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Bethesda’s Next Singleplayer RPG Is Starfield, A Sci-Fi Game

Bethesda’s Todd Howard just announced on stage at E3 that the company’s next big singleplayer RPG is an all-new story set in an all-new universe. Here’s a very brief trailer: Your guess as to what it’s all about is as good as mine. Interestingly, he also described it as a “next generation” game. Maybe it’s…

The Elder Scrolls Blades Announced For Phones

Today Bethesda announced a new Elder Scrolls game called Elder Scrolls Blades Todd Howard likened it philosophically to Fallout Shelter as a “uniquely mobile experience.” It’s first-person ala traditional Elder Scrolls games, but with touch-screen based swiping combat. It features both handcrafted and procedurally generated dungeons. It’s not just a dungeon-crawler, though. There are outdoor…

Bethesda Confirms Fallout 76 Is An Online Survival RPG

After a couple of teases and some inside information, we just got our first real look at Fallout 76, an upcoming survival RPG from Bethesda. As we told you last month, this isn’t a traditional Fallout adventure. While in the most immediate sense it looks like one, with its iconic visual style and first-person perspective,…

Prey‘s DLC Is Called Mooncrash, ‘Infinitely Replayable’

After a lot of teasing, Bethesda finally revealed Prey’s next DLC at their E3 press conference tonight, along with a bunch of new Prey stuff. Called Mooncrash, it’s available now. Mooncrash is a roguelike adventure on the moon in which enemies, goals, and loot will be different on each replay. You have to escape a…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood Is A Co-Op Game Coming Next Year

Today during Bethesda’s E3 press conference, Machine Games announced a new Wolfenstein game. The next Wolfenstein is called Youngblood. It’s set in the 1980s in Paris and stars series hero BJ Blazkowicz and love interest Anya’s twin daughters (!!!). It’s “a co-op experience” that you can also play solo. In the trailer, BJ monologues about…

Doom Is Getting A Sequel, Doom Eternal

Players eager to rip and tear are in for a treat. Bethesda announced Doom Eternal during their E3 press conference tonight, showing off a trailer full of demons. Bethesda rebooted Doom in 2016, offering a slightly different take on the classic first person shooter that was full of arena fights and melee executions. At the…

Our First Proper Look At Rage 2

As part of today’s E3 press event, Bethesda revealed footage of Avalanche-developed post-apocalpytic shooter sequel, Rage 2 The demo was preceded by a full-blown goddamn Andrew W.K. concert, which absolutely rocked and was completely wasted on an audience full of already-tired E3 attendees. I mean, look at this: Amazing! The actual game was cool, too.…

Podcast: We React To Xbox And EA At E3 2018

We’re two press conferences into E3 2018, and there’s already so much to talk about. Won’t you join us? On the first episode of Kotaku Splitscreen’s special E3 coverage, Jason Schreier and I talked about everything we liked (and didn’t like) about EA’s press conference yesterday and Microsoft’s conference today. Listen below, and download an…

We’re Liveblogging Bethesda’s E3 Press Conference [Update: We’re Done!]

It’s the second big press conference of the day with Bethesda starting at 9:30PM EDT. Hopefully we’ll get more specifics about Fallout 76 and who knows, maybe a new Elder Scrolls. Gita and I will have live commentary here for you in a few moments. You can watch the press conference here or follow along…

Watch Bethesda’s E3 2018 Press Conference Here, Live [Update: Over]

It’s time for Bethesda’s E3 2018 press conference, starting at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET. I am here to finally see what new stuff we’re getting for Prey. Everything else is just icing to me. You can watch Kotaku’s own Stephen Totilo on Geoff Keighley’s stream below. Otherwise, Bethesda’s YouTube is here. There’s also Twitch

Skate 4 Was Not Shown At E3 Today

It’s been years since we got a good skateboarding game, and that fact—coupled with some runaway hope—led fans to expect a Skate 4 announcement at E3 this week. And for a brief few seconds, they thought they’d actually got one. Despite not being mentioned during EA’s E3 press conference, here’s the scene before Microsoft’s show…

Tunic, which was shown at last year’s E3, is back again and it still looks cute as hell. Imagine old Zelda games, only you’re a fox.

Tales of Vesperia is getting a definitive edition this coming winter. A spectacular role-playing game (and my personal favorite Tales) will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch with content “never before seen in the west.”

Everything Microsoft Showed At E3 2018

Microsoft just showed off a ton of stuff at their E3 2018 Xbox press conference, including new Halo and Gears of War games, Fallout 76, The Division 2, Dying Light 2, a shiny Cyberpunk 2077 trailer, and a new samurai action game from the makers of Dark Souls. Personally speaking, I’m most excited about that last…

Cyberpunk 2077 Gets A New Teaser Trailer

As part of today’s Microsoft E3 press conference, Witcher developer CD Projekt Red showed off a new teaser of its next monster-sized, but also monster-free RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 The trailer began with a male character saying that his city is the worst in America, referencing a “sky high rate of violence” and “more people living…

Just Cause 4 Announced—Officially This Time

Sure, a Steam ad already leaked it, but Microsoft today officially announced Just Cause 4. This iteration of the open world action game features in-air helicopter collisions, a powerful private army and a huge, man-eating tornado. It will be out on Xbox One, PS4 and PC December 4, 2018. Here’s the trailer:

Microsoft Reveals Gears Of War 5 (And Two Spinoffs)

Microsoft announced Gears of War 5 at its E3 Media Briefing today with a story trailer and is slated to arrive next year on Xbox One. But that’s not all: Microsoft-owned studio The Coalition is also working on two Gears of War spin-offs, Gears Pop, a mobile game, and Gears Tactics, a strategy game for…

Microsoft just announced a new Battletoads It’ll have 2.5D graphics and couch co-op. They didn’t show or say much else. It’ll be out next year.

Jump Force Brings Goku, Naruto, And More Together For A Giant Battle [Update: Battle Footage]

Bandai Namco has announced Jump Force, a new game that mashes up characters from Shonen Jump manga, like Dragon Ball, Naruto, and One Piece. It’s coming in 2019. The three-versus-three tag team fighting game will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam. The trailer opened on a ruined urban setting, showing several famous…

Dying Light 2 Announced

Parkour zombie game Dying Light is getting a sequel. We don’t know much about Dying Light 2 but based on the trailer it looks like a colorful return to another violent undead world. And you thought the sustained flood of zombie games had ebbed. Chris Avellone, one of the narrative masterminds Planescape: Torment and Star…