Here’s How We’ve Set Up Our PS5s

Roughly two weeks from now, the PlayStation 5 will be out in the wild. First (officially) revealed in June, Sony’s next-gen console promises the de rigueur next-gen improvements: shinier graphics, faster performance, killer exclusives, all that jazz. But when the curtain was pulled back, the general consensus seemed to coalesce around one talking point, which…

Rayons de l’Air’s Gorgeous Remixes Retroactively Justify RayCrisis’ Existence

Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’ll check out a game I respect more than like. But its remix album…yeah, that’s the good stuff. Musically speaking, Taito’s mid-’90s arcade trilogy of “Ray” shooters—RayForce, Raystorm, and RayCrisis—was a one-woman show, scored in…

Track: A Silly Symphony: The Skeleton Dance | Artist: Carl W. Stalling | Album: N/A

Alien: Isolation’s Pitch Was Developed In Secret After Sega Said No

Alien: Isolation was a dramatic departure for Creative Assembly, which before the game’s release in 2014 was best-known for its Total War series of strategy games. But the studio almost didn’t have a chance to expand its portfolio at all after parent company Sega initially rejected the idea for a new Alien game. “We sent…

U.S. Navy Tells Its Twitch Streamers To Respond Like Whiny Cowards When Asked About War Crimes

The saga of the United States military’s attempts to recruit young people by streaming on Twitch is full of twists and turns. Over the summer, the Army and Navy’s Twitch channels were flooded with messages about America’s copious war crimes, questions that almost always resulted in bans. But since these bans arguably straddled the line of…

Socially-Distant Cosplay In The Age Of Covid

There hasn’t been much cosplay to feature here in 2020 for obvious reasons, but have you ever wondered that when people do get together for a shoot, how it all works in an age of lockdowns and social distancing? This Watch Dogs Legion shoot by So Say We All got me thinking that exact question,…

Welcome to The Dungeon Experience, where a low-level RPG villain guides you on a tour of a fantasy game’s dungeons. It’ll be out on PC “Upon the four moons of Xogris align and the Messiah Khidrius returns”.

FIFA 21 vs PES 21: Which Is Better?

Welcome to the Year Of Bad Sports Video Games. I’ve been doing this head-to-head review for years now, the only one of its kind in Kotaku’s critical arsenal, because this is the only space in video games where it makes sense to do it. FIFA v PES is the last significant battleground in sports, and…

Let’s Celebrate The Silly Death Screens At The End Of Hades

Hades is a brutal game. That’s not just commentary on the Switch and PC roguelike’s difficulty factor. Zagreus, the main character, dies ad infinitum in some truly gruesome ways. But once you sink some time into Hades, those many, many deaths can start to lose their edge. Late into the endgame, in fact, Zagreus will…

Star Wars: Squadrons Is Getting Baby Yoda Bobbles And Not Much Else

True to EA Motive’s word, there doesn’t seem to be any big DLC on Star Wars: Squadrons’ horizon. Instead, the space fighter will be getting a handful of cosmetics later this week, including a Baby Yoda bobblehead. The new dashboard décor was revealed in today’s Mando Monday livestream, a digital showcase full of interviews and…

What’s A Game That Really Scared You?

It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take. This Halloween week we Ask Kotaku: What’s a game that really scared you? Alexandra In a prior Ask Kotaku I revealed that I was a mark who purchased an Atari Jaguar,…

Magic: The Gathering Arena won’t come to phones until 2021, Hasbro’s CEO announced during an earnings call today. The digital card game had originally been slated to get its mobile version sometime this year.

Apex Legends’ fall release on Switch has been pushed to next year Developer Respawn cited “unexpected new challenges” as the main reason for the delay. The team-based battle royale shooter is still scheduled to release on Steam on November 4

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Youtuber Memorializes Destiny 2 Campaigns Before They’re Vaulted

Destiny 2 will be a completely different game once Bungie vaults a number of its planets next month, so one dedicated player took it upon himself to create a cinematic record of each of the game’s campaigns before that happens. The idea came to YouTuber Jabonte immediately after he heard director Luke Smith announce Bungie’s…