‘Shop Contest: Let’s Make Our Own Splinter Cell Sequel, Winners!

Last week I asked you, fine folks of Kotaku, to pitch some Splinter Cell sequel ideas, but only crossovers. That’s how we make this series big again. I got some wonderful entries this week and hopefully, Ubisoft is watching. I think we got some really good ideas in here. The winning image this week comes…

Getting Out Of Bounds In Nintendogs Makes The Puppies Act Weird

Over on the popular YouTube channel Boundary Break, the latest video is about the handheld classic game, Nintendogs. While not the longest episode, getting to see how developers worked around the limits of the DS is very interesting. But when breaking boundaries, sometimes odd things happen you don’t expect. It seems the way Nintendo decided…

Battlefield V Players Frustrated After Update Removes Some Multiplayer Modes

Battlefield V launched with a selection of multiplayer game modes, including classics like conquest. But after a recent update earlier this week, some modes are being removed from the game and part of the BFV community isn’t happy about these modes leaving the game. On May 29th, Battlefield V developers Dice posted a community broadcast…

Spoink Will Die If It Ever Stops Bouncing

Every Pokemon is interesting and worth talking about. I don’t play a ton of Pokemon, but I do enjoy the universe and I love learning more about the creatures in it. So, Here’s Another Pokemon! It’s Spoink! Spoink Details Type: Psychic Average Height: 2‘04“ Average Weight: 67.5 lbs. First Added In Generation III Sometimes, Pokemon…

Shhh! Don’t Wake The Whales

Hello! Today we try to figure out what Death Stranding is, discuss pornography playing cards, prank The Master Chief, watch creepy whales and kill some Nazis. It’s Morning Checkpoint! Great Kotaku Content From The Past Week Like most weeks, Kotaku was filled with some great stories. Here are a few of my favorites! I can…

The Sad Story Of Steve, The Pet Deathclaw Whose Life Was Cut Short By Fallout 76 Bugs

Mikael Hertell really wanted a pet Deathclaw. He wanted one so bad he spent hours searching through Fallout 76’s broken wilds in search of one he could tame. He named it Steve. Steve was a good boy. Some might say a very good boy. That is, until Hertell went to sleep, woke up the next…

Twitch Isn’t Just For Watching Games, It’s For Waiting For Them

Earlier this week, Sony announced the Death Stranding release date via a nearly day-long Twitch stream that mostly just showed handprints appearing on a black screen. The reasons why fans would watch this is obvious: Anticipation is exciting, and infectious. The reasons why it is encouraged by publishers is also obvious. Marketing on the internet…

This Weekend’s Rocket League Tournament Will Set The Stage For The World Championship

With a $100,000 prize pool at stake, this weekend’s big Rocket League tournament in Dallas will give some of the game’s biggest teams one last chance to test one another before next month’s World Championship. Now in its seventh season, the Rocket League Championship Series is divided across four continents. The winners of the biggest…

Overwatch Workshop’s Most Popular Mode Is The Card Game Uno

The Overwatch Workshop, which allows players to create new modes with robust tools and rudimentary programming, has given rise to all sorts of unexpected oddities: a Smash Bros. clone, airplane races, portal guns, Mercy reinventions, and heaps more. The most popular mode of all, though? Uno. Yep, the card game. This information comes straight from…

John Romero Made A New Doom Mod And It’s Great

1993’s Doom isn’t the first shooter, but it is the one that truly kicked off a genre. Heavy weapons and bloody demons ignited controversy, while stellar level design kept players engaged. A 2016 reboot updated the series for modern times, but those left craving classic Doom can now hop into Sigil, a new collection of…

The Cool Moments In PlayStation VR’s Blood & Truth Are Far Too Rare

For a few seconds, Blood & Truth, the most-hyped game to hit the PlayStation 4’s virtual reality headset since its October 2016 launch, is as thrilling a VR experience as one could hope for. You’re in the headset holding PlayStation Move controllers as the game’s graphics wrap around you. You’re a soldier back in his…

Meow-troid? Cat-slevania? Either Way, Gato Roboto Is Excellent

A space pilot named Gary crash-lands on a small planet, gets stuck in his ship, and sends his cat (who caused the crash in the first place) on a retro platforming adventure to find help. A real cat would lick itself and fall asleep, but this is no real cat. This is Gato Roboto, monochrome…

Gran Turismo Sport Has Spent Two Years Adding Great Stuff For Free

When Gran Turismo Sport launched in October 2017, it was easy to regard it with suspicion. Despite being the first—and at this rate, perhaps only—Gran Turismo game on the PlayStation 4, it lacked the numeral that would’ve clearly signaled it as the next step in one of the longest-running platform-exclusive series in video games. Why…

Fable Was Initially Pitched As A Game About Wizards Dueling For Each Other’s Hearts

In 2004, amidst a moral panic over the consequence-free violence of games like Grand Theft Auto, Fable broke ground for showing players the tangible consequences for their good or evil actions. But the fantasy role-playing game didn’t begin its life as Fable—or even as a role-playing game. Fable, once called “Project Ego,” was actually born…

Google’s DeepMind AI Takes Down Human Players In Quake III‘s Capture The Flag Mode

Google’s DeepMind AI lab has been hard at work creating programs to take on human players across a variety of games these last few years. In 2016 its AlphaGo beat the best Go player in the world. Earlier this year, its Alpha Star defeated two middle-tier pros at StarCraft II. Now it’s learning to win…

Cadence of Hyrule, that unlikely crossover of Crypt of the NecroDancer and Zelda, has been given a June release date in Japan. That’s probably when it’ll come out in the rest of the world, too, though Nintendo hasn’t said yet. Get ready to rock out with your ocarina out.

What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for it not raining anymore, hopefully. It’s also for playing video games if it does rain (or even if it doesn’t). I’m super excited to start playing Outer Wilds, a game I’ve been following for years. There’s also, of course/always, so much more Witcher 3. Looks like I’m in for a fun…

In Fable II, The Way To A Man’s Heart Is Through Farts

Fable II is a weird game. Fable II is a Peter Molyneux game. Those two sentences are one and the same. Molyneux’s style of game development is—at least the way I imagine it—to walk into the room where all the designers are, ask them to make something outlandish and nonsensical, and leave again. It sounds…