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Report: Activision Blizzard Closing French Office

Activision Blizzard will be closing its office in Versailles, France, according to Bloomberg The video game publisher’s French location, which handled press, localization, customer support, and marketing for Activision Blizzard games in Europe, employed 400 workers in 2019. The future of the office has recently been a shaky proposition, however, thanks to a massive round…

The Resident Evil Movies Are Getting Rebooted With An Adaptation Of The First Two Games

It’s time to go back to Racoon City. Again. This time in a new movie rebooting the Resident Evil series’ on-screen universe. Constantin Film, which made the existing Resident Evil movies, will work with writer-director Johannes Roberts to produce a film adaptation of the horror gaming franchise’s origin story, Deadline reported today. Maze Runner’s Kaya…

I Can’t Wait For Yakuza: Like A Dragon‘s Goofy Minigames

With singing, racing karts, playing arcade machines, practicing batting, and vocational tests to perform, it’s amazing down-and-out Yakuza scrapper Ichiban Kasuga gets anything else done in Yakuza: Like A Dragon. The game’s latest trailer demonstrates all the ways I’ll be driven to distraction come November 10. Give me fun side activities over actual game progression…

ESRB Rates Wolfenstein, Prey, And Dishonored Collections For Xbox Series X/S

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board website is a fun place to discover unannounced game compilations for next-generation hardware, like the Wolfenstein Alt History Collection and Dishonored & Prey The Arkane Collection, a pair of game bundles recently rated for the Xbox Series X/S. It looks like Bethesda, recently purchased by Microsoft for a cool $7.5…

MGS3‘s “Snake Eater” Is Good Enough To Be A Bond Theme

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, I hope you’ve got some decent upper-body strength because we’re going to climb up a very, very long ladder listening to Metal Gear Solid 3’s dramatic and campy theme, “Snake Eater.” Metal Gear Solid 3:…

Track: Acacia | Artist: Bump of Chicken | Album: Acacia (single)

A Few Alt-Reality Takes On Smash‘s Latest Character Reveal

Last week, Nintendo revealed that Steve Minecraft of Minecraft fame will be the next character added to the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster. As is often the case, some folks were excited, some weren’t. More importantly, eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed a particularly memeable moment in the reveal trailer, wherein Steve crashes through a cave wall…

Our Favorite Cosplay From New York Comic Con, 2013-2019

It’s early October, which means it should be time for the New York Comic Con! Sadly, it is early October in The Year Of Bad Times, so there isn’t one in 2020. To help fill the void, both in terms of content for this cosplay website but also in our hearts, here’s a look back…

Aerial Marketplace

Alejandro Burdisio is an artist from Argentina. You can see more of Alejandro’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Make Your Own Life-Sized Animal Crossing Tools, If You’re Feeling Crafty

If you’ve got some time coming up, and materials/money to spare, one of the countless ways you could spend all that would be to build your own life-size replica Animal Crossing tools. Because those butterflies aren’t going to catch themselves. The wonderful Bill and Britt from Punished Props have put this video together showing how…

RTX 3070 Delayed, And Don’t Expect To Find A RTX 3080 Or 3090 Any Time Soon

If you’ve been trying to get your hands on one of Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 or 3090 cards,and aren’t willing to pay exorbitant resale prices, you may want to resign yourself to waiting until 2021. As Tom’s Hardware reports, in a Q&A call earlier today Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company is expecting…

You Can Install And Run Crysis From An RTX 3090’s VRAM

The new RTX 3090 graphics card has 24GB of virtual memory, which is a lot. Enough to be able to install Crysis 3 on it, and then run it, all off the card. Software engineer Strife used a program called GpuRamDrive to create a partition on the 3090, carving out 15GB to install the game,…

Microsoft Is Beating Sony At Cross-Generation Save Transfers

As is often the case between video game generations, several high-profile PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X games will also be available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But when it comes to the ability to start a game on a last-gen console and pick right up where you left off in the game’s next-gen…

Late-Game Super Mario Bros. 35 Is A True Gauntlet Of Death

Depending on who you’re playing against, Super Mario Bros. 35 doesn’t always feel as adrenaline-fueled as certain other battle royales. But this look at some skilled survivalists shows just how intense its late game can get. Whenever you kill an enemy in Super Mario Bros. 35 the game send it to the screen of one…

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Rides In November

2010’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is one of the finest non-Burnout racers made by the speed demons at Criterion Games. It’s making a comeback next month as Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, bringing enhanced visuals and cross-platform play to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on November 6 and Switch on November 13.…

Facebook Accidently Bans Fake Fallout 76 Militia Group

The Fallout 76 role-playing group Free States Militia was temporarily banned from Facebook late last week, seemingly after getting caught up in one of the social media platform’s routine moderation sweeps. “So Facebook just banned our page and banned all admins from our Gaming group,” the Free States Militia—Fallout 76 players who role-play as the…

Ghost of Tsushima Gets Online Co-op, New Game+ & More On October 16

First announced back in August, Ghost of Tsushima’s online co-op mode is being added to the game on October 16 via patch 1.1. This free update also adds some other requested features and changes, including the ability to create and equip various load-outs and New Game+ mode. Ghost of Tsushima Legends is the new online…

Every Game Needs A Dedicated Pass-And-Play Mode

Every video game supports pass-and-play multiplayer. Just find a stopping point, hit pause, and hand the controller to a friend. Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time’s pass-and-play is the same sort of thing, only the game’s got built-in prompts and per-player summaries at the end. I appreciate the hell out of that. Welcome to Kotaku’s…

The Week In Games: FIFA 21 Scores Later This Week

Let’s get on the pitch and do a header into a goal or something like that… Anyway, FIFA 21 is out this week. I don’t have a lot to say about FIFA 21 or soccer really, so instead, I’ll use this space to point out how many Switch games are released EVERY week. Look at…

Behold, My Three Favorite Resident Evil Tracks

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today, maybe because Zack’s already reminded me several times that his favorite spooky holiday’s comin’ up, I wanna share some standout Resident Evil music. At this point in my life I’ve spent a lot more hours…