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RepliCade’s Dragon’s Lair Is The Coolest Mini Arcade Machine I’ve Played

It’s an astounding little tribute to one of arcade gaming’s greatest.

Akira Yamaoka Signed Every Shadows Of The Damned Soundtrack Sold In The West

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re revisiting 2011’s Shadows of the Damned, which has one particular track that flies in the face of its goth, heavy metal aesthetics. Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is…

Destiny 2‘s Live Event Has Let Players Into Its Gorgeous Last City

Destiny 2 servers are set to shutdown tonight for maintenance ahead of tomorrow’s launch of the Beyond Light expansion, but just before they do Bungie decide to treat players to a nice relaxing stroll through the game’s breathtaking Last City. Players have been anticipating some sort of live in-game event to cap of the game’s…

I Just Want To Play Watch Dogs: Legion

Nearly two weeks ago, Watch Dogs: Legion came out. One day later, I booted it up on my PC for a breezy three-or-so-hour play session. One day after that, I once again tried to play the latest cyberpunk entry in a genre that, for expediency’s sake, we will just call “Ubisoft,” only for the loading…

Some Amazon Customers Might Not Get Their Xbox Series X Until Christmas

While some people are already opening up their brand new Xbox Series X consoles, for others—specifically those who ordered through Amazon—there might be a bit of a wait. As many on Twitter are now sharing, Amazon has today sent out emails to some customers telling them: Hello, We’re contacting you with an update regarding your…

There’s A Tiny Master Chief Inside Every Xbox Series S

When the Xbox One X and One S launched in 2017, it didn’t take folks long to notice that inside the consoles, stamped on the hardware itself, were tiny little homages to the Halo series. In 2020, with the launch of the Xbox Series S, that’s now a tradition. Having got their hands on a…

PS5 Designer Originally Wanted It To Be Even Bigger

Yes, you read that right. The biggest console in modern gaming history started out even bigger when Sony senior art director Yujin Morisawa first put pen to paper. “In the beginning, when I started drawing, it was much larger even though I didn’t know what engineering was going to do,” Morisawa said in an interview…

Let’s Recap The Messy Modern-Day Storyline Of Assassin’s Creed

There is some modern-day meta-narrative that might be confusing for newcomers or those who haven’t played the last few games recently.

Spider-Man PS4 Saves Will Transfer To Spider-Man Remastered On PS5 With Post-Release Update

Spider-Man players were initially going to have to start from scratch with Spider-Man Remastered on PlayStation 5 when it launches with the next-gen console on November 12, but the developers at Insomniac Games have announced that an upcoming patch will introduce exporting saves from the PlayStation 4 version of the game to the PlayStation 5…

Let’s Catch Up On Destiny 2’s Story Ahead Of Beyond Light

Destiny 2’s next big expansion, Beyond Light, is out tomorrow, so it’s a great time to catch up on all of the game’s confusing lore. Clovis Bray corporation, K1 anomaly, Exo Stranger, Deep Stone Crypt—if all of this sounds like the babbling of a space wizard on e-acid, you’re in the right place. Destiny’s universe…

Yakuza Creator Doesn’t Want Kiryu ‘Beating Up Women’ In Fighting Games

During a recent interview with Red Bull France, Yakuza creator Toshihiro Nagoshi was asked about the common request for series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu to appear in a fighting game. Nagoshi is hesitant, he said, because he doesn’t want Kiryu fighting women. “We do get this request a lot,” Nagoshi told interviewer Grégory de Meyer, who…

This Is A Blog About Bloodborne

After the events of this weekend, I’m reminded of when I finally beat Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne. I remember being dead silent after delivering the final blow, worried that somehow he would rise again, fully healed and stronger, to resume the fight. I held my breath until “Prey Slaughtered” finally left my screen. Only then…

The remastered version of early Telltale Games episodic adventure Sam & Max Save the World arrives on Switch and PC on December 2. It’s the same great game from 2006 with revamped graphics, restored audio, controller support, and more angry little rabbit creature than ever before. Or the same amount, only better. 

Destiny 2 is having a mini-live event sometime today to wrap up Season of Arrivals. Nobody’s sure exactly when it will take place or what it will entail but players are currently betting on somewhere between 7:00 p.m. ET and the when the game goes down for maintenance at 10:00 p.m. ET

Horizon Forbidden West Won’t Be Out Until The Second Half Of 2021

Fans of Aloy’s adventures in robot dinosaur land hoping we were but a few short months away from a Horizon Zero Dawn sequel have a bit more waiting to do. Today’s PlayStation 5 “New Worlds to Explore” trailer from Sony says Horizon Forbidden West is currently anticipated for release somewhere in the second half of…

The Week In Games: Invasion Of The Next-Gen Consoles

The next generation of video game consoles arrives… later this week! No longer months or weeks away, the new machines are coming. Assuming you were able to even pre-order one of them. I was lucky enough to snag a pre-order for both an Xbox Series X and a PS5. Now I wait to see if…

The Best Guile Theme Isn’t Actually In Street Fighter II

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re checking out a little off-brand Street Fighter series that was far better than it had any right to be. 1996’s Street Fighter EX marked the first attempt to translate Capcom’s 2D fighting moneymaker into…

I Just Do Eyes

Eleni Platnaris is an artist from the Netherlands. You can see more of Eleni’s stuff at her ArtStation page

Harry Potter Board Game Kickstarter Cancelled, US Election Blamed (?)

A Kickstarter campaign for a board game called Harry Potter: Catch the Snitch has been cancelled, with the publishers blaming the “current situation of uncertainty in the world derived from the electoral campaign in the United States.” The game, a recreation of Potter’s Quidditch only with loads of plastic miniatures, was looking for $450,000 to…

‘Shop Contest: Steve Kornacki

Through times of struggle and pain, we all collectively look for heroes, and sometimes who we find is…surprising. Your challenge this week: Celebrate Steve Kornacki. I assume many of you reading this were, like me, gripped with fear and anxiety over the last few days as we waited to find out if we were going…