Phil Spencer On Xbox’s Unusual Strategy, Working With Sony, And More

Xbox chief Phil Spencer has heard from the skeptics. They think that what he’s doing with Xbox means that Microsoft is giving up on consoles, or even going third party. That’s all wrong, he told me during an extensive interview in Los Angeles last week, where we discussed his vision for Xbox, the recently announced…

Children of Morta has a free demo on Steam today through June 22. We sat down with publisher 11 Bit Studios earlier this month

Rare Replay is coming to Xbox Game Pass. Subscribers will be able to download the 30-game collection when it arrives June 20, alongside Resident Evil: Revelations.

Track: My Honest Face | Artist: Inhaler | Album: My Honest Face Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment. 

As reported earlier this February, Japan’s first Nintendo Store will open this fall. But when? It’s been recently announced that the store will open in November on the sixth floor of the new Shibuya Parco building in Tokyo. Pokémon Center Shibuya and Capcom Store Tokyo will also open in Parco on the same floor.

Service is ending for massively multiplayer online role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier Z in Japan. Monster Hunter Frontier launched in Japan in 2007 on PC, and a big update in 2016 changed the game’s name to Monster Hunter Frontier Z. Twelve years is a good run, no?

Shibuya. Tokyo, Japan. By Adil Aeh JPGs is a photo peek into wherever gamers might find interesting. If you’re a photographer and have images you want to share, drop us a line!

K-Pop Pick Of The Day: Step By Step

It’s been awhile since we’ve featured a classic girl group pop ballad, in the veins of Gfriend’s Me Gustas Tu or A Pink’s No No No. Oh My Girl’s Step By Step is one of the better examples of late. Step By Step is one of the B-sides from Oh My Girl’s 2016 repackage album,…

Slime Rancher, the relaxing game about slimes and also ranching, just received a free DLC expansion. It’s called “Viktor’s Experimental Update,” and it sees you delve into a “virtual re-creation” of Slime Rancher’s setting to root out nefarious glitch slimes. You’re able to make use of a whole host of new gadgets in order to…

They Are Billions, the tower defense-RTS hybrid that took Steam by storm last year, is now out of early access. The 1.0 update, free to all who previously purchased the game, adds a long-awaited (if, so far, divisive) campaign and new survival mode maps. It also includes a host of bug fixes and addresses stability…

Elite Player Took Some Beautiful Screenshots Of His 18-Week Journey Across Space

Earlier this year, a group of Elite: Dangerous players set out on an expedition that would take them across the entire Milky Way, all 130,000 light years of it. The journey took months, and some of its most beautiful and bizarre sights have been captured by Aurum_32 in this collection of screenshots. There are shots from…

Overwatch just kicked off a new themed challenge event, this one focused on combat medic Baptiste. Inspired by the “What You Left Behind” short story Blizzard released yesterday, the Reunion Challenge offers new Baptiste cosmetics—including a special skin—to players who win games from June 18 to July 1. You can also unlock additional cosmetics by…