Marvel’s Avengers Has An Age Of Ultron Easter Egg

Crystal Dynamics swears that Marvel’s Avengers isn’t a reinterpretation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As game director Shaun Escayg told CNET, following last year’s initial reveal of the game, “We wanted to clearly show that this was our spin on the Avengers.” You can determine for yourself whether or not Marvel’s Avengers successfully differentiated itself,…

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The Mystery Around Control’s Next-Gen Upgrade Restrictions Takes Another Weird Turn

Owners of the original version of Control say they recently discovered it had automatically switched to the new Ultimate edition that ensures a free upgrade to next-gen platforms, raising even more questions about why the game’s upgrade process continues to be such a mess. The game’s publisher, 505 Games, had previously said that the only…

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

This weekend is for decompressing after a week and change non-stop playing Marvel’s Avengers. Something simple with pretty colors is in order, I think. Something like Spinch, a surprisingly challenging little platformer from Canadian studio Queen Bee Games. See all the colors? Those are the work of Canadian cartoonist Jesse Jacob, whose psychedelic hues make…

Annapurna’s Eight-Game PS4 Box Sets Are So Good

Publisher Annapurna Interactive has released some outstanding games on the PlayStation 4, including Donut County, Kentucky Route Zero, Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Wattam, What Remains of Edith Finch, Telling Lies, and Gorogoa. To celebrate the publisher’s first five years, Annapurna’s teamed with iam8Bit to bundle all eight games into a pair of gorgeous limited…

Revenge of Shinobi Fused Dance Beats With Ninjas

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s new, daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today’s subject of inquiry is Yuzo Koshiro’s very first soundtrack on the hardware that’d make him famous in the West, The Revenge of Shinobi 1989’s The Revenge of Shinobi (The Super Shinobi in Japan /…

The Japanese Internet Reacts To The Xbox Series X and S

This week Microsoft showed off the Xbox Series X and S, and revealed the next-gen consoles’ price tags. So how has the news been received by the traditionally Xbox-spectic Japanese audience? Since the launch of the original Xbox, Japan has been an uphill battle for Microsoft. The company tried hard with the Xbox 360 to…

Mask Specialty Shop Opens In Japan

When people in Japan buy masks, then typically shop at drug stores, purchasing disposable ones. But increasingly, clothing retailers have been offering washable ones and now there’s even a mask specialty store that just sells masks. This week Mask.com opened in Tokyo, selling over 200 different types of masks for prices ranging from 500 yen…

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NBA 2K21: The Kotaku Review

When I sit down with 2K’s new basketball game every year, I normally only take the time to review its MyCareer mode, since that’s the part I’m most interested in. But this year I blew through it so quickly that I was able to play the rest of the game as well, so surprise, we’re…

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How To Start The Outer Worlds’ Peril On Gorgon DLC

Accessing this wayward asteroid—and its plunder of quests and gear—isn’t as obvious as you’d think.

New Nintendo Leak Includes Numerous Unreleased Game Boy Games

Nintendo’s official release schedule may be a little thin, but the hits keep coming in the form of data leaks. The latest batch, which some have dubbed “Gigaleak III,” involves a huge “lotcheck” dump of Game Boy and Game Boy Color games that were either finished or close to being finished and sent off to…

Everything Ubisoft Showed During Today’s Forward Showcase

Ubisoft held its second summer showcase today, giving updates on a number of its live games and new looks at upcoming ones like Immortals: Fenyx Rising, the revamped mythological adventure shown in years past as Gods & Monsters. The company tried to clear the air beforehand by having CEO Yves Guillemot apologize for the widespread…

Steep Studio Announces Riders Republic, A Multiplayer Extreme Sports Game

Ubisoft’s “one more thing” for today’s Forward broadcast was Riders Republic, the next game from Steep developers Ubisoft Annecy. It’s heading to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Stadia, and the Epic Games Store on Febuary 25, 2021. The studio was reported to have been working on a sequel to Steep earlier…

After Some Confusion, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game Is Coming Back [UPDATED]

Ubisoft announced the popular Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is getting re-released, during the company’s second Ubisoft Forward event of 2020. This new release will feature the original release’s DLC and will be out later this year. The game was originally released back in 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PS3, but was…