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It’s 1945, And The USSR Has Bombed A Hole In Space And Time

Ben Nicholas is a Senior 3D Concept Artist at Ubisoft Montréal who has also worked on stuff like Halo and Adidas sneakers. We actually featured some of Ben’s stuff a few years back, but everything you’re seeing below is from a new personal project he’s been working on called KOM-44, where the Second World War…

Final Fantasy XIV‘s Depiction Of The World Ending Is A Bit Too Real

To quote my 100% non-fictional friend Barret Wallace: “Planet’s dyin’, Cloud.” As our society feels closer and closer to an irrevocable change, as the Amazon rainforest burns and the ice caps continue to melt, I find the fragility of our world reflected in the narratives of my favorite games. Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, Shadowbringers,…

Remnant: From The Ashes, As Told By Steam Reviews

A week after its release, Remnant: From The Ashes remains at the top of the Steam charts. It’s safe to say that its core conceit—what if Dark Souls, but guns—is resonating with people. Is the game living up to lofty, gothy expectations? For the most part, so far, so good. Kotaku’s Heather Alexandra found herself…

Tips For Playing Control

Control takes you on a fascinating journey through a monstrous office building full of occult horrors. It also holds a lot back, preferring to show rather than tell. As a result, there’s some information that can be really useful to know but that the game doesn’t explain well, or at all. Whether you’re just getting…

Sony Is Still Trying To Stop People From Hacking The Vita, For Some Reason [Corrected]

Correction: 8/28/2019, 1:30 p.m. ET: After the publication of this story, the Vita hacker in question now says that the h-encore² hack in fact still works with the 3.72 Vita firmware. Kotaku apologizes the error. The original story is below. Less than a day after a new exploit for jailbreaking the Vita was discovered, Sony…

Finding An Old Game Boy Advance Feels Like Slipping Into A Storybook

Not too long ago, I got a box from my folks with a bunch of stuff I had been keeping in their attic. I live in New York, where boxes are generally bad news: They’re full of stuff, and when you take stuff out of a box, you have to find a place to put…

The Best And Funniest Moments Of SonicFox’s 72-Hour Charity Stream

Legendary fighting game competitor Dominique “SonicFox” McLean spent last weekend raising over $20,000 for charity during a marathon livestream that featured copious amounts of Mortal Kombat and Injustice gameplay, surprise guest appearances, musical performances, and one major change to the young player’s facial hair. SonicFox has long been open about his identity, which could be…

Yu-Gi-Oh On Switch Is All The Yu-Gi-Oh I’ll Ever Need

Most of my experience with Yu-Gi-Oh, Konami’s long-running collectible card game/cartoon series, comes from video games. I’ve tapped more virtual cards than physical ones, and most of my matches have been against computer opponents. That’s how I like it, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution for the Nintendo Switch is all that and…

Fan Creates Hilarious, Dead-On Tweets By Fire Emblem: Three Houses Characters

One thing Fire Emblem: Three Houses does well is endear you to its memorable characters. After spending almost a hundred hours with the teens at Garreg Mach, I’m somehow still eager to see more of these characters’ hilarious interactions. It wasn’t a huge surprise when one fan took their huge personalities through the next logical…

Control Proves That An Office Building Is The Perfect Setting For A Metroid-Like

Control, a Metroid Prime-like game that takes place inside an impossibly vast US federal government building, is out today. As someone who has been paying the IRS back taxes for a decade, it feels like a game that was made to terrify exactly me. It is also one of the best games I’ve played this…

Knights And Bikes: The Kotaku Review

Knights and Bikes follows two young girls growing up in the ’80s, but it’s not about a specific generation’s childhood as much as childhood in general. Its two young characters aren’t immune to the grim reality that swirls around their fantasy of heroes and monsters. It celebrates childhood without stumbling into nostalgia, and it’s earnestly…

EVE Online Hosted A Fan Festival At One Player’s House

Player meetups for EVE Online are as much a part of the game’s culture as its spaceships. These gatherings run the gamut of size and spectacle, from small groups drinking with friends at their local bar to the massive annual Fanfest gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland organized by the game’s publisher, CCP. This year saw something…