When To Give Up And Try Again In A Game

Calling it quits is part of the human condition, but more often than not our natural impulse is to press forward in the face of insurmountable adversity. But, as anyone who’s lived in the real world for roughly 0.6 seconds can tell you, things don’t always work out. It especially doesn’t work out that way…

Borderlands 3 Is Making Revives Less Annoying

I don’t know about you, but I die a lot in Borderlands 3, especially in higher difficulty levels. That’s why I’m happy to see that the looter shooter’s next update will include some neat quality-of-life adjustments for the revival mechanic. When an enemy takes you out in Borderlands, there are a couple methods to get…

Forget Murder Hornets, My Animal Crossing Island Is Drowning In Self-Inflicted Flowers

All I wanted was to try growing some of the neat hybrid flowers in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Little did I know that my handfuls of seeds would blossom into a garden of madness. Animal Crossing looks cute and simplistic on the surface, only to reveal more complex systems as you continue playing. The best…

Titans Won Destiny 2’s Guardian Games And All They Got Was This Tiny Statue

When I logged onto Destiny 2 yesterday and arrived at the Tower I expected to immediately see some sign of who had won the game’s multi-week Guardian Games. Maybe a giant statue in the middle, where the podium for the contest had previously been. Maybe some new banners hanging from the walls. Nope. Indeed it…

Meet The Newest Members Of The Kotaku Team (2020 Edition)

In 2012, in my second month running Kotaku, I introduced readers to four new staffers (and one new columnist) who would go on to do great things for the site. Eight years later, I’d like you to meet the five newest members of our team. I introduce them at a very different time in Kotaku’s…

Fortnite Will Be On Xbox Series X and PS5 At Launch

Epic Games confirmed today that its massively popular battle royale Fortnite will be available to play on next-gen consoles as soon as they are out. It won’t be a new version of Fortnite. Instead it will be the one that currently exists, built in Unreal Engine 4, just running on new hardware. “While we can’t…

Epic Unveils A Graphics Demo ‘Running On PS5’

Epic Games gave us our first look at what games running on PS5 could look like during today’s Summer Game Fest livestream with an Unreal Engine demo running on Sony’s next-gen console. Called “Lumen in the Land of Nanite,” the demo isn’t part of any game that’s intended for release according to the Washington Post,…

The Mafia Series Is Getting Re-Released As Mafia: Trilogy [Update]

Family. Power. Respect. Today we learned why the official Mafia Twitter account tweeted out those three words over the past couple of days, as 2K released a teaser trailer for Mafia: Trilogy. Update: A listing on the Xbox Marketplace for Mafia: Definitive Edition has appeared, complete with screenshots and an August 28 release date. With…

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Cosplayer Kusarine Matsu has been uploading a series of clips to Twitter parodying the original Resident Evil game with a humorous twist. The movements and difficulty tables pose are on point.