are helping some Fallout 76 players duplicate their items and add massive new objects to the game like airships and even non-player characters. On December 14 during Fallout 76’s free weekend event, Unknowncheats.me forum user ErectBAN released a series of cheat scripts they wrote for the game on PC allowing players to…

Capcom Cup Sucked

Last year, it was my belief that Capcom Cup was saved by the incredible performances of its finalists, a group of 32 talented Street Fighter V competitors whose skills outshone the myriad issues I had with the event’s organization and scheduling. But not even the incredible stories of Capcom Cup 2019 could wipe away the…

Happy Holidays, Interlopers! Hello Games has added a music synthesizer and sequencer to No Man’s Sky as a surprise gift. The ByteBeat Device can be added to bases in No Man’s Sky and produce sound as long as they’re powered. I can’t wait to hear all your tunes.

Minecraft Player Makes Futuristic Metropolis Inspired By Cyberpunk 2077

CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 is still several months away, but Minecraft players who want to get in the spirit of exploring neon-fueled dystopias will soon be able to visit their own version of Night City. Minecraft YouTuber Elysium Fire released a trailer for their upcoming tribute to Cyberpunk 2077‘s world earlier this month (thanks…

Anthem Is Still Pretty

It’s felt like years since I last thought about Anthem, but following the game’s seasonal update last week I decided to pick it back up and was immediately struck by how beautiful its new wintery vistas are. Anthem’s Icetide event added flight time trials, a mission called Coolant Harvesting, and a new way to earn…

The Week In Games: The Goose Is Loose On PS4 And Xbox One

HONK! The internet’s favorite game, Untitled Goose Game, is coming to PS4 and Xbox One this week. Meanwhile, the rest of the week is mostly empty. As usual, this close to Christmas means fewer games are coming out. These next few weeks are the perfect time to catch up on games you wanted to play…

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Name’s Johnny, Johnny Silverhand

Ajsen Savvinov, aka Aisendraw, is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Savvinov’s stuffat his ArtStation page

Track: Christmas In Hollis | Artist: RUN DMC | Album: A Very Special Christmas #XmasSongsILove

‘Shop Contest: Baby Yoda

Baby Yoda has quickly become one of the only good things about 2019. I love the little kid, but I was hesitant to do a Baby Yoda contest because frankly, the internet has already created some great images featuring “The Child.” But then EA added him to The Sims 4 and I saw my opportunity.…

Sunday Comics: It’s Priceless!

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Dec. 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Dec. 9. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

‘Shop Contest: $120k Banana And Some Duct Tape, Winners!

Modern art is sometimes complicated, strange and incredible. Then sometimes a dude sticks a banana on a wall and makes a $120k selling it. And then someone else eats it as part of their own art performance. Anyways, I asked you folks to create some artwork of your own featuring either this expensive fruit or…

Before GoldenEye On N64, There Was This GoldenEye Game

GoldenEye for the N64 is a bona fide classic. The game was groundbreaking, one of the first truly good first-person shooters on a console and its multiplayer mode is still beloved to this day. But, two years before this classic game was released, another video game version of GoldenEye was released. It wasn’t as good…

Fortnite‘s Star Wars Event Was Weird, But Cool

Today, after a rough start, Fortnite’s in-game movie theater showed a brief clip from the upcoming film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Director J.J. Abrams and Game Awards host Geoff Keighley also made a live appearance. The event took place at Risky Reels, Fortnite’s drive-in. Prior to the event, Fortnite’s servers struggled under the…

PlanetSide Arena Is Shutting Down After Only 4 Months (Update)

Some games last for years and years. Other games disappear in less than one. PlanetSide Arena, which launched back in September 2018 2019, is closing down next month. The announcement was made yesterday on the game’s Steam page via a blog post from the developers at Daybreak Games. (Correction: 4:15 PM – I got my…

Cofagrigus Will Eat You And Turn You Into A Mummy

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Cofagrigus! Cofagrigus Details Type: Ghost Average Height: 5′ 07″ Average Weight: 168.7 lbs. First Added In Generation V Tomb…

Where Did All The Cheez-Its Go?

Hello! This week we buy Baby Yoda, defeat the problems clown, learn more about Shovel Knight’s long dev cycle, watch Ninja fail at slicing bread, meet one ugly bird and waste all our Cheez-Its. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week I love Shovel Knight and the story behind these games makes me love all…

Celebrated Non-Violent Indie Game Is Now A Gun In Rainbow Six Siege [Update]

Sometimes, two great tastes go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut butter and ice cream. Ice cream and Reese’s peanut butter cups. Maybe most of my examples involve peanut butter. Point being, sometimes these things just work. Other times, you try to mash up two cool things, only to come away with a new…

Developer On Pranking Game Awards With Golf Balls: ‘It’s A Boring Show’

Some would tell you that The Game Awards are gaming’s Academy Awards. Those people are hilariously wrong, given that the show largely serves as a vehicle for commercials announcing upcoming games, with the awards themselves coming off as a distant second priority-wise. Still, the event has become increasingly glitzy, glamorous, and long over the years.…

Modern Warfare Will Show You Your Kill-Death Ratio For $20

Modern Warfare finally offers players the ability to see their death count during matches, but what was once a staple Call of Duty feature now comes at a price. In past Call of Duty games, the in-game scoreboard for a standard multiplayer mode like Team Deathmatch would show each player’s kills, deaths, and assists. At…