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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Has The Best ‘Squeezing Through Narrow Passage’ Moments

I, uh, have to make a confession: I like those moments, now ubiquitous in modern gaming, where you squeeze through narrow passageways that obviously exist just to hide asset loading. Not sure why, to be honest. Maybe it’s Freudian? In any case, what I do know is that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has the…

A Fall Guys Video Has Made My Soul Leave My Body

If this happened to me I would simply never play video games ever again.

Max Payne Killed Over 2000 People In 11 Years

We’ve all got a lot more time on our hands as we wait for new consoles to come out and the planet to stop burning around us, so why not spend that time constructively? Like working out just how many people Max Payne manages to kill over three video games. SEX-POSITIVE GAMER have crunched the…

What Is The Forbidden Book, And Other Blaseball Questions Answered

As the baseball season hobbles on like a drunken three-legged cat with rickets, fans in search of an organized sports fix have found a new sensation on which to hyperfocus: Blaseball. Blaseball (and I’m going to kill my autocorrect function before this piece is over, I swear) is what would happen if the delightfully twisted…

New The Last Of Us Part II Trophies Tease Grounded Mode, Permadeath [Update: Naughty Dog Explains]

The Last of Us Part II has a couple new trophies that indicate the impending arrival of both Grounded mode and a permadeath option, both of which should make the game exponentially harder. Grounded mode first appeared in 2013’s The Last of Us as a heightened difficulty level made available post-release. Although Naughty Dog hasn’t…

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Streaming Beta Starts Tomorrow

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to start playing a limited number of Game Pass games streamed to their phones as part of a new xCloud beta starting August 11. “[W]e’re entering a limited beta period to ensure a smooth transition of the cloud gaming experience to the Xbox Game Pass app on…

Fall Guys, As Told By Steam Reviews

I think it’s pretty safe to say that 2020’s flavor of the month, of the year, is here. Fall Guys is a tail-grabbing, bean-flinging phenomenon. It’s managed to turn Twitch, Steam, and PS4 into its own personal game show stages, with millions watching and playing. This might be a stretch on my part, but it…

James Might Actually Be Looking At You In The Silent Hill 2 Intro

Silent Hill 2 is pretty damn creepy, but nothing prepared me for a possible new discovery in the game’s opening cinematic. A little over a week ago, an interesting image was posted to the Silent Hill subreddit. By brightening a screenshot of the iconic mirror scene in Silent Hill 2’s intro, the original poster said,…

Ubisoft Finally Puts Female Eivor In Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Reveal Trailer

Last Friday, Ubisoft quietly put out a remixed version of the cinematic trailer it used to reveal Assassin’s Creed Valhalla back in April. The big difference? This version features the female Eivor, one of two versions of the game’s hero who had originally been shown-off via a collectible statue and a couple of screenshots. “Watch…

Slime Climb Should Never Be The First Fall Guys Round

Fall Guys is the game of the moment. Everyone, including myself, is absolutely enamored with these terrifyingly talljellybean friends competing to see who can win at this game show battle royale. Games are divided into rounds of mini-games, some of which are definitely more fun than others. One game that is always bad, though, is…

Grand Theft Auto V Kinect Mod Makes Plane-Flying Physical

Flying in video games with a controller is fine. It works well enough and it’s how many folks play. But what if you were the controller? What if you had to hold your arms out to fly and steer? Well wonder no more, for a YouTuber has made a mod for Grand Theft Auto V…

How’s It Going? Avengers Edition

Avengers assemble, I suppose. Welcome back to our daily open thread. Now that the weekend beta testing for Marvel’s Avengers is in full swing, I can finally share my bad screenshots of Ms. Marvel and big sweaty green man. While most of my weekend was eaten up by chores, I did attempt to get back…

The Week In Games: Another Battle Royale Comes To Consoles

Summer continues on and so too does the drought of big games. A good time to finish up some games on your backlog! I forgot Hyper Scape released in beta last month. I forgot it even existed. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, I haven’t played it yet, but that name and it being…

Axelay Honed SNES Music To Technical Perfection

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Every weekday at 8 a.m. ET you can look forward to hearing (and discussing!) a bit of game music that’s beautiful, rousing, technically interesting, or that we just think is worth a listen. Sometimes a…

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Report: Leaked Controller Mentions Second Next-Gen Xbox Console

While the machine has yet to be officially announced, there has long been speculation that Microsoft is planning on releasing a second next-gen console besides the Xbox Series X called the Xbox Series S. Speculation that’s about to get a lot stronger. The Verge reports that while we’re still waiting on such an announcement, a…

Horizon Zero Dawn Is Not Running Well On Many PCs

Horizon Zero Dawn’s release on PC is welcome, but for a lot of people right now the game’s performance isn’t exactly ideal. I installed and fired the game up on the weekend, excited to see what it looked like on my brand new PC (i7-9700, RTX 2070 Super, which was waaaaaaaay above the recommended specs).…

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‘Shop Contest: Fall Guys

The internet has a new favorite game: Fall Guys. I’ve played a bunch and I’ve enjoyed it. And I’ve fallen in love with the little bean men you control. They should get a break from dying all the time in their game. Let’s help them out! Your challenge this week: Bring the bean boys from…

How’s It Going?: Dual Monitors Edition

Sundays are for relaxing and chatting. And this thread can help you do one or maybe even both of these things. Come on in! After years of wanting to do it and people telling me I should do it, I have finally set up my PC with two monitors. And now I feel like Batman…