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Square’s Awful PS2 Racer Had Good-Ass Music, At Least

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re looking at a terrible driving game you should never play, only listen to. Early PlayStation 2 was rough, no doubt. Even the PS1 royalty at SquareSoft had issues adapting to Sony’s hard-to-program new console.…

Track: (Somebody) Ease My Troublin’ Mind | Artist: Sam Cooke | Album: Shake

Here’s How Fast Games Load On The Xbox Series X And S

Much ado has been made about the guts of the Xbox Series X and S, two new next-gen consoles Microsoft will release next week. It’s all “velocity architecture” this and “teraflops” that—technical stuff Microsoft says will cut loading times dramatically. But lingo and lofty promises are secondary to the one thing that matters most: how…

Fan’s LEGO Among Us Set Looks Perfect

LEGO IDEAS, the ALL CAPS website where fan designs, including licensed ones, can get voted on and turned into official LEGO sets, currently has a very nice Among Us playset up for discussion. Made by MinifigInDisguise, it includes The Skeld along with a number of special Among Us minifigs, a ghost and two pets. At…

Kerbal Space Program 2 Delayed To 2022

Ah, this is the kind of delay I like to see. None of this “month or two” shit like Cyberpunk is pulling. If you’re going to delay a game, do it like Kerbal Space Program 2 and make it substantial Originally due in “Fall 2021″, the game is now simply due sometime in 2022, after…

Capcom Hit By Cyber Attack, Group Claims To Have Stolen 1TB Of Employee & Customer Data

On November 2, Capcom’s servers were brought down by “unauthorized access carried out by a third party”. As Bleeping Computer report, the group claiming responsibility for the attack say they downloaded around 1TB of data, containing everything from employee’s visa records to customer bank details to “proprietary Business information”. Capcom, in their own statement, say,…

A Year Later, Google Stadia Is Finally Getting Family Sharing

Family Sharing, a Stadia feature that was announced a long, long time ago, is finally beginning to roll out on the eve of the video game streaming platform’s one-year anniversary. The feature lets anyone in a Google Family group easily share Stadia games with one another, regardless of who originally bought it or is currently…

Destiny 2 Players Are Once Again Trying To Solve A Mysterious Alternate Reality Game

It’s less than a week before the launch of Destiny 2‘s next big expansion, Beyond Light, and Bungie has decided to pass the time by inviting players to participate in another elaborate ARG puzzle. It all began a couple weeks ago when some folks started to receive their collector’s edition of Destiny 2: Beyond Light.…

Xbox Series X Has Too Many Horrifying Holes

As reviews for the Xbox Series X arrive, I’m here to talk about one aspect of the console that could impact your desire to buy one, as it has mine. I am a trypophobe, and I cannot own an Xbox Series X because of all its damn holes. [Since this post discusses a phobia, we…

Apex Legends Bans Over 400 High-Level Players For Ranked Exploit

Apex Legends’ Season 7 is here, and a wave of bans has come alongside its new map and character. Over 400 players have been banned from the game across all platforms for exploiting a glitch that allowed high-level players in the game’s ranked mode to play with—and presumably dominate—newcomers. As reported by PC Gamer, Conor…

Ask Us Anything About Xbox Series X And S [Update: All Done]

It’s Thursday, November 5, our Xbox Series X and S review is up, and the embargo has fallen. It’s time to ask us anything you want to know about the new Xboxen, and we’ll answer as best we can. Three of us here at Kotaku have spent the past couple of weeks playing with Microsoft’s…

Warframe Is Getting Upgraded For PS5 Later This Year

Warframe was there for the launch of the PS4 generation and will return in an upgraded form on PS5 sometime before the end of the year, developer Digital Extremes announced today. The studio shared some impressive comparison shots between the current and next-gen versions of the free-to-play loot shooter over on the PlayStation Blog today,…

Demon’s Souls Characters No Longer Look Like Creepy Shells Of Humanity

Sony revealed Demon’s Souls Remake’s character creator today and it looks like you can now play the game as an actual person. “With this new character creator, you will be able to customize your appearance with up to 16 million permutations,” writes Sony Worldwide Studios’ creative director Gavin Moore over on the PlayStation Blog. “We’ve…

I’m Finally Playing Phantom Dust To Avoid *Gestures Broadly At Everything*

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today…well, you know how it’s been going. Ugh. And I’m playing Phantom Dust to try and think about something else for little stretches. Yep, Phantom Dust (playlist / longplay / VGMdb), 2005’s late-release Xbox fan favorite…

Track: Kaya | Artist: Anewhite | Album: Nachtmusik (EP)

The Great Outdoors

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Relax, With A Game About Owning A Fish Tank

If Blinkclick Games wanted to make the most relaxing management game possible, they’ve certainly picked the right subject matter with their upcoming Fishkeeper It’s a management game in the vein of stuff like Planet Zoo, only on a much smaller scale, since you’re being tasked here with simply…filling a fish tank. Now we’ve all enjoyed…

The Xbox Series X’s Backward Compatibility Effort Is Pretty Interesting

Here’s something I like very much: interviews with console executives about upcoming next-gen machines that get very into hard numbers, internal procedures and an explanation of just how much work went into making sure the Xbox Series X/s backward compatibility was up to scratch. Like this one that Inverse didwith Xbox Director of Program Management Jason…

I Miss The Crazy Batshittery Of The Original Tomb Raider Trilogy

Since mounting anxiety has robbed me of higher cognitive thought, let’s talk about dinosaurs—specifically, why the hell are there dinosaurs in the first three Tomb Raider games? To be clear, I don’t mind that they’re there—they’re challenging to fight and make for some thrilling jump-scares. I’m also aware of how odd it is to focus…

Among Us Will Soon Let You Report People For Being Assholes

Purple being toxic? Red using hacks? Among Us developer InnerSloth says players will have new tools for punishing these impure souls come December when the game gets a new account system. “[Accounts] will allow players to report accounts that are toxic and/or hacking,” the developer wrote in its latest unofficial roadmap on Monday. “They may…