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CultureP.T. Doesn’t Work On PS5, Though At One Point It Apparently Did
Playable horror teaser P.T. isn’t backwards compatible on PS5, even if you try to transfer it directly from an existing PS4, and it’s not clear why. Load up the library of games associated with your PlayStation Network account on the next-gen console, as Kotaku Editor-in-Chief Stephen Totilo did, and P.T. will have an icon with…
By Ethan Gach Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureHere’s How Fast Games Load On The PlayStation 5
Last night, we ran down how fast games load on the Xbox Series X and S. Today, we can do the same for the PlayStation 5, which will hit shelves next week (well, digitally). The short version? The PS5 is ridiculously fast, in some cases slashing comparable PS4 load times by nearly 50 percent. If…
By Ari Notis Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureSplitscreenShould You Buy A Next-Gen Console Now, Or Wait?
Can you feel it? That tremble in the wind, that sense of possibility thrumming all around you? That, friends, is the approach of relatively minute, in many ways arbitrary change. The next generation of consoles is nearly upon us, and now you have a decision to make: Buy, or wait? On this week’s episode of…
By Nathan Grayson Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureControl‘s Messy Next-Gen Upgrade Delayed To Next Year
The controversial PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of Control won’t be out until sometime in “early 2021,” Remedy Entertainment announced today. “We want the final quality of the game to be awesome, and so we need a bit more time to work on it,” the studio wrote on Twitter. Control will of course still…
By Ethan Gach Published November 6, 2020 -
ReviewsHardwareGame SystemsPlayStation 5: The Kotaku Review
I’m sitting at my desk, staring at the PlayStation 5 looming over my media stand—“entertainment center” is a little too grandiose for the small piece of Target furniture that holds all my gaming stuff—and wondering how the hell I’m going to review this thing. How would my boss, whose various PlayStation 4 reviews I’ve skimmed several times…
By Ian Walker Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureMorning MusicSquare’s Awful PS2 Racer Had Good-Ass Music, At Least
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re looking at a terrible driving game you should never play, only listen to. Early PlayStation 2 was rough, no doubt. Even the PS1 royalty at SquareSoft had issues adapting to Sony’s hard-to-program new console.…
By Alexandra Hall Published November 6, 2020 -
UncategorizedThe Switch reached 68.30 million units sold worldwide as of September 30 of this year, surpassing the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 61.91 million global sales. The NES first launched as the Famicom in 1983 in Japan, where it was finally discontinued in 2003. The Switch went on sale in March 2017.
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2020 -
Kotaku EastJapanIn Japan, Sega Just Asked 650 Employees To Retire Voluntarily
As Sega Sammy announced it’s selling off its arcade business, the Tokyo-based game company also announced that it is asking 650 employees to retire voluntarily. With covid-19 impacting business, Sega is expecting what it calls “an extraordinary loss” during the current financial year. Sega Sammy Holdings was formed after Sega and Sammy merged in 2004.…
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureTrack: (Somebody) Ease My Troublin’ Mind | Artist: Sam Cooke | Album: Shake
By Brian Ashcraft Published November 6, 2020 -
CultureHere’s How Fast Games Load On The Xbox Series X And S
Much ado has been made about the guts of the Xbox Series X and S, two new next-gen consoles Microsoft will release next week. It’s all “velocity architecture” this and “teraflops” that—technical stuff Microsoft says will cut loading times dramatically. But lingo and lofty promises are secondary to the one thing that matters most: how…
By Ari Notis Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsFan’s LEGO Among Us Set Looks Perfect
LEGO IDEAS, the ALL CAPS website where fan designs, including licensed ones, can get voted on and turned into official LEGO sets, currently has a very nice Among Us playset up for discussion. Made by MinifigInDisguise, it includes The Skeld along with a number of special Among Us minifigs, a ghost and two pets. At…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureKerbal Space Program 2 Delayed To 2022
Ah, this is the kind of delay I like to see. None of this “month or two” shit like Cyberpunk is pulling. If you’re going to delay a game, do it like Kerbal Space Program 2 and make it substantial Originally due in “Fall 2021″, the game is now simply due sometime in 2022, after…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureCapcom Hit By Cyber Attack, Group Claims To Have Stolen 1TB Of Employee & Customer Data
On November 2, Capcom’s servers were brought down by “unauthorized access carried out by a third party”. As Bleeping Computer report, the group claiming responsibility for the attack say they downloaded around 1TB of data, containing everything from employee’s visa records to customer bank details to “proprietary Business information”. Capcom, in their own statement, say,…
By Luke Plunkett Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureA Year Later, Google Stadia Is Finally Getting Family Sharing
Family Sharing, a Stadia feature that was announced a long, long time ago, is finally beginning to roll out on the eve of the video game streaming platform’s one-year anniversary. The feature lets anyone in a Google Family group easily share Stadia games with one another, regardless of who originally bought it or is currently…
By Ethan Gach Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureDestiny 2 Players Are Once Again Trying To Solve A Mysterious Alternate Reality Game
It’s less than a week before the launch of Destiny 2‘s next big expansion, Beyond Light, and Bungie has decided to pass the time by inviting players to participate in another elaborate ARG puzzle. It all began a couple weeks ago when some folks started to receive their collector’s edition of Destiny 2: Beyond Light.…
By Ethan Gach Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureOdds and EndsXbox Series X Has Too Many Horrifying Holes
As reviews for the Xbox Series X arrive, I’m here to talk about one aspect of the console that could impact your desire to buy one, as it has mine. I am a trypophobe, and I cannot own an Xbox Series X because of all its damn holes. [Since this post discusses a phobia, we…
By Ash Parrish Published November 5, 2020 -
CultureApex Legends Bans Over 400 High-Level Players For Ranked Exploit
Apex Legends’ Season 7 is here, and a wave of bans has come alongside its new map and character. Over 400 players have been banned from the game across all platforms for exploiting a glitch that allowed high-level players in the game’s ranked mode to play with—and presumably dominate—newcomers. As reported by PC Gamer, Conor…
By Riley MacLeod Published November 5, 2020 - Uncategorized
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By G/O Media Published November 5, 2020
