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Report: Epic Games Is Behind North Dakota App Store Bill

Lobbyists for Epic Games and other members of the Coalition for App Fairness drafted legislation that will be heard in North Dakota this week, attempting to bar app stores owned by the likes of Apple and Google from taking a cut of app sales, according to a report over the weekend by The New York…

Track: Taiyo Te ni Tsuki wa Kokoro no Ryoute ni | Artist: Ua | Album: Petit

Big Skyrim Mod Comes Back From The Dead

Wyrmstooth, a hugely popular mod for Skyrim, was taken down in 2016 when its author removed all traces of it from sites like Nexus Mods. This month, it returns! As PC Gamer reports, the mod is now back, having been uploaded by its original creator Jonx0r. And it returns with a new trailer, that in…

Vice City & Grand Theft Auto III’s Source Code Has Been Reverse-Engineered

A team of fans have managed to reverse-engineer the source code for both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City, making the files available for download This is great news! We’ve seen recently what reverse-engineered games can mean to modders, with Mario 64 being the biggest example, allowing it to be “ported”…

Somehow, Six Days In Fallujah’s Publisher Says The Game Is “Not Trying To Make A Political Commentary”

In 2009, Konami tried to release Six Days In Fallujah as an apolitical depiction of the Iraq War, before canning it when pretty much everyone said that was a bad idea. Now, with the game back from the dead, its publisher is trying to…peddle that exact same message? The game was originally cancelled not long…

Thor’s Teeth! Valheim Sells Two Million Copies In Two Weeks

Valheim, a Viking survival game made by a team of just five, has sold two million copies in under two weeks. That’s… carry the five… divide by nine… a million copies a week! It was only Friday that Nathan wrote a post celebrating the Norse nerve-wracker, an article so good I had the game installing…

The Room 4: Old Sins Is Out For PC, And Prettier Than Ever

Long before you kids in your short pants and fashionable haircuts were escaping escape rooms, there was one developer far ahead of that curve. In 2012, Fireproof Games released their first game in their The Room series of puzzle games. Last week they just released The Room 4: Old Sins on PC, and it’s a…

Metro Exodus‘s Free Upgrade Adds 4K Textures And Lots Of Ray Tracing

Last year 4A Games promised us that 2019’s Metro Exodus would be receiving a free next-gen upgrade, for both Microsoft and PlayStation’s new boxes, as well as the series’ home, PC. Today they’ve revealed just how next-gen it’s going to be. Look, I could just pretend for you that I know what a “Fully Ray…

Control Developers Doubled Their Profits In 2020 Without Making A Game

Remedy Entertainment, they behind Max Payne and 2019’s Control, made more than twice as much money in 2020 as they did the year before. Yet they didn’t release a new game. They just kept releasing an old one instead. If you were to stop me in the street and ask me about how things went…

Track: 1999 | Artist: Hitsujibungaku | Album: 1999

Some Of Our Favorite (Pre-Pandemic) Cosplay From 2020

While the majority of the year was a complete write-off, for obvious reasons, we did actually squeeze a few big cosplay shows into the early, pre-pandemic months of 2020. So rather than look back on nine months of almost nothing happening on this website, let’s look at the three months something did. Our photographer Mineralbluput…

Disc Room Will Forever Take Place 69 Years In The Future

Some of us played Disc Room last year and loved it, but today we learned something new: the fact that it will forever be set in the future, no matter how far into the future you ever decide to play it. Via RPS, one of the game’s creators, Jan Willem Nijman (formerly of Vlambeer) has…

Left 4 Dead Wiki Desecrated To Add Fifth Survivor, Who Is Now Canon, That’s The Rules

In the original Left 4 Dead, there were four survivors: Francis, Bill, Louis and Zoey. Anyone reading through the game’s wiki, however, will think there’s actually a fifth cast member: Purple Francis As some digging from @thinkiamsad and @jiimjaam_ turned up over the weekend, user Lucythorkelson logged on to the wiki on February 12 and…

The Week In Games: Sure, More Werewolves!

WolfTeam: Classic is coming to Steam, to let others and myself relive the bygone era of free-to-play PC shooters like Combat Arms. I might download this classic re-release of the game and mentally go back in time to when these were the games I played in my high school computer lab. Also, between Werewolf Apocalypse:…

President Biden Only Just Beat His Granddaughter At Mario Kart

Over the weekend President Joe Biden made his first visit to Presidental retreat Camp David and to relax he played some Mario Kart Arcade GP DX. The moment was shared by his granddaughter, Naomi Biden, on Instagram He raced against his granddaughter, who later shared the moment on social media. She claims that although he…

Track: If You Want Blood (You Got It) | Artist: AC/DC | Album: Highway To Hell

‘Shop Contest: Thicc Godzilla

♫Oooooh no, here comes the big boy, Thiczilla.♫ Your challenge this week: Share thicc Godzilla with the world. This image of a large and in charge Godzilla comes courtesy of Netflix and the upcoming anime series Godzilla: Singular Point. Godzilla has always been thicc, but this latest one is really going for it. And I’m…

Here’s The PS1 Version Of The Witcher 3 Tub Scene

Sure, in our universe The Witcher 3 was released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2015. But in an alternate universe, it was released in 1996 for the original PlayStation. This PS1 take on the famous Witcher 3 bathtub scene was created by Anders Lundbjörk, a game developer who recently released a video showing…

Modder Adds Tifa Lockhart To Tekken 7

Tekken 7 already has a large roster of characters, including some odd guest characters. But now, thanks to a talented modder, you can play as Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Created by modder Wolfe, this Tekken 7 PC mod replaces Josie in the game with Tifa and comes with five different outfits inspired by…

Sunday Comics: Does This Spark Joy?

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 Feb. 13. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Feb. 8. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…