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Cyberpunk 2077 Will Be On Stadia At Launch After All

CD Projekt Red confirmed in today’s latest Nightwire livestream that Cyberpunk 2077 will come to Google’s video game streaming platform Stadia on November 19. That’s the same day it will release on other platforms like Xbox One, PS4, and PC, but up until today it wasn’t entirely clear Cyberpunk 2077 would hit Stadia then as…

Sony Says It Isn’t Spying On Your PlayStation Parties

Yesterday, Sony rolled out system software update 8.00 for the PlayStation 4, which added new features, renamed some old things, and for the most part got the old console ready to interact with the upcoming PS5. A notification that party chats may now be recorded began appearing along with the update, upsetting many users who…

Borderlands 3 Is Getting Another Wave Of Downloadable Content

Borderlands 3 isn’t over. Last month, the looter-shooter’s first season pass wrapped up with a meaty story campaign that sent Vault Hunters inside the mind of Krieg, a popular character from the second game. Today, Gearbox revealed that a second wave of add-on content is en route. The two new add-ons are called the Designer’s…

Destiny 2‘s Next-Gen Upgrades Come To PS5 And Xbox Series X In December

Destiny 2 will be backwards compatible on PS5 and Xbox Series X when the consoles launch next month, but the fully next-gen version of the game won’t land until December 8. Bungie outlined how these slightly delayed upgrades will work in a new blog post today: Destiny 2 will play in 4K at 60fps on…

There’ll Be 31 Xbox Series X/S Optimized Games On Day One

Between games built for the Xbox Series X/S and older games optimized to take advantage of the new consoles’ power, there’ll be a lot to play when the fourth generation Xboxes drop on November 10. This morning Microsoft listed 31 games ready for Series X/S level play on launch day, from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla to…

Here’s What The PS5’s UI Looks Like

Sony released a new trailer today showing off what it will look like to navigate the PS5. In some ways it’s a lot more streamlined, but in others it also looks a lot busier, with lots of extra information to digest depending on what you’re doing. Take a look: The PS5 will still have a…

Creaky Monkey Ball Ancestor Tama Sounds Whimsical AF

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. I’m dialing up the obscure-o-meter a bit today with a weird 32-bit launch title from 1994. It’s Tama! Japanese players who ponied up ¥44,800 to own a Sega Saturn on its November 22, 1994 launch met…

Monster Hunter Fans Point Out A Problem In The Movie Poster

If you had issues with the live-action Monster Hunter trailer, the movie poster might also give you pause. In it a Diablos looms over star Milla Jovovich, who is wielding fire dual blades. But… As Twitter user Xyless points out, fire is the least effective element against the monster. My Game News Flash reports that…

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Dark Souls Modders Are Building Their Own “Sequel”

A team of Dark Souls modders havegot together to announce Nightfall, a fan-made “sequel” that, while not creating any truly new models or environments, is still setting out to build an entirely fresh Souls game on the PC. Modders working on the project include Grimrukh (Daughters of Ash), AinTunez, Meowmaritus, Dane, Zullie and some others.…

Call Of Duty Finally Lets PC Players Uninstall Over 100GB Of Stuff

For the longest time, Call of Duty Modern Warfare on PC has made players set aside increasingly—and hilariously—enormous amounts of hard drive space, up to 232GB at last count. This week, finally, players will be able to free up some of that space While it doesn’t sound like the biggest deal, increasing numbers of PC…

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Lets You Wear A Cat On Your Back

Spider-Man: Miles Morales has a lot going for it. (Just to note, former Kotaku staffer Evan Narcisse was one of the writers on the game.) But everything—the visuals, the web-slinging, the pedigree of an extremely popular character from an extremely popular cross-media franchise—pales in comparison to one thing: the cat suit. It’s not a suit…

Doom Running On A Calculator Powered By Old Potatoes

If you’ve got 100 pounds of old potatoes lying around why not use them to play Doom on a graphing calculator? That’s what YouTuber Equalo decided to do, spending almost a week planning out how many potatoes he would need and in what configuration they should be wired in order to get the appropriate number…

Someone Actually Beat Spelunky 2’s Daunting Cosmic Ocean

Spelunky 2 is a massive game, even more so than the original. While most of us are just trying to survive the first couple of biomes, the best players can follow a variety of intersecting quest lines in pursuit of several unique endings. The holy grail of Spelunky 2 runs has been traversing the Cosmic…

Avengers Patch 1.3.3 Eliminates Some Of The Game’s Biggest Nuisances

Along with planting the seeds for new story content with the addition of a new remote S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost, tomorrow’s patch 1.3.3 for Marvel’s Avengers does away with several annoyances players have been complaining about since day one. For example, it adds remote faction terminals to outposts, increases the radius in which items are automatically picked…

Sega Is Releasing A Mashup Of Yakuza And Streets of Rage 2

Streets of Kamurocho is Streets of Rage 2 starring Yakuza’s Kiryu and Majima and will be free-to-play on October 17 as part of Sega’s 60th Anniversary event on Steam. In addition to iconic Yakuza characters, the remixed beat ‘em up, created by Empty Clip Studios, will also feature levels inspired by the games and will…

Survival horror puzzler Disc Room is coming to PC and Switch on October 22. I played it at PAX East earlier this year and was instantly hooked on its twitchy mix of gory humor and arcade action.

Twitch’s Latest Horror Sensation, Phasmophobia, Has Streamers Screaming (At Each Other)

It’s not uncommon for horror games to take off on Twitch. Usually they’re flashes in the pan: The janky P.T.-alike du jour grabs eyeballs for a few days and then quickly descends back into the poorly-lit pits of obscurity. Phasmophobia is different. Sure, it’s inspired by P.T., and yes, it’s janky as all get out,…

Here’s The Trailer For The Monster Hunter Movie

Less fantasy than sci-fi, the new Monster Hunter movie is giving me major Stargate vibes. Instead of taking place completely in the world of Monster Hunter, the movie sees a military unit commanded by Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) transported through a magical portal while out on patrol. The place they end up in is full…