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Sunday Comics: Santa Dialogue

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. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published December 7. Read more of Awkward Zombie Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published December 6. Read more of Corpse Run Double XP by…

This Week In The Business: Epic vs. Valve

QUOTE | “In our analysis, stores charging 30% are marking up their costs by 300% to 400%. But with developers receiving 88% of revenue and Epic receiving 12%, this store will be a profitable business for us.” – Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney explains the thinking behind the newly launched Epic Games Store while throwing a…

Steam Is Banning Sex Games With Young-Looking Characters [Update]

These days, anything goes on Steam, but not anything anything. If games are “illegal, or straight up trolling,” Valve says it’ll send them packing. In the past, that’s meant low-effort games with titles like Big Dick and MILF, achievement spam, and certain sex games Now, according to some developers, Valve is going after games that…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for having been invited to a potluck/Christmas decoration party, which is so wholesome it’s kind of freaking me out. It’s also for playing video games. In my determination to get nowhere in Red Dead Redemption 2 I haven’t had a chance to check out so many recent games, so hopefully I’ll do…

Help, I Accidentally Bought Mario Party Instead Of Smash

After last night’s announcement that Persona 5’s Joker is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, I finally decided I was going to buy the damn game. Then I bought Super Mario Party I don’t know how I made this mistake. Maybe I was just being hasty. Maybe after so many hours of Game Awards my…

Avengers 4 Is Titled Avengers: Endgame And Here Is The Debut Trailer

Finally, the wait is over. This is the trailer for the next Avengers film. It’s titled Avengers: Endgame and will be out next April Well, what do you think?

The Russo Brothers Have Mastered Avengers 4 Trolling

Earlier this evening, the Russo brothers appeared on stage at the Game Awards to make a Thanos joke and give an award to Fortnite Their appearance at the Game Awards was promoted. Repeatedly. Nobody forgot! When Joe and Anthony Russo appeared on stage, people got excited. People thought it meant an Avengers 4 trailer or…

All The Big Announcements At The 2018 Game Awards

The 2018 Game Awards have come and gone. You can see a list of all the winners here, but if you missed anything, here’s what happened during this night of very pretty music from Red Dead Redemption 2, and also Rivers Cuomo in an aviator jacket. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: Black Order Is A Switch…

SonicFox Steals The Show At The Game Awards

Dominique “SonicFox” McLean took home the award for Best Esports Player tonight at The Game Awards in Los Angeles. The 20-year-old full-time student and fighting game ace gave a candid acceptance speech that was one of the night’s more heartfelt moments. “I just really really enjoy playing video games competitively,” he said. “I’ve never really…

God of War Wins Game Of The Year At The 2018 Game Awards

God of War is the 2018 Game Awards’ Game of the Year, beating out stiff competition from games both big and small including Red Dead Redemption 2 and Celeste. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Spider-Man, and Monster Hunter: World also came up short in the category, though a few of them picked up honors elsewhere during the…

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Is Getting A Persona 5 DLC

PERSONA 5‘S MAIN CHARACTER, JOKER, IS COMING TO SUPER SMASH BROTHERS ULTIMATE AS A DLC CHARACTER. JESUS FUCK. I thought they’d given me enough gifts with Animal Crossing’s Isabelle, but somehow, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the gift that keeps on giving. This is the first of five DLC characters, which Nintendo are calling “Character…

Rage 2 is coming May 14th. I expect Andrew WK to be there.

Mortal Kombat 11 Announced, Launching Globally April 23

Tonight at the 2018 Game Awards, Netherrealm Studios head Ed Boon took the stage to announce the winner of the best sports or racing game award, but sgave us a trailer for Mortal Kombat XI instead—complete with an April 23 global launch date. Not a lot of details were given during the clever twist reveal,…

Stranger Things Season 3 Is Getting A Retro-Style Game

Need more Stranger Things? Good news: a game is coming. Details are scant, but all your faves are here. It appears to be an adventure game featuring the pint-sized Scooby Gang and their gruff lumberdad: This is a follow up to the previous Stranger Things games, also developed by Bonus XP. I guess they’re not…

Bioware Teases Dragon Age 4

BioWare’s Dragon Age series, which has been quiet since 2014, is back with a brand new game and a very short trailer to go with it. Though as we’ve already reported, we shouldn’t expect it any time soon. Having recently been rebooted, Dragon Age 4 is still very early in development, but the trailer shown…

Coming to Steam on December 13 from Studio Wildcard, makers of ARK: Survival Evolved, Atlas is a massively multiplayer survival game set in a fantasy world filled with magical creatures. Look for it to hit Xbox One next year as part of that whole hitting Xbox One first program. You know the one.

The Developers Of No Man’s Sky Have A Surprise New Game

In case you think Hello Games hasn’t been working hard enough, given their multiple, massive and free updates to No Man’s Sky, tonight they’ve announced a new game, called The Last Campfire “The Last Campfire is an adventure, a story of a lost Ember trapped in a puzzling place, searching for meaning and a way…

Obsidian’s Next Game, The Outer Worlds, Is Basically Fallout: New Vegas In Space

As Bethesda takes Fallout multiplayer, the original creators of Fallout are making a brand new single-player shooter-RPG along with the studio that made Fallout: New Vegas. It’s called The Outer Worlds, it’ll be out next year, and it’s basically New Vegas in space. Game studio Obsidian announced The Outer Worlds at The Game Awards tonight,…

BioWare Wants You To Know That Story Is A Priority For Anthem 

One of the biggest ongoing questions surrounding BioWare’s upcoming online shooter Anthem is whether it will be able to hit the narrative bar that the studio has set for itself through series like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. With a new trailer tonight—and a presentation to press this morning in Los Angeles—BioWare is trying to…

Crash Team Racing Remake Will Release In June 2019

Crash Team Racing, the PlayStation 1’s answer to Mario Kart, is coming back in 2019, Activision announced at The Game Awards this evening. In development at the studio Beenox, which created the racing portion of 2015’s Skylanders Superchargers, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a “built from the ground up” remake of Naughty Dog’s 1999 kart…