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Spiritfarer Pokes Fun At Animal Crossing’s Jerk Raccoon, Tom Nook

Spiritfarer and Animal Crossing: New Horizons have a lot of shared DNA. Both feature anthropomorphic animals with distinct personalities. Both give you a space of your own that you can shape to your whims. Both demand a meticulous level of resource management. And both, more surprisingly, star a morally defunct raccoon salesman who worships at…

Latest Fall Guys Update Prevents Consecutive Team Games

Fall Guys is great, but if there’s one thing on which most players can agree, it’s that the team-based mini-games don’t quite live up to the fun of the solo competitions. The game’s latest patch relieves that a bit by making back-to-back group activities a thing of the past. Thanks to an update released this…

How’s It Going? RIP Summer Edition

It’s cold where I am, at least too cold to take a swim. Which is good because our pool’s been empty since a tropical storm flooded the yard (and our basement) earlier this month. Do we clean it out and fill it back up? Take it down and admit this summer blew? I should probably…

Hitman 3 Will Be An Epic Games Store Timed Exclusive On PC

Snuck onto the end of a Hitman 3 location reveal, developer IO Interactive announced that Hitman 3 on PC will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for the first year. “In January 2021, you’ll be able to play Hitman 3 on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC,…

Creepypasta Spins The Strange And Unsettling Circumstances Around Cancelled Tomb Raider Game

As I was doomscrolling (heh) Twitter early this morning (a deeply unhealthy part of my morning ritual) I came across a thread written by Xalavier Nelson Jr., former PC Magazine writer and Narrative Designer on ‘90s internet simulation Hypnospace Outlaw. Nelson’s thread hooked me from the very beginning, promising a never-before-heard story about a video…

Sony Says PS5 Is Definitely Still Launching This Year

We still don’t know how much the PS5 will cost nor its exact release date, but in a new interview Sony executive Eric Lempel said the ongoing global pandemic hasn’t changed the company’s plans to launch the console later this year. “We will launch this year—that will happen—and from my end we will absolutely make…

New Souls-Like Looks Cool Even If It Might Never Come Out

Overnight, Chinese developer Game Science Studio released a 13-minute gameplay video for a project it’s working on called Black Myth: Wukong and it looks amazing, even if it’s nowhere near coming out. An action adventure game that appears to be inspired by the Chinese novel Journey to the West, the trailer features a monkey warrior fighting…

Control Publisher Posts ‘Explanation’ About Next-Gen Upgrades That Doesn’t Explain Much

505 Games tried to explain why owners of the existing version of Control won’t be able to upgrade to the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in a blog post today and didn’t succeed. Last week, the publisher of Control announced a new version of the game called Control Ultimate Edition that would include the…

Spelunky’s Sublime Music Keeps Me Addicted To Dying

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Ever play Spelunky? No no no. We are hipsters here, so obviously I meant the original freeware game from 2008. Ugh, whatever. Just come in already. I don’t recall how I first found Spelunky, but…

Shinjuku Gyoen Garden In March 2020. Tokyo, Japan. By Jimmy W.  JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

Neat Stuff I Found While Cleaning My Room

I’ve spent the last week or so finally combing through the clutter of my living space in anticipation of adopting a kitten. This gave me a chance to really take stock of the various crap I’ve collected over the last few years, much of it gaming-related, and the various points in my life in which…

Oh Great Ganon’s Back

January Sun is an artist at Bardel, an animation studio that’s worked on everything from Magic The Gathering to Viva Pinata to Space Jam Oh, and just so you know, in one of the Zelda pics below that’s older Link meeting younger Link after some time travel shenanigans, not Link and his son/dad! You can…

Supreme Is Releasing A Mortal Kombat Arcade Cabinet

I have seen Supreme collab on some real dumb shit in my time, from cookies to literal bricks, but this upcoming Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet is something else. The label showed off its Fall/Winter 2020 collection earlier this week, and among stuff like this: Was this: Yup. It’s a Mortal Kombat arcade cabinet, including the…

Flight Simulator Creates Terrifying Citadel In Melbourne, Turns Buckingham Palace Into Apartments

Between using actual satellite data and some fancy algorithm work, Flight Simulator has done a pretty good job recreating the entire planet. But there are some areas where the whole thing just falls over, with terrifying/hilarious results. Example 1: Buckingham Palace. It’s one of the most identifiable landmarks on the planet, but as theBBC (via…

EVE Online‘s Alien Invasion Is Disrupting The Game’s Biggest Trade Route

Logistics and shipping routes aren’t things that typically come to mind when people think of video games, outside of the Trucking Simulator series anyway. But in EVE Online they are a way of life: Ship components, weapons, ammunition, and all other manner of trade goods have to be loaded into massive cargo vessels and painstakingly…

Pokimane’s Apology Video Splits Twitch Streamers And YouTubers

Late last month, drama-baiting YouTuber LeafyIsHere stirred up an internet-wide fuss over the idea that Imane “Pokimane” Anys, the most popular female streamer on Twitch, might have a boyfriend. It was the most recent evolution of a long-running line of thought: women on the internet keep their dating lives secret to fool gullible men into…

After Eight Days Of Trying, Popular Streamer TimTheTatman Finally Wins A Single Fall Guys Match

We live in divided times, but for the past few days, nearly every person living has been united by a single shared goal: giving Twitch super star Timothy “TimTheTatman” Betar shit for constantly eating shit in Fall Guys. Today, he finally won his first match ever. Until the big moment, which over 250,000 concurrent viewers…

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War Is The Next Call Of Duty

A teaser trailer released today revealed that the next Call of Duty will be Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War. Claiming to be inspired by true events, the teaser trailer features the story of a Soviet spy, codenamed “Perseus,” who was allegedly involved in attempts to sabotage the United States. Check out the trailer:…

Fall Guys Celebrates 1 Million Twitter Followers With A Yellow Team Tornado

The Twitter for bean-flavored battle royale Fall Guys reached one million followers today, prompting the popular account to unleash a video depicting a nightmarish version of the Egg Scramble mini-game in which everyone is yellow team. Or a dream-come-true, depending on where your alliance lies. Me, I always end up on team yellow, so the…

Writer On Original Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines Has Been Fired From The Sequel

Brian Mitsoda, a lead writer on the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been laid off from the development team working on Bloodlines 2, Hardsuit Labs and Paradox Interactive announced on the game’s website today. Creative director Ka’ai Cluney is also no longer working on the game as part of larger “organizational changes” to…