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Epic Games Settles Lawsuit Against 14-Year-Old Fortnite Player

Epic Games has settled a 2017 lawsuit against a 14-year-old Fortnite player who allegedly made YouTube videos of himself using cheating software. As noted by PC Gamer, the court documents don’t contain the details of the settlement. Epic first sued the 14-year-old in 2017, claiming he had downloaded and used cheating software and showed other…

Hackers Bring New Version Of Android To Nintendo Switch

Developers who originally got Android running on Switch back in 2019 have reportedly now managed to port a new version of the operating system to Nintendo’s hybrid console, bringing with it a slew of new features and fixes. “Now based off of Android 10 (LineageOS 17.1 with Shield TV trees) it’s faster, more responsive and…

Lucid Games released a hotfix for Destruction AllStars today that increases the amount of EXP you can get from daily challenges. It also reduces the chance that parties will get split up after a match, and addresses general issues with matchmaking. Full patch notes here

Rez Website From 2001 Brought Back From The Dead

The English website for Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s legendary rhythm shooter Rez went live in 2001 and shut down in 2003. Thanks to the efforts of Rez preservationist (Rezervationist?) Brian Hargrove, that sweet piece of internet history has been restored, complete with detailed staff bios, tiny screenshots, and Windows Media Player-friendly video clips. A passionate fan of…

Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Brand-New Tracks Kick Ass, Too

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s ongoing hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m going to gush about just how amazing Final Fantasy VII Remake’s music is, and specifically a few of its new tracks that weren’t in the original. It took me a while to get into…

McDonald’s Pokémon Card Packs Are Selling Out

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pocket Monsters, McDonald’s is including Pokémon card packs in Happy Meals. It seemed like a good idea! Others thought so, too. Included are four random cards out of a 50-card set, Inven reports. The rarest or most valuable cards are, as ever, the shiny versions. Some collectors and YouTubers…

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Homicidal Hitman 3 Mastermind Crushes Every Single Person In The Grape Press

If you’ve played Hitman 3 and got to the Mendoza stage, you’ll know the grape press. A centrepiece murder machine, it has been designed to help you off one of the level’s main targets in spectacular fashion. In this video, Teallen96 is not offing one person. He is crushing every single person in the level,…

Beavis & Butthead x The Legend Of Zelda Is Animated Perfection

You might think these two cartoons, one released in the 80s about a video game, the other in the 90s about…stuff, have little to do with each other. I am here to tell you they were made for each other This is a joke that could have worked in a 30-second clip. The fact this…

China’s Steam Only Has 53 Games

Steam is now available in China, and if you thought that would give Chinese gamers instant access to the weird, wonderful and sometimes deeply offensive depths of the service’s catalogue, well lol, no, of course it doesn’t. At time of posting this custom, localised version of Valve’s shopfront only has 53 games available, with the…

Bloodborne Modder Releases Long-Awaited 60 FPS Hack

Bloodborne can now be played with smooth 60 frames-per-second visuals thanks to the long-anticipated release of an unofficial patch. You will need a modded PlayStation 4 to try it out, however, preferably a PS4 Pro. The patch’s creator, Lance McDonald, is something of a video game archaeologist, with cool stuff on his resume like discovering…

17 Years Later And I Still Can’t Beat Hannibal In Age Of Empires

Xbox Game Pass has once again proven its worth by allowing me to confront a bully of my past: the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca. Yes, I’m serious. Every night for the last two weeks, when normal people would wind down for bed with a nice hot mug of tea and their favorite background noise show,…

Riot’s CEO Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment

Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent is being sued by former employee Sharon O’Donnell, who is alleging Laurent committed repeated acts of sexual harassment over a number of years, including asking her to “cum” to his house while his wife was away. O’Donnell, who was Laurent’s executive assistant, alleges that the CEO, “began a pattern of…

PS5 Controllers Are Drifting, And The Repairs Are A Hassle

Few things about the PlayStation 5 are better than the DualSense controller. It feels terrific to hold, somehow just as solid as it is light. The haptics are truly dynamic, at least for games that offer such support. It’s beautiful. But even the mighty DualSense reportedly isn’t immune to the Achilles’ heel of modern video…

I Hope This Final Fantasy XIV NPC Finally Got To Take A Dump

One meets a variety of NPCs while playing Final Fantasy XIV. Some can be pretty annoying—looking at you, Thancred—while others are instantly memorable. A poor Ishgardian sentry who desperately needs to find a bathroom while her country is being invaded by dragons falls into the latter category. At the beginning of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch…

Pokémon World Championships Skip 2021 Over Covid-19 Concerns

After canceling in-person competition in 2020 due to the rise of the covid-19 pandemic, The Pokémon Company announced it will skip official tournaments through 2021 as well. “The safety and well-being of our competitors, organizers, employees, local communities, and partners [continue] to be our top priority and is the primary consideration with every decision we…

What We Loved About Hitman 3

If there’s one thing Kotaku can’t get enough of, it’s Hitman 3. Between the wide-open levels, rapid-fire costume changes, and throwable bananas, IO Interactive’s latest stealth sandbox has enraptured many of us. Three of us (staff writer Ari Notis, staff editor Lisa Marie Segarra, and weekend editor Zack Zweizen) snuck into one of Kotaku’s many…

Crash Bandicoot 4 Comes To PS5, Xbox Series X/S And Switch March 12

The excellent if a bit sadistic Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time is about to get two upgrades and hopefully not too much of a downgrade on March 12, when the game launches for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. Activision announced the next-gen and friend releases this morning, along with a PC…

For Nine Years, I Have Somehow Avoided Finding Out How Mass Effect 3 Ends

It didn’t start out as something I tried to do. It just happened. The year was 2012. I’d reached the point in Mass Effect 3 where it felt like I was one or two loose ends away from heading into the grand finale. Then, for various reasons, I stopped. It has been nearly a decade…

EA Buys Glu Mobile For $2.1 Billion

EA adds a massive amount of mobile gaming power to its portfolio with the $2.1 billion acquisition of San Francisco-based Glu Mobile, makers of Diner Dash, Cooking Dash, Restaurant Dash: Gordon Ramsay, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood … Dash. Nothing accelerates the growth of a company’s mobile business like acquiring an already massively successful mobile business.…