The Week In Games: Kick Up Some Mud In Dirt 5

If you’ve been itching to slide around corners in fast cars, then this is a good week for you, as Dirt 5 drops on November 6 for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Well, this is it folks, the last week before the next generation consoles start appearing on these weekly posts. This generation of current consoles…

‘Shop Contest: Halloween Never Ends!

Yes, I know that Halloween was yesterday, but 2020 has been such a shitty year I feel like I’m allowed to extend Halloween into November. Your challenge this week: Let’s celebrate Halloween in November. You could, I guess, make some jokes about it being November and we are still celebrating Halloween. Or you could just…

Half-Life’s Music Was Just As Brilliant As The Rest Of It

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we grab a crowbar and go hunting headcrabs in the PC shooter classic, Half-Life. Half-Life (playlist / longplay / VGMdb) is a game that has already had so many things written and said about it…

Sunday Comics: Tom Holland!

Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon. Corpse Run by Alex Di Stasi. Published Oct. 29. Read more of Corpse Run Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich. Published Oct. 26. Read more of Awkward Zombie Clueless Hero by…

Spectrier Kicks So Hard That It Knocks Souls Out Of Bodies

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 Spectrier! Type: Ghost Average Height: 6′ 07” Average Weight: 98.1 lbs First Added In Generation VIII Out there, in…

Bad Cat!

This week we see just how accurate London in Watch Dogs Legion actually is, find out which big games are getting delayed, listen to some terrible Halloween sex sounds, explore a strange house in VR and meet a bad cat. A very bad cat. Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week As always, Nathan does…

Classic Guilty Gear Sees Massive Spike In Players After Rollback Netcode Patch

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R, the 2012 update to a game originally released in 2002, is currently testing a patch on Steam (developed in part by a controversial figure in the fighting game community) that improves online play in a big way. This has led to a huge influx of players, completely shattering…

Yakuza 0 and Part Time UFO Are Giving Me My Crane Game Fix

Crane games are sinister, alluring bedevilments with their bright flashing lights and happy jingles that tempt suckers like me into feeding them money. For just a few dollars you too can own this ugly yet endearing horse plushie you have no space for but look how precariously it’s perched and how its long neck is…

Skullgirls Designer Worked On Guilty Gear Patch Despite Sexual Harassment Accusations

Lab Zero Games developer Mike Zaimont has been suspended from work on an official Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R netcode patch, Gamasutra reports. The fact that the former Skullgirls designer was working on this patch as recently as October 24 is surprising, given recent accusations by both fans and fellow employees of sexual…

Not All Assassin’s Creed Games Will Be Backwards Compatible On PS5 (Update: Ubisoft Pulls Listing)

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and a few of the series’ spin-offs won’t work on PS5, Ubisoft announced today Update – 9:06 p.m. ET, 10/30/20: Ubisoft has since taken down today’s support page announcing the backwards compatibility exceptions for PS5, and it now links to an earlier announcement about Ubisoft Connect. “We have pulled the Ubisoft Connect…

Spider-Man: Miles Morales Has An Into The Spider-Verse Suit

Much like its predecessor, Spider-Man: Miles Morales will feature a variety of spider suits for its titular superhero when it arrives on November 12. That said, it’s going to be hard to top the one modeled after Miles Morales’ appearance in Into the Spider-Verse PlayStation announced today that Miles Morales includes a gorgeous homage to…

‘Shop Contest: Bautista Edition, Winners!

Last week, Microsoft announced an option to recast Marcus Fenix in Gears 5 as former-wrestler Dave Bautista. Taking a celebrity and dropping them into a video game is sort of OUR thing, so it felt right to ask you all to do just that with Bautista. Our winning image this week comes from Villings who…

Overcooked! All You Can Eat is coming to PS5 at launch and Xbox Series X/S sometime after that. Part compilation, part remake, the game includes both Overcooked 1 and 2, all the DLC, and visual improvements including 4K at 60 FPS.

Let’s See How Accurate Watch Dogs Legion’s London Really Is

Watch Dogs Legion is set in a near-future central London, and unlike so many other games supposedly located in the United Kingdom’s capital, it often actually looks—and sounds—an awful like the city. While there are unquestionably some odd mistakes, some assumptions that don’t quite work, and something not quite right about the overall atmosphere, it’s…

Surprise: Pikmin 3 Deluxe’s Epilogue Is Some Of The Best Pikmin Ever Made

Twenty-two days ago, I wrote: “If Nintendo has hidden some amazing twist at the end of Pikmin 3 Deluxe, if the epilogue really delivers, the joke will be on me.” Today I am here to tell you there is no twist, at least not a plot twist at the end of the new Switch port…