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Botched Twitch Promotion Just Pisses Off Streamers Dealing With DMCA Issues

For perhaps as long as Twitch has existed, there has been a myth: On exceedingly rare occasions, if the stars align perfectly, the ever-popular “Kappa” chat emote will turn gold. Some have suggested that a single Twitch user receives golden Kappa abilities every 24 hours. Others believe you have to fulfill highly specific prerequisites in…

Too Many Baldur’s Gate 3 Players Choose Basic-Ass Romance

Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios has been steadily releasing updates on the progress of their new game, including information on popular player choices. A couple of weeks ago, they jokingly chided players for choosing boring character creator options. This week’s new peek into the data includes how many times players have pet the dog…

Disco Elysium Has A…Game Boy Port, Kinda

Disco Elysium, one of the games of 2019, is available on most modern platforms, like the PC, Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It’s also now partly playable, and very stripped back, on the Game Boy, provided you play it in a browser. Using the excellent GB Studio, which lets basically anyone make their own Game…

On The Eve Of PlayStation 5 Season, Let’s Remember My PlayStation 2

Today, a handful of my colleagues have published PlayStation 5 impressions, detailing where the power button is, how it fits in various spaces, and how those slick-ass Dual Sense controllers feel. But did you also know that this week marks the 20th anniversary of the PlayStation 2? How can we appreciate where the next-gen consoles…

Dataminer Says Words Like ‘Honkers’ And ‘Robitussin’ Might Get You Banned In Kingdom Hearts Rhythm Game

Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory is an upcoming rhythm game for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch that expands the already convoluted Kingdom Hearts storyline. The game got a demo earlier this month, in which well-known speedrunner and dataminer Kaitlyn “Orcastraw” Molinas discovered what she says is a list of words players could get…

Devil May Cry 5 Won’t Have Ray Tracing On Xbox Series S

Capcom has announced that the next-gen version of Devil May Cry 5 won’t support ray tracing on Xbox Series S despite previous announcements to the contrary. “While ray tracing will be available as a downloadable title update on Xbox Series X, Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition will not support ray tracing on Xbox Series…

Next-gen versions of Madden NFL 21 and FIFA 21 won’t show up until December 4, several weeks after the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 launch, EA announced today. The upgrades will be free, but only progress in certain modes will carry over. 

Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed To December

Cyberpunk 2077‘s release is being pushed back three weeks until December 10, CD Projekt Red announced today on Twitter The studio blamed the delay on the difficulty of simultaneously shipping a game across so many different platforms. “The biggest challenge for us right now is shipping the game on current-gen, next-gen, and PC at the…

Destiny 2‘s Next Season Finally Brings Back Prince Uldren

Bungie revealed Destiny 2‘s next season today. It’s called Season of the Hunt and will revolve around helping self-absorbed Warlock Osiris track down Hive god Xivu Arath. Oh, and you’ll be fighting alongside Uldren Sov to do it. That’s right, after nearly two years of waiting, The Master of Crows is back, once again fighting…

Ubisoft’s subscription service Uplay+ is being renamed Ubisoft+ and heading to Amazon’s video game streaming platform Luna on November 10. The publisher said the service will also come to Stadia sometime later on.

Super Mario 3D All-Stars Is Getting Inverted Camera Controls

Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the bundled Switch collection of Nintendo’s first three 3D Mario games, is finally getting inverted camera controls. According to a tweet from Nintendo of America, an update on November 16 will add camera customization to all three rereleases: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy According to the…

Netflix Is Making An Assassin’s Creed Show

Netflix’s gaming binge continues, this time with a deal to adapt Ubisoft’s historical murder sim Assassin’s Creed Announced in a press release today as part of a longer-term agreement to “develop content” based on the franchise, Netflix’s first Assassin’s Creed show will be live action, but otherwise appears to be very early in development. Ubisoft’s…

Rayons de l’Air’s Gorgeous Remixes Retroactively Justify RayCrisis’ Existence

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll check out a game I respect more than like. But its remix album…yeah, that’s the good stuff. Musically speaking, Taito’s mid-’90s arcade trilogy of “Ray” shooters—RayForce, Raystorm, and RayCrisis—was a one-woman show, scored in…

Track: A Silly Symphony: The Skeleton Dance | Artist: Carl W. Stalling | Album: N/A

Alien: Isolation’s Pitch Was Developed In Secret After Sega Said No

Alien: Isolation was a dramatic departure for Creative Assembly, which before the game’s release in 2014 was best-known for its Total War series of strategy games. But the studio almost didn’t have a chance to expand its portfolio at all after parent company Sega initially rejected the idea for a new Alien game. “We sent…

U.S. Navy Tells Its Twitch Streamers To Respond Like Whiny Cowards When Asked About War Crimes

The saga of the United States military’s attempts to recruit young people by streaming on Twitch is full of twists and turns. Over the summer, the Army and Navy’s Twitch channels were flooded with messages about America’s copious war crimes, questions that almost always resulted in bans. But since these bans arguably straddled the line of…

Socially-Distant Cosplay In The Age Of Covid

There hasn’t been much cosplay to feature here in 2020 for obvious reasons, but have you ever wondered that when people do get together for a shoot, how it all works in an age of lockdowns and social distancing? This Watch Dogs Legion shoot by So Say We All got me thinking that exact question,…

Welcome to The Dungeon Experience, where a low-level RPG villain guides you on a tour of a fantasy game’s dungeons. It’ll be out on PC “Upon the four moons of Xogris align and the Messiah Khidrius returns”.

Let’s Celebrate The Silly Death Screens At The End Of Hades

Hades is a brutal game. That’s not just commentary on the Switch and PC roguelike’s difficulty factor. Zagreus, the main character, dies ad infinitum in some truly gruesome ways. But once you sink some time into Hades, those many, many deaths can start to lose their edge. Late into the endgame, in fact, Zagreus will…

Star Wars: Squadrons Is Getting Baby Yoda Bobbles And Not Much Else

True to EA Motive’s word, there doesn’t seem to be any big DLC on Star Wars: Squadrons’ horizon. Instead, the space fighter will be getting a handful of cosmetics later this week, including a Baby Yoda bobblehead. The new dashboard décor was revealed in today’s Mando Monday livestream, a digital showcase full of interviews and…