The Division 2‘s Newest Mode Is All Action And I’m Into It

A strange skyscraper filled with lots of enemies and an always-changing floor layout is the star of the new Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 update, which also kicks off the game’s third season. The Division 2’s latest update, Title Update 11, went live earlier this week. It fixed a bunch of bugs, added some new…

Games On Xbox One External Drives Will Be Instantly Playable On Xbox Series X / S

Yesterday I wrote about downloading the entire Xbox Game Pass library to one external Xbox One hard drive. According to today’s storage-centric Xbox Wire post, I’ll be able to plug that drive into an Xbox Series X / S come November and instantly access all of those games. Additional super-speedy SSD storage for the Xbox…

Sega Wants To Make A Yakuza Movie

Sega is in talks to adapt the Yakuza games into a movie, according to a new report by Variety. What could go wrong? Variety writes that Sega is currently working to develop the adaptation with the production firms 1212 Entertainment and Wild Sheep Content, which I’ve never heard of before. The two firms are still…

Free-to-play mobile game Nier: Reincarnation, which wrapped up a closed beta in Japan last month, is getting a Western release. Slated for iOS and Android, details about its North American and European release are still scant. 

Destiny 2 Is Getting Snow Storms

Bungie announced yesterday that dynamic blizzards will be waging across the Jupiter’s frosty moon of Europa, and they’ll be so bad at times you might need a new thermal scope to keep enemies at bay. “We were brainstorming and Ed Brennan [Europa World Art Lead] proposed the idea of a blizzard to help sell the…

Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 will be released on PS4, Xbox One, and Steam on April 23, 2021 in North America and Europe. Developed by Toylogic and published by Square Enix, it’s an upgraded version of Nier Replicant, which was previously a PS3 exclusive in Japan. 

Xbox Series X Expandable Storage Costs $219.99

The price for 1TB of expandable storage on Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and S consoles has finally been revealed and it’s a whopping $219.99. That’s based on a listing that recently went up over at Best Buy and was first spotted by The Verge. (Update – 11:34 a.m., 9/24/20: Microsoft confirmed the price over on…

Endless Space’s Alien Music Makes Spreadsheet Management Feel Transcendent

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today I’m here to sing the praises of Endless Space’s lowkey ode to micromanagement, which featured the only game soundtrack that’s ever made me feel equal parts noble and enlightened for spending hours fiddling with resource…

Xbox Series S Already Got A Price Cut In Japan

The Xbox Series S isn’t out yet, but in Japan, it’s already getting a price cut. Today, Microsoft Japan announced that the smaller next-gen console, originally priced 32,980 yen ($313) in the country, will retail for 29,980 yen, which with the current exchange rate is $285. As pointed out on My Game News Flash, that…

Morrowind Completely Rebooted Your Xbox During Some Loading Screens

The latest episode of the official Xbox podcast features a discussion between Microsoft and Bethesda executives about the console manuracturer’s recent acquisition of the Elder Scrolls developer for a whopping $7.5 billion. While the video is mostly about hyping up a massive business deal, Bethesda’s chief software engineer Todd Howard did share a neat anecdote…

I Downloaded All Of Xbox Game Pass To One Hard Drive (And It’s Not Even Half-Full)

Western Digital’s WD_BLACK D10 game drive is a 12 terabyte, 7200 RPM, powered external hard drive for the Xbox One. In order to test the drive out, I downloaded every game available for the console on the Xbox Game Pass, somewhere around 250 games. It took a week and my ISP is pissed, but I…

Destiny 2 Honors Deceased Developer With Moving Piece Of In-Game Lore

When players log onto Destiny 2 this week they’ll be asked to go investigate some lost Golden Age tech on Mars as part of a special tribute to Matt Helsom, an artist at Vicarious Visions who passed away last year. Touching down on Mars there’s no objective marker for where to begin the Signal Intercepted…

Sony Confirms There’s No Free PS5 Upgrade For PS4 Spider-Man Players

There are still a lot of questions surrounding Spider-Man on PlayStation 5. The good news? We have answers. The bad news? Well, the answers themselves. As of now, there is no upgrade path to get the graphically upgraded Spider-Man Remastered on PlayStation 5 for players who already own the original Spider-Man on PlayStation 4, according…