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Apex Legends Coming To Phones

Battle royale Apex Legends is coming to phones, developer Respawn announced today. The mobile version will begin testing in certain regions this spring, with a wider rollout to come. “Apex Legends Mobile is specially designed for touchscreens, with streamlined controls and thoughtful optimizations that result in the most advanced battle royale combat available on a…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 19, 2021

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Celeste Devs Announce Next Game

The studio behind indie darling Celeste, the Vancouver-based Extremely OK Games, is finally ready to unveil its next game, Earthblade While the devs admit their blog post is more of a “vibe reveal” than a full-on announcement, there’s a lot to be excited for here, due in part to the studio’s pedigree. Earthblade is described…

By Ian Walker Published April 19, 2021

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Sony Reverses Course On PS3 And Vita Store Closure

Today, Sony announced it will no longer shut down the PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita users. “Recently, we notified players that PlayStation Store for PS3 and PS Vita devices was planned to end this summer,” wrote Sony Interactive’s president and CEO Jim Ryan on the PlayStation blog. “Upon further reflection, however, it’s clear…

By Ash Parrish Published April 19, 2021

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Prescription Video Game Could Help People Who’ve Had Covid

Researchers are testing whether a video game can help treat the cognitive effects of covid-19. A study uses the game EndeavorRx, which, last June, became the first video game requiring a prescription to play. EndeavorRx is currently used to treat children with ADHD. As reported by The Verge, Weill Cornell Medicine neuropsychologist Faith Gunning is…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 19, 2021

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Looks Like Lego Mario’s Getting His Lego Luigi

Following last week’s firmware update that has Lego’s Super Mario figure crying out for his brother when it wakes from sleep mode, a listing briefly popped up on Amazon China for Lego set 71387, Adventures with Luigi. Looks like the Lego Super Mario line’s got a new plumber on call. According to Lego news and…

By Mike Fahey Published April 19, 2021

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The Week In Games: Nier-ly There

It’s another week, which means another batch of new games. We’ve got some exciting things on the horizon, like NieR Replicant Don’t Make Me Type The Numbers and the next gen version of Judgment. Here are the video games coming this week: Tuesday April 20 MLB The Show 21 | PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 19, 2021

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Zombie Army 4 Sounds Like A John Carpenter Joint

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re preparing to fight off the undead as we listen to fantastic tunes from Zombie Army 4: Dead War. I played Zombie Army 4 (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) back when it came out last…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 19, 2021

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You Don’t Want Resident Evil Village‘s Tall Vampire Lady To Step On Your Face

You really don’t! Clocking in at 2.9m (or 9’6″) tall, Lady Dimitrescu is probably the absolute last individual you’d want stepping on you. Previously, we saw how the character compared to real humans—she towered over them. In a sponsored clip, YouTuber Kyle Hill did the math to figure out what would happen if she actually…

By Brian Ashcraft Published April 19, 2021

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Super Mario 64 Plus Adds Very Cool Settings And Ideas To Nintendo’s Classic

Super Mario 64 Plus is a modified version of the PC port of Super Mario 64, which takes the original and adds loads of stuff like 60FPS, bug fixes, a ton of in-game options and, best of all, “The ability to continue the level after getting a star.” Don’t think of it as a completely…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Even As A Pacifist You Will Still Kill Over 700 People In Grand Theft Auto V

Like they did with Max Payne, Sex Positive Gamer have sat down with Grand Theft Auto V and played it as peacefully as possible, keeping murders to the absolute minimum required to progress the story. And it’s still a lot of murders. 726, to be precise, most of them as part of missions where the…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Path Of Exile Let Streamers Bypass Long Server Wait Times

During the launch of its new expansion Ultimatum, Path of Exile’s servers were having some problems over the weekend, leaving players with wait times to get in that sometimes stretched into hours. Unless, that is, you were a streamer paid to broadcast the game, in which case you got straight in. Fans stuck waiting quickly…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Homeworld 3, It’s Nice To See You Again

It has been almost two years since Homeworld 3 was announced alongside a slightly suspicious crowdfunding model, and in those two years we’ve barely seen or heard a thing about the game. We still haven’t, really, but at least today we got to see something This short video of a Railgun Frigate blowing a hole…

By Luke Plunkett Published April 18, 2021

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Sorry, But The Chug Jug Song

I’m in charge of the website this weekend, which means I get to spread my suffering to you under the guise of Content. I’m sorry. Surely you are aware of “Chug Jug with You,” a Fortnite-themed parody of Estelle and Kanye West’s “American Boy.” If somehow you are not, or you just wanna hear the…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

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Sunday Comics: Remaster

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 April 12. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published April 12. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 18, 2021

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Report: Amazon Cancels Lord Of The Rings MMO

Amazon has cancelled an in-development Lord of the Rings MMO it first announced in 2019, Bloomberg reported today. The MMO was being developed by Amazon and Chinese company Leyou Technologies Holdings Limited, which was purchased by Tencent in December 2020. Sources told Bloomberg contract disputes between Amazon and Tencent have caused the game to be cancelled.…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

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Troll Makes Up Path Of Exile Ban Over Accessibility, Is Asshole

This week, a supposed player claimed to have been banned from action RPG Path of Exile for using a macro to make the game accessible. Other players and accessibility activists took up their cause. Now, it appears the whole thing was a troll. In my professional journalistic opinion: what the hell? PC Gamer has an…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

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Some Previously Banned Players Can Now Compete In Counter-Strike Events

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has changed its rules for competitive players who’ve been banned for violations of Valve’s Anti-Cheat system. Previously, those bans were permanent; now, players who’ve been banned for VAC violations in the past can compete in Valve-sponsored events under specific circumstances. In a post on the CS:GO blog earlier this week about the…

By Riley MacLeod Published April 17, 2021

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No-VR Mod Brings Half Life: Alyx To Players Who Can’t Afford Headsets

By all accounts, Half Life: Alyx is a phenomenal game. But because it’s VR-only, large swathes of gamers simply cannot play it.

By Ash Parrish Published April 16, 2021

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Arcade Stick Pioneers Die In Tragic Accident

In the early hours of March 29, an accidental, cooking-related fire in Westminster, California claimed the life of 63-year-old Reynalda Lynn Nguyen. Her husband, Thao Nguyen, survived for two weeks in critical condition before also passing away on April 13. They leave behind two children, Anthony and Alexandria Kristen Nguyen, who are accepting donations so…

By Ian Walker Published April 16, 2021

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No One Asked For This NFT Version Of ‘80s Hit ‘Pac-Man Fever’

Buckner & Garcia’s hit ‘80s song “Pac-Man Fever” was a wholesome, catchy tune, but nothing’s safe from the climate-wrecking tech scam known as NFTs. Now, because 2021 is trying to be as bad as 2020 I guess, Buckner decided to grace the world with a single called “NiFTy Fever.” The new song is out now…

By Zack Zwiezen Published April 16, 2021