Red Dead Online’s New Role Makes Me Appreciate The Game’s Animals

Red Dead Online got a major update last week. The update is all about wildlife, giving players new ways to interact with critters. It’s a nice addition that makes me think about the game’s world in a new way. Players have been waiting a while for this update, which arrived on July 28. The update…

Apex Legends Season 6 launches August 18, developer Respawn announced today. The new season will feature a new Legend, crafting (?!), and a new weapon.

Through Monday, multiplayer will be available to all Xbox One players, regardless of Xbox Live Gold status. Microsoft is also unlockinga ton of games, including Gears 5 and Borderlands 3. In other news, Sony is making multiplayer free for everyone on Saturday and Sunday. Let’s hope the Fall Guys servers can keep up

A New Look For Kotaku! (And…psst…. A Link To The Older Look)

Whoa! What’s this? Kotaku has a new layout today, one designed to emphasize the wide range of coverage our team brings to you every day. Our new layout showcases the day’s biggest stories up top and spotlights key topics, stories, videos, reviews, and features all the way down the page. Scroll down and check it…

Doom Eternal And Elder Scrolls Online Are Getting Next-Gen Ports

Bethesda announced this morning that Doom Eternal and The Elder Scrolls Online are coming to Xbox Series X and PS5 sometime in the future. The publisher didn’t say when the games would be available on the next-gen consoles, but did note that existing owners of the games will be able to upgrade to the Xbox…

How’s It Going? Clutter Edition

What is all this crap? Welcome back to our daily open thread. I am currently dealing with an overabundance of stuff issue in my living space. There are too many things. Boxes, books, medical supplies, cats, children—there’s too much stuff. Our landlord recently decided that, after seven years of on-time rent payments, too much stuff…

Serious Sam 4 has suffered a small delay. Originally set to come out this month on Stadia and PC, it’s now not releasing until September 24. It’s still not clear when the game will eventually come to consoles. The Stadia exclusivity deal appears to go into 2021.

Paper Mario: The Origami King has a new patch out that fixes a game breaking glitch that was previously keeping some players from being able to beat the game It also includes a handful of other bug fixes.

Gundam Is Here With An Important Public Service Announcement: Be Good To Each Other

Gundams and their pilots are here to remind us all not to lose faith in our shared humanity. Over on the GundamInfo YouTube channel, which usually hosts an ever-changing lineup of episodes and movies from the series’ decades-long back catalog, a video titled “Message from Gundam ‘Beyond’” recently went up, full of trippy visuals and…

CD Projekt Red announced it will detail more about how quest progression and combat will work in Cyberpunk 2077 in another Night City Wire Twitch stream. Welcome to the never-ending summer of not-E3. It’ll air August 10 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Horizon Zero Dawn On PC Is Magical

Aloy wasn’t originally designed to roll around post-apocalyptic jungles, deserts and snow peaks at 120 frames per second, but it definitely suits her. This week marks the release of Horizon: Zero Dawn on PC through Steam and the Epic Games Store. It’s the base game with the Frozen Wilds DLC, plus the extra features patched…

As of June 30, the Nintendo Switch has sold 61.44 million hardware units and 406.67 million software units. Both numbers are worldwide. 

Let’s See What The Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games Are!

Over the past few months, with more folks at home due to the ongoing pandemic, people have been buying and playing a lot of Nintendo Switch games. Let’s see what the best-selling Nintendo Switch games are! As of June 30, here they are:

The Incredible Story Behind The Barbie As Rapunzel Video Game

In the late 90’s, amongst a wave of all-new “Games for Girls”, Barbie appeared on CD-ROM for the first time. I was five, dressed in a timeless bejeweled-satin-homemade-princess-gown-and-feather-boa combo. I was squarely within the target audience for the first ever Barbie fantasy video game. Magic Fairy Tales: Barbie as Rapunzel is burned into my memory.…