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I Love Dota Underlords‘ New Jail

Today, Valve’s ever-evolving auto-battler received its long-awaited “Big Update,” aka the one that finally adds Underlords to Dota Underlords. But while I’m still figuring out how I feel about having a howling, fire-haired general accompanying my tiny troops into battle, I’m already certain I’m in love with another new feature: jail. In real life, jail…

By Nathan Grayson Published October 24, 2019

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Google’s New Phone Has An Excellent Pokémon Gimmick

I picked up my new Pixel 4XL yesterday, and instead of rushing to test out the new camera, radar features or terrifyingly fast face-scanning, the first thing I did with the new phone was…play with some interactive Pokémon wallpapers. The Pixel 4 has an app called Pokémon Wave Hello, which is part Sword and Shield…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 24, 2019

OpinionImpressions

A Halloween Journey To Heck Is Just What Borderlands 3 Needed

Today saw the start of Bloody Harvest, the first big event for Borderlands 3. After a month of hit-or-miss weekly events, this Halloween-themed update is a fantastic reason to get back into the game, with numerous challenges to keep players busy and, of course, mountains of loot to scavenge. Bloody Harvest opens for Borderlands 3…

By Ian Walker Published October 24, 2019

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Destiny 2 is getting an update that will improve accessibility for subtitles. Later this month, you’ll have five different sizes and a multitude of colors and background styles to choose from. The goal, said Bungie, is to make Destiny’s UI “accessible to the widest range of possible players as we can.”

By Nathan Grayson Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Fallout 76‘s Paid Subscription Service Has Not Had A Good Launch

Part of Fallout 76’s controversial new paid subscription serviceFallout First is the addition of an unlimited Scrap Box, which is somewhere players can store all of their junk. Problem being that some players are finding that the Scrap Box is bugged in the worst way possible: They’re losing everything they put into it. There have…

By Luke Plunkett Published October 24, 2019

Tips & Guides

Tips For Playing Dungeons & Dragons When You Have Social Anxiety

Dungeons & Dragons may have dungeons and dragons, but its real secret sauce is other people. Dungeon masters and party members make campaigns fun and unpredictable, forcing players into high-stakes games of dice-fueled improv. What do you do, though, when you want to get in on the action, but you also have a bad, dumb…

By Nathan Grayson Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Ubisoft Admits Ghost Recon Breakpoint Has Been A Disaster

During an earnings call Thursday, Ubisoft gave investors a brutally frank appraisal of Ghost Recon Breakpoint, its latest release and vowed to implement “significant changes to our production processes” to fix the game. In a prepared statement you can read online, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot laid out the reasons the publisher believes the open-world special…

By Joshua Rivera Published October 24, 2019

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Hello! I (Tim Rogers) am going to stream the PlayStation 4 remake of the PlayStation 1 classic MediEvil over on our Twitch channel. I haven’t touched this game since blasting through it on Thanksgiving Day, 1998, though I sure do have some “interesting” memories. Like, why did I play this on Thanksgiving 1998 instead of…

By Tim Rogers Published October 24, 2019

CultureTwitch

Twitch Star Shroud Moves To Mixer

While it’s possible to split hairs all day over which metrics definitively determine whether someone is the top streamer on Twitch, there’s no denying that Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is one of the platform’s biggest stars. Or, he was. Now he’s moving to Mixer. Grzesiek has a Twitch follower count of over seven million and a…

By Nathan Grayson Published October 24, 2019

OpinionImpressions

An Adorable Robot-Themed Role-Playing Game Totally Disrupted My Best-Laid Gaming Plans

Into a crowded fall gaming season packed with games I had planned to cover weeks in advance comes Destiny Connect: Tick-Tock Travelers, which took me completely by surprise. It’s an incredibly charming and cartoonish turn-based role-playing game filled with cute kids and even cuter robots. Out this week for the PlayStation 4 and Switch, it’s…

By Mike Fahey Published October 24, 2019

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Paul and Gita are streaming The Outer Worlds over on Twitch. Join us in the chat and subscribe to us on Twitch for more streams as they happen.

By Chris Person Published October 24, 2019

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I’m jumping into a twisted side quest in The Outer Worlds with Gita LIVE on our Twitch channel. Come join us in the chat!

By Paul Tamayo Published October 24, 2019

CultureKotaku Game Diary

I Deleted An Endless Service Game And I Am Finally Free, Like My Hard Drive

Earlier this week, I finally deleted Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 from my hard drive, a video game that I had spent the better part of a year lying to myself about getting into. I played several hours at launch, not really feeling it but not really hating it. I checked in every now and…

By Joshua Rivera Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Ubisoft Delays Watch Dogs Legion, Other Games

Ahead of an earnings call this morning, Ubisoft announced that Watch Dogs Legion, Rainbow Six Quarantine, and Gods & Monsters would be delayed from their initial early 2020 windows until the next fiscal year, which runs from spring 2020 until spring 2021. According to a press release, the changes are to “allow additional development time.” The…

By Joshua Rivera Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Ubisoft Sues Creators Of Popular Rainbow Six Siege Cheat Service

Rainbow Six Siege publisher Ubisoft is suing 12 operators behind big-business cheat-making service MizuSoft, which advertises its “near clean detection record.” Ubisoft is demanding that MizuSoft take its service offline and seeking restitution, which could total up to $25,000 for each violation. As first reported by Polygon, the cheating software, pitched to “cheaters who do…

By Cecilia D'Anastasio Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Sources: The Last of Us 2 Delayed To Spring [UPDATE: Confirmed]

The PS4 sequel to The Last of Us will no longer be out in February, sources tell Kotaku. Publisher Sony has delayed The Last Of Us Part II to this spring, just a month after announcing a release date of February 21, 2020. The news isn’t official yet, and Sony didn’t respond to a request…

By Jason Schreier Published October 24, 2019

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Command & Conquer Made Me A Strategy Cornball

On Wednesday, EA Games released the first gameplay footage of Command & Conquer: Remastered. It’s a brief 30-second clip that begins in the game’s original fuzzy resolution before transitioning to the crisp new reworked designs for modern screens. It’s bringing me back to the person I was when I first played C&C, and I’m scared…

By Joshua Rivera Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers now has a Japanese release date and a brand new trailer. The musou take on Persona drops in Japan on February 20, 2020, for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It also looks slick as heck, as you might expect from a Persona 5 spin-off.

By Joshua Rivera Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Track: Uneventful Days | Artist: Beck | Album: Hyperspace

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 24, 2019

Culture

Hideo Kojima Asked Conan O’Brien If He Wanted To Be In Death Stranding [Update]

Move over Geoff Keighley. When visiting Kojima Productions, Conan O’Brien had his face scanned for a Death Stranding cameo. After going through the game creator’s toy collection, watching a Death Stranding trailer, and wondering what was wrong with Hideo Kojima, Conan had his face scanned as he made a variety of typical expressions. The result…

By Brian Ashcraft Published October 24, 2019