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The People In Ghost Of Tsushima Need To Clean Up All The Corpses

Imagine you are visiting a quiet little inn or village out in the countryside. The sun is up. The sky is clear and life is good. You are happy. And then you round a corner and you see a dead body just lying in the middle of the place, with people walking around and going…

Ariados Is One Cold-Hearted Bastard

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Ariados! Ariados Details Type: Bug/Poison Average Height: 3′ 07″ Average Weight: 73.9 lbs First Added In Generation II Imagine…

How’s It Going?: Mobile Games Edition

I see you. Yes, you! Come on in. Come chat with other Kotaku readers in another one of our daily open threads. I have a bunch of consoles and big TV that they are all hooked up to. I also have a large list of games I want to play or replay and I have…

Peace Was Never An Option

This week we ponder delaying the next generation, throw Mario into a dryer, check out the new trailer for LEGO Star Wars, find out more about the weird far-right conspiracy featured in a Black Ops: Cold War trailer and yell at some capybaras. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week A fantastic and important story…

I Will Never Forgive Capcom For Killing Amingo In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Amingo was an original character introduced in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. He was part of a gentle race of plant people. He was good and he was my friend. Capcom killed Amingo in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and I will never forgive it. Despite having a huge stable of existing characters to pull from…

Warframe‘s Big Twist Knocked My Brain Clean Out Of My Head

When someone first starts playing a long-running video game, a ritual begins. Friends who’ve spent considerably more time with the game immediately start asking “Have you gotten to [part that is so iconic as to have become revered]?” You reply “No” repeatedly, but that only builds anticipation. Will the moment live up to expectations, or…

Call of Duty’s ‘Games of Summer’ Event Starts Today

Call of Duty players can compete for gold medals and glory today through September 7 in the “Games of Summer” event. Styled around the Olympics, the trials are available for both Modern Warfare and the free-to-play Warzone The Trials featured in Games of Summer will look familiar to anyone who’s been playing Call of Duty:…

Everything I, An Inquisitor Extraordinaire, Noticed In That Dragon Age 4 Gamescom Video

That ear-splitting screech you hear, that’s me screaming about new Dragon Age 4 information. While the 4-minute short played during yesterday’s Gamescom opener didn’t reveal any gameplay, story, or character information, nevertheless the keenest of Dragon Age stans (i.e. me) will have caught more than a few hints about what to expect from BioWare’s fourth…

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Will Have A 60 FPS Mode

Insomniac has confirmed today that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will have two different modes, one running in 4k at 30 frames per second and the other mode running in “lower resolution” at 60 frames per second. The news comes from a Famitsu interview with Insomniac about its upcoming PS5 exclusive Ratchet & Clank game.…

Monster Hunter: World‘s Final Update Adds Fatalis Boss Fight

Monster Hunter: World will get its fifth and final major update in October featuring the long-awaited face-off against the powerful black dragon Fatalis. Capcom delivered the news in a final Developer’s Diary update on the game which laid out the content it will be getting over the next couple of months. Iceborne’s one-year anniversary will…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for realizing that holy shit, the summer is almost over, the new Madden is out, nothing feels like it’s really happening anymore. Hooray. It’s that time of year again, somehow. The time when I set down a wonderful little puzzle platformer like Hello Games’ The Last Campfire, trading it for the sport…

Modder Turns Nintendo Wii Into A Slick-Looking Handheld

GingerOfMods has transformed a number of retro consoles into nifty-looking portables, but the Wiiboy Color is on another level. As technology improves, tinkers like GingerOfMods are able to revisit older gaming consoles and make them even more compact and efficient than before. It’s not easy though, and the recent Wiiboy Color mod is a testament…

Killer Cuts Was ‘90s Nintendo Failing To Be Cool

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s aural treat (of sorts) is Nintendo’s 1995 freebie album Killer Cuts, which was the soundtrack to Minoru Arakawa’s illegal, underground raves. If “game recognize game,” it follows that “nerd recognize nerd.” And as a…

Track: Pretty Thing | Artist: Bo Diddley | Album: The Best of Bo Diddley 

Just Stalkin’ Around

Artyom Turskyi is an artist at GSC Game World, the team behind the STALKER games. You can see more of Artyom’s stuff at his ArtStation page

After Crucible‘s Flop, Amazon’s New MMO Is Actually Doing Well On Twitch

Up until this week, Amazon Games wasn’t exactly batting a thousand. Its most notable achievement of the year was releasing Crucible, a team-based shooter that flopped so hard it had to be un-released. Its upcoming MMO, New World, is off to a much stronger start, in part because Twitch streamers are involved in a bigger…

What The Avengers Game Would Look Like With Faces From The Movies

One of the most jarring things about the new Avengers game is that, since we’re all so used to everyone’s faces from the movies, seeing other faces just doesn’t feel right. So here’s what the game would look like if it had somehow got the rights to use the likenesses of Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth…

Finally, You Cowards Put Yaddle In A Star Wars Game Trailer

And so, nearly two years after I first lamented the absence of the great Yaddle from ALL the Star Wars games, my suffering has ended. Finally, those cowards have released the first in-game footage of Yaddle from 2021’s LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. During Gamecom’s Opening Night Live event today, we got a bunch…

Everything Announced At Gamescom’s Opening Night

Summer Game Fest, the not-E3 months-long event created by Geoff Keighley, wrapped up today with a big, live event kicking off Gamescom 2020. This has been a strange year for video game announcements and reveals. With no E3 and many other shows going digital, publishers, websites, and developers have had to create their own online…

Here’s More Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart Running On The PlayStation 5

We’ve seen glimpses of PS5 gameplay before—including in one seriously impressive tech demo from May—but today’s Gamescom “Opening Night Live” showed off a deeper look. Capping off the two-hour (!!) event was a lengthy gameplay demo of Insomniac Games’ PS5 exclusive, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Here’s a look: In an interview right after the…